And one more:
IF I HAD A HAMMER, by Maurice Isserman
Peter Dorman
Hmmm, a few more thoughts:
Read some of the old Zap Comics, then see the film "Crumb". (This may
be depressing.)
Many of the old situationist pamphlets have been collected in readers
(sign of the times there). One that isn't available but which really
conveys a sense of the period is the one
A brief aside on "The War at Home": As someone who lived in Madison
during this time period and participated in these movements, knew the
people on the screen, etc., I'd like to say that caution should be
taken. This is a distorted view of what happened there. The biggest
single distortion --
Well, it looks as though we have converged with at most small
differences in nuance. The only clarification I want to add is that my
comment about racism as an "instinct" could be translated as "calling
something an instinct is just attaching a name to an assumption; it is
not really an
I am currently involved in planning an undergraduate "cluster course" for
The topic for our course is "The Vietnam
War Era and the Sixties".
I would very much appreciate
any related course syllabae, and especially any references to appropriate
readings related to the "political economy" or
I think that our censure of the racist killer should also include
censure of the socio-economic system that produced him. What say you?
I agree, though there's not much more to say in this thread.
Maybe pen-l needs to discuss the broader issue of crime (brought up by Ken
Hanly, I believe).
On Friday, February 26, 1999 at 14:05:20 (-0800) Jim Devine writes:
I wrote: is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because (1)
if anyone does, John William King (and his yet-to-be-tried sidekicks)
deserve the death penalty but (2) they have a principled opposition to the
death
Jim,
I think that our censure of the racist killer should also include
censure of the socio-economic system that produced him. What say you?
Seth Sandronsky
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:05:20 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:3915]
I wrote: is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because (1)
if anyone does, John William King (and his yet-to-be-tried sidekicks)
deserve the death penalty but (2) they have a principled opposition to the
death penalty?
Bill Lear writes: Pre-meditated murder is wrong. Nobody
Carrol wrote:
It is because I put so much emphasis on theoretical reflection that
I am engaged in my present campaign of everyone on these lists
who engages in poisoning the wells of discourse by substituting
empty labels like "elitist" or "pomo" for the description, naming,
and critique of
Steve,
To those books suggested I'd add an excellent one on the black freedom
movement titled "SNCC: The New Abolitionists" by Howard Zinn.
Seth Sandronsky
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:24:30 -0800
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: Steve Cullenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Sam, your prior list and this one is very good.
I would add many books on the social movements of the
60's, some below deal
with Vietnam more than others; e.g.,
Ah, memory lane. I'd suggest The New Left Reader,
ed Carl Oglesby. A good anthology/sampling of
diverse currents of thought,
Peter Bohmer:
"The War Within" by Tom Wells
I want to endorse this book beyond use in the classroom. I have never read
anything that comes close to describing the ins and outs of the antiwar
movement. Wells follows a very interesting method. He interviews many of
the participants and ruling
Last I wondered whether one could argue that Asia was facing a high level
equilibrium trap although it had a superior output-to-seed than Europe's?
Landes examination of China's high crop yield/labor intensive model
of development, brief as it is, may be useful here. He writes "anyone
who
Sam, your prior list and this one is very good.
I would add many books on the social movements of the 60's, some below deal
with Vietnam more than others; e.g.,
"In Struggle" by Clayborne Carson,
"The Imagination of the New Left" by George Katsiaficas
"Personal Politics" by Sara Evans,
I've Got
On Friday, February 26, 1999 at 08:06:20 (-0800) Jim Devine writes:
...
is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because (1) if anyone
does, John William King (and his yet-to-be-tried sidekicks) deserve the
death penalty but (2) they have a principled opposition to the death penalty?
This is alright. I didn't take time to write out the anti-racist biological assertion
that in looking at the "totality" of phenotypes and genotypes of the pseudobiological
racial categories of based on skin color etc., there are greater ranges of differences
within the socalled races than
Why should one feel queasy about not killing King? I don't think my opposition to
the death
penalty is entirely principled. I just don't think there is evidence that it has
any significant effect on murder rates. It is not a deterrent. If it were a
significant deterrent I might very
well
Jim Devine asks:
is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because (1) if anyone
does, John William King (and his yet-to-be-tried sidekicks) deserve the
death penalty but (2) they have a principled opposition to the death penalty?
