Does the empirical generalization suggested below have validity
today
nationally or globally ?
Of course. Absolutely.
The industrial reserve army of unemployed or under-employed numbers
billions in a world in which relative wages vary up to 30 fold !
The greater the centralization of capital
Chris Burford states at the beginning of his post that the general law
exists only to conclude, in his remedy, that Marx expresses the law
upside down: Chris argues that the result of this law is the relative
privilege and well being of the workers in the metropolitan countries, and
that the only
(Despite widespread speculation that the turn in the interest rate cycle
will burst the housing bubble in the US and elsewhere, precipitating a wider
financial and social crisis, early indications are that housing markets will
soften and stagnate rather than collapse, according to a report in
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From: sartesian [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 1:51 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] absolute general law of capitalist accumulation
Chris Burford states at the beginning of his post that the general
law exists only to conclude, in his
How broad does Marx intend this generalization to be ? His use of the term
absolute seems to indicate that he is predicting that this generalization
reaches beyond the specific English illustrations of the law he discusses.
Charles
^^
The greater the social wealth, the functioning
by sartesian
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Any number of radicals, of left or right, can and will argue that the
workers in the advanced countries must sacrifice their wealth for reasons
of right and left-- like the national good, the international good, the
moral good, and for the sake of the soul. But such
Marx qualifies this absolute law immediately after stating it. For him, it's a law
at the level of capital in general, the subject of volume I of CAPITAL. However, it
might be changed by the competition of capitals, e.g., the uneven development of
capital on the world scale. During the period
Interesting article, Michael. I had read somewhere that credit card
companies were now extracting from consumers around $1 billion per year in
late fees, but the article suggests that it's more than 10 times that at
$11.6 billion per year. That's a travesty! I think a major factor is that
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http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040719s=aaj071904
PAKISTAN FOR BUSH.
July Surprise?
by John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman Massoud Ansari
[...]
This spring, the administration significantly increased its pressure on
Pakistan to kill or capture Osama bin Laden,
Fahrenheit On The Brain
Who cares if Moore's flick is flawed, shameless propaganda? At least
it makes America think
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Wednesday, July 7, 2004
Oh my God but Michael Moore is
House Votes to Overturn Cuba Parcel Rules
Wed Jul 7, 2004 11:09 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Wednesday voted in favor of overturning new Bush Administration rules
banning items including clothing, seeds and soap from being sent in
parcels to Cuba.
Last
Political Rappers, Palestinian and Jewish (about the Iron Sheik;
Jacqueline Salloum; T. N. -- a k a Tamer Nafar -- and DAM; JDub
Records; Segol 59; Subliminal [né Kobi Shimoni]; and Matisyahu), with
links to some songs:
http://montages.blogspot.com/2004/07/political-rappers-palestinian-and.html
--
Did anybody see Salvador, a typically overheated Oliver Stone flick?
James Woods (a reactionary in real life) plays a hardboiled reporter
whose primary message seems to be war is hell? Although I can't
imagine why anybody would want to aspire to this kind of cliche in real
life, Christian
I believe that he was shot at while in Iraq.
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901
Perelman, Michael wrote:
I believe that he was shot at while in Iraq.
I'm making an exception to my usual rule of ignoring Proyect, but
this really pisses me off. Christian has spent a total of nearly
three months in Iraq. He's been in the middle of firefights and met
with insurgents who
Doug Henwood wrote:
I'm making an exception to my usual rule of ignoring Proyect, but
this really pisses me off. Christian has spent a total of nearly
three months in Iraq. He's been in the middle of firefights and met
with insurgents who threatened to kill him.
You mean this sort of James Bond
I appreciate what you are saying about Marx qualifying his statement. I
believe all social scientific empirical generalizations are less than 100%
true ( including the one I am making here ? Reflexivity alert :)).
I wonder whether the use of the term absolute is some type of rhetorical
advice to
He was running around with Dar Jamil, who has been regularly reporting for KPFA. Dar
was in the middle of everything, so I assume that Christian was also.
Again, the personal stuff adds nothing here. I don't agree with some of what
Christian says, but you can just point out the disagreements
Hey wait a minute, as someone who has been unsubbed by all three of you, I have to say
Michael's response to the self-aggrandizing bleatings of Henwood and Proyect is an
insult to those of us who value the value of real insults.
In baseball the umpire warns both benches once and then tosses the
Michael Perelman wrote:
He was running around with Dar Jamil, who has been regularly reporting for KPFA. Dar
was in the middle of everything, so I assume that Christian was also.
I still urge you or anybody else to track down last month's Harpers. The
picture drawn of Falluja has nothing in
Michael Perelman wrote:
He was running around with Dar Jamil, who has been regularly
reporting for KPFA. Dar
was in the middle of everything, so I assume that Christian was also.
Again, the personal stuff adds nothing here. I don't agree with some of what
Christian says, but you can just point
Come on, Lou. You know better than than to talk like that. As I said before, Dar
Jamil gives a very different picture of Falluja, but that is no reaon to attack him
personally.
