Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-28 Thread Jeffrey L. Beatty
At 02:35 PM 3/26/01 -0500, Barkley Rosser wrote: For those interested in more detailed background, Steve held a seminar on his book over on pkt several months ago. It was quite lively with extensive commentary and discusssions. Much of the book is very punchy and it is well written, but

RE: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-28 Thread michael pugliese
Is Lou sure the Spoons Marxism list archives are not accessible anymore? At least via google and then clicking the cache link I've read some of those old screamathons. Recently read some pro-nuke shiite from Comrade Martens, for example there on those lists. Michael Pugliese From: "J. Barkley

Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Louis Proyect
I just found something on Jerry Levy's list that may shed some light on Keen's thinking: Jerry Levy: And, by the way, the revolution will come! And, I hope that the members of this list will live long enough to see that day. Indeed, I hope to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with many of them some day

RE: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread michael pugliese
Recognize that name, Jim Langcuster, from a list of paleo-conservatives, I lurk on. Peopled with contributors to Chronicles and Telos like Paul Gottfried. Editor of Telos, Paul Piccone, when he took his paleo-con turn ran articles and interviews about the Lega Nord in Italy. If, I read Italian,

Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Louis, Well, michael probably does not want us to get into some kind of OPE-L discussion (and I suspect you don't really want to either, Louie), but what you have quoted in no way implies what you have deciphered from it, although I think you are probably correct about what Steve's views of

Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 8:37 AM Subject: [PEN-L:9596] Re: Re: Interesting new book? I just found something on Jerry Levy's list that may shed some light on Keen's thinking: Jerry Levy: And,

Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Jim Devine
At 03:54 PM 3/27/01 -0500, you wrote: although it is widely and deeply entrenched out there that he did, Marx never labeled what he had as a "labor theory of value." He always referred to the "theory of value." or the "law of value." More importantly, it's important to distinguish between

Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Lou, Well, I did not find the Scottish nat stuff on that pretty bizarre website. But it is historically true that the KKK appropriated certain of its more well known symbols, such as burning crosses, from the old traditional Scottish nationalists. BTW, I have noticed a recent odd

Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Are we in for Civil War redux? Barkley Rosser Yes, but this time it will be to eradicate wage slavery root and branch. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/

Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Chris Burford
At 11:15 27/03/01 -0800, you wrote: Steve Keen: understanding this crisis involves an appreciation of the role of credit money and debt, and this requires a non-commodity theory of money which is antithetic to the commodity approach to money derived from a labour theory of value. What on

Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Jim Devine
Steve Keen: understanding this crisis involves an appreciation of the role of credit money and debt, and this requires a non-commodity theory of money which is antithetic to the commodity approach to money derived from a labour theory of value. Chris Buford: What on earth is the problem about

Re: Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Ian Murray
I'd say the only problem with Marx's vision on credit money and debt is that it's limited by his assumption that gold is the only form of international money (where the value of gold is determined by how much labor is needed to produce it). During the last 30 years, we've made a tradition

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-27 Thread Jim Devine
At 03:20 PM 3/27/01 -0800, you wrote: Why a gold standard? Why not, say, an oil standard? Or some other commodity that's valued by "late" capital? Wasn't gold made the standard as a holdover from some ancient metaphysics/superstition--it looks nice and has great electrical properties but what's

Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-26 Thread J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Ian, No, the Commerce and Complexity volume is a different book. Steve was a coeditor of that book. The full reference is William A. Barnett, Carl Chiarella, Steve Keen, Robert Marks (not Marx), Hermann Schnabel (not Julian), eds., _Commerce, Complexity, and Evolution: Topics in

Re: Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-26 Thread Ian Murray
nt: Monday, March 26, 2001 11:51 AM Subject: [PEN-L:9544] Re: Re: Interesting new book? Ian, No, the Commerce and Complexity volume is a different book. Steve was a coeditor of that book. The full reference is William A. Barnett, Carl Chiarella, Steve Keen, Robert Marks (not Marx

RE: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-26 Thread michael pugliese
Another interesting new book, going against the grain, for Zed Press, no(?), is by a French journalist who works for the Evening Telegraph or the Sunday Times. On the Rwandan genocide and U.N. inaction. Michael Pugliese From: Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 3/26/01

Re: Re: Interesting new book?

2001-03-26 Thread Chris Burford
At 14:35 26/03/01 -0500, Barkley wrote: For those interested in more detailed background, Steve held a seminar on his book over on pkt several months ago. It was quite lively with extensive commentary and discusssions. Much of the book is very punchy and it is well written, but in places