and whether the context has changed today, and
whether it has changed from when Lenin wrote about the United States of
Europe. But he certainly said this.
I am surprised that Louis Proyect would give such a hostage to fortune, as
to assert that Lenin never said anything of the sort.
Chris Burford
PM may risk euro vote within a year
Patrick Wintour, chief political correspondent Thursday July 25, 2002 The
Guardian
Tony Blair has suggested that he is willing to risk a referendum on the
euro in this parliament, even if he begins the campaign with the pro-euro
cause seriously trailing in
market, as Lenin noted, in an aside on the national
question.
Lenin never said anything of the sort.
That is a confident statement considering it is hard to prove a negative.
Lenin wrote a lot.
Chris Burford
At 23/07/02 08:45 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Chris Burford:
This remarkable success within a short space of human history, has been of
benefit to the working people of Europe, and of the world, not withstanding
the imperialist nature of the new EU. Perhaps it was also a by-product
is progressive.
Chris Burford
London
At 22/07/02 10:13 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
I am not arguing against reforms, but reformism is a difficult path.
There is a strong groundswell for reforming corporate finance, just as
there was for campaign finance reform. The final reforms are usually very
unsatisfactory, often designed to
Brown dismisses Tobin tax plan
Heather Stewart Tuesday July 23, 2002 The Guardian
Chancellor Gordon Brown cold-shouldered anti-globalisation protesters last
night as he rejected calls to penalise currency speculators to raise cash
for developing countries.
Appearing before the House of Lords
. Provided that other parts of the world take political advantage of
this, it could mark the first set back to US hegemonism for a long time. I
hope US citizens will see that this could be progressive.
Chris Burford
London
CEO's and the
complex cooperative social activity of modern economic enterprises.
That is why even capitalism will have to find ways of controlling their
unpredictable and destabilising behaviour. It is costing billions of
dollars at this moment of time.
Chris Burford
Lodnon
Reformism
Entry in Dictionary of Marxist Thought, 2nd Edition Ed Tom
Bottomore 1991
[with assistance from Ralph Miliband. Formatted for web
reading CB]
Reformism is best understood as one major position in a
long-standing debate on the nature of the transition to socialism and on
the
.
This bit of spin to the Frost on Sunday Programme, probably reflects Gordon
Brown's thinking.
And from a marxist point of view what fundamentally matters in an economy
is what happens to living labour, not what happens to dead labour. So
destruction of capital values may not matter greatly.
Chris
to the
attempts of capitalism to put the burden onto working people domestically
and overseas, and for opportunities to weaken the power of capitalism
strategically.
Chris Burford
London
.
Chris Burford
London
calling for the regulation of Microsoft into more of a publically accountable service, rather than its breaking up because it is too big.
Anti-monopoly laws are reforms that are essential for the continuation of consent in capitalist accumulation. We should be cautious about populism.
Chris Burford
power, and continue to enter the labour
market as partial wage slaves after their 65th birthdays.
Major problem of late finance capitalism hereby solved. It should also help
the market for anti-wrinkle cream.
Chris Burford
London
Greenspan's analysis could be examined in marxist terms of sector I and
sector II - or is that impossibly difficult in a post-modern
finance-capitalist economy? Is anyone willing to try?
Chris Burford
Today's editorial in the Guardian comments guardedly on Greenspan, and
gives an archly revolutionary call for Europe to assert its economic
strength. Despite the last line, this is not however a marxist analysis.
Chris Burford
Market maestro but US downturn could help Europe
imperialisms. But
the world is really at stake. And the question of whether the means of
production can be controlled by social foresight. And what private
ownership means in practice.
Chris Burford
London
Digby Jones, the CBI's [Confederation of British Industry] director general
said: The chancellor has rightly invested in the future productivity of
British business with funds for education and transport. But we must not
waste this historic opportunity to reform public services. The devil as
the global economy.
Parochial.
The dollar does not deserve to remain the international medium of exchange.
