[PEN-L:3149] Re: We are waiting

1999-02-10 Thread Gerald Levy
I. CONGRATS PEN-L! * Digest #177 was 411K! * There were 87 posts in Digest #177! II. * One person wrote 18 posts yesterday!!! This is insanity. Who has time to read this quantity of posts/day? (Answer: only those without a life). Given this volume and free-rider effect abuse,

[PEN-L:3060] We are waiting

1999-02-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Barkley writes -- imploring me to write more for PEN-L: We are waiting. You will have to continue to wait. What PEN-L suffers from is not the absence of posts. Quite the reverse. It is not uncommon for daily digests to be over 500K. I would guestimate that digests have average over 250K in

[PEN-L:2991] Re: Bounced from Anwar Shaikh

1999-02-06 Thread Gerald Levy
An intelligent discussion would begin by reading the references that Anwar Shaikh (NB: _not_ "Sheik") gives rather than spinning one's wheels in ignorance. Or is it too much to ask that one become familiar with a person's work before passing judgment on it? Jerry PS1: As this same person has

[PEN-L:2828] Re: Andy Warhol

1999-02-03 Thread Gerald Levy
spam.

[PEN-L:2676] Re: LBO intern needed

1999-01-28 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug writes: H-lp! LBO badly needs an intern snip What did you say you were offering prospective candidates in terms of an hourly wage and benefits? Jerry

[PEN-L:2340] Re: Judith Butler, etc.

1999-01-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Reply to Michael P: a) I did not re-raise this issue. Proyect did when he revealed his drunken behavior, etc. at the "Rethinking Marxism" conference. Blame him. b) There was nothing in my post that could fit any reasonable definition of a flame. c) The *reason* this issue won't go away is

[PEN-L:2291] Re: Judith Butler, etc.

1999-01-19 Thread Gerald Levy
Barkley asks: Are you happy now, Jerry? Not yet. Had a published "review" of your book been authored by someone who admitted (afterwards) that s/he only read the dust jacket, would your response be so cavalier? I doubt it. What makes this fraud *more* important than the "Social Text affair"

[PEN-L:2216] Re: Judith Butler, Alan Sokal and Doug Henwood

1999-01-17 Thread Gerald Levy
Proyect on his participation at the December 1996 Rethinking Marxism conference in Amherst: At the opening night's reception, I downed 3 scotches in rapid succession to put me in the proper frame of mind for the opening session. He then went on to make a comment in the discussion period at

[PEN-L:1892] Scrooge

1998-12-28 Thread Gerald Levy
Jim D wrote: Scrooge represented the narrowest of the gasping capitalists, the row-minded "philistines," at least to Dinkins. that is only part of the story. Scrooge also was a symbol for Dinkins of Christian redemption and charity.. Don't you remember how the story ends? Jerry

[PEN-L:1565] freedom of speech, etc.

1998-12-15 Thread Gerald Levy
I. For the benefit of Jim Craven's employers, who evidently are reading PEN-L, let me explain what academic freedom means for someone teaching economics. I'll make it real simple. a) academic freedom gives instructors the right to talk about any subject in the classroom that is in *any way*

[PEN-L:267] Senate Bill

1998-09-28 Thread Gerald Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 27 Sep 1998 18:06:23 -0700 (PDT) From: J Poxon [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip ** READ IT AND PASS IT ON: SENATE PASSES BILL ON NO FUNDING FOR MINORITIES IN COLLEGE!! A bill will be heard in Congress next week to prohibit

[PEN-L:364] Boumol and Becker

1998-06-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Jason wrote in [PEN-L:359]: Boumol considers himself to be very "sympathetic" to Marx. While one could argue that Boumol's 1970's _JEL_ article on the "transformation problem" was "sympathetic" to Marx (especially in comparison to Samuelson!), I have never heard it claimed before that Boumol

