RE: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx new ref # 33417

2002-12-29 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33442] Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx new ref # 33417 Joanna writes: But take my word for it, [in the US] there is a level of anxiety, of unrelenting fear and mistrust, the likes of which I have not encountered anywhere else on earth. Michael Moore's BOWLING

Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx new ref # 33442

2002-12-28 Thread joanna bujes
At 05:27 PM 12/27/2002 -0800, you wrote: I think emotional structure is key to making left organization. There is a confusion about using text based tools to form emotional structure in left groups. In my email 'Face Blindness' I give some of the crucial elements of emotion structure that the

Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx new ref # 33417

2002-12-27 Thread joanna bujes
At 10:57 PM 12/25/2002 -0800, you wrote: In regard to your remark about loneliness, the U.S. has a divided atomized people, does that make them weird? How do you measure loneliness? Some people are and some people aren't in the U.S. culture. Broad generalizations easily become a vehicle for

RE: Re: RE: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-24 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33297] Re: RE: The Economist considers Karl Marx JKS says:Well, Southern Cal, that's where all the loose marbles go anyway . . . . Haven't you read Nathaniel West's Day of the Lucust? who was it was said that it's as if the whole country had been tipped on its side, so

Re: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-21 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's a logical impossibility. If there's no state, there's no property or contract law, so no title to anything, and no sanctioned and enforceable exchanges, so no markets. A most rare and strange zone,

Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Michael Perelman
Peter Drucker proclaimed the United States the first truly 'Socialist' country, because workers, through their pension funds own at least 25% of its equity capital, which is more than enough for control. In Drucker's reckoning, socialism was introduced by then head of General Motors Charles

Re: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread andie nachgeborenen
In that case, the Economist and Peter Drucker won't mind if we abolish the wage relationship and private appropriation of returns on capital, turning the factories and offices and farms over to the workers and farmers, who will manage them themselves and collective appropriate the entire fruits of

Re: Re: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] In that case, the Economist and Peter Drucker won't mind if we abolish the wage relationship and private appropriation of returns on capital, turning the factories and offices and farms over to the workers and farmers,

RE: Re: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33272] Re: Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx in common parlance, even among many economists, socialism refers to any government interference in the so-called free market. (For example, the economic historian Peter Temin referred to the rise of state intervention

RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33279] Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx Aren't governments unownable by definition? Sure some factions/classes may think the government their personal property, but don't we deride that as delusional? officially, the Absolutist kings owned their states (l'état

Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aren't governments unownable by definition? Sure some factions/classes may think the government their personal property, but don't we deride that as delusional? officially, the Absolutist kings owned their states (l'état

Re: Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Carrol Cox
Ian Murray wrote: - Original Message - From: Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] [clip] Markets couldn't exist without the state, but common mythology (shared by many econo-dunderheads) has it that markets are natural. Jim === Well, since we have no idea as to

RE: Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:33281] Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx Aren't governments unownable by definition? Sure some factions/classes may think the government their personal property, but don't we deride that as delusional? I wrote: officially, the Absolutist kings owned

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Carrol Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, since we have no idea as to what is non-natural, we can chalk that up to insufficient attention to language. Natural takes up about 14 columns in the OED. I don't think we can ground ths argument in linguistics or

Re: Re: Re: RE: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread joanna bujes
At 03:59 PM 12/20/2002 -0600, you wrote: I didn't pry into those 14 columns, but I bet they contain abundant (respectable) sanction for the linguistic acceptability of the proposition that Markets are natural. The question is though Markets are natural to what? Joanna

Re: Re: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Ian Murray Aren't governments unownable by definition? Sure some factions/classesmay think the government their personal property, but don't we deridethat as delusional? W once referred --as Dave Barry said, i am not making this up -- to his "investorsm er I mean my contributors."

Re: RE: The Economist considers Karl Marx

2002-12-20 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Jim D: but just as the lunatics have taken over the asylum, the looney right wing has taken over the conciousness of much of the US citizenry (at least here in SoCal), along with taking over more and more of the judiciary every day. Well, Southern Cal, that's where all the loose marbles go anyway