Brad,
I also noticed that the bill was concerned about the elimination of
corruption. What is the record of United States regarding corruption?
Our political campaigns are nothing more than organized bribery. Is it
possible for a non-corrupt politicians to get elected to anything higher
than
Rob Schaap wrote:
Two men expressing affection in a homophobic world may do so by hugging
each other, but only if they bring their forearms hard against each others'
backs, preferably bruising some ribs, and then, for but a moment, making
sure to hug hard enough to induce pain. This is a very
Louis is right!
Mine
ps: I don't know how this message looks like. my server practically does
not work now..
This seems correct -- but it also seems to indicate the irrelevance or
even obscurantist nature of long arguments about whether some other
people are/were happier in Situation A
Jim Devine wrote:
Brad DeLong writes:
Either that or people actually *liked* having their teeth fall out...
Louis Proyect writes:
I don't think the discussion is about dental hygeine. It is about
the right of a Vietnamese in the 60s or a Colombian peasant today
to not have napalm dropped on
Charles Brown wrote:
Even if the olden days were not the good olden days, this literature
may reflect the enormous pain suffered by the English peasants who
were brutalized in the primitive accumulation.
I don't think peasants made a large contribution to canonical English
poetry, except as
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/13/00 11:19PM
I wrote:
[*] Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between the development of the
USSR and that of the Ford Motor Company (or similar "entrepreneurial"
corporations)? It starts with the radical idiosyncrasies of the Great
Leader (Stalin,
Doug Henwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/15/00 01:24PM
Jim Devine wrote:
Brad DeLong writes:
Either that or people actually *liked* having their teeth fall out...
Louis Proyect writes:
I don't think the discussion is about dental hygeine. It is about
the right of a Vietnamese in the 60s or a
In a message dated Mon, 15 May 2000 3:07:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Charles Brown wrote:
Even if the olden days were not the good olden days, this literature
may reflect the enormous pain suffered by the English peasants who
were brutalized in the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And this from a former lit grad student! I think they need less
Theory and more literature in those classes. My old Oxford Anthology
of English poetry has not insubstantial chunks of material that we
would call folk poetry, medieval and Renaissance, not all of it is
The edition of the Oxford Anthology I have at work is dated 1935. Maybe they dumped
the folk poetry and ballads by the 70s, and reinstated them later? --jks
In a message dated Mon, 15 May 2000 4:10:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time, Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Louis Proyect wrote:
This seems correct -- but it also seems to indicate the irrelevance or
even obscurantist nature of long arguments about whether some other
people are/were happier in Situation A rather than Situation B.
Carrol
You don't seem to get it. This is not about a "Golden
Carrol, we have no need to get nasty here.
Carrol Cox wrote:
Lou, this is either pure academic bullshit or it is the kind of red-baiting I
have been fighting against over on lbo.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail
In a message dated 00-05-15 18:09:36 EDT, you write:
A friend of mine from grad school, Donna Landry (co-editor of The
Spivak Reader), has been studying peasant and working class women
poets of the 17th 18th centuries. I asked her if she likes reading
the stuff, which from what I've
Michael Perelman wrote:
Carrol, we have no need to get nasty here.
Carrol Cox wrote:
Lou, this is either pure academic bullshit or it is the kind of red-baiting I
have been fighting against over on lbo.
Lou and I always forgive each other.
Carrol
Please find attached one manly cyber-hug, Justin! Well-spoken, comrade!
If, as Frost said, 'poetry is what gets left out in translation' (though
I'm convinced Dryden managed to keep plenty of Chaucer in), 'tis even the
translation that's left out in the postie critique, where the heroic
couplet
what is this "manly cyber-hug"? (smile!)
Mine
Please find attached one manly cyber-hug, Justin..
G'day Mine,
Two men expressing affection in a homophobic world may do so by hugging
each other, but only if they bring their forearms hard against each others'
backs, preferably bruising some ribs, and then, for but a moment, making
sure to hug hard enough to induce pain. This is a very
In a message dated 00-05-14 00:02:44 EDT, you write:
Ransom, Roger L. and Richard Sutch. 1977. One Kind of Freedom: The Economic
Consequences of Emancipation (Cambridge University Press).
show that leisure increased immediately after the Civil War, however, that
phenomenon was short lived
Title: Re: [PEN-L:18928] Re: Re: Re: Sowing Dragons
(fwd)
How much of the legislation relates to
tariffs?
