HIGHLIGHTS from recent issues of CANADIAN DIMENSION magazine:
May-June, 2001
* Editorial - From the Berlin Wall to the Quebec Wall.
How representative democracy was hijacked behind the Wall and how
direct democracy marched to the rescue.
* Azmi Bishara - Apartheid Consciousness and
This treaty is getting less play than the WTO and FTAA, but by forcing US
Courts to enforce foreign judgements and vice versa, it could potentially be
far more important and pervasive in its effects. It's a two-edged sword
since judgements against corporations might be enforced globally more
War of the Roses again?
I'm betting on York.
Gene Coyle
Margaret Coleman wrote:
Bread and Roses?? maggie
Jim Devine wrote:
checking out the British Labour Party on the web, they seem to have dropped
the red flag as their symbol (replacing it with a red rose -- with thorns?)
but
Chris wrote:
To extract from Patrick Bond's long post of 20th June:
One work from the left ANC tradition (which
I had the privilege to edit), Mzwanele Mayekiso's
Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New
South Africa (New York, Monthly Review, 1996),
makes a plausible case that many more
[NYT]
June 22, 2001
Genetic Study Dates Malaria to the Advent of Farming
By NICHOLAS WADE
Malaria, a leading cause of death in the world, is not the ancient
affliction it might seem but a relatively recent scourge that dates
only to the era when human societies first practiced agriculture.
That
*Will Offley - Dry Rot: The Far Right Targets the Left.
How the far right penetrates Left projects like the anti-globalization
movement
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Done. Will you ever return to the list?
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 09:20:13AM -0500, Cy Gonick wrote:
HIGHLIGHTS from recent issues of CANADIAN DIMENSION magazine:
May-June, 2001
* Editorial - From the Berlin Wall to the Quebec Wall.
How representative democracy was
Mark Jones wrote:
The truth is that if Pat Bond is unrealistic,
your scheme is much more so, since it requires not only the willing consent
of the global elites to their own elimination, but also the presence three
additional planet earths plus zero population growth on this one.
So the 6
Mark Jones wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
So the 6 billion people of the earth - what's going to happen to
them? Should they consent to dying off in vast numbers?
What would *you* advise?
I'm not as apocalyptically gloomy as you are, so I don't think
Yoshie's program is as dreamy as you
Mark Jones wrote:
Doug Henwood wrote:
I'm not as apocalyptically gloomy as you are
In the two years since you told me that oil price rises were 'short term
fluctuations', a 'spike', the result of a market perturbation--oil prices
have tripled and gas prices have risen still more. There is no
Doug Henwood earlier wrote [PEN-L:13799]:
it's more of a 19th century slowdown than a post-WW II one,
with a financial hangover from the burst Nasdaq/tech bubble, and a
real sector one from overinvestment in gadgets. It's probably going
to take some time to work through it.
Maybe Doug is
Officials Warn Power Outages Could Cause Major Sewage
Spills
Regional water authorities say cutoff at pumping
stations and in
underground pipes could loose millions of gallons.
Los Angeles Times - 6/22/01
By Seema Mehta, staff writer
Regional water officials are warning sewer
agencies
[was: Re: [PEN-L:13835] Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Current implications
for South Africa]
Doug wrote:
Prices [of oil] are still low, whether measured relative to average
hourly wages or a price index.
real energy prices (the consumer price index for energy divided by the
over-all CPI for
Yoshie Furuhashi
The expansion of mass consumption regional linkages (in opposition
to elite consumption subordination to financial centers) under the
Bond program (if ever implemented -- but who bells the cat?) can
presumably overcome the tendency to overaccumulation inherent in
This discussion with Mark, Doug, and Yoshi is very important, although it seems
to be going on different levels. Mark is correct that in the not too distant
future, energy prices even though the short-term prices are susceptible to
manipulation. Even so, I suspect that the monopolistic upward
See Salon story at
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/06/21/letter/index.html
I got this email from a reader today:
Hi Tim;
Good story in Salon today that briefly includes
Wally [Herger, our Congressman]. Evidently the
Republicans introduced a bill that would spend $30
At 6:28 PM +0100 6/22/01, Mark Jones wrote:
The 'first practical problems' you face in truth are the complete
unrealisability of and utopian hopelessness of the programme you propose.
The first practical problem anywhere these days is to unite
mobilize disparate organizers movements behind a
Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't know what the biggest risk is for capitalism: Third World upheavals,
financial implosion, global warming, overcapacity, or resource constraints. I
think it would be very useful to think about how these various
forces relate to
each other. For example, could
It is easy to criticize everybody else's program for change. I suspect
that what is required is first an understanding, then a vision that can
excite other people, and organizational skills to carry it through -- all
without many resources to support the program.
None of us have had any great
Jim Devine wrote:
real energy prices (the consumer price index for energy divided by the
over-all CPI for urban consumers) did see a big spike from 1999 to 2000
(first 11 months), one akin to those of 1973-1974, 1978-1979, and
1979-1980
in terms of size.
