life in Portland

2004-04-28 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Here is a slice of all too real life in Portland, Oregon. I leave in two days. Hope we don't get stopped by these nazi police. Michael Yates Even blind old ladies terrify the cops Sunday, April 25, 2004 S he was 71 years old. She was blind. She needed her 94-year-old mother to come to her

AFL-CIO and Iraq

2004-04-14 Thread MICHAEL YATES
and member union leadership. Michael Yates LaborTalk April 14, 2004)AFL-CIO Issues Are Jobs and Economy;Will Keep Mum on Iraq and Natl. SecurityBy Harry KelberWith a war chest of $44 million, the AFL-CIO is mounting its "mostexpensive and earliest-ever grass-root mobilization e

Re: Profit making under capitalism

2004-04-13 Thread MICHAEL YATES
is progressive? Wasn't working class struggle necessary for whatever progressive capitalism did make possible a reality? Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Doug Henwood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2004 7:53 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Profit making under

Re: Third World Resistance and Western Intellectual Solidarity

2004-04-11 Thread MICHAEL YATES
in the superiority and goodness of the US) have a lot to do with this. I wish that Petras as well as those who criticize him would begin the engage workers. Labor education is a good place to start. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Doug Henwood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday

Re: correction

2004-04-11 Thread MICHAEL YATES
I should have written "might not decades of support for imperialism . . by organized labor..." Michael Yates - Original Message - From: MICHAEL YATES To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2004 2:55 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Third World Resistance a

Re: Another classroom exercise

2004-03-28 Thread MICHAEL YATES
and think critically. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Craven, Jim To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:04 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Another classroom exercise Thank you. All of my exercises are designed to reward and teach thosewho take an active

Re: Another classroom exercise

2004-03-28 Thread MICHAEL YATES
enough has little to do with teaching well. Disdain for the undergraduates is an occupational disease. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:48 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Another classroom exercise I

Re: Student from Hamilton College

2004-03-25 Thread MICHAEL YATES
e Buchanan and Tullock on why governments do what they do (politicians act out of self-interest as does everyone else according to neoclassical theory). I am going to cc this to the progressive economists email list to see if anyone can offer other suggestions. take care and good luck, Mic

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

2004-03-14 Thread MICHAEL YATES
tion is rather brief and maybe a bit too simple. But overall it is an interesting book. I have an article upcoming in Monthly review (April) titled "Workers Looking for Jobs, Unions Looking for Members." Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Doug Henwood To: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Crisis at the peak

2004-03-08 Thread MICHAEL YATES
with it. Louis always seems to get publicly chastised by the moderator while Doug almost never does, unless it is by way of the moderator chastising Louis. BTW, Louis has aimed some sharp barbs my way in the past. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect To: [EMAIL

Re: Teixeira thesis

2004-03-06 Thread MICHAEL YATES
ew one of my books.I bitched to the editor once but got no response. Luminaries like Stanley Aronowitz have better luck. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Teixeira thesis

Re: Teixeira thesis

2004-03-06 Thread MICHAEL YATES
take long to do, and it is good PR. Hey, maybe you could recommend my new book to Shatz. After all, I reviewed both your (Wall Street) and your wife's (sweatshop book)books, quite favorably. And for way below market rates! Not in the Nation though. Michael Yates - Original Message

note from a grocery strike solidarity group leader

2004-02-29 Thread MICHAEL YATES
This might serve as a comment on my article, responses to it, andabout workers and also recent posts on unions. It was written by a young leader of a group in solidarity with the grocery strikers: Now that the strike is over I actually

Re: DeLong on Paul Sweezy

2004-02-29 Thread MICHAEL YATES
The day that fool DeLong returns to this list is the day I picket Michael Perelman's house. He is a disgusting red-baiter. If he were in front of me now I would smack him in the mouth. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Eubulides To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday

Re: Paul Marlor Sweezy (1910-2004)

2004-02-28 Thread MICHAEL YATES
" All of us at MR will, I am sure,honor Paul's memory by dedicating ourselves to the magazine, the Press, and most of all the revolutionary struggle to create a better world. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, F

article on MR website

2004-02-27 Thread MICHAEL YATES
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. Michael Yates

Re: Sex and the City

2004-02-26 Thread MICHAEL YATES
I can see it on the back of a book by Louis: "smart, funny, and stylish..." Doug Henwood, author of After the New Economy. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Doug Henwood To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [

