Yes, Jim D., true sure "they" give you a little red -white and blue
sticker for your so-called duty to vote.
But the "they" is a courtesy of the capitalists political state machinery
for going along with
and promoting the illusion that common folk have some say-so over the
governments actions
Can you name three authors who propose A.? I don't know of anyone (so I would
say name one, but this is how you characterize Lou's argument, so I want to save
time). Certainly no one I can think of writing in the Williams-Rodney thesis
tradition. I am certainly willing to hear the arguments.
A quick rant, Reverend Tom ... by way of testimony from the congregation.
As Charlie Andrews so pungently summarises the whole sad business, "By
living his life the worker produces his capacity to work."
The raison d'etre of the dispossessed is to produce commodities - 'his'
being is not an
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I wish people would try to keep emotion out of debates. Try to be clear and
logical. Unless you like flame wars, of course.
CB: Isn't this some kind of positivist or abstractionist foible, to think that emotion
and clarity of logic are like
Being tone deaf, I'd like to stand with the choir and lip-synch.
Gene Coyle
Rob Schaap wrote:
A quick rant, Reverend Tom ... by way of testimony from the congregation.
As Charlie Andrews so pungently summarises the whole sad business, "By
living his life the worker produces his capacity to
Here's an e-mail I received from Mitchell Cohen. I have his permission to
forward this to you. I know that this is a bit late, but if Garry Trudeau
can use his Doonesberry cartoon to electioneer today, so can I. No matter
who's elected, we're still going to be "in the trenches" to resist his
At 11:08 AM 11/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
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I wish people would try to keep emotion out of debates. Try to be clear and
logical. Unless you like flame wars, of course.
CB: Isn't this some kind of positivist or abstractionist foible, to think
that
from SLATE:
The NY [TIMES] reports that British researchers have theorized that cell
phones act as plumage for males to attract mates. Observing a bar in
Liverpool, the scientists discovered that while women keep their phones in
their purse and use them only as needed, men display them
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At 11:08 AM 11/7/00 -0500, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/06/00 05:31PM
I wish people would try to keep emotion out of debates. Try to be clear and
logical. Unless you like flame wars, of course.
CB: Isn't this some kind of positivist or
My teacher in an undergraduate class in development economics claimed that
Parker pens used to carry on a brisk business in selling caps for pens that
Indians used to carry around in a shirt pocket.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
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Chico, CA
(trouble with e-mail, so cannot see what others may have posted on this before I
send it)
re: "third worldism"
Let me preface my remarks that the term "third worldism" as a pejorative is a
little problematic. What is the difference between that and using "feminist" as
a pejorative, to indicate
The journal Computational Economics has a great little article on the choice
of computer languages for modeling economic systems. For those who are
computationally inclined or know those who are, it offers an interesting way
of looking at non-neoclassical econ. classics. It's currently free so
as an aside to this discussion, while visiting a daughter in Natick, MA last
summer i also visited the Lowell Museum and was treated to a fantastic
voyage into the beginnings of the US industrial revolution; machinery and
all in a reburbished but original operating cotton-cloth factory. Lowell
Hi Mat!
Can you name three authors who propose A.? I don't know of anyone (so I would
say name one, but this is how you characterize Lou's argument, so I
want to save
time). Certainly no one I can think of writing in the Williams-Rodney thesis
tradition. I am certainly willing to hear the
Largely true, but what reform, short of a revolution could change this?
Or, to be more practical, what reform to change this, could contribute to a
revolutionary movement?
Chris Burford
London
At 22:40 04/11/00 -0600, you wrote:
"The United States, such a vocal advocate of multi-party
What do you think of the reports that many of the Nader voters are
defecting to Gore? What a shame. If Gore wins, he will bear the
blame for the recession, showing the Democrats that they need to be
even more market friendly.
Venting,
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California
At 02:40 PM 11/7/00 -0800, you wrote:
What do you think of the reports that many of the Nader voters are
defecting to Gore? What a shame. If Gore wins, he will bear the
blame for the recession, showing the Democrats that they need to be
even more market friendly.
don't worry about the
Just reflecting on Nader getting 3%. If Bush wins the enviros who agonized
over the vote, and then voted for Gore will lose. They'll regret not voting
for Nader
If Gore wins, he will, with certainty, sell out the enviros, and then they'll
regret not voting for Nader.
Many, of course, will not
Voting is like giving blood: it's painful, sort of disgusting, but they
give you a little sticker to show that you did it!
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~JDevine
"Is it peace or is it Prozac?" -- Cheryl Wheeler.
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Eugene Coyle wrote:
Many, of course, will not comprehend that Gore has sold them out, and they'll
fume that the poor president can't get anything done, just as they have
excused Gore/Clinton for their environmental sell-out for the past eight
years.
This is crucial to understand the power
Just reflecting on Nader getting 3%. If Bush wins the enviros who agonized
over the vote, and then voted for Gore will lose. They'll regret not voting
for Nader
If Gore wins, he will, with certainty, sell out the enviros, and then they'll
regret not voting for Nader.
Many, of course, will not
If you think there's no difference between a Clinton-Gore EPA and a
Bush-Cheny EPA you need to have your brain overhauled.
Brad: Surely by now you have caught the point: people don't feel there is
ENOUGH of a difference to endure a permanent abandonment by the Democratic
Party of many of its
If you think there's no difference between a Clinton-Gore EPA and a
Bush-Cheny EPA you need to have your brain overhauled.
Brad: Surely by now you have caught the point: people don't feel there is
ENOUGH of a difference
If the issues are that important, then even small differences are
Sorry, I don't think you want to listen (and this has been the larger
problem all along) and I'd rather not continue in this tone. Signing off
for now.
PA
PS I am not a faction
You shoot yourself in the foot and then look around for someone else to blame?
Why not be an adult, recognize that
Brad De Long wrote:
Just reflecting on Nader getting 3%. If Bush wins the enviros who agonized
over the vote, and then voted for Gore will lose. They'll regret not voting
for Nader
If Gore wins, he will, with certainty, sell out the enviros, and then they'll
regret not voting for
BDLIf you think there's no difference between a Clinton-Gore EPA and a
Bush-Cheny EPA you need to have your brain overhauled.
Why is it that the people who claim to care the most about issues so
often turn out to care the least about them?
Brad DeLong
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