For those interested in seeing what
Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't know what the biggest risk is for capitalism: Third World upheavals,
financial implosion, global warming, overcapacity, or resource constraints.
None of the above -- the tendency to overaccumulation inherent in
capitalism, supply bottlenecks created by
Mark Jones wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
real energy prices (the consumer price index for energy divided by the
over-all CPI for urban consumers) did see a big spike from 1999 to 2000
(first 11 months), one akin to those of 1973-1974, 1978-1979, and
1979-1980
in terms of size.
For those
The following passage on China in the 20's illustrates fairly concisely the
progressive role of a national democratic revolution and how this stage can
prepare the ground for socialism, although not itself socialist.
How can and must the question of the capitalist and socialist paths of
Good one, Gene, but I was refering to the nineteenth century labor song Bread and
Roses. It was the hook of a song sung by laboring women who said they were
fighting not just for bread, but for roses too--as in more than basic subsistence.
If I could remember all the lyrics, I would put them
[was: Re: [PEN-L:13844] Re: Re: Current implications for South Africa]
Doug Pangloss writes:
may I point out one thing you didn't include - human ingenuity, and its
specifically capitalist form of innovation in pursuit of profit. You list
every problem and treat each as a potentially fatal
Doug Henwood wrote:
Michael Perelman wrote:
I don't see biotechnology creating a wave of enthusiasm
comparable to the Internet.
But, to be fair, you probably wouldn't have seen the wave of
enthusiasm about the Internet either. Not that anyone could, but
betting against things for
When Germany feels the chill so do we all
Knock-on effect for the euro
Saturday June 23, 2001
The Guardian
Yesterday's business confidence figures from Germany were very
worrying - not least for Wim Duisenberg and his colleagues at the
European Central Bank. It is not simply a question of
Friday, June 22, 2001
WTO panel set to rule in major U.S.-EU trade row
GENEVA, June 22 (Reuters) - A World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute
panel is due to issue a ruling on Friday that diplomats say could
unleash a major trade tussle -- and a huge political row -- between
the European Union
Without disagreeing with Jim D., I would add that ingenuity that Marx mentions
also adds to the problem of excess capacity. What Marx teaches (among other
things) is that you cannot just focus on one side of the equation.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Yoshie is absolutely correct. Marx accurately argued that capitalism would fail
when people rejected it because it cannot adjust to allow society to meet its
potential. The passages that Mark (not Marx) quoted from the Grundrisse are
among my favorites, because they make the case that
Friday June 22 9:01 PM ET
WTO Ruling Raises Heat in EU-U.S. Dispute
By Marie-Louise Moller
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - World Trade Organization (news - web sites)
experts ruled Friday that a U.S. tax break law violated trade rules,
informed sources said, raising the threat of an explosive dispute with
Margaret Coleman wrote:
Good one, Gene, but I was refering to the nineteenth century labor song Bread and
Roses. It was the hook of a song sung by laboring women who said they were
fighting not just for bread, but for roses too--as in more than basic subsistence.
If I could remember all
Margaret Coleman wrote:
Good one, Gene, but I was refering to the nineteenth century
labor song Bread and
Roses. It was the hook of a song sung by laboring women who said they were
fighting not just for bread, but for roses too--as in more than
basic subsistence.
If I could remember
Bread and Roses
As we come marching, marching in the beauty of the day,
A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill lofts gray,
Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses,
For the people hear us singing: Bread and roses! Bread and roses!
As we come marching, marching, we
U.S. Loses Trade Case To Europe
WTO Export Ruling Could Cost Billions
By Paul Blustein
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, June 23, 2001; Page A01
The United States lost an international trade case to the European
Union
yesterday that could result in the imposition of billions of dollars
of
Sorry to have not responded earlier. You might try:
Loewenstein, George and Richard H. Thaler. 1989. Anomalies:
Intertemporal Choice. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 3: 4
(Autumn): pp. 181-93.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 06:32:48 +0100
From: Chris Burford [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To what extent is there still relevance in the ANC/SACP concept of the
National Democratic Revolution?
Concept is great. Problem is, some of the key actors are talk-left,
act-right sell-outs.
Doug Henwood wrote:
how do you
respond to the statistical point, Mark - that oil prices don't
explain that much about growth rates?
Hooker doesn't succeed in arguing that. How could he? Oil prices are
arbitrary in any case, since there are huge concealed subsidies to the oil
patch and a huge
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
That, too, has to be turned into an occasion to point it out as a
necessary comeuppance of the decades of under-investment in
infrastructure under neoliberalism through privatization
deregulation.
There was no under-investment in basic industries in the USSR, on the
Doug Henwood wrote:
In my role as PEN-L's Dr Pangloss, may I point out one thing you
didn't include - human ingenuity,
This sounds more Julian Simon than Dr Pangloss, and as for what Marx wrote
in Grundrisse, he also said therein:
''To the degree that labour-time -- the mere quantity of
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