[PEN-L:309] Re: Martin Niemoeller on silence

1998-05-30 Thread Gerald Levy
Mark Jones wrote: Michael has repeatedly asked for this absurd flaming to stop. Is it not time to DO something to stop it? The day before Mark Jones wrote (to Paul Zarembka): This (i.e. those arresting Paul Z, JL) would be the men in flapping white costs, presumably. Is this what you had

[PEN-L:247] Re: principles

1998-05-27 Thread Gerald Levy
Previously, I wrote: Susan Flack wrote: May only ye who hath no sin cast the 1st stone. Does this mean that you think we should all stay silent in the presence of homophobia, cop-baiting, etc.? Michael answered: Yes, by all means. A few days ago someone on pen-l commented on the sad

[PEN-L:236] Re: principles

1998-05-26 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael, quoting Rodney King, asked: Can't we just get along? No. There is too much at stake here. Susan Flack wrote: May only ye who hath no sin cast the 1st stone. Does this mean that you think we should all stay silent in the presence of homophobia, cop-baiting, etc.? Jerry in case

[PEN-L:176] principles

1998-05-22 Thread Gerald Levy
hiper that Proyect has entered into an unprincipled combination with! On to yesterday's post ... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 07:37:16-0400 (EDT) From: Gerald Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Progressive Economics [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: on the status of the pen-l list

[PEN-L:178] Toni Negri Update

1998-05-22 Thread Gerald Levy
Forwarded from a post by aut-op-sy moderator, Steve Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED]. For more information on Toni's legal case, see: http://lists.village.virginia.edu/~forks/TNmain.htm -- Negri Update, 10 May 1998 Toni Negri remains

[PEN-L:132] Re: on the status of the pen-l list

1998-05-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Proyect's post on this subject is chock full of inaccuracies and distortions. And his contributions (what Ajit calls "Louis Proyectism") have come to symbolize the downfall in the mode of discourse on pen-l. When flames erupt on pen-l (and they erupt not infrequently), they often begin with

re: anarcho-Marxists

1998-01-15 Thread Gerald Levy
J.M. Craven wrote: [...] I see no difference between the "left-wing" anarchists and right-wing libertarians except some of the rhetoric and nominalist concepts of personal liberty/freedom. Historically they have wrecked more social movements then they have ever contributed and historically

anarcho-marxists

1998-01-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Jim Craven wrote: Anarcho-Marxists? What's next? Communist Nazis or Nazi Communists? The above sounds, whether intended or not, like an [ill-informed] insult to anarchists. To begin with, anarchists are part of the Left and the workers' movement (and should in no way be confused with Nazis

reviewing books

1997-12-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug has condemned Gillott and Kumar's book without reading it or even seeing a copy. If what is good for the goose is good for the gander, then Doug should not object to others who have not read _Wall Street_ from condemning it sight unseen. Perhaps Doug will now admit that his "review" of

Re: Native American land rights

1997-12-21 Thread Gerald Levy
The Indians supported the reactionaries, so they got what they deserved. I don't recall anyone on pen-l making that assertion. Who was the original author of the above? Jerry

Re: Global Financial Crisis

1997-11-25 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: It might be a better use of a Marxist's time to figure out how to organize to end this destructive polarizing system than to devise elaborate theories of how it will do itself in. Name names. Which contemporary Marxists have been devising "elaborate" theories for how

Re: Book announcement

1997-11-10 Thread Gerald Levy
++ A robot can build a car. But a robot cannot buy a car... The explosion in the development of computer- and robotic-based manufacturing is seeing the rapid expansion of laborless production systems. Robots can NOT (presently)

[PEN-L] Re: Marx's Marxism?