Brad De Long wrote:
And this is supposed to be an argument that U.S. restrictions
on
imports of African textiles are for Africans' own good?
--
Michael Perelman
Title:
An act
Brad,
Thank you very much the for sending the summary of the bill. I only
skimmed through it briefly. I know that Carl Linder with got some
provisions put in the bill that makes the retaliation against Europe
stronger regarding his banana interests.
I also noticed that the bill was concerned
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From: "Michael Perelman" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 2:22 AM
Subject: [PEN-L:18916] Re: Re: Sowing Dragons (fwd)
Schumpeter?
Jim Devine wrote:
[*] Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between the development of
the
USSR and that of the
Does this mean that peasant societies were inefficient or that a large portion
of the output was siphoned all by landlords and userers?
Dennis R Redmond wrote:
But didn't this have to do with limited food sources and chronic disease
and malnutrition? Peasant societies couldn't sustain
This seems correct -- but it also seems to indicate the irrelevance or
even obscurantist nature of long arguments about whether some other
people are/were happier in Situation A rather than Situation B.
Carrol
You don't seem to get it. This is not about a "Golden Age". It is whether
radicals
How much of the legislation relates to tariffs?
Brad De Long wrote:
And this is supposed to be an argument that U.S. restrictions on
imports of African textiles are for Africans' own good?
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel.
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
very often of a seasonal nature. If you read Juliette Schor's "The
Overworked American", you will discover that the average peasant worked
half as many hours as the average proletarian during the rise of the
industrial revolution. That is the reason
My understand of the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture is that
nutritional standards did decline, but so did the risk of starvation. Agricultural
output was less uncertain.
Rod
Jim Devine wrote:
At 02:33 AM 05/13/2000 -0700, you wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
I wrote:
[*] Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between the development of the
USSR and that of the Ford Motor Company (or similar "entrepreneurial"
corporations)? It starts with the radical idiosyncrasies of the Great
Leader (Stalin, Henry Ford, Sr.), who is then replaced by nameless
Schumpeter?
Jim Devine wrote:
[*] Has anyone ever noticed the similarity between the development of the
USSR and that of the Ford Motor Company (or similar "entrepreneurial"
corporations)? It starts with the radical idiosyncrasies of the Great
Leader (Stalin, Henry Ford, Sr.), who is then
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
very often of a seasonal nature. If you read Juliette Schor's "The
Overworked American", you will discover that the average peasant worked
half as many hours as the average proletarian during the rise of the
industrial revolution. That is the
Louis Proyect wrote:
Either that or people actually *liked* having their teeth fall out...
Brad DeLong
I don't think the discussion is about dental hygeine. It is about the right
of a Vietnamese in the 60s or a Colombian peasant today to not have napalm
dropped on them because they
In a message dated 00-05-13 17:05:51 EDT, you write:
Either that or people actually *liked* having their teeth fall out...
Brad DeLong
Hey, Brad, revealed preferences, right? --jks
At 02:33 AM 05/13/2000 -0700, you wrote:
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Louis Proyect wrote:
very often of a seasonal nature. If you read Juliette Schor's "The
Overworked American", you will discover that the average peasant worked
half as many hours as the average proletarian during the rise of the
At 01:35 PM 05/13/2000 -0400, you wrote:
My understand of the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture is that
nutritional standards did decline, but so did the risk of starvation.
Agricultural
output was less uncertain.
Maybe, but it's not unmixed progress. It's more a matter of a
On Fri, 12 May 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
moreover, how would US develop its own capitalism without slave labor (
especially agricultural production in the South)?
Ah, but Marx would insist on the relative antagonisms between rival modes
of production: it's not that capitalism is identical
Dennis, I exactly argued the same. We are talking past to each other!
See my previous post where I used the words "local" and "global"
capitalism..
Mine
There's local
capitalism, regional, urban, national, international, multinational,
financial, industrial, etc. and these modes of
Would _you_ have survived untill now without the US?
Mine
The more serious question is this: what *can* the Left offer as a
developmental model to Vietnam?
-- Dennis
Cuba.
Would Cuba have survived until 1989 without Soviet subsidies?
Doug
Dennis:
Nike's workers aren't slaves. They're proletarians. Do you have any idea
of what rice farming without modern machinery is like? You wade around in
a field all day, hunched over, getting sunburnt to a crisp, attacked by
mosquitoes, flies, and leeches, and have to put up with endemic
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