Re: bragging

2004-02-20 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Yes it is the NBER, but the CEA apparently ignores this for its own self-serving dating. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2004 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] bragging Mike Yates writes

Re: bragging

2004-02-20 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Who on pen-l is making this mistake? Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] bragging aha! there's a contradiction between what the NBER said and what the CEA now

fast food as manufacturing

2004-02-20 Thread MICHAEL YATES
change would allow a complete rewriting of recent labor market history. More and more the Bushites sound like they arein a Saturday Night Live skit. Michael Yates

bragging

2004-02-19 Thread MICHAEL YATES
to like my book.They said that it was both interesting and accessible and covered a lot of ground. So, some of you might want to take a look at it for possible use in classes. Maybe I can make a visit to your classes. I'm not too bad a teacher! Michael Yates

Re: Disability

2004-02-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
Dear Doyle, I don't have your email so I have to reply on list. I don't really have good expertise in this area. So I don't think I could add much to the show. I am sorry about this. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Doyle Saylor To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent

Re: disabilty

2004-02-05 Thread MICHAEL YATES
n by Louis Uchitelle, and published on the first page of The New York Times on September 1, 2002.Joel Blau MICHAEL YATES wrote: I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers in the US. I seem to remember one from the NYT arguing that this

disabilty

2004-02-04 Thread MICHAEL YATES
I am looking for articles showing a rise in disability claims by workers in the US. I seem to remember one from the NYT arguing that this was a from of disguised unemployment. Any help appreciated. Michael Yates

Re: support for the striking grocery workers

2004-02-03 Thread MICHAEL YATES
But isn't it true that if WalMart itself isn't organized, labor is in big trouble? Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Devine, James To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 5:34 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] support for the striking grocery workers

Re: recent Monthly Review

2004-02-02 Thread MICHAEL YATES
!! Michael Yates

marxist school

2004-01-23 Thread MICHAEL YATES
for others to follow.Seth and John also help put together a progressive newspaper called "Because People Matter." Efforts such as these give us hope! Michael Yates

Re: some questions for Michael Moore

2004-01-18 Thread MICHAEL YATES
ll open up if Clark gets elected? Will protesters be allowed to get any closer to him? Moore's endorsement is not a good sign. If a man this progressive can do this, what cop out, sell out, opportunismcan surprise us? Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect To: [EMAIL

Re: Michael Moore and General Clark

2004-01-15 Thread MICHAEL YATES
claiming to be radical support Clark? It seems to me that US generals, Clark not least,are just the highest ranking killers in the world. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Mike Ballard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 9:39 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L

Re: question on financial deregualtion

2004-01-09 Thread MICHAEL YATES
What can those with money (US dollars) that they want to shift out of the country (for real capital spending, for speculative purposes, whatever) do legally today that they could not do say 45 years ago? I would like concrete examples. Michael Yates

Re: Trials of Henry

2003-12-30 Thread MICHAEL YATES
. The film is verygood and well worth seeing. Every time I see Kissinger pontificating on TV, I want to strangle him. His actions make a lot of current day "war criminals" look like choir boys. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Brian McKenna To: [EMAIL PROTECTE

only in the USA

2003-12-20 Thread MICHAEL YATES
sband in the military, I have to trust President George W. Bush and I support him 100 percent." . . . As a sign of her admiration, Ms. Edwards said, she bought her husband a special Christmas gift: a military action-figure doll of George W. Bush. Michael Yates

Re: Estimating the surplus\Doug's question

2003-12-13 Thread MICHAEL YATES
with a rise in consumption of $1.04. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Mike Ballard To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 1:56 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Estimating the surplus\Doug's question --- Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:The MPC

Re: college students again and a question

2003-12-01 Thread MICHAEL YATES
production and distribution. But several of them wanted to know why it was so popular and dominant in the schools. Why weren't most students presented with alternatives? What would pen'lers have told them? Michael Yates

My working class students

2003-11-16 Thread MICHAEL YATES
college students is invaluable too. But actively engaging the people is necessary too. Michael Yates - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2003 8:01 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Step into a classroom [was "the Clin

michael daswson book

2003-11-12 Thread MICHAEL YATES
ers to buy his book and study it carefully. Michael Yates

Re: Re: Re: What is going on?