Yes, you are not alone.
Doug Orr
At 08:19 AM 2/26/99 -0800, Michael Perelman wrote:
I absolutely agree with Jim D. in what he says below. I would also add
that I suspect that King's father and lawyer might be telling the truth in
saying that he was not particularly racist before going to prison.
is there anyone else out there
Also;
Kate Millet Sexual Politics
S. Firestone The Dialectics of Sex
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
D.Cooper ed. Dialectics of Liberation.
The movie 'Platoon' is instructive in that two characters represent the
political spectrum, one played by Willem Dafoe represents the doves(
Anthony
Jim is in between email accounts, so he asked me to pass this on.
From: Michael Perelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, February 25, 1999 7:49 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [PEN-L:3867] Re: The Vietnam War Era and the Sixties
Burn, with Marlon Brando. Wonderful film
I absolutely agree with Jim D. in what he says below.
I would also add
that I suspect that King's father and lawyer might be
telling the truth in
saying that he was not particularly racist before
going to prison.
is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy
because (1) if anyone
Hello Joseph,
What are the "Transition Debates" that you are referring to?
Sorry for the jargon. Leaping off the shelf is:
Hilton, ed. 1976. _The Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism_ Verso.
as a starting point. Others on this list could give more extensive and
recent references.
Best,
But surely Charles has a point. Physical characteristics are used , rightly or
wrongly, as
a basis for racial identification even though race is a social construct. That is,
there
is a gross physical basis for people's recognition of someone as being of a certain
race. It is
because of that
If I was to teach a course on the 60's:
Michael Vickery, Malcolm Caldwell and Ben Kiernan on Cambodia.
Alfred McCoy The Politics of Heroin
James Miller Democracy is in the Streets
Martin Lee Acid Dreams
Michael Herr Dispatches
F.Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake
Howard Zinn The Politics of History
In 1987, the U.S. Supreme Court, apparently accepting as correct
the evidence that the death penalty is unfairly and unevenly
imposed, nonetheless ordered a black defendant convicted of
murder to be executed.
This was the case of Warren McCleskey, the most important death
penalty case of our
Of course, he is a NY Times columnist.
But he also writes on global affairs
I seldom agree with his points of views, but there is no denying he is a
sharp analyst. Through him, one get a window on the thinking of the
establishment.
I respect him as an informed adversary and occasional ally of
I said earlier that, according to Frank, China's decision to continue
to rely on its old technology was "rational" given China's
cheap labor. Cheap not because it was poor but because of its
agricultural efficiency and productivity which, by
providing cheap and plentiful foodstuffs, allowed
Michael Perelman:
I have been trying to get Louis Proyect to read Thy Will be Done. You can
find
Walters and Brazil there.
Oh yeah, I should have mentioned. The Dark Notes journal has a lengthy
review of the book, which I am sure they won't mind sharing as a way to
entice folks to subscribe:
Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
Freidman normally writes about foreign affairs.
He is also an apologist for Israeli atrocities in Lebanon. cf Chomsky The
Fateful Triangle.
Sam
I just received my first issue of "Dark Night Field Notes," (number 14). I
strongly recommend it to anybody with interests in indigenous struggles,
which should really include anybody with progressive politics. The great
advantage of this journal is that places indigenous struggles in the
context
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this privileging of practice really bugs me. normally i'd side with you but
i'll have to say that there's something to be said for theoretical
reflection,
There is *everything* to be said for theoretical reflection; there can
be little excuse for the very
I absolutely agree with Jim D. in what he says below. I would also add
that I suspect that King's father and lawyer might be telling the truth in
saying that he was not particularly racist before going to prison.
is there anyone else out there who's feeling queasy because (1) if
anyone
does,
SLATE reports today: USA TODAY describes [John William] King upon his
condemnation as "unrepentant and Smirking," and notes that he is the first
white person to face execution for killing a black person in modern Texas
history. The paper goes on to report that since the Supreme Court
reinstated
Freidman normally writes about foreign affairs.
