BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, MAY 24, 2002:
The economy snapped back from last year's recession, growing at an
annual rate of 5.6 percent during the first quarter, the strongest
performance in nearly 2 years. The latest reading on the first-quarter
gross domestic product,
BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS, DAILY REPORT, TUESDAY, MAY 28, 2002:
About 6,000 U.S. workers die on the job each year, according to a new report
from the AFL-CIO, based on data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, says
The Washington Post (page F1). Worldwide, about 5,000 workers die of
The Times (London), May 29, 2002
IMF accused of causing food crisis in Malawi
The International Monetary Fund has denied allegations that it was
partially responsible for the gathering famine in Malawi.
The Washington-based institution has been blamed for putting pressure on
President Muluzi
Here's a link to a talk given by Issam Nassar, a Palestinian historian, and Yoav
Peled, an Israeli political scientist, at Columbia not long ago.
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/news/vforum/02/israel_palestine/index.html
Clueless 2
CB: Briefly, the CPUSA from the 1920's to about 1950 orso held that Black people in the US had the right to self-determination in theLeninist sense. They had the right to secede from the U.S. if they sochose. If you are familiar with the Leninistapproach to this, it implies not that
Brother U clueless . . . concerning the presentation of the national colonial question as it applies to the African American people.
Below is your exchange:
In relation to the post someone made about Negroes in the USA being a 'nation'
and using the old 4 part definition of Stalin's (common
Clueless 2
CB: Briefly, the CPUSA from the 1920's to about 1950 or so held that Black people in the US had the right to self-determination in the Leninist sense. They had the right to secede from the U.S. if they so chose. If you are familiar with the Leninist approach to this, it implies not
CB: What type of thing does Marx mean when he refers to a "Negro"CB: What type
of thing does Marx mean when he refers to a "Negro" ? A national colonial group
? Or does he mean a group whose skin is "branded" or whose skin is a brand ? A
group defined by its land, language, history ? Or a
Harry Chang is very good on this. See his Toward
a Marxist Theory of Racism (two essays by Harry Chang), edited by Paul Liem and Eric Montague in Review of Radical Political
Economics, Vol. 17, No. 3, Fall, 1985, pp. 34-45. (Special Issue: The Political
Economy of Race and Class, Gary
CB: You have not been persuasive.
Obviously you jest.
Comrade, you first asked me to define the content of the Marxist analysis of the African American national colonial question concerning Booker T. Washington and Dr. Dubois and I answered this question concretely and destroyed your racial
Both 'purely' natural (biological) and social theories of race are wrong
(though if they are the only available the social is certainly
preferable, imo). The reason why the purely social theory is incomplete
is because of the physiognomic rule -- physiognomic traits are
biologically inherited.
Heather Cox Richardson. The Death of Reconstruction: Race, Labor, and
Politics in the Post-Civil War North, 1865-1901. Cambridge and
London: Harvard University Press, 2001. xvi + 312 pp. Notes index.
$39.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-674-00637-2.
It is really exciting and wonderful to read in your review
Chang, following
Marx, also uses the Gemeinschaft vs. Gesellschaft distinction to demonstrate that a race or
a racial group cannot be a class in the strictly economic-relational sense of
classes. While, in the U.S. prior to the Civil
War it was true that all slaves were Black and all
I should have added that Chang goes on to
argue that though the below is true, it is also true that there is *some* kind
of relation between race and class. The role of theory is to go beyond that
common-sense observation to identify the *character*
of that relation. In addition to
the
As the inhouse double-dipper of PEN-L, let me send some
supporting evidence for my fellow double-dipper Krugman's this
statement:
Foreign purchases of U.S. stocks, foreign
acquisitions of U.S. companies, are way off.
Sabri
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05/29 15:23
Dollar Reaches
Charles and Race Theory 2
by Waistline2
29 May 2002 03:08 UTC
On Marxline you wrote
Melvin,
The shortest answer to all you say in these many, many posts is that race is a
historical category. Basically, my answers will focus on that. You are wrong when
you assert, argue, assume,
- Original Message -
From: Charles Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You are absolutely wrong. I assert that race is an ideological
category existing in the superstructure without a material reality.
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Amen.
Ian
Racism and race are Marxist concepts
by Waistline2
29 May 2002 02:19 UTC
Melvin P.
There is no such thing as racially oppressed labor, as a material category.
CB: There exists and has existed specially oppressed labor based on racial categories
for centuries. The category
The Economic Times
Tuesday, May 28, 2002
Matsushita China unit to double output
REUTERS
TOKYO: Matsushita Electric Industrial Co, maker of Panasonic goods, said on
Tuesday, it aims to more than double its output over the next three years in
China, which it called the new benchmark for
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Euro hits new high as rebound gains speed
Eric Pfanner International Herald Tribune
Thursday, May 30, 2002
But concern mounts over possibility of rise in interest rates
LONDON A series of upbeat reports show that the European economy is
gaining
Following conference announcement may be of interest to some of you on the
list. Kindly let me know (at [EMAIL PROTECTED]) if you are
interested in attending the conference and have a paper on the themes of
political economy/marxian economics that you would like to present.
Regards
Erdogan
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