as other, usually better publicized statements.
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grievance
procedure, but this is better than nothing. The CAW has blamed MacDonald HQ
for the problems in negotiations, saying they could have reached agreement
if it was only the local franchise owner involved.
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onger
keep track of it. At last count it was about 30% of total outward Canadian
FDI.
Any ideas or comparative studies on what this number would be in other
countries?
Bill Burgess
At 12:38 PM 15/12/98 -0800, you wrote:
In response to Tom's question below, I suspect that the Bank of Int
like whore are used. I assume it is a derogatory reference
here, which I also think wrongs whores.
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ivia (I'll pass it on to the union here), since I
am sure (some) issues in Bolivia are different than in North America.
Bill Burgess
At 08:54 AM 07/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
Dear Listmembers:
The frist McDonalds in Cochabamba, Bolivia is to open on Friday. We are
preparing a protest of so
seriously (if not necessarily coherantly) about the big economic
picture.
Or am I wrong - does anyone think Louis P. and the World Bank are playing
'chicken Little' ("the sky is falling; the sky is falling!")?
My apology for urging you to do as I say more than as I do.
Bill Burgess
I'm wondering if, based on the results reported below, we should conclude
NAFTA has been 'good' for Canada and Mexico, just like our bosses said it
would be.
NAFTA's CASUALTIES
Employment effects on men, women, and minorities
by Jesse Rothstein and Robert Scott
In an effort to avoid
zations they rose to the top of and led.
Same point - what is the point of a communist government if not organizing
the transition to socialism? Even if it is trying, but making errors - even
fatal errors? Stalinism is not communists making errors.
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presumably, but also unknown) rates of
turnover of raw material, goods in process and finished goods which are
included under this one figure.
I confess I find the high (average or aggregate) non-financial profit rates
a puzzle.
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defy corporate America" too.
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).
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from where (or if our leg
was being pulled).
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ce for an assignment on cost-benefit analysis. They
try to show it would cost less to address Native land claims, etc. than
continue the status quo.
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gement for their own
interests". I don't know if this is right or not, but I do see the need to
cut right through the "we're all in the same lifeboat/planet" line.
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uments" - p.146). However, he also notes
the obverse error has been all too common among Marxists, and goes on to
think about what a more adequately dialectical formulation of the problem
might be. I didn't find any breakthrough, but the effort deserves more
respect than Louis' comments suggest.
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f we think it was primarily pressure from below
that has now stalled it.
I guess I'm a 'doubting Thomas' on the issue of MAI.
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unts to less than 10% of the original land
claim and would subject the proposed Nisgaa jurisdiction to almost all
Canadian and BC laws.(If interested, check out the Nisgaa web site).
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more Iraqians...)
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into this kind of atmosphere to bring purpose and
morality back into government?
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istance needs
of farmers: these measures, following the initiatives of the former state
farm workers themselves, were to _increase_ their subsistance needs,
by attacking bureaucratic management approaches which had failed.
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t the USSR-type methods that
had prevailed for the previous decade or two. Much more interesting issue
for this list, IMHO.
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red_ to go.
"[Protect their budding economies from competition"? Yes, from the
London sugar cartel and the IMF. But Cuba genuinely wants to trade with
the US and other capitalist countries. X-Albanian and n.Korean-style
isolationism are not socialist virtues.
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s approach, i.e. turn over (part
of) their dollar earnings to the local hospital, day care, etc. I don't
know how widespread this is, but it is a more encouraging perspective
than promoting a corrupt bureaucracy and having a cop looking over
every shoulder.
Bill Burgess
nd it, prostitution is still illegal. Perhaps someone else knows
more about this?
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line? The Cubans are doing more and more
sharp cost accounting (every economist should favour that!) and making
decisions accordingly. But where are the capitalists, and what exactly
would you have liked the government to do differently, given the
circumstances?
Bill Burgess
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Fleck_S wrote:
prostitution and marriage are the two most common occupations of women -
Even in the poorest countries in the world surely the first part of this
claim is untrue (assuming something close to a conventional definition of
prostitution).
Bill Burgess
, lumpenization, etc. The middle class can afford a
more 'objective'view, and a more romantic one.
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nch period: "To preserve a
balance between us and the French is the great ruling principle of modern
Indian politics."
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. Net foreign liabilities were 42% of GDP in 1996, but they also
hit 42% in 1961. I don't have the figures at hand, but I'd be surprised if
Canada's net foreign liabilities as a share of GDP have increased much
more than that of the OECD average.
Bill Burgess
Chinese revolution. Has any other
society done more in less time?
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, but one-sided reports are no better.
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Stalin's (later) record. Rather than accepting Trotsky's 1903 comments on
the party, how about allowing for a little human agency?
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o
the Party' leading bodies while pretending to be revolutionaries for
several decades?
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t approach, which is not driven by "history and human
destiny" but flesh and blood men and women in class-divided society.
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ncial base of the Republicans as
well?