2001-04-14 Thread Michael Yates
so he can hop on the political gravy train again.) Someday we'll see him as an old man on some talk show ponticating like that pathetic old war criminal, Walt Rostow (about whom Brad spoke so highly), who was on TV the other night yattering about the national security advisor. Michael Yates Ken

Re: Re: Re: Market Socialism

2001-04-13 Thread Michael Yates
Brad just can't help red baiting. It's part of the air the breathes. michael yates Brad DeLong wrote: I recall how Marx scrupulously tried to avoid discussions about how to organize the future, since it would just set off squabbling. And *not* discussing how to organize the future

Re: Burawoy

2001-04-11 Thread Michael Yates
opoly Capital." Michael Yates Louis Proyect wrote: Village Voice, Week of April 11 - 17, 2001 A Roving Ethnographer's View From the Factory Floor Tales of the Kefir Furnaceman by Jeff Byles On a frigid February morning in 1985, Michael Burawoy's dream came true. He passed under gate

Re: Re: Re: Burawoy

2001-04-11 Thread Michael Yates
Well, I suppose I should have gone into the detail of Burowoy's ideas on work and workplaces. But as a soon to be ex-academic, I don't think I'll bother. You can get some of this from Foster's article. And by all means read Burowoy. He has very interesting things to say. michael yates Louis

Re: Re: Re: Bushbaby the economy (world and US)

2001-03-25 Thread Michael Yates
Jeez, US involvement in Vietnam surely pre-dated the Gulf of Tonkin pretext. Get your history straight at least. And Serbian genocide? Sort of cheapens the word, no? Michael Yates Louis Proyect wrote: Andrew Hagen: Nevertheless, we can't stop globalization. We can only soften its

Re: Re: Re: a good student

2001-03-20 Thread Michael Yates
or company) spirit, deferred to authority, were perseverant, etc. Those penalized were aggresive, creative, and the like. Michael Yates Louis Proyect wrote: position and under a lot of stress. To some, getting a university degree is very much like acquiring that Mercedes. I have seen some of th

Re: National Mediation Board

2001-03-13 Thread Michael Yates
Flanders can, I am sure, tell us more. I have some info in my book "Power on the Job." (South End Press). BTW, very very few labor lawyers know anything at all about the Railway Labor Act. Michael Yates Louis Proyect wrote: Shortly after my last post, I discovered later on in Petzinger

Re: A request for your critique

2001-03-07 Thread Michael Yates
Michael, I gues your critic never read Marx himself. The political economists obviously had class biases. By the time of hacks like Senior, they were so openly pro-capitalist, that Marx correctly called them vulgar economists. As usual, Michael, you are too kind to this critic. Michael Yates

Re: Tim Bousquet on Michael Yates

2001-03-06 Thread Michael Yates
Yes, you are free to use my note as a letter to the editor. Michael Yates Michael Perelman wrote: This is a very moving piece, and with Michael Yates' permission I'd like to reprint it as a Letter to the Editor in the Chico Examiner, the weekly newspaper I publish here in Chico

Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
Rob, Yes, the US model of education is spreading. As is the US system of incarceration, flexible labor markets and much else, sad to say. Thanks for your kind remarks. Solidarity, Michael Yates Rob Schaap wrote: As always, I find myself in impressed and sad agreement with Michaels Y

Re: Re: Farewell to Academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
Tom, I have both!! The vasectomy was far less painful, and probably more useful too. We already have four kids! Michael Timework Web wrote: For the last two years before we split, my ex-wife lobbied me to get a vasectomy and a PhD. Tom Walker (604) 947-2213

Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
, and it is rare inded that a professor who kept quiet for 7 years suddenly becomes a troublemaker. I have supported for tenure some persons with whom I had sharp political disagreements just because they were troublemakers from the start. Michael Yates Nathan Newman wrote: I have to say that I have

Re: Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
Ann, Yes, indeed, there are things to be done, and I wish you great success. I don't know if I am following my heart. Truth is I was in therapy for a good long while trying to figure out what to do! Michael Yates ann li wrote: I, too have mixed emotions about our status as "cul

Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
Yoshie is a good activist, radically committed, and a radial scholar to boot. I can only hope that she teaches masses fo students for a long time to come. Solidarity, Michael Yates Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Michael Yates wrote: Meanwhile the colleges and universities become ever more like

Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
at least). Michael Yates Jim Devine wrote: Michael Yates writes: I have rejoined a couple of these lists after a hiatus of several months. I am about to retire from my job as a college teacher, after 32 long and, of late, nearly unbearable years. I have spoken about this before