1997-11-04 Thread Gerald Levy
Colin Danby asked: Has anyone got the reference context for K Marx's reported denial that he was a Marxist? See Joseph O'Malley and Keith Algozin ed. _Rubel on Karl Marx: Five Essays_, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1981, pp. 19-22. Jerry

Re: [PEN-L] Re: value, again

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Stephen E Philion wrote: Yes, but Jerry you have to explain why you recommend that Doug a) choose a liberal school that charges outrageous tution rates that most working class students cannot afford instead of the Marxist School, which is much cheaper and run by a group of admisitrators who

[PEN-L] Re: My one and only reply to Levy

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Louis Proyect wrote: becoming a pro-management snitch). Levy, I was going to ignore this as I used to ignore your ravings on the Marxism-International mailing-list. I think most people on PEN-L are starting to form the same sort of impression of you that people already have on the

[PEN-L] empiricism in p.e.

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
James Devine wrote: Being Marx-informed and Marx-friendly, his "superficial" or "empiricist" analyses in WALL STREET takes for granted Marx's vol. I macro-analysis. He has not "taken for granted" the distinction between productive and unproductive labour and has indeed often explicitly

[PEN-L] Re: income race

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Ellen (anzalone/starbird) wrote: Is it true that inmates incarcerated in prison are NOT counted as households in your data? To be counted as being employed or unemployed in the US data, one must first be counted as being part of the labor force. But, the labor force is defined in such a way

Re: [PEN-L] Re: My one and only reply to Levy

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Stephen E Philion wrote: This is the problem Jerry. You say you are critical of Malecki, yet you have never spent any energy criticizing this guy, Where do you get your information from? Just recently, I criticized him publicly (and repeatedly). Lou's sin was simple and he apologized for

[PEN-L] Re: unproductive/productive labor

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
James Devine wrote: I can't believe that anyone could get so _excited_ about the issue of unproductive vs. productive labor; it's a pretty academic issue that should have no emotional content. Bitter criticism seems out of line. I was simply pointing out that your claim re Henwood's

Re: [PEN-L] Re: My one and only reply to Levy

1997-11-02 Thread Gerald Levy
Stephen E Philion wrote: Think of it like this. Maurce Dobb and Paul Sweezy had a very lively debate in the 1950's. Their views were largely irreconcilable, yet neither party ever sunk to telling the other one "to go back to school to learn (fill in th eblank)..." Brenner and Wallerstein

Re: [PEN-L] Re: value, again

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Gil Skillman wrote: And forget the New or Marxist Schools, my vote is that Doug should go to SUNY--Stonybrook. For game theory. [Hah, that'll shake him up.] Last time I checked, there were quite a few (mathematics) courses on game theory at NYU (a short walk away from the New School). The

Re: [PEN-L] Re: value, again

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Gil wrote: Jerry writes: Look: you can't have it both ways: either value categories are important or they are not... Jerry, this seems uncharacteristically dogmatic of you. There is nothing dogmatic in one's pointing out that someone has: a) avoided repeatedly answering a question; b)

Re: [PEN-L] Re: value, again

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Stephen E Philion wrote: state and take a position. If it is really true that you "don't know the answer to this", then you should consider either going back to school Jerry is staking out a very elitist intellectual position here that only in school do we learn anything. You had to cut

Re: [PEN-L] Re: empiricism in p.e.

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: To define productive and unproductive labour, don't you first have to define surplus value? Hey, I just got a copy of Tom Peters' latest tome - personally autographed and by FedEx! - The Circle of Innovation: You Can't Shrink Your Way To Greatness. Tom has a chapter

[PEN-L] Re: empiricism in p.e.

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Why is it "more important to determine the rate of exploitation through a rejection of wage share" than to explore income polarlization? What does it reveal? You seem to be asking: "what does exploitation reveal?" [!] In general, "productive" workers are better paid

[PEN-L] Re: value, again

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote previously: Value categories may be important for examining the inner dynamics of capitalist economies, which led me to note: Well ... that's certainly a wishy-washy statement. and then ask: Are they important or are they not? If they are important, how are they

Re: [PEN-L] Re: value, again

1997-11-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: If having made up your mind about everything is a mark of sophistication, then I think both knowledge and politics could do with a little more naivete. Amazing ... you haven't "made up your mind" yet about value theory, but have just written a "Marxist" work claiming to

[PEN-L] Re: empiricism in p.e.

