I wrote:
Part of my disagreement is that I don't think these market-created
constraints are as "binding" as Wood suggests, since there markets are
seldom perfect (or seldom fit the standard model). (To use the example I
used before, a farmer or company that enjoys a technological advantage
More Complete Update on Mumia's Case
from Clark Kissinger (10/28)
As reported yesterday, Mumia's legal team and the attorneys for the state of
Pennsylvania were asked to a meeting on Tuesday morning with federal judge
William Yohn in his chambers to "get acquainted." This was expected and is
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 12:30:04 -0400
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Subject: Legislative Alert -- Database Bill
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY
PROFESSORS
LEGISLATIVE ALERT
Date: October 28, 1999
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David Stoll. Occupation:Debunker.
RIGOBERTA MENCHU AND THE STORY OF ALL POOR GUATEMALANS.
by David Stoll Westview Press,1999,336pgs.
"White people have been writing our history for 500 years. No white
anthropologist is going to tell me what I experienced in my own flesh."
Rigoberta Menchu,
I share Brad's concern of defining the "time" frame. I am often careless
in consciously thinking through the length of time for which
certain forecasts are made. The problem is particularly acute with
crisis stories. An escape hatch exists (actually an evasive
posture) by resorting to a point
This is forwarded with the permission of the author.
Carrol
[Moderator: response to article on BRC-NEWS]
http://www.blacklightonline.com/cubaracism.html
Racism in Cuba and the Failure of the American Left
by Sidney Brinkley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Certainly the vestiges of US and Spanish
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1999
Wages increased in the District of Columbia and in every state but Alaska
and West Virginia in the second quarter of 1999, outpacing a nationally
averaged 0.5 percent rise in prices, the Commerce Department's Bureau of
Economic Analysis reports. ...
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
So you're saying that we live in a dogma-eat-dogma world, right? One of my
favorite bumper stickers reads, "My karma ran over my dogma".
No: He is saying that one must choose between occupying the position
of Burridan's Ass or getting off your own ass. Either/Or,
Jim Devine wrote:
Part of my disagreement is that I don't think these market-created
constraints are as "binding" as Wood suggests, since there markets
are seldom perfect (or seldom fit the standard model). (To use the
example I used before, a farmer or company that enjoys a
technological
At 10:17 AM 10/28/1999 -0700, Anthony P. D'Costa wrote:
I have no problem with the overinvestment argument (herd-like behavior,
maximizing relative surplus value, etc.). But what about the
underconsumption argument? this is especially relevant in developing
countries in the context of
In Capital Volume 3, Marx writes that "The cooperative factories
of the laborers themselves represent within the old form the first sprouts
of the new, although they naturally reproduce, and must reproduce, everywhere
in their actual organization all the shortcomings of the prevailing
Okay, I'll drop the irony (and I hope that tallpaul isn't being ironic when
he says he didn't understand what I said).
What I am saying is that (1) we can't trust the capitalist state unless
there is a large and well-organized opposition movement on the Left that
has the power to pressure the
(i've trying to send this for 24 hours)
I had written:
The key sentence above [in Wood's article] is "A tenant could, for
instance, remain in
possession of land, but his survival and his tenure could nonetheless be
subject to market imperatives, whether he employed wage labor or was
I have no problem with the overinvestment argument (herd-like behavior,
maximizing relative surplus value, etc.). But what about the
underconsumption argument? this is especially relevant in developing
countries in the context of imperialism (globalization of today). How
does this story fit
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On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, John Bellamy Foster wrote:
criticisms that such and such views are "dogmatic." And one should avoid
making such a charge oneself. It falls short of critique, and simply relies
on the ("dogmatic"?) 0notion that indeterminacy (or philosophical
scepticism) is always a
The trouble is that this comment says little about FREPASO.
It appears rather similar to the earlier contribution although I had
suggested:
Since LP advertises his Marxism list as open to all views
within Marxism, hopefully he will now also be able to forward a contrasting
analysis to that of
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