Re: Re: Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
meetings to do this. He and the dean may be palying footsie, and she is not going to do anything about this deplorable ethical breach. One of hundreds of stories I could tell you. Michael Yates Carrol Cox wrote: ann li wrote: I, too have mixed emotions about our status as "cultural wo

Re: Re: farewell to academe

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
Well, I received a university-wide teaching award the first year it was given. But when you see the utter cynicism of the university with respect to teaching, you come to be somewhat asamed of the award. Michael Yates "J. Barkley Rosser, Jr." wrote: Michael, I certainly

Re: Michael Yates thread

2001-03-05 Thread Michael Yates
, even if we never win. I have a feeling that my teaching days are not over, just the ones inside the ivory tower. Michael Yates Michael Perelman wrote: I very much appreciate have the discussion that Michael Yates set off. I am years older than Michael and can easily retire with no financial

farewell to academe

2001-03-04 Thread Michael Yates
years. I will maintain my connection with Monthly Review magazine, and I may move to New York to work for MR in the future. And of course we will always be dedicated to the working class from which we came and whose liberation, while a long way off, is the prerequisite for the creation of a society with any pretension at all to freedom and democracy. Michael Yates

Re: Re: Where are the economists?

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Yates
ietnam war was good because it was speeding up urbanization, one of the signs of development?) have blood on their hands, and lots of it. Rostow's stage theory of development is, in my view, a piece of crap, and that is how I would characterize him too. Michael Yates Brad DeLong wrote:

Re: Re: Re: Re: Where are the economists?

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Yates
acceptable to Reagan the privatizer. You make this all sound so innocent almost. What makes me think that Rostow and his brother were pretty rotten human beings? By their acts ye shall know them. Michael Yates Jim Devine wrote: At 11:10 AM 10/13/00 -0400, you wrote: I wonder what a person

Re: Re: Re: Re: Where are the economists?

2000-10-13 Thread Michael Yates
Yes, I'll cool it, but then again, I never engaged in redbaiting. As they say, if the shoe fits. I'll have to look up the Duesenberry thing. Michael yates Michael Perelman wrote: Michael, please cool it on the "redbaiting." I never heard that about Duesenberry. Could you point

debates

2000-10-11 Thread Michael Yates
we find objectionable, then this is what we must do anyway. Just as we had to support Stalin's government agaisnt the Nazis in WW2. Michael Yates

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: A Krugman Klassic

2000-10-09 Thread Michael Yates
). But at least Samuelson confronted Marx. Today's economists know little about any of the giants of the field. Michael Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 10/9/00 1:08:57 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And so what do the two Pauls (PK PS) conclude about Adam Smith

Re: Re: RE: A Krugman Klassic

2000-10-08 Thread Michael Yates
Krugman's remarks on technological change are remarkable, in both their ignorance and elitism. Why do folks on this list take this guy so seriously? michael yates Jim Devine wrote: Mat wrote: Klassic because, unlike most mainstreamers, he has read stuff written more than five years old

article by Jim Devine

2000-10-01 Thread Michael Yates
This may have been mentioned while I was offlist, but Jim Devine has an interesting article in the most recent Rev. Of Rad. Econ. (Sept. 2000), titled "The Rise and Fall of Stagflation." Check it out. Michael Yates

needed fast!

2000-07-24 Thread Michael Yates
may be able to influence the government's policies! Send articles either pasted into the email or as rtf or wordperfect attachments. References and articles about privatization in any country will be useful. Thanks. Michael Yates

anti-communism

2000-07-11 Thread Michael Yates
, Sidney Hook, wrote in a published letter to the Chronicle that my article was proof positive that my college had absolutely no hiring standards whatever!! Michael Yates THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION May 14, 1986 Point of View By Michael D. Yates

Monthly Review Summer special issue

2000-06-30 Thread Michael Yates
, subbing to MR. Also, please forward this email to anyone or any list you think might find it of interest. Thanks. solidarity, Michael Yates MONTHLY REVIEW 122 West 27th Street, 10th floor New York, NY 10001 Tel: 212.691.2555 Fax: 212.727.3676 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] A Special Double Issue After

krugman

2000-06-28 Thread Michael Yates
h, as I am sure most of you know, on the effects of social security on private savings and capital formation was proven to be false long ago. Michael Yates

thanks

2000-06-26 Thread Michael Yates
Thanks to all of the folks who sent me information on labor in UK and New Zealand and info on social security. I really appreciate it! And I learned a good deal as well. Michael Yates

social security

2000-06-22 Thread Michael Yates
uggestions? Also, what points do you think should absolutely be stressed? (Doug and Max on LBO, don't be shy!) Any replies can be sent to me offlist, unless you think that others would be interested. Thanks!! Michael Yates

new zealand

2000-06-22 Thread Michael Yates
the unions gone along? Michael Yates

query

2000-06-12 Thread Michael Yates
Can anyone give me references to articles about the current state of the British labor movement and left politics in Great Britain? Thanks. Michael Yates

