We need a philosopher to invent some adequate concept for the
below...somehow, fetishism doesn't quite cover it. Perhaps, it is
just that academics are finally getting around to prostituting entities
more appropriate to prostitution. Who knows. I become nostalgic for
those days when we worried
Richard Gott's _Our Empire Story_ (forthcoming) charts the history
of the British Empire and reveals an astonishing statistic: for every
single day that this Empire existed there was a corresponding act of
rebellion by its subjects against its rule (Tariq Ali, _Bush in
Babylon: The Recolonization
* Dollar Doldrums
Where have all the European investors gone?
By Daniel Gross
Posted Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2003, at 2:24 PM PT
Several months into the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq, frayed
trans-Atlantic ties show no signs of mending. Last week, having
failed to make any progress on its own, the
We need a philosopher to invent some adequate concept for the
below...somehow, fetishism doesn't quite cover it. Perhaps, it is
just that academics are finally getting around to prostituting entities
more appropriate to prostitution. Who knows. I become nostalgic for
those days when we
My take on the phenomenon from an April 24th post to
LBO below.
Regards,
Mike B)
Zizek indicates that people don't want to know, they
like the idea of being represented by a simpleton
(Bush) who is manipulated behind the scenes by the
evil intellectual genius
From today's Washington Post:
Judge Patrick Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
Circuit and one of three federal judges hearing the case, seemed skeptical
of the Democrats' suggestion that redistricting had ever been a
scrupulously fair undertaking.
He recalled that former
calling Lani Guinere... calling Lani Guinere...
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
* World On Fire by Amy Chua
snip
She's overreaching somewhat when she says,
early on, markets and democracy were among the causes of both the
Rwandan and Yugoslavian genocides. And while Serbian
hatred of the Croats was fanned by Croatian economic dominance,
FYI
Yesterday Environmental Media Services (EMS), in conjunction with
Moveon.org, launched a
new site called BushGreenwatch.org-- a site that includes brief
daily articles about how the
Bush administration is dismantling America's public health and
environmental protections.
Oops!
there's the site in the subject line. . .
Brian
Fred,
Very glad you could make it - you were missed! I want to think more about
your post but have one small and one larger reflection.
1. I think we can all agree on the big focus of profit rates, as Paul
put it - that the rate of profit is the most important variable in
analyzing capitalism.
If this is the level of analysis and knowledge displayed in the rest of
the book, then I wouldn't waste my time reading the book. It suggests a
profound ignorance of Balkan history and the politico-economic basis of
the ethnic divisions that resulted and which were fanned, not by
democracy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/03 10:14AM
From today's Washington Post:
Judge Patrick Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
Circuit and one of three federal judges hearing the case, seemed
skeptical
of the Democrats' suggestion that redistricting had ever been a
scrupulously fair
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On Friday, December 12, 2003 at 14:33:22 (-0500) Michael Hoover writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/12/03 10:14AM
From today's Washington Post:
Judge Patrick Higginbotham, of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th
Circuit and one of three federal judges hearing the case, seemed
skeptical
of the
In all fairness, John Burton did one of the first modern redistricting in
California. What is new here is that the Repugs. want to do it whenever
they can rather than wait for the next census.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 02:32:30PM -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
On Friday, December 12, 2003 at 14:33:22
in many states, there's also a deal between incumbents (of both parties) to protect
the positions of incumbents using gerrymandering. It's not just a partisan thing.
it pushes me in the direction of favoring term limits, but I'm not that far gone yet.
Jim Devine
Hi, Fred.
you write:
6. I have suggested another explanation of these important
trends, one
based on Marx's distinction between productive labor and unproductive
labor - that an important cause of the declines in the share
and the rate
of profit was a very significant increase in the
--- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
that
if the ratio of unproductive to productive labor
continues to increase
**
Paul or someone on the list...do you mean by
uproductive labour, that labour which does not produce
a profit for an employer of wage-labour?
Are you saying that a single barber
The idea is that you want to put as many of the opposing party as you can
in one district -- 100% would be ideal -- then have 50+ percent in each of
the districts you expect to hold. Rep. Berman's brother has the computer
system that did the redistricting.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 03:09:09PM
Mike asks:
...do you mean by
uproductive labour, that labour which does not produce
a profit for an employer of wage-labour?
according to Marx's definition, unproductive labor (U) does not produce surplus-value,
though it may help the capitalists _realize_ surplus-value.
To my mind, that
Devine, James wrote:
Hi, Fred.
you write:
spite of the loss of workers' power and stagnant real wages -
because the
ratio of unproductive to productive labor has continued to increase.
