In an otherwise good analysis kindly forwarded by Ian Murray, Nick Cohen
writes:
As Britain dissolves, the need to define Englishness becomes urgent. Like
many
others, I get a little fed up with Scots who assert that while their
nationalism is
benign and civic-minded, English nationalism will be
It won't surprise Carrol to see that I have a couple of quibbles with
Bertell's argument. But I don't want to gainsay, I just hope to have my
thoughts on the matter - neither wholly contradictory to, nor wholly
compatible with, Bertell's argument as I read it here - corrected and
qualified by
Jim Devine wrote:
One thing I do object to is that perpetual debate, which often seems as
autistic (in the sense the post-autistic economics movement uses that
term) as mathematical economics tends to be. I'm tired of the constant
reference to the instrumentalists vs. the structuralists,
Sez Michael K:
It's difficult not to conclude that all nationalism tends to be
brutish and
prejudiced. In the context of neoliberal globalism, nationalism is an
understandable, even predictable, response. But without some sort of
Marxist
or (at the very least) internationalist emancipatory
Lions face new threat: they're rich, American and they've got guns
Schwarzkopf and Bush Snr mobilise opposition as Botswana moves to save its
big cats
Chris McGreal in Johannesburg
Guardian
Friday April 27, 2001
You might call the lions of southern Africa potential Bush meat. The former
I'd said:
Sure, when you get shat on by another culture, you want to react, and
that
reaction won't matter unless lots of you react in some sorta concert,
but that
doesn't entail defining your nationhood, or having it defined by your
leaders.
It just means you react to particular
Rob Schaap wrote:
And certainly didn't want to give the impression that these assaults are
stuff
I value. I put that sentence in at the end without reading the one after
it.
Hope that was obvious ...
=
Few here adhere to the postmodernist vice of placing text above context. In
other
Penners
Is there anyone here familiar with
The Algebra of Revolution : The Dialectic and the Classical Marxist
Tradition by John Rees (Routledge, 1999)?
If so, is it any good?
Thanks in advance.
Michael K.
Michael Keaney
Mercuria Business School
Martinlaaksontie 36
01620 Vantaa
Finland
I have a copy. I haven't read it yet, but it seemed useful enough to
purchase. I generally shy away from pure theory books, but Rees had
impressed me with his book on the October 1917 Russian revolution--an
answer to social democratic and liberal arguments that Lenin led to Stalin.
I suppose you
Louis Proyect:
I have a copy. I haven't read it yet, but it seemed useful enough to
purchase. I generally shy away from pure theory books, but Rees had
impressed me with his book on the October 1917 Russian revolution--an
answer to social democratic and liberal arguments that Lenin led to
Greetings Economists,
Rob Schaap writes at length but says this toward the
end,
Rob,
'Morality' has here come a long way from *The German Ideology*, where it was
but an epiphenomenon, and not to be treated as a material revolutionary
force.
It is no longer what 'is', but an 'ought-to-be' - an
A truly outrageous nomination by Bush, a racist nominee who wears his hood
in public.
-- Nathan Newman
Thomas Dorr, Ag Dept nominee, is a big fan of 'ethnic, religious
non-diversity'
Posted on Sunday, May 13 @ 10:11:03 EDT
Ian Murray wrote:
Here's two great passages from two list participants that give a hint of the real
work that needs to be done in the near and medium term:
Corporations should be placed increasingly under a combination of worker, community,
customer, supplier and public control. Of
Carrol Cox wrote:
If there are no practical alternatives to the program(s) envisaged by
Doug here and by Ian in this whole post, then barbarianism has already
triumphed, and we should all go home and tend our gardens awaiting the
apocalypse.
There are two reasons for assuming that
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1. Palast: IMF's Four Steps to Damnation
2. Interview with Palast from Cleveland Free Times
IMF'S FOUR STEPS TO DAMNATION
I really enjoyed reading Timpanaro back in the mid-80s. He
seemed a proper corrective to the vulgar sociologism then
dominant in much of marxist theory which seemed stuck with the
phrase social being, unable to comprehend the way biological-
geographical factors set limits to the possible.
And the US government knew it, charges Stiglitz, at least in the case of
the biggest privatisation of all, the 1995 Russian sell-off. 'The US
Treasury view was: This was great, as we wanted Yeltsin re-elected. We
DON'T CARE if it's a corrupt election. '
Strange. Inside the U.S. Treasury that I
- Original Message -
From: Martin Shaw [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 2:27 AM
Subject: denial, class, europe and africa, nationalism
new work in first press ...