Black Radical Congress forum

2000-05-27 Thread Michael Yates
to have constituted a sovereign nation after the Civil War with every right to demand reparations. A reparations website can be found at www.ncobra.com. 9. I am more disgusted than ever with those who downplay the importance of the Mumia case. Michael Yates

query on Canadian and US labor law

2000-05-22 Thread Michael Yates
Can anyone suggest accessible and readable articles or books on the differences between Canadian and US labor laws? Thanks. Michael Yates

Mayday in Troy, New York

2000-05-07 Thread Michael Yates
and offers possibilites for organizing various types of radical actions. I want to thank Jon for inviting me. Now I have to try to organize a Mayday event in my own town! Or at least get another invite to an event next year. Michael Yates

DC protests include a pen-l'er

2000-04-15 Thread Michael Yates
. Not bad for "a 57 year old economist"!! Michael Yates

Re: Martin Feldstein

2000-04-15 Thread Michael Yates
program. When corrected, the results were the opposite of what he had argued. Of course, he never changed his original views, and I doubt ever lost a consulting job either. Just one more reason why neoclassical economics is an ideology and not even close to a science. Michael Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED

story

2000-04-06 Thread Michael Yates
sm of most of the townspeople, a sad thing especially since the Great War had ended not long before. Comments welcome. Michael Yates At the Factory Gate If I had some money, I would walk down the steep path to town, landing on Seventh Avenue, and past the row houses and small neat homes, m

soc. scholars talk

2000-04-04 Thread Michael Yates
I have attached remarks I made at the recent socialist scholars conference. I was on a panel sponsored by Monthly Review titled "Is the US Bubble going to Burst?" Doug Henwood gave a fine presentation of the economic situation, givng us both pessimistic and optimistic scenarios. We are clearly

UE meeting and comment

2000-04-03 Thread Michael Yates
orrible racism of US labor against Chinese immigrants. On my way home I couldn't stop thinking about Dolan. I can't see how a radical movement, one aimed at worker self-emancipation could ever be led by such a person. Perhaps others can enlighten me on his good qualities, but I was very much unimpressed. Michael Yates

Re: Re: LM, Louis, and Free Speech

2000-03-17 Thread Michael Yates
I have to agree with Doug here. Michael Yates Doug Henwood wrote: Michael Perelman wrote: Now, to the part that gets ugly. I, like many others on this list, was delighted to see Louis Proyect make an overture to Doug Henwood, and then Doug to respond in kind. That for some reason, Lou

upcoming talk

2000-03-12 Thread Michael Yates
The following is a (very) rough draft of a talk I will give to the officers and national staff of the United Electrical, Radio, and Machine Workers of America. Comments, suggestions, criticism, etc. are most welcome. Michael Yates The U.S. Labor Movement and the Role of the Left

throat singing

2000-03-03 Thread Michael Yates
tions here in the land of the free do the same though from a different angle. If you get the chance, don't miss this film. Michael Yates

Re: Underdevelopment #2

2000-02-29 Thread Michael Yates
in the image of former masters of he college! Michael Yates Louis Proyect wrote: **Trade balance of the underdeveloped countries, in billion dollars** 1958196619671968196919701971 Imports c.i.f 27.841.042.246.050.756.963.8 Exports

talk I'm giving

2000-02-26 Thread Michael Yates
from list members both as to what I should emphasize and what articles, commentaries, etc. I should definitely read in advance to help me prepare the talk. Michael Yates

email query

2000-02-25 Thread Michael Yates
Does anyone on the list have Andre Gunder Frank's email address? Thanks. Michael Yates

Two Monthly Review articles

2000-02-21 Thread Michael Yates
objective situation that might exist elsewhere and therefore are too strong. Michael Yates

Re: Re: Re: Re: The Wayback machine

2000-02-19 Thread Michael Yates
the left. Not a very good practice for an historian. michael yates Jim Devine wrote: At 08:33 PM 02/18/2000 -0800, you wrote: Brad wrote: I owe the context for a Sweezy quote from _The Present as History_... The publication in 1952 of Stalin's _Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR_