Michael Moore put in his dig at Mumia. I resented it at the time, but I can still
enjoy his new movie, despite having
Title: Message
Attached is a notice
for an upcoming conference in Geneva from August 6-8 on The Right to Self
Determination, the UN and Civil Society at which I have been invited to present
some work. Those in Europe or planning to be in Europe at the time might want to
come and attend.
Louis Proyect ranted:
With the security situation deteriorating rapidly in the country (thank
goodness), young Parenti (son of Michael) seems content to report from the
relative safety of a Baghdad hotel.
First why anybody would say thank goodness to a deteriorating security
situation (which means
Tomgram: Marshall Auerback on oil surprises
Among the early goals of the Bush administration, controlling global
energy flows was certainly right at the top of the list; so imagine the
irony (not that Bush's men are much into irony) -- this administration
might, in part, be sunk by soaring
Title: Message
There is a
difference beweenunderstanding--and starting at--where people are
ideologically, conscious-awareness-wise, etc, and moving from there, to actually
pandering to where people are in order to get their ear and attention. As a
Blackfoot and U.S. Army veteran, I am
July 8, 2004
Dear Cuba Policy Advocates:
We have had a surprise victory! Last night the House of Representatives
voted 221-194 to ban funding of the Commerce Departments section of the new
Bush Administration Cuba regulations. The regulations under this department
are:
· Limit the amount of
Relief convoy defies Cuba embargo
The Associated Press
Thu, Jul. 08, 2004
HIDALGO, Texas School buses and other vehicles loaded with medical and
office equipment crossed the border into Mexico on Wednesday on a relief
trip to Cuba that violates the U.S. embargo.
It was the 14th consecutive year
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What kind of national party runs 50 separate campaigns? Why not go
down to the county level and run 3000 campaigns?
Doug
questionable whether u.s. has any national parties at all...
in any event, electoral college makes for 50 state elections for prez so
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/07/04 2:44 PM
Monthly Review, Feb. 2001
The Nader Campaign and the Future
of U.S. Left Electoral Politics
by The Editors
In our view, the Nader campaign was the electoral side of the mass
organizing that produced the extraordinary demonstrations in Seattle in
1999 and in
Speaking of disturbed-- why is it that Mr. Wendland bemoans the deteriorating
security in Iraq without looking at the source of that deterioration, which is the US
destruction of the Iraqi society?
Why is it that Mr. Wendland poses his questions before grappling with the one that
he should
Comrade Wendland's email somehow got lost in my spam filter, so let me
respond to it now.
First why anybody would say thank goodness to a deteriorating security
situation (which means a lot of people -- mostly Iraqis -- are getting
killed) seems to contradict Carrol Cox's repetitive and
Concerning Marx's statement of the absolute general law of capitalist
accumulation, Charles asks
Does the empirical generalization suggested below have validity today
nationally or globally ?
You could certainly point to recent economic phenomena supporting an
affirmative answer to this question.
Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry
(There are two conspicuous absences in Fahrenheit 9/11: John Kerry
and Israel. The two absences are dependent on each other. Plus,
notes on John Kerry's latest policy paper on Israel John Kerry:
Strengthening Israel's Security and
Louis Proyect wrote:
Comrade Wendland's email somehow got lost in my spam filter, so let me
respond to it now.
I'm not your comrade, brother; but I am glad to know that you filter out my
ravings.
If everybody in the CP was as bold thinking as Michael Parenti, I might
have joined.
I don't consider
where's Michael to say gentlemen, gentlemen! stop it now!?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel
Wendland
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 6:10 PM
To:
Concerning Marx's statement of the absolute general law of capitalist
accumulation, Charles asks
Does the empirical generalization suggested below have validity today
nationally or globally ?
Gil writes:
You could certainly point to recent economic phenomena supporting an
affirmative
From: Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Moore's Dilemma: Israel, Saudi Arabia, and John Kerry
(There are two conspicuous absences in Fahrenheit 9/11: John Kerry
and Israel. The two absences are dependent on each other.
Moore's electioneering really beats the stuffing out of the historical
From: Carl Remick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
...To examine the Iraq war without mentioning the neocons and the
Wolfowitz Doctrine is like, say, looking at the origins of World War I
without mentioning the General General Staff ...
Er, make that the German General Staff. I must have been thinking of
Answer the questions: Why do you support continued US occupation of Iraq
when clearly that occupation has made things worse? Are you the one who
thinks things have to get worse before they get better?
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From: Joel Wendland [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
I just got back. I am looking at this stuff in reverse order. Disgusting. Lou, I
don't know what is being said to you yet, but you must stop this sort of dialogue.
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 06:42:09PM -0700, Devine, James wrote:
where's Michael to say gentlemen, gentlemen! stop it now!?
I hope that no right-winger (oh please, David Shemano please be quiet about this)
never happens upon the archive of this list. It would be easy to use as evidence of
the left can manage anything other than a circular firing squad.
This list is a place to exchange information. Hopefully people
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