1997-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: I asked because I really want to hear answers [...] I agree: I want to hear answers as well. You can begin by answering the following question: Doug asserted that the "theoretical ground of Marxian PE ... has been a bit overplowed". I wonder: "overplowed" by whom? ...

[PEN-L] empiricism in p.e.

1997-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
James Devine wrote: BTW, I can't see how Doug Henwood is an empiricist. His recent book [...] As I hinted before, Doug has claimed that the "intelligent use of bourgeois statistics" can serve as a substitute for Marxian categories. This prejudice against theoretical analysis informs much of

Re: [PEN-L] Re: Reading ( Memory) Comprehension 101

1997-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: PS: Who suggested, in all seriousness, that the "intelligent use of bourgeois statistics" could serve as a substitute for Marxian empirical studies? Henry Rollins? Close but no cigar. Perhaps the following will help refresh your memory: the above was suggested on

Re: Marx on colonialism

1997-10-31 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: OK, I have to confess. I've been posting to PEN-L and other lists under the name Jerry Levy to provoke controversy, and with it attention. Because as we say in the self-promotional trade, there's no such thing as bad publicity. OK, I have to confess as well. I've been

[PEN-L] Re: Reading ( Memory) Comprehension 101

1997-10-30 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: PS: Who suggested, in all seriousness, that the "intelligent use of bourgeois statistics" could serve as a substitute for Marxian empirical studies? Henry Rollins? Perhaps the following will help refresh your memory: the above was suggested on the Internet on 10/25/87 by

[PEN-L] Re: Reading Comprehension 101

1997-10-30 Thread Gerald Levy
Stephen E Philion wrote: Gery, I think you are experiencing problems with reading comprehension. Did Doug actually say that "everything's groovy" or was he being facetious? I somehow suspect the latter. I would welcome any proof that he was being anything but facetious. Yes, Doug wrote

Re: [PEN-L] Re: everything's groovy

1997-10-30 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Never thought I'd see reasoning like that on PEN-L. It's true: we have seen some weird reasoning on PEN-L recently. For instance, just the other day someone wrote re Wall Street that "everything's groovy"! People should keep their money in stocks because they have

Re: [PEN-L] Re: everything's groovy

1997-10-30 Thread Gerald Levy
I guess there must be something in V. 3 of Capital that explains all this. The particular issue that I raised ("investment" of savings by working-class families in the stock market) wasn't considered by Marx. However, Part 5 of V3, in particular the sections on credit and fictitious capital,

Re: [PEN-L] Re: everything's groovy

1997-10-29 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: As Doug pointed out a while ago, many mutual fund "investors" had come to expect annual increases of that magnitude as a matter of course. To "recover most of the air pressure" would require not only that recent losses be cancelled out but that something like the previous

[PEN-L] Re: everything's groovy

1997-10-28 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: But this does raise an interesting physics question: "How much hot air does it take to reinflate a burst balloon?" Why assume that the balloon has burst? Most of the air pressure that was lost yesterday seems to have been recovered today. This, however, doesn't mean that

[PEN-L] Re: Marx making a comeback?

1997-10-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Ricardo Duchesne wrote: The labor theory of value in its classical form is untenable. Today science and technology play a greater role in the creation of value than productive labor. And who, pray tell, creates "science and technology"? But Marx did not integrate these ideas into his

[PEN-L:12239] Re: Ruth and DSA

1997-09-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Robert Saute, CUNY Grad Center wrote: Glick, an outspoken lesbian and generally independent Council Person, ran a campaign in the lower half of Manhattan, i.e., the mostly white and higher income half of Manhattan. Comrade, you need a geography lesson! I assume you would include the Lower