But I guess with globalization and the internet, global affairs had
combined foreign and domestic affairs.
The next competition for Amazon.com will come not just from Cedar Falls,
Iowa, but from Mexico and Canada and then from Asia. The New York
I just added December discussions to the archives of the Marxism mailing list:
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/new_archive.htm)
I also made some cosmetic changes that will be much easier on the eyes.
December's postings include:
===
--Australian politics, culture and economics
This issue is of critical importance and highly complex.
Positions are being taken and alliances formed by strange political
bedfellows that will shift as the issue revolves.
It will touch on every aspects of the global economy, security,
individual privacy and freedom.
Some discussion may help
Sam,
Some of the questions you raised I touched on last month in the WS
list. So here is another rewrite of an earlier post (sorry for this
but my time to prepate the paper on Re-Orient is running out).
Serious macro theorists know that structures can only be produced and
reproduced through
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Date: 2/25/99 6:17:38 AM Pacific Standard Time
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New York Times Front Page
February 26, 1999
In Biggest Drive Since 1937, Union Gains a Victory
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
LOS ANGELES -- Winning the biggest unionization drive in
more than half a century, the Service Employees International Union
gained the right
Richard Barnet-- Global Dreams
Burbach-Kargalitsky-- Globalization and its Discontents
Kim Moody-- Workers in a Lean World
William Robinson-- Promoting Polyarchy Globalization US Intervention and
Hegemony
William Greider-- One World Ready or Not
Louis Proyect
Friends,
I am team-teaching a course with an anthropology teacher next fall. the
course is titled, "Global Political Economy." I need some suggestions
on materials. Reply privately or to list if of general interest. Any
reading lists or syllabi would be great. Thanks.
michael yates
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BLS DAILY REPORT, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1999
Wage data compiled by BNA in the first eight weeks of 1999 showed that
RETHINKING ASIA
The Perils of Privatization
By Walden Bello
March 4, 1999
In 1998, the Pohang Iron Steel Co.--or Posco--dislodged
long-time industry leader Nippon Steel to become the world's No. 1
That's some update. The 1982 edition I have sitting in front of me has 478
pages.
At 08:06 PM 2/25/99 -0500, you wrote:
The Amazon.com catalogue lists a new publication by David Harvey called
_Limits to Capital_ to be published in April of this year (192 pgs). Is
this an update of his earlier
louis wrote:
...Felix Guattari...was a psychoanalyst ...
Their first
collaboration was the 1972 "Anti-Oedipus". Massumi interprets this
work as
a polemic against "State-happy or pro-party versions of Marxism".
massumi does not reduce 'anti-oedipus' to a polemic against statist
marxism.
Colin Danby wrote:
The question that can be raised, though, is
to what extent is the development of class
structure a strictly internal matter. The
issue has already been done to death in the
Transition Debates, but at the risk of
sounding vacuous let me suggest that for
large changes
John Lacny wrote:
I don't have much time, but I should clarify a few things.
I also am short of time, and apologize for the delay in my
reply, which is partly due to problems with my internet service
provider.
First off, I am not hewing to the trot line of "military but
G'day Penners,
It is my considered position that the best insight into how Murdoch is
thinking about issues du jour is to read this bloke. Anyway, in case Yanks
are as obsessed with what others are writing about them as Australians
(pathetically) are, here's a right-wing Australian spraying
In addition, I have spent many hours--too many, in point of
fact--reading
Deleuze-Guattari...
so, what do you think of deleuze and guattari's book 'communists like
us'?
angela
tom, jim, hsin-hsing, others:
tom wrote:
Upon re-reading, I also see clearly the two forms (formal/real) can
coexist. However, I see nothing in this text on *reversion back* to
formal
subsumption (as may be the case with structural adjustment, etc.).
and this I think was my problem. a
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