Stanley Cohen, The elementary forms of denial
www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/press/105cohen.pdf
In the first
I wrote
Thus,
I do not reject neoclassical economics _in its entirety_. Rather, I try to
troll the orthodoxy for valid points concerning empirical reality. It turns
out that there are some parts that make sense in the empirical world (such
as the theory of externalities or that of adverse
here's an article by Tony Lawson from the Post-Autistic Economics
newsletter. He's a much clearer advocate of critical realism than that guy
that Justin hates is:
Back to Reality
Tony Lawson (Cambridge University)
[Excerpts from this essay appeared in Le Monde, 27 March 2001]
In recent months
The passage below from Timpanaro, which I cited in the last post,
would seem to run against the point I am trying to get at, but I
agree with Timpanaro that even when we are studying *some* long
term questions like the Reformation and the the French Revolution
we would be foolhardy to
Brad DeLong wrote:
Strange. Inside the U.S. Treasury that I was at, there was enormous
anxiety about Chubias's loans-for-shares program--that not only was
it a bad thing in advance, but that its implicit corruption would
retrospectively taint the earlier voucher privatization program
(which
Economic Reporting Review
By Dean Baker
You can sign up to receive ERR via email every
week by sending a subscribe ERR request to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can find the latest ERR at
http://www.tompaine.com/news/2000/10/02/index.html
and archived prior to August at
http://www.fair.org/err/. All
At 10:42 PM 05/13/2001 -0400, you wrote:
A truly outrageous nomination by Bush, a racist nominee who wears his hood
in public.
-- Nathan Newman
Thomas Dorr, Ag Dept nominee, is a big fan of 'ethnic, religious
non-diversity'
Posted on Sunday, May 13 @ 10:11:03 EDT
Strange. Inside the U.S. Treasury that I was at, there was enormous
anxiety about Chubias's loans-for-shares program--that not only was
it a bad thing in advance, but that its implicit corruption would
retrospectively taint the earlier voucher privatization program
(which it has done). The
G'day Ken,
Deregulation surely does not minimize transportation costs for
smaller communities and to distant communities. For them
deregulation is often a disaster. Before deregulation many smaller
cities had to be served as the price airlines had to pay for
lucrative routes. Now these
Strange. Inside the U.S. Treasury that I was at, there was enormous
anxiety about Chubias's loans-for-shares program . . .
Los Angeles Times September 12, 1999, Sunday, Home Edition
HOW THE CHUBAIS CLAN, HARVARD FED CORRUPTION
. . . Chubais and his clique of political
and financial power
from SLATE:
The [Washington POST] off-leads
[http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23278-2001May13.html ] the
controversy at the Justice Department over [U.S. Attorney General]
Ashcroft's daily Bible study sessions. A Bush administration spokeswoman
says Ashcroft is simply exercising
Jim Devine wrote:
this fellow's statement isn't that different from those who say that one
key reason that Sweden (once) was successful at developing social democracy
was its ethnic homogeneity.
Put another way, Swedish capitalists were not (at least formerly, see
below) able to
When we hear something about Braudel it is that a tripartite
schema - material life, market economy, real capitalism - frames
his three volume work, *The Structures of Everyday Life*, *The
Wheels of Commerce*, and *The Pespective of the World*. While
Marxists quibbled about his definition of
{was: Re: [PEN-L:11506] Re: Re: Bush Ag Dept Nominee- Fan of
ethnic non-diversity}
Carrol wrote:
Perhaps an Australian poster could comment on whether the recent
openness of Australia to immigration has any connection to the
exhaustion of former forms of racism (mostly pointed outwards, the
- Original Message -
From: Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Washington, D.C. - President Bush's nominee for a top Agriculture
Department
post said in 1999 that three Iowa counties do well economically because
they have been very nondiverse in their ethnic background and their
religious
G'day Carrol,
Perhaps an Australian poster could comment on whether the recent
openness of Australia to immigration has any connection to the
exhaustion of former forms of racism (mostly pointed outwards, the
aborigine population being too small to be a real threat) losing their
utility in
NYT
May 13, 2001
Allow Us to Demonstrate: Student Protest Comes of Age
By JODI WILGOREN
S INCE they finished finals at the end of April, Ben Royal and three
fellow University of Michigan students have been driving around the
Northeast in a green 1992 Toyota Corolla, trying to make a
Thanks for this, Jim. Kenichi Ohmae is the man on Japan, I reckon. Infact,
I'd speculate that it was Japanese business who kicked the legs from under the
NASDAQ in the first place. I'd been listening to Ohmae and various
steadfastly anonymous Japanese pundits last March when I wrote to
(Sounds like a legal firm!) Just got back from browsing at books.
Bertell Ollman blurbs a book by Ayn Rand scholar, Chris Scialabbra,
on dialectics.
Newest issue of Rethinking Marxism has Deirdre McCloskey,
in a set of articles
with G. Spivak. McCloskey contributes a piece on, Postmodern
Quotes Lou:
As information trickles out about capital flight and money laundering, it will be
easy to point fingers at corrupt Russians, to replace the image of the evil
empire with that of Russian gangsters. It will be crucial to scrutinize with equal
fervor the officials and institutions
BLS DAILY REPORT, Monday, May 14, 2001:
Held in check by small gains in energy, prices received by producers of
finished goods climbed a modest 0.3 percent in April on a seasonally
adjusted basis, according to figures released May 11 by the Labor
Department's Bureau of Labor Statistics.