[PEN-L:11692] Re: questions about part time jobs

1997-08-12 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael P asked: 1. The Wall Street Journal says that part time jobs are not increasing? Any thoughts. Last time I looked at the numbers, part-time jobs were marginally decreasing. BUT, if you compare figures for part-time jobs today to that during the early 1980's then you see that there has

[PEN-L:10821] Sierra Leone IWW needs help

1997-06-14 Thread Gerald Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 1997 08:37:00 -0700 (PDT) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sierra Leone IWW needs help Sierra Leone Solidarity Bulletin #1 Support IWW unionists in West Africa! June 13, 1997 Forced into

[PEN-L:10650] Re: French elections

1997-06-07 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: In fact, some of our most prominent political theorists are still developing reasons why "unity" is a bad thing. Who are some of these naughty "prominent theorists" who think that "'unity' is a bad thing"??? Jee, I don't recall any of "our most prominent" saying that.

[PEN-L:10587] Re: Response to Michael's quandary

1997-06-05 Thread Gerald Levy
Walter Daum wrote: Even more consistent with Marx's method, I think, would be to read the Thesis as saying that one has to be changing the world *in order to* analyze it. ... *and* in order to change the world, one must analyze it. Of course, one *can* change the world without analyzing it

[PEN-L:10560] Re: French elections

1997-06-05 Thread Gerald Levy
William S. Lear wrote: Anyway, we have RI - DUI - DA (Radical Intellectuals produce Democratically Useful Information, which will/can lead to Democratic Action). But my little model misses something, RI - DTM - DUI - DA, where DTM is the Democratic Transmission Mechanism. I'm curious,

[PEN-L:10567] Re: Response to Michael's quandary

1997-06-05 Thread Gerald Levy
D Shniad wrote: This is true, ironically (perhaps especially true) of many Marxist intellectuals, despite Marx's famous thesis on Feuerbach about the need to stop analyzing and start changing the world. The much-quoted XI "Theses on Fuerbach" ["The philosophers have only *interpreted* the

[PEN-L:10576] Re: French elections

1997-06-05 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Perhaps it would be better to humbly join *their* progressive projects rather than to "recruit" them to your projects. Which projects are those? If you have to ask, then you're spending too much time in front of your computer screen. Jerry

[PEN-L:10578] Re: Response to Sid's query

1997-06-05 Thread Gerald Levy
D Shniad wrote: You're absolutely correct in your interpretation, Jerry. Cheers, Sid PS -- what are you doing to change the world? If you are asking me how I am currently politically active, then the answer (in part) is that I have been and continue to be a participant in the squatters

[PEN-L:10481] Re: Labor films

1997-06-01 Thread Gerald Levy
Nobody has mentioned any documentaries yet. "Harlan County USA" should be considered. There are also some good films on the United Farm Workers, including a pretty good biography of Cesar Chavez that aired recently on PBS. My vote would go, though, for a documentary on the role of the "Women's

[PEN-L:10184] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

1997-05-17 Thread Gerald Levy
Bill Burgess wrote: Sid S. wrote; Are you serious about not seeing the difference between neoliberalism and "good old [postwar] capitalism"? Yes. Of course there are differences, but I don't see the *significant* difference implied by a position that replaces a traditional committment to

[PEN-L:10129] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

1997-05-15 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Elaine Bernard wrote: Whose Politics Gerry? That was sarcasm. Specifically it was a shot at what I view, as a long time pen-ler who tends not to intervene very much (which by the way is true of most of the women on the list -- god bless you Maggie for your stamina) as

[PEN-L:10114] Re: The EU: against wishful thinking

1997-05-14 Thread Gerald Levy
elaine Bernard wrote: I fear in these discussion on globalization or on the EU, we tend to construct straw arguments and then put them to the torch with much fast heat and little light, and nothing enduring. But hey, that's politics. Whose politics? It is not in the interests of workers

[PEN-L:10026] Re: globalization

1997-05-11 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: My major objection to the globalization rhetoric is that by positing some alleged epochal break in the nature of capitalism, everything has changed. Some things have changed, yes, but not everything: unions still matter, political parties still matter, state power still

