Re: Re: Global AIDS war chest

2001-04-28 Thread Chris Burford
At 27/04/01 17:01 -0400, you wrote: Actually, nothing will stop the AIDS epidemic except total eradication of the capitalist system and the kind of aggressive public health system that exists in Cuba today. This sounds like revolutionary catastrophism. It has got to get worse until there is a

Re: Re: Re: Global AIDS war chest

2001-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect
Chris: In fact under admittedly favourable conditions at the end of the 1945 war, a semi-communistic national health service was set up in the UK. It is not impossible. It was possible because Great Britain was an imperialist power. So was Sweden and all the countries with socialised medicine.

Question on Marx

2001-04-28 Thread Carrol Cox
Why is labor represented by the value of its product and labor-time by the magnitude of that value? Marx seems to have felt that the originating difference between his own work and that of classical political economy was that he aimed at answering this question while political economy failed

Re: Global AIDS war chest

2001-04-28 Thread Chris Burford
At 28/04/01 09:18 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote. To allow Louis to catch up on sleep (!) and to avoid the risk of the speed of e-mail accelerating the pace and the temperature of the discussion, when obviously we won't change each other much personally, I will restrict myself today to observing

Positivism (What is it?) (A footnote)

2001-04-28 Thread Justin Schwartz
Scott was right, and I was wrong, about the date of Einstein's Brownian motion paper (1905). Of course this pushes back the date at which it was still reasonable to be skeptical of the atomic hypothesis, and so supports my point, and not Scott's about whether Mach was just a typical scientist

socialism of risk/cost update

2001-04-28 Thread Ian Murray
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE APRIL 26, 2001 2:22 PM CONTACT: Taxpayers for Common Sense Keith Ashdown Tel: (202) 546-8500 ext.110 Environmental Rollback Would Open Taxpayers to $1 Billion Liability from Mining Pollution, New Report Says WASHINGTON - April 26 - A new report finds that American

China's poverty time bomb

2001-04-28 Thread Stephen E Philion
SCMP Tuesday, April 24, 2001 China's poverty time bomb CALUM MACLEOD Red-faced from cheap alcohol, Mr Chen paces angrily on Tiger Hill. ''What socialist country?'' he shouts. ''China is a society for the rich!'' Inside the former army barracks behind him, Mr Chen, who declines to give his full

Nozick

2001-04-28 Thread Sam Pawlett
Is it true that Nozick repudiated Anarchy, State and Utopia? Any references? In his The Examined Life. On the whole a crappy book, full of Buddhist and Hindu nonsense and other grade 'A' bullshit about America being a democracy. Sam Pawlett

Classical political economy, labor standards, and human capital

2001-04-28 Thread Michael Perelman
Adam Smith: In this country indeed [Scotland], where the division of labour is not far advanced, even the meanest porter can read and write, because the price of education is cheap, and a parent can employ his child no other way at 6 or 7 years of age. This however is not the case in the

A call to action against WB and IMF- Oct 2-4

2001-04-28 Thread Sabri Oncu
I hope that my fellow socialists will respond positively to this call from my fellow anarchists. Best, Sabri **POST FAR AND WIDE** Revolutionaries of the World - organize and converge on Washington, DC! Between October 2nd and 4th 2001, the International Monetary Fund and World

Re: Re: standard of living

2001-04-28 Thread Michael Pollak
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Ricardo Duchesne wrote: Williamson says that his research, including Allen's, shows that the core-periphery gap *within* Europe was not an occurrence of the late 19th century, but a result of *pre-industrial* changes between 1500 and 1800. Evidence shows that, in 1500,

Re: Re: standard of living II

2001-04-28 Thread Michael Pollak
What about the work of M. Harris and N. Cohen showing that the living conditions of hunter-gatherers were superior to the average peasant in the average agrarian society? N. Cohen? Michael __ Michael