A big question: _why_ does the ratio of unproductive to productive labor increase
Thanks Jim! Now, I feel like I know about where I am
in this discussion.
One, perhpas two more questions from the peanut
gallery:
How does the pile of both current and projected future
wealth production in the USA measure up against the
amount of dollars in circulation, including bonds and
Friday, December 12, 2003
TGIF -- it must be time for Bush policy changes
How the White House uses Stealth tactics (on Fridays) in U.S.
By JOEL CONNELLY
SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER COLUMNIST
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/connelly/152120_joel12.html
The Bush I administration perfected Stealth
Jim Devine writes:
the productivity of capital is sloppy writing. It refers to the ratio of
output to fixed capital equipment (the inverse of some measures of the
organic composition of capital). But, at least in Marxian lingo, fixed
capital isn't productive. However, it can be indirectly
That was Phil Burton, wasn't it?
Gene
Michael Perelman wrote:
In all fairness, John Burton did one of the first modern redistricting in
California. What is new here is that the Repugs. want to do it whenever
they can rather than wait for the next census.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at
absolutely.
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 05:18:36PM -0800, Eugene Coyle wrote:
That was Phil Burton, wasn't it?
Gene
Michael Perelman wrote:
In all fairness, John Burton did one of the first modern redistricting in
California. What is new here is that the Repugs. want to do it whenever
they
* Documentary
Venezuela - a 21st Century Revolution
Produced by the Global Women's Strike, May 2003
Duration: 60 minutes Cost: $15 £10 E15
Crossroads Books Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This is not a documentary on Venezuela, but a documentary of
Venezuelans speaking on how they are making
I know it wasn't Dan Burton!
JD
From: Eugene Coyle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
That was Phil Burton, wasn't it?
Gene
Michael Perelman wrote:
In all fairness, John Burton did one of the first modern
* NORTH KOREA: BEYOND THE DMZ
JT Takagi Hye Jung Park / Edited by Dena Mermelstein
(56 min./Color/2003)
Axis of evil? While this tiny state on the divided Korean peninsula
is continually demonized in America, few have any first hand
knowledge of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
an excess of money in circulation if anything means inflation. But that's something
that's not happening these days.
The fall of the US dollar is due to an excess of US dollars in circulation relative to
the supplies of other currencies (rather than there being too much money over-all).
The
Paul,. your story makes sense (though I'd add a lot). My question is for Fred, though.
The classical Marxian story stresses the role of the organic composition rising due
to some societal or technological imperative. For Fred, the rise of the ratio of
productive to unproductive labor costs has
* Baghdad in No Particular Order
This disarming 60-minute video of everyday life in prewar Baghdad was
shot by Paul Chan during a sojourn to Iraq in late December and early
January, organized by the antiwar group Voices in the Wilderness. His
ambient documentary records a local cafe, a Sufi
* Traces: The Kabul Museum 1988. 2003. Japan. Directed by
Tsuchimoto Noriaki.
During the fall of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, in 1992,
most of the artifacts of the national museum were destroyed or
stolen. This video represents a rare film documentation of the Kabul
Museum. 32
http://www.gao.gov/
Alaska Native Villages: Most Are Affected by Flooding and Erosion, but Few
Qualify for Federal Assistance. GAO-04-142
Today's Reports - December 12, 2003
Thanks again, Jim. If you ever get to Perth, we'll
have to have a Coopers ale (or three) at the Brass
Monkey. I can bring my Little Red Songbook. Comes
in handy after a few ales and hearty.
So, there is an excess of money in circulation
relative to the other currencies of the world.
Increased
My take on profit rates is a bit different from the thrust of this conversation
so far. I suspect that the measurement of profit rates is a very, very inexact
exercise, because the denominator cannot be measured. Invested capital
requires some means of calculating depreciation rates. The
--- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Invested capital requires some means of calculating
depreciation rates. The government does
this calculation by means of rules of thumb based on
the permanent inventory method.
Over a short period of time, problems with this
method of calculation will not
- Original Message -
From: Mike Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What I've wondered about are the calculations
concerning the depreciation of fixed capital in these
times of rapid technological advance. One never knows
what's around the corner in terms of the
revolutionizing of the means
Thanks again, Jim. If you ever get to Perth, we'll
have to have a Coopers ale (or three) at the Brass
Monkey. I can bring my Little Red Songbook. Comes
in handy after a few ales and hearty.
I'll have some cheap Pinot Grigio some horizontal athletics.
... When you refer to the others outside
I'd like some patient response to a query that appears to be a whopper to
me, which I've never before posed.
I'm missing some crucially essential connections, which Sweezy in some of
the things he had written some years ago, just as he stopped writing for
publication, alluded to. Maybe it's been
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