[PEN-L:10000] the numbers game

1997-05-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Will this be [PEN-L:] all over again? 10,000 posts in [approximately] the last 2 years? Is that right, Michael? In PEN-L solidarity, Jerry

[PEN-L:10007] Endorse EMU appeal: urgent

1997-05-09 Thread Gerald Levy
For European economists only: if you wish to endorse the following, please contact Geert Reuten as directed below. /In solidarity, Jerry -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 22:07:24 GMT-1 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Endorse EMU appeal: urgent

[PEN-L:9849] Re: henwood

1997-05-03 Thread Gerald Levy
rakesh bhandari wrote: The Marxist position, as developed by Paul Mattick in his several writings, is not against such improvements for the working class; the argument is that while such solutions may provide temporary relief, they will not eliminate the trade cycle and the eventual

[PEN-L:9792] Re: Rethinking Marxism conference

1997-05-01 Thread Gerald Levy
By the way, isn't it important for Blair to identify himself as a member of the collective that sponsored the Conference? This is highly scandalous when people hide such information. Where's Jerry Levy when you need him? Jerry, it's time for a crusade against Blair Sandler's dissembling before

[PEN-L:9792] Re: Rethinking Marxism conference

1997-05-01 Thread Gerald Levy
By the way, isn't it important for Blair to identify himself as a member of the collective that sponsored the Conference? This is highly scandalous when people hide such information. Where's Jerry Levy when you need him? Jerry, it's time for a crusade against Blair Sandler's dissembling before

[PEN-L:9699] Re: Globaloney

1997-04-28 Thread Gerald Levy
"... recent technical innovations in communication and transportation are of an incremental character and are therefore relatively insignificant." I'm not exactly sure how "recent" is defined above, but wasn't the development of the "chip", i.e. the microprocessor, something more than an

[PEN-L:9675] Re: more Peru

1997-04-27 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: By the way, I was saddened to see the MRTA written off as pathetic losers on pen-l. Nonetheless, it was most revealing _about some Shining Path supporters_ that they actually _celebrated_ the death of the MRTA rebels ("another obstacle out of the way" or words to that

[PEN-L:9614] Job openings at QMW

1997-04-23 Thread Gerald Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 10:24:19 +0100 (BST) From: "S.Mohun" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Job openings at QMW snip Dear Colleague Please find below an advertisement for at least 3 Lectureships which I would be grateful if you would bring to the attention of

[PEN-L:9565] Re: Primer on Neo-Liberalism (fwd)

1997-04-19 Thread Gerald Levy
On Sat, 19 Apr 1997, Chris Johnston wrote: Came through a while back... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 15:22:04 -0800 From: D Shniad [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip 29 August 1996 WHAT IS "NEO-LIBERALISM"? A brief definition for activists by Elizabeth Martinez

[PEN-L:9562] Graduate Employees Win at U. of Illinois!!!

1997-04-19 Thread Gerald Levy
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:55:21 -0500 (CDT) From: Dennis Grammenos [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: BREAKING NEWS: Graduate Employees Win at U. of Illinois!!! Greetings, It is my honor to announce to you that the Graduate Employees' Organization (GEO) at the U.

[PEN-L:9536] Re: more linguistic puzzles

1997-04-16 Thread Gerald Levy
Colin Danby wrote: Needless confusion was sown when the Chilean economist Alejandro Foxley published _Latin American Experiments in Neoconservative Economics_ in 1983; its Spanish version, of course, was _Experimentos neoliberales en America Latina_. Foxley must have felt at the time that

[PEN-L:9428] Re: text book hell

1997-04-09 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: I am trying to find a book to supplement the garbage texts that give students an idea about what is going on. I have used Wallace Peterson's The Silent Depression and before that Barlett and Steele. Any suggestions? You could check-out Michael Perelman's _The

[PEN-L:9238] Re: entertainment??