Chris Burford
London
At 16/07/02 08:28 -0700, you wrote:
http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/hh/ for the latest
report
, if it does not address the flexible interplay of the
commodity realm of human reproduction and the non-commodity realm. Indeed
I suspect that the transition to communism will be associated with the
blurring of this boundary.
Chris Burford
London
the LOV superfluous but that is
because I like operating at a very high level of abstraction, as well as at
a level of close concrete detail.
Perhaps it is a matter of taste, about which there should be no disputes.
Chris Burford
At 12/07/02 01:25 +, you wrote:
Within the camp of those
posed of socialism or barbarism also seems to me to
smack of fatalism.
Much as she is loved by revolutionary romantics, IMHO she is not quite
ideologically and theoretically correct. Certainly her propositions need
to be gently but effectively questioned.
Chris Burford
London
.
As the executive committees of finance capital desperately try to adjust
the rules, I think this might be an instructive exercise for us, even if
you think that Schweickart is impossibly reformist or impossibly utopian,
or both.
Chris Burford
London
the political economy of the middle class [bourgeoisie], and
social production controlled by social foresight, which forms the political
economy of the working class.
Finance capitalism is preparing its cemetery.
Chris Burford
London 7:30 am
of the
law of value?
Chris Burford
by the living labour that is
actually working? How can the society restabilise? How can the stranglehold
of dead labour be weakened and broken?
Chris Burford
London
in this: in the course of this
contradiction, indeed dialectically, a world state is being created. (in
the interests of course, of imperialism)
Chris Burford
London
area of the world,
not even as *nominal* allies.
Chris Burford
London
At 03/07/12 08:23 +0100, you wrote:
Please use plain text. Other text may be virus infected.
Karl Carlile
To visit Communism click following:
http://homepage.eircom.net/~beprepared/
Karl I agree plain text is better.
But your calendar is set a decade on. [see above]
I now you are eager for
At 30/06/02 16:57 -0700, you wrote:
(how's my font?)
Tolerable on Eudora email.
very small on Netscape.
Chris B
While I generally like Jim Devine's thoughtful and analytical approach to
questions I have to say that the perspective in this response below, in
my opinion is fundamentally wrong.
Primitive accumulation is reserved for almost the very end of Vol I of
Capital and it is called The So-Called
the value of the currency down.
Meanwhile blocs like Europe, while having to compete despite higher export
prices, will have relatively cheaper imports by courtesy of the rest of the
world.
Just when US hegemonism thought it could ignore all other opinions in the
world.
Chris Burford
London
Economic juggernaut: China is passing U.S. as Asian power
Jane Perlez The New York Times Saturday, June 29, 2002
JAKARTA From South Korea to Indonesia, China is rapidly strengthening its
economic presence across Asia, gobbling up foreign investment and chipping
away at the United States'
often a symptom of a new disease on Wall Street:
Corporate Pyramid Schemes.
continued on
http://www.beyondvalueinvesting.com/articles/worldcompyramidscheme.htm
Chris Burford
London
At 26/06/02 08:41 -0400, you wrote:
Corporate Scandals Taking Toll On Markets
By Steven Pearlstein
Washington Post
to the issue of growing world inequality.
Chris Burford
At 28/06/02 15:44 -0400, you wrote:
Yes, these are the conditions that explain the 1349 Statute of Laborers,
which prohibited alms to able-bodied beggars; its immediate sequel, the
1351 Statute of Laborer, which placed a ceiling on wages
aspect to the particularity of this process. This of
course need not obscure the broad correct generalisation that unemployment
is not a characteristic feature of pre-capitalist societies.
I am taking the opportunity of correcting the thread title, and removing a
few Re's
Chris Burford
At 28/06/02 07:07 +0530, you wrote:
Chris Burford :
What *is* difficult is the nature of the alliance between progressive
people in the imperialist west and the mass of people in the LDC's.
Please allow me to ask some questions.