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encouraging rarified discourse in place of serious
empirical investigation. Academics have the time and resources to do the
latter and this is one way we can be most useful.
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ern
about the 'essential core of Marxism'.
Also, I wouldn't want to try to represent _Beyond Capital_, but I think
it's point is not *adding* sides to _Capital_ but begining to
elaborate sides that were always there but that Marx could not complete.
Bill Burgess
stood Marx for the previous 50 years. James
Devine has frequently recommended this book on Pen-L and it really is
unfortunate how little attention it has received.
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did infect a lot of left thinking, and that we
need to be sharper in the contest still being fought between materialism
and idealism, etc.
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racle" is a big question, and
I'd like to see more discussion of this issue, comments on recent books,
etc.
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explain it.
Isn't this because (at least in the US) Black is a nationality while
white is not? If the context makes this political designation appropriate
there is good reason to capitalize.
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protecting ecology everywhere.
Another point to link our interests in the US and Canada with
those in Mexico against these trade deals: the ne-nationalization of
Mexico's petroleum industry, which is another blow against their right to
develop independently of imperialism.
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onalities.
If Michael is saying our stance on trade should be based on something like
"protection via local control" under capitalism, well, I just can't agree,
because it seems to me like tilting at windmills, or weaving ropes out of
sand, or some such metaphor.
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Michael is right. I apologise for not stating whom he was quoting.
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just fine. Citing 'border ecology' against industry in Mexico
is incredible hypocracy. These are yuppie Perot arguments - lets oppose
NAFTA for **good** reasons!
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in the news.
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nomy if we don't connect this to the wars
happening, including Iraq and intervention in Yugoslavia.
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atmosphere for discussions, and that requires
prompt action against the kind of blatant and aggressive sexism I read in
Karl's first couple of messages (I am assuming the rest were more of the
same, because I didn't read through them).
Bill
that the S8 is really the G7 with Russia there for window dressing.
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itting
a handpicked three neighbours (and refusing others) I don't think it is
right to downplay the ongoing danger of war.
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d 15th in
imports between 1991 and 1995.
So, yes, Paul's heading was correct. It was also rather one-sided.
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d force that guaranteed
Lumumba's defeat and the consolidation of imperialist power in Africa.
Canadian troops played a key role in the Congo operation, being
responsible for the communications and coordination centre, and so
were well aware of the machinations against Lumumba.
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On Sun, 18 May 1997, Tom Walker wrote:
In reply to my comments, Bill Burgess wrote,
If we agree that nation states are still important, isn't it important
to also identify exactly who has power in them, and specifically whether
domestic or foreign capital predominates?
Tom relied
ldn't see any point to
answering such questions "decisively". Even the "nation-state" is to some
degree an abstraction.
If we agree that nation states are still important, isn't it important
to also identify exactly who has power in them, and specifi
. I did
appreciate at least part of Sid S.'s caution against the previous form
of PI-PN discussion and I will try to avoid the slippery parts of the
slope.
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labour productivity growth and real profitability have been stagnant, and
so Capital has had to become more aggressive ("brutal", as Bill R. put
it)?
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. However you might like to consider these figures
for New Zealand:
...However, the picture is considerably different in foreign
investment, to the extent it can be estimated. The last
official figures for foreign ownership of assets (a la
Bill Burgess) were in 1982-83, which indicated foreign
and 15.8% outwards
(we're talking stocks here, not flows aren't we?).
Bill Burgess:
I'm sorry, I don't have my sources at hand to help figure out
why our numbers are so different, and I am shortly leaving on holidays for
3 weeks. I did have some older OECD data for 1989 on my shelf here
planning etc.
And I agree it was a tremendous victory that farmers turned back the
effort to gut the Wheat (marketing) Board. My point is that Canadian socialists
have spent most of their time and effort attacking **US** imperialism
when these are the kinds of things we should really be discussing and
on this point I would appreciate
any comments and criticism on at least ***this aspect*** of the debate.
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on this point I would appreciate
any comments and criticism on at least ***this aspect*** of the debate.
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I skimmed parts of this earlier discussion but didn't realize most
considered that the issue had already been beaten to death or that
wounds were still too tender to touch. I can go along with that, but
I don't think the issue will go away.
Bill Burgess
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Sid
the problem is
not capitalism but foreign capitalism, i.e., not capitalism at all but
foreigners!
Why should national capitalists have an edge over foreign capitalists (in
OECD countries)?
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his was my original point), that the anti-Castro Cuban vote is not
Clinton's main motive.
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ow important they feel it is to defeat the example of the
Cuban revolution. The problem is that Steve's approach tends to also
minimize the importance of solidarity with the Cuban revolution for us in
the US and Canada.
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to defend independent Canadian imperialist interests.
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On Fri, 14 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to thank Shawgi for posting Fidel's speech and
the Granma article on the net. I would also like to point out,
in furtherence of his previous posting about Walmart'
In a recent post Doug Henwood mentioned the likes of "swaptions",
"Butterflies" and a couple of other rare money species. Could you explain
what these are?
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