Chris Burford wrote:
The intrusion of a massive advertisement for Coca Cola, is
counterbalanced later by an extraordinary image of an admonitory
statue of
Lenin, being carried through the air by a helicopter, reproving the
naive communist stalwart for having forgotten perhaps a deeper meaning
of
OK will do. Still, looking forward to your take on the conditions of
capital using your statistically superior method. Actually, can't wait.
But enough idle banter.
dms
You are really smart.
J.
i realize that part of above is rhetorical flourish but...
re. pfp in 68: cleaver doug dowd (bless his heart) were on ballot in
12-13-14 states, received about 75,000 votes nationwide, made no
difference in any state (which is what folks must focus on re. prez
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(I sort of doubt whether Ralph Nader will have the time or the
inclination to answer Ted Glick's questions, but I'd like to take a stab
at them myself.)
Should the Peace and Freedom Party have worked out a deal with
the Democrats in 1968 to make sure that
Chris comments: BTW [the author, John Dolan] not Russian; he's a US
citizen who taught English in Auckland, NZ, for several years and then
relocated to Moscow. His wife is a New Zealander.
J.
Michael Hoover:
re. witch hunt: if reference is to truman (who as senator in 40 had said
on senate floor that us should back which ever side was winning between
soviets and nazis and then turn on winner), loyalty oaths and other
ferreting out of 'reds' precedes 48, in any event, wallace made no
I have an article posted on the Monthly Review website (www.monthlyreview.org) titled "Can the
Working Class Change the World?" It is a write up of a talk I gave to the
Marxist School in Sacramento. Comments welcome.
I think the working class not only can change the world,
but does change
Nearly Half of Black Men Found Jobless
February 28, 2004
By JANNY SCOTT
It is well known that the unemployment rate in New York
City rose sharply during the recent recession. It is also
understood that the increase was worse for men than for
women, and especially bad for black men. But a new
NY Times, February 28, 2004
Nearly Half of Black Men Found Jobless
By JANNY SCOTT
It is well known that the unemployment rate in New York City rose sharply
during the recent recession. It is also understood that the increase was
worse for men than for women, and especially bad for black men. But a
perhaps of interest to pen-pals...
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[lbo-talk] Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910- 2004)
John Mage jmage at panix.com
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Paul Sweezy, a man I loved, died last night.
He was a Marxist revolutionary.
john mage
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I deeply admired Paul Sweezy and am so sad to hear that he's gone. . .His (and Baran's) "Monopoly Capital" opened my eyes when I was young. . .and Monthly Review has been tops for decades. . .with clear, clear captivating writing. . .a model for us all. . . .
I used to see him at the Socialist
I know I'm in mourning.
Jim D.
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I deeply
I am very sad hearing that news and want to say something. I never met him
personally but I knew him through his writings which made a lasting
impression. He wasn't just a great publicist, an independent, pioneering
American socialist, a team worker, and a great, cultured scholar, but he was
also
Friends,
I first came to know Paul Sweezy in the early 1970s. He was always a
very kind critic, and when I got to know him personally, a very kind and
generous man. I mourn his death. Monthly Review magazine is his
legacy. Although Paul had been ill for some time and had not actively
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I got a different take on him than some of you. Back in the 70s, I invited him to
speak in Chico. Most of our faculty were quite conventional and not particularly
friendly to marxism. They took Paul out for dinner, probably expecting to berate an
intellectual dinasauer. Instead, he charmed
America's new coal rush
Utilities' dramatic push to build new plants would boost energy security
but hurt the environment.
By Mark Clayton | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
February 26, 2004 edition
After 25 years on the blacklist of America's energy sources, coal is
poised to
I'm still trying to get a handle on the direction of the economy. I see
tremendous overcapacity in many sectors, leading in the direction of
deflation together with a stock market bubble, based on God knows what.
At the same time, some sectors, such as steel, having gone through
serious capacity
I mourn Paul Sweezy's death. He has been the most important
intellectual influence in my life. In summer, 1967, I was a grad
student in economics and active in the group, Vietnam summer, when
someone suggested I read Monopoly Capital. Thoughts that i was
grappling with such as the causes of
The shortages are not shortages at all, nor more than the price of oil is
due to a shortage or a lack of production capacity.
For example, world wide steel making capacity is approximately 25% greater
than even the inflated demand generated by the China bubble.
Natural gas has tripled in price
I don't know. My guess is that the Cheney/Rove administration -- in conjunction with
their ally, Alan the G, the Fedmeister, who has more power on this question -- want
to delay the next recession as long as possible, so that it will happen (along with
the popping of the housing bubble) after
Michael Yates wrote:
I have an article posted on the Monthly Review
website (www.monthlyreview.org) titled Can the
Working Class Change the World? It is a write up
of a talk I gave to the Marxist School in
Sacramento. Comments welcome.
In his article, Michael Yates wrote:
What went wrong?
Farewell fellow worker.
Mike B)
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HAITI: How Washington set the stage for uprising
Lee Sustar
The media have a standard story line to explain the uprising in Haiti -
one-time populist leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide has become a corrupt
authoritarian who is relying on armed gangs to crush a popular uprising. In
reality, the
KPFA www.kpfa.org has had marvelous coverage of Haiti -- some of the same people as
Democracy Now, but more extensive coverage. The article here ignores two other
factors -- the drug running business of some of the fund's thugs leading the coup in
the impending change in the Constitution to
Eubulides wrote:
February 27, 2004
COMPETITIVE SOURCING
Greater Emphasis Needed on Increasing Efficiency and Improving Performance
GAO-04-367
http://www.gao.gov/ [click through to the report]
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
A 35-strong group of rejected asylum seekers called A Long Walk to Freedom
(recalling the title of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela's book, and the Chinese
national liberation war) is on a 234km long march from Groningen in the
far north of The Netherlands to the Parliament Building in The Hague, in
Class war pipe dreams
A biologist becomes a gas fitter, so the barriers are finally breaking
down? Tell that to the shelf packers
Mary Riddell
Sunday February 29, 2004
The Observer
As pipes freeze and domestic boilers implode, a shivering nation can be
grateful to Karl Gensberg. Formerly a
[god bless intertemporal optimization]
[New York Times]
February 29, 2004
The Social Security Promise Not Yet Kept
By DAVID CAY JOHNSTON
SOCIAL Security retirement benefits are going to have to be cut, Alan
Greenspan announced last week, because there just is not enough money to
pay
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