1997-03-30 Thread Gerald Levy
The WSJ, March 20, contained a special section on Entertainment and Technology. One article, "Where the Action is" (p. R19) about San Francisco's SOMA (South of Market) "Multimedia Gulch," discussed the development of interactive stories, and contained the following: "One such story is an

[PEN-L:9145] Re: Final thoughts on utopianism

1997-03-25 Thread Gerald Levy
Louis N Proyect wrote: (I would urge people to shy away from Robin Hahnel's work, however, since he is now revealed as an intellectual snob. Isn't it funny how beneath the tie-dyed grooviness of a Z Magazine figure, there lurks somebody who wants to rub your nose in their curricula vitae.)

[PEN-L:9094] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Af

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
James Michael Craven wrote: I would not characterize this so-called "scandal" of having a "biased" commentor commenting on this conference as a "scandal of international proportions." In the global scheme of things, this journal, this conference and even this "biased" commentator on this

[PEN-L:9106] Re: The Sozialismus and Social Text Affairs Compared

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: If _Monthly Review_ were to have an article written about a conference of Austrian economists, would you insist that they have Greg Ransom do it, or alternatively somebody utterly bland with no known views on Austrian economics or anything else? I think

[PEN-L:9115] Re: M-I: Meszaros

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Jerry, I know you're trying to be constructive after your recent personality crisis - focusing on the positive can be very therapeutic - You certainly have a way of raising the quality of discussion, Doug. Jerry

[PEN-L:9105] Re: M-I: Meszaros

1997-03-24 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood, wrote: Well, OK, if you insist. I've only spent a few hours reading through it here there, but my impression so far is that it's a lot of theoretical rehashing that doesn't really engage the present in any lively way. Let us know when you've finished reading the book. Parts

[PEN-L:9073] Re: Spelling Socialismus

1997-03-21 Thread Gerald Levy
Hinrich Kuhls wrote: Louis Proyect's brief report on the Rethinking Marxism Conference "Politics and Languages of Contemporary Marxism" has been welcome as one of the little bricks that are needed to end the ignorance regarding the issues being discussed by the Left in different countries.

[PEN-L:9074] The Sozialismus and Social Text Affairs Compared

1997-03-21 Thread Gerald Levy
I have already outlined the nature of the "Sozialismus affair" briefly. Here I consider its implications for the Left by comparing it to the "Social Text affair": (a) The _Social Text_ affair concerns a hoax played by Alan Sokal on the anonymous reviewers and editors of that

[PEN-L:9024] Re: Socialist Scholars Conference

1997-03-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Louis Proyect wrote: There is a political current emerging around journals such as Socialist Register, Monthly Review and the German magazine "Socialismus" that will be more and more visible at these sorts of venues. The first couple of times I saw this misspelling I let it pass, thinking

[PEN-L:9046] Re: Spelling Socialismus

1997-03-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: Heck, I'll butt in here. Louis P. asked me off list to use my near minimal influence with Jerry to get him to calm down. snip Please calm down, Jerry. Although Michael would prefer that I not continue this thread, I think a reply is in order. To

[PEN-L:9049] Re: Spelling Socialismus

1997-03-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: Yes, Jerry, you are absolutely correct. Maybe Louis would be willing to admit that his is unsympathetic to the RM and that he reviewed it. I don't know. Even if he would 'fess up' to doing so, why would that confession help us? Whether you like Louis or vice versa

[PEN-L:9030] Re: Spelling Socialismus

1997-03-20 Thread Gerald Levy
Quite typically, you avoided the substance of what I wrote. I.e. that it was irresponsible for the editors of _Sozialismus_ to publish a review of the Rethinking Marxism conference by someone who had already publicly trashed that conference before he had even seen the entire schedule. In

[PEN-L:8999] Re: speaking of market socialism

1997-03-18 Thread Gerald Levy
Michael Perelman wrote: Maybe we could redo the old sci-fi classic: invasion of the brain snatchers. Wasn't it invasion of the _body_ snatchers? Besides, there was a re-make of the classic movie in the early '80's (?) with Donald Sutherland. The original was better (although I liked the

[PEN-L:8906] Re: new SSA?