BLS DAILY REPORT, Friday, May 11, 2001
RELEASED TODAY: The Producer Price Index for Finished Goods rose 0.3
percent in April, seasonally adjusted, the Bureau of Labor Statistics of
the U.S. Department of Labor reported today. This increase followed a
0.1-percent decline in March and a
Comments after sections:
Secondly, given what we know about the human brains now what exactly is
morality in human brains? That appears to me to be not a real thing in
terms of who we are.
Comment
I give up. I have no idea what anyone would mean by asking what exactly is
morality in human
As the empirical studies come in, the global Thatcherite experiment in free
market liberalization is proving to be a complete and wretched failure for
the countries on which it was imposed (although not of course for the
multinational corporations that benefitted from the policies.) But the
Jim Devine wrote:
this seems a bit too instrumentalist for me (i.e., too much of a
conscious plan).
I would agree, though perhaps rather than instrumentalist it is
e-mailist, as in excessively condensed for quick writing and posting.
Individual capitalists and politicians do quite
Several people have communicated with me in the last day or so,
wanting to get off the list were complaining about the tone of
the list. Personal attacks seem to be becoming a bit more
common. Arrogant forms of communication in which people talk
down to other people is creating dissatisfaction.
At 04:26 PM 5/14/01 -0700, you wrote:
Several people have communicated with me in the last day or so,
wanting to get off the list were complaining about the tone of
the list. Personal attacks seem to be becoming a bit more
common. Arrogant forms of communication in which people talk
down to
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Where we do have honest disagreements, we should express them
respectfully.
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 07:40:07PM -0400, Louis Proyect wrote:
Maybe there should be 2 PEN-L's, one for those
Have any Pen-L people read Peter Danielson's ARTIFICIAL MORALITY ,(Routledge
1992) If so what do you think of it?
An application of his views that affirms the rationality of moral
constraints upon corporate behaviour is given at the following website.
Danielson is not very difficult to follow
I don't think that we need to bicker about the IMF. It is a tool of the
oppressors and does terrible harm.
Now, now.
If there were no IMF--if there were no one willing and able to loan
Argentina $40 billion to try to get it through its current episode of
capital flight and foreign investor
Danielson is involved in a project entitled Evolution of Artificial Moral
Ecologies as part of his work in the Centre For Applied Ethics at the Univ.
of. B.C. There is a great deal of useful material at the website:
http://eame.ethics.ubc.ca/
Cheers, Ken Hanly
Burning issue for coffee growers
Big players are the winners during surplus or scarcity
Special report: globalisation
Charlotte Denny and Alex Bellos in Rio de Janeiro
Tuesday May 15, 2001
The Guardian
Torching nearly a million tonnes of surplus coffee beans is a radical
way of solving the
'No one will be able to prove what killed us'
Chemicals released after Nato bombing infect Serbian city
Special report: Kosovo
Special report: Serbia
Paul Brown, environment correspondent
Tuesday May 15, 2001
The Guardian
When the Nato bombs started to fall on Pancevo's petro-chemical
factory,
Gordon Fitch wrote:
Carrol Cox:
...
This assumption that any word of approbation or approval is necessarily
a moral proposition referring to a moral order is merely itself a
manifestation of the power of moralism. But while Gordon (on lbo-talk)
was probably being facetious in his
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
I, at least, would agree that if you have a bureaucracy that can
successfully run a developmental state--that is, provide subsidies to
companies that successfully export rather than companies run by the
husband of the niece of the vice-minister,
May 5, 2001
The Editor
Harvard Magazine
Cambridge, MA 02138
By e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sir:
In your lead article (May-June) on the new President, Lawrence H. Summers,
you describe his work achievements in great detail. But why did you omit
his involvement with the Harvard Institute for
Just had three smear reviews of World History and the Eonic Effect removed
from Amazon.com book siteThey hadn't even bothered to read the book. The
Darwin enforcers are busy, and you might be interested to see how they play
this game. Plus a firestorm attack counterattack on the Kant-l
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Brad DeLong wrote:
The answer to what is happening to world income distribution
turns out to depend heavily on whether countries are weighted by
population, and whether income in different countries is measured
in PPP terms or by using actual exchange rates.
Why would
Chris is a very smart lib who was Bertell's student. He wrote a very good
book on Marx and Hayek and dialectics, and used to participate on the spoons
Marxism list. I do not understand his passion for Rand, who, unlike Hayek,
was a lunkhead. I miss him--Chris, that is. --jks
From: michael
Scott McLemee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
likes his stuff too.
But, Ayn Rand, yikes!
Ever read her HUAC testimony? Smiling Russians
(Ayn Rand s HUAC Testimony [The ... That is Ayn? Miss Rand ... in evidence?
Miss Rand: Oh, yes ... poor,
sweet Russians were unprepared ... with everybody smiling.
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