What or how much Western Marxists know really know about
At 29/06/02 06:32 +0530, Ulhas Joglekar wrote:
Chris Burford :
Of course. But I would expect to set that in a more general framework of
an
understanding about different classes and strata, their alliances and
their
differences, and their contadictory relationship with the main forces
peasants).
Chris Burford
London
, which we
should be able to argue is in the material interest of the great majority
of people of the world. Probably 95%.
It *is* necessary to focus on the zero sum game of exchange value and
discuss and change the system *as a whole*.
Chris Burford
London
Communist by his late teens, meeting his future wife, Hilda,
in the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA).
rest recommended:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-339093,00.html
Chris Burford
to the number of tours Colin Powell can carry
off in the Middle East, each designed to fail, before people realise there
is something wrong with the plot.
Chris Burford
support.
Otherwise the central terrain of battle is lost.
Chris Burford
London
You can download the press release at
http://www.osu.edu/students/sif/14June2002.doc. Here's the website for
the protest: http://www.turnyourbackonbush.com/.
--
Yoshie
* Calendar of Events in Columbus:
http
.
Chris Burford
alternatives to the crushing of the Palestinians in publically
attributable emails on lists like this and LBO-talk?
Chris Burford
England
. But the people of the LDC are not in a decisive
position to push. We will need to appeal to the reforming instincts of the
population of the more developed countries to make a global alliance
against capitalism.
Chris Burford
.
Chris Burford
I am returning to this question on the eve of the final round of the
French parliamentary election, likely, like the Dutch election, to
produce a further victory for the parliamentary right.
At 05/05/02 13:38 -0500, Carrol wrote:
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
The Socialist Party I belong to
a holistic approach to the present system of global capitalism?
Is Marx's absolute general law of capitalist accumulation (Capital Vol I
Ch 25 Section 4) applicable on a world scale:
the greater the functioning capital, the greater the reserve army?
Chris Burford
that if the
crisis accelerates the global politics of capitalism will feel compelled to
address it in some way or another - perhaps even less attractive than what
I have just discussed.)
Chris Burford
Wall Street hangs on the dollar's fortunes
Jonathan Fuerbringer The New York Times
exchange of value?
My hunch, like yours, is that the workings of capitalism are going to
become more and more transparent. In this common cause, can I invite you
to comment?
Chris Burford
The unfolding crisis is going to
flush all the basic laws of capital out into the open for every
misleading.
Only
an analysis which examines the global process of value creation and
destruction in all its complexity can account for today's capitalism.
My sentiments entirely.
See my post to Melvin P.
Chris Burford
This article in the Guardian (UK) below, shows how far the UK and the USA
have gone in assuming state surveillance of emails. That is not under
debate - only the range of the agencies allowed to monitor.
The implications for all radicals, let alone revolutionaries, using the
internet have
Do others agree with the economics here?
Chris Burford
Two years to save the world
New Scientist
19:00 12 June 02
Fred Pearce
People will be five times as rich in a hundred years' time. And if we are
willing to postpone that prosperity by just two years, we could fix global
warming
One world, one economy, one language, one culture,
one security system, one body of armed men, one state.
Chris Burford
To play the issue and not the man, I would say that Sabri Oncu is incorrect
in seeing the divisions he gave in April in this reference
http://www22.brinkster.com/harikumar/AllianceIssues/ALL35MLCP%28TURKEY%29GA2000.HTM
as
mostly
psychological/personal stuff, although the ones involved would
At 07/06/02 17:19 -0700, you wrote:
We have been through this before,
Thanks. Any recollection about which year
and month of the archives in particular which
I should search?
Chris Burford
Chris,
Obviously you did not get the message. What I read from Michael's
sentence is that he
of reformism while
promoting a strugge for radical reform.)
Chris Burford
At 07/06/02 06:24 +0900, miychi
wrote:
There is not unequal exchange( Frank etc)
There is creditifying commodity.
Please explain.