1997-03-14 Thread Gerald Levy
Jim Devine wrote: The actual development of working class movements is much less predictable than the development of capital. Yeah, but the prediction of the actual development of capital hasn't been that easy either. Perhaps it would be better for Marxists if they got out of the predictive

[PEN-L:8780] Re: request

1997-02-27 Thread Gerald Levy
I am trying to get hold of a paper or book that Anwar Shaikh published in 1978. It was called 'National Income Accounts and Marxian Categories' - I believe it was published by the New School for Social Research. Gerry Cotterell You would be better advised to obtain a copy of the more

[PEN-L:8730] asteriod political economy

1997-02-19 Thread Gerald Levy
Max Sawicky wrote, Of course, when an asteroid exceeding about 2 mi. in diameter hits the earth, it will have paid to borrow after all, since much of the consequent interest payments will be avoided. You're taking the plot lines for recent made-for-tv movies a little too much to heart.

[PEN-L:8699] Re: the oddities and logic of capitalism

1997-02-18 Thread Gerald Levy
Blair S wrote: But Jerry, considering that most people see capitalism as "natural," indeed, the only way to fly, it seems to me that getting folks to see capitalism as "odd" may be a way to get them to asking questions about others of its characteristics. For many, questioning the

[PEN-L:8676] Re: request for help with sources - 1

1997-02-17 Thread Gerald Levy
DOUG ORR wrote: One final question on this topic. I remember someone who has done a lot of work on this topic is a woman named Cheryl P. Anyone would can help me with her last name would be appreciated. Payer Jerry

[PEN-L:8665] the oddities and logic of capitalism

1997-02-17 Thread Gerald Levy
Tom Walker wrote: I wrote, Probably no more than one in twenty "marxian economists" would see commodity production as odd. That doesn't mean it's _not_ odd. And Max Sawicky replied This gives an unexpected meaning to the word 'odd.' It may be unexpected, but it's not original. The idea

[PEN-L:8621] Your gender or culture determines your opinions

1997-02-15 Thread Gerald Levy
Wendell W. Solomons wrote: PEN bears the designation "progressive" and people with time on their hands for other business should be encouraged to re-invest man-hours at any of the other sites of their choice. The Web has a well-financed Aryan site with Klansmen links. The Apostles of

[PEN-L:8557] Re: Macroeconomics of advertising

1997-02-11 Thread Gerald Levy
Anders Schneiderman wrote: Has anyone done any work in economics on the macroeconomics of advertising--i.e., to what extent advertising shapes markets? I'm sure nobody in mainstream economics has touched it, because it raises too many issues they'd rather ignore, but have any of our lefty

[PEN-L:8553] Re: Letter to Randy Martin

1997-02-11 Thread Gerald Levy
To follow this continuing saga, subscribe to the new home of the undead: marxism-international. Send "subscribe marxism-international" message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Join m-int and have the honor of reading 3 rambling, accusatory, and dogmatic posts per day by Louis N Proyect. Although LNP

[PEN-L:8548] Re: Let's settle down

1997-02-10 Thread Gerald Levy
Firstly, I have too much respect for this list to answer Proyect, the anti-labor snitch, here. There will be (more) flames, but it will be on the undead list called marxism-international where it belongs. Secondly, I respect and admire Michael P and, for that reason also, will not burden this

[PEN-L:8466] Re: intern needed

1997-02-05 Thread Gerald Levy
Doug Henwood wrote: Being the petty capitalist exploiter of youthful labor that I am (hi Jerry Levy!) I'm in desperate need of a reporter/researcher/intern. $50 for 5-10 hours a week of work. Must be in NYC and have access to a good library. Hi Doug! How generous of you to offer $5-10/hr.

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