Re: reparations

2000-02-13 Thread Michael Yates
their creative faculties, something which the collective and egalitarian societies which comprised most of our time on this earth and which are so much ignored as having no lessons to teach us today never did. Michael Yates Sam Pawlett wrote: "William S. Lear" wrote: Second, t

Re: reparations

2000-02-13 Thread Michael Yates
o abundant production does not imply ambivalence. If anything, capitalism's absolute inability to fulfill this possibility (see Kofi Annan's fact sheet)might well lead people, as it surely did Marx, to oppose capitalism with one's whole being. Michael Yates Michael Yates Sam Pawlett wrote: Do

Re: Re: Re: RE: reparations

2000-02-11 Thread Michael Yates
But you are living in the USA not in Central Asia. You have benefited from slavery and exploitation of black persons as have I and every other white person. This is our history and it is we who have to confront it. Michael Yates Brad De Long wrote: 'Cute little quips,' dismissiveness, etc

[Fwd: [Fwd: [BRC-NEWS] Affirmative Action: Moving Beyond the Myths]]

2000-02-11 Thread Michael Yates
This article by the fine economist, Patrick Mason, may be useful for this discussion of reparations. Michael Yates Subject: [BRC-NEWS] Affirmative Action: Moving Beyond the Myths Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2000 03:52:52

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: RE: reparations

2000-02-11 Thread Michael Yates
is it a problem that asking whites to confront their history is divisive. Maybe divisiveness is a prerequsitie to ultimately getting justice. Michael Yates [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But you are living in the USA not in Central Asia. You have benefited from slavery and exploitation of black

Re: Buton: Gross National Happiness

2000-02-07 Thread Michael Yates
I saw this segment, too. It seems as though they try to live according to the Buddhist principles of Right Livelihood, expounded in E.F. Schumacher's "Buddhist Economics," a chapter from his book, Small is Beautiful. Michael Yates Charles Brown wrote: Sixty Minutes had

Z magazine on Marc Cooper and Mumia

2000-02-04 Thread Michael Yates
. It is very moving. Michael Yates

brecht forum article

2000-01-29 Thread Michael Yates
The last issue of the Brecht Forum's "Schedule of Events" has an article by Doug Henwood titled "Marx Lives (They Thought He Was a Goner)." It's a pretty good piece. Perhaps Doug might post it on his list. Michael Yates

[PEN-L:13055] Re: A critique of Skip Gates' Africa show by Ali A. Mazrui

1999-10-31 Thread Michael Yates
Thanks for posting this, Louis. I was discussing the series with two friends, and this will be of use to them. michael yates Louis Proyect wrote: October 28, 1999 A PRELIMINARY CRITIQUE OF THE TV SERIES by HENRY LOUIS GATES, JR. By Ali A. Mazrui [EMAIL PROTECTED] snip

[PEN-L:12963] talk on teachers

1999-10-27 Thread Michael Yates
in the Academic Factory by Michael Yates Department of Economics University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown Johnstown, PA 15232 I. Ten Tales from Academe at the End of the Century Consider the following items culled from some of the journals, newspapers

[PEN-L:12788] Re: two book requests

1999-10-19 Thread Michael Yates
ren, "Alternatives t Lean Production," (Cornell). michael yates Michael Perelman wrote: I have two requests for book suggestions this morning. First, a leftish, mostly liberal colleague asked me what the best book would be to introduce him to political economy. I assume that he

[PEN-L:12767] Re: Re: prison class

1999-10-18 Thread Michael Yates
Michael, Thanks for the kind remarks. michael yates michael perelman wrote: Michael, you have written several such notes. They have all been outstanding. This material should get much wider circulation than the few lists to which you post them. -- Michael Perelman Economics

[PEN-L:12755] Re: Again, the prison class

1999-10-17 Thread Michael Yates
. And some of them hated the war too and many of them were permanently scarred by it. Today, ironically I have Vietnamese students. They work so hard. I feel such guilt whenever I see them. Michael Yates "Mobilization" For the most part, we go along living without thinking

[PEN-L:12752] prison class

1999-10-16 Thread Michael Yates
get to their cellblocks. We walked down the steps of the classroom buiding and out into the yard among the general prison population. I looked up at the stars and my heart was filled with a hard sadness. Michael Yates

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