Chris Burford
between the two. Does
that matter? How is that analysed from a marxist point of view, and how
much does it contribute to imperialist superprofits?
Chris Burford
At 07/06/02 08:52 -0700, Michael Perelman wrote:
We have been through this before,
Thanks. Any recollection about which year and month of the archives in
particular which I should search?
Chris Burford
but please do not try to characterize
other list memgers -- they can do
that mean that all other areas using less advanced means of
production are trading unequally and there will be an unequal
exchange of value on a massive global scale, inherent in the very
fabric of the international market, which is self perpetuating and indeed
accelerating.
Chris Burford
passages Engels wrote in haste.
What is important is the main idea, which is consistent with the importance
he gives to work and to language in human evolution: that we are a social
species, temporarily under the fragmenting sway of capitalist relations of
production.
Chris Burford
.
Chris Burford
At 31/05/02 20:10 -0700, you wrote:
Sam Lanfranco posted this to the labor-l list. Scary.
From: Benoit Tabaka [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 22:40:01 +0200
Declan,
A short piece of news from France. Yesterday, a french lower Court
decided
for the first time
. To many that is simply because he is now undoubtedly
one of the right wing, a traitor and an opportunist.
Chris Burford
London
criticising.
Chris Burford
Friends across the water
In The World We're In, Will Hutton reveals that the US right is a threat to
the UK. It's not that simple, argues Chris Patten
Chris Patten Guardian
Saturday May 18, 2002
The World We're In Will Hutton 320pp, Little, Brown, £17.99
that Hutton's
approach raises.
Chris Burford
patronised and humiliated by the USA, and intends to ensure
that this era comes to a definitive end.
Chris Burford
Hutton again: p 366
Nor can we any longer accept the US's lax attitude to the regulation of
international financial institutions, accounting standards and tax
havens; it is a green light to feral capitalism, organised crime and
international plans are terrorism alike.
The globe needs a
of
communism.
Chris Burford
p366-367
The World We're In by Will Hutton
There needs also to be a recasting of the relationship of the
industrialised West with the less developed world. The EU needs to
rethink its attitude towards agriculture; instead of protecting domestic
production of commodity foods
At 20/05/02 18:01 -0700, Jim Devine quoted Louis Proyect
On Mon, 20 May 2002 22:32:27 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
If once the United States personified the
future, increasingly the EU is demonstrating how
inter-dependence can be managed and nurtured.
LP: This must be some kind of joke. Anti
The areas in which the EU needs to protect [project? - CB] an idea of a
more liberal, multilateralist and just order are legion. Start with
finance. The world needs a genuine supranational financial institution
that monitors economic performance and stands ready to provide hard
currency in times
Shrewd forex traders know that the United States of America needs inward
investment of about $1 billion a day to maintain the level of the dollar in
the world as an exchange medium and store of wealth. This is looking unlikely.
Perhaps they should hold out the begging bowl.
Chris Burford
Guardian Report:
Wednesday May 22, 2002 10:50 PM
ACCRA, Ghana (AP) - Singer Bono and U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill
chatted to women selling snails and smoked fish in the capital and donned
traditional robes in a rural village in Ghana on Wednesday.
In a dusty schoolyard, under a
extracts from Guardian
Wednesday May 22, 2002 11:40 PM
Hooded youths and pro-Palestinian demonstrators clashed with police as
President Bush arrived here Wednesday, marring a peaceful protest by 20,000
people opposed to any widening of the U.S. war on terrorism.
...
The anti-war
With Bush in Berlin, it is no accident that Prodi outlined an ambitious
plan for European global influence, to the European Parliament.
Of all the kites he flew the power to raise tax directly would be the most
decisive.
BBC report -
European Commission President Romano Prodi has demanded
At 19/05/02 15:46 -0400, you wrote:
On Sun, 19 May 2002 20:13:34 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
Did not Robeson once sing about an America that
was inclusive?
Robeson was an outspoken critic of capitalism. Bono is a proponent of
capitalist handouts to countries that would be far better off
Of course Hutton's purpose is not emphasis that Europe too is an
imperialism and no less genetically capable of committing atrocities of
oppression and exploitation than its rival across the Atlantic. But in
the following passage Hutton continues by arguing why Europe has the more
effective
As I suspected, not just a collection of disparate moralistic winges, but
a barely disguised declaration of economic war against the USA -
The euro is not just important for offering European monetary integration
and its associated benefits.
It gives Europe a world currency - the only
At 18/05/02 08:18 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
On Fri, 17 May 2002 22:28:31 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
What the Marshall Aid plan was necessary to do
was *political*: to protect western Europe from
going Communist.
I didn't think it was necessary for me to point this out.
Good. We
a great
idea, contagious and inclusive.
Did not Robeson once sing about an America that was inclusive?
Chris Burford
from his or her own country.
Sorry to press the point.
Chris Burford
or otherwise?
I am sure Michael will want this thread closed for content, as he did in
November, but perhaps Max can clarify where the technical problem is.
Chris Burford
Fortujn, Stoiber, or Le Pen.
Chris Burford
At 16/05/02 08:19 -0400, you wrote:
Chris Burford:
However the Marshall Aid programme after the war shifted capital back to
western Europe and produced an increase in the use values available for the
local population. Capitalism can continue even with a redistribution of
capitalism
Chris Burford:
Hutton is probably proposing Keynesian solutions. It would certainly not be
socialism. But even a capitalist programme really to eradicate global
inequality would be a big shock to the privileged populations of the
imperialist countries, let alone their bourgeoisies.
A capitalist
for commercial reasons of his notoriety and
because he has argued for capital to be recirculated to the global
peripheries, (no doubt at public expense).
Hutton, who is a fairly honest radical bourgeois, may well also be arguing
for capital to be redistributed to the peripheries.
Chris Burford
interests are signalled in the article
below.
Chris Burford
Sat May 11
Allies look to the EU for future security By William Pfaff (International
Herald Tribune)
PARIS: American policy spokesmen - such as Under Secretary of State Marc
Grossman, speaking at The Hague in April - insist
imperialist blocs patch over their differences, some
changes may be part of the agenda.
Has anyone read even bits of the book, in the original?
Chris Burford
London
these concerns
by relieving the four big banks of $170 billion worth of bad loans - 12
percent of loans outstanding - and then writing off the loans or reselling
them, following the same general approach that worked for the United
States after the savings and loan crisis.
Chris Burford
from
on a world scale and to
manage the global capitalist economy by management of its capital flows.
Small left wing groups may not be able to grasp that nettle, but anything
short of this may make it difficult to unite people of different countries
and different ethnic backgrounds.
Chris Burford
this in a racist way???
(He also sounds a narcissist but that is perhaps not a defined political
tendency.)
Chris Burford
London
to say that logically if Lenin's position
was wrong, Louis's is at least as wrong. But perhaps in different ways.
Chris Burford
!
Chris Burford
London
I will be away from the computer for some days.
Silence does not indicate agreement of course, including with how my
position might be characterised...
Regards
Chris Burford
At 02/05/02 19:44 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
On Thu, 02 May 2002 23:24:33 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
While would-be marxists may have a low opinion
of bourgeois elections, it was something of a
problem that the German Nazi Party did come
first in the elections in 1933 and their leader
, not
just in the Labour Party, will be emboldened by these results that there is
a way to fight back, not least against racism.
Chris Burford
London
At 03/05/02 08:52 -0400, you wrote:
On Fri, 03 May 2002 08:06:12 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
Despite the expectation of losing votes badly
compared to their high point of the general
election, Labour Party losses were modest. In
what should be a good time for them, there are
no signs
not
consider throwing the weight of the left behind a lesser evil bourgeois
party. Or are you confident there is a principled left wing party that can
come top of the bourgeois election?
Chris Burford
London
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