At 2003-06-16 15:34 -0700, you quoted:
An economic system is dynamically complex
if its deterministic
endogenous processes do not lead it asymptotically to a fixed
point, a limit cycle, or an explosion.
This sounds like a classic statement based on well established chaos
theory but trying to
Very aggressive virtually official British briefing against the
Americans, now in the Daily Telegraph, paper read by the die-hard
Conservative right in Britain, including the British military.
Blair may need all party cover for his exit strategy all the more so in
view of the increasing
Ominous headline on the front page of the Times, this morning.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,5944-716484,00.html
A virtually completely on the record briefing by the UK government,
approved by the Defence Secretary and Tony Blair's office, and no doubt,
Alastair Campbell. This is a
Almost like having no government. Sounds like a libertarian's dream.
Maybe they should all go live there.
At 08:01 17/06/03 +0100, Chris Burford wrote:
Very aggressive virtually
official British briefing against the Americans, now in the Daily
Telegraph, paper read by the die-hard Conservative
House Discloses Itself to Be Poorer Sibling of the Senate
By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr.
New York Times
WASHINGTON, June 16 Compared with the millionaires' club in the
Senate, many leaders in the House of Representatives have wealth more in
line with that of successful middle managers, according to
'Straussians' in the news; the world trembles (II)
Clifford Orwin
National Post
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
In yesterday's column I began to address the allegations that a sinister
cabal of Straussians dominates American foreign policy and was
responsible for the war against Saddam. Many would have
LRB | Vol. 25 No. 9 dated 8 May 2003
A Trap of Their Own Making
Anatol Lieven
Guerrilla warfare against the US is now a good deal more difficult
because of two undramatic but immensely important innovations: superbly
effective and light bullet-proof vests and helmets which make the US and
British
Doug
wrote:
That's an outrageous policy, of course, but if I were on mainstream
TV, I wouldn't use capitalist or capitalism either - I'd opt for
more acceptable euphemisms. I've found over the years that lots of
ordinary people are susceptible to Marxist analyses as long as they
don't know that's
Doug: I recall reading some poll results where a majority identified theline "from each according to his ability to each according to hisneed" as coming from the US Constitution.
* * *
I've seen that too. Also, I have seen classroom full of fairly conservative Ohio State freshmen spontaneously
Ellen wrote:
I recall reading some poll results where a majority
identified the line from each according to his ability
to each according to his need as coming from the US
Constitution.
You might mean a 1987 Boston Globe magazine poll which claimed that
about half the American population
At the recent (and first ever) ICAPE (international confederation for
the advancement of pluralism in economics) conference here at UMKC, an
Austrian economist on a panel on Rethinking (Post-)Capitalism said he
would not use the word capitalism because it was created by people who
were critical of
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Slicing off the top
if I may be mechanical in my application of Marxism, this might explain the petty-bourgeois shrillness of the House, as opposed to the more lordly demeanor of the Senate.
Of course, such behavioral differences are also encouraged by the length of the
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Susceptibility to Marx
from each according to ability, to each according to contribution is the official ideology of capitalism but to Marx might _really_ be applied in the lower level of communism.
from each according to ability, to each according to need is the slogan
Look it up in Hal Draper's KM Theory of Revolution-- he'll tell you more about these maximsthan you want to know. The contribution principle is obviously ancient and standard. The needs principle may be novel, at least in formulation. jks"Devine, James" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"from each
Title: RE: [PEN-L] US auto industry to die?
I simply forwarded an editorial from the London ECONOMIST that was apocalyptic, i.e., predicting the death of the big 3 US auto-makers. My headline fit their message.
As for jobs disappearing forever, I don't think so. As I said before, Marx
Devine, James wrote:
if I may be mechanical in my application of Marxism, this might
explain the petty-bourgeois shrillness of the House, as opposed to the
more lordly demeanor of the Senate.
Of course, such behavioral differences are also encouraged by the
length of the terms (2 vs. 6
Title: the new party line
The Bushwackers must be desperate. Michael Ramirez, the Bushist political cartoonist for the Los Angeles TIMES, has a 'toon today that expresses this desperation: It shows the Marines planting the US flag on Iwo Jima, with a carping liberal critic (Boo!) asking You
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From: Martina Rieker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Title: you say you want a revolution?
We can seize the day
The task is not to overthrow globalisation but to use it for a democratic revolution
George Monbiot
Tuesday June 17, 2003
The Guardian
Last week Jack Straw illuminated the depths of his political cowardice by shining upon
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 11:05:55 -0400, Doug Henwood wrote:
Hmm, the tone on PEN-L is turning apocalyptic - U.S.
auto industry to
die, jobs disappearing forever, etc. This makes me
wonder if the
economy is bottoming out.
Forecasting the death of Detroit is pretty much a
constant across the
Didn't other polls find that people thought that measure from the bill of
rights were communist laws.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:09:01AM -0400, Ellen Frank wrote:
Doug
wrote:
That's an outrageous policy, of course, but if I were on mainstream
TV, I wouldn't use capitalist or capitalism
Title: the Lynch truth is coming out...
from MS SLATE's summary of top US newspapers:
The Washington Post's top non-local story is a huge revisionist
piece on Pfc. Jessica Lynch's saga and concludes that the story
of her capture and rescue is far more complex and different
than has been
How can this absurdity be peddled so openly and repeatedly? EU ag
subsidies the biggest single contributor to Third World poverty? Unreal.
Peter
Ian Murray wrote:
The International Herald Tribune | www.iht.com
Europe's trade hypocrisy: The West pays to keep the rest poor
Philip Bowring IHT
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From: Peter Dorman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 9:52 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] WTO--hypocrisy, yada yada yada
How can this absurdity be peddled so openly and repeatedly? EU ag
subsidies the biggest single contributor to Third
The list of US allies with mass graves on their land is
non-trivial and the list who have torture chambers is very long.
Barkley Rosser
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 11:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Weapons
Sabri,
I took this definition from Dick Day in his book
on Complexity Dynamics in Economics, 1994, MIT
Press. There are over 40 other definitions, but I
l like this one for economic dynamics.
The dynamic patterns that are ruled out are all
rather regular, asymptotic convergence or
Title: RE: [PEN-L] 'Straussians' in the news; the world trembles (II)
I felt soiled reading these articles. The culture that Peter refers to comes out pretty clear from them.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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The issue is not what Strauss himself did or did not say. There is a
definite culture among contemporary Straussians (divided as they are)
that promotes deceit and an ubermensch self-conception among the adepts.
It disdains democracy due to the inability of the vast majority to
attain, or even
Title: RE: [PEN-L] frontline: home | PBS
FWIW, I've seen more and more references to capitalism in orthodox economics books (and the like) lately. Of course, it's likely similar to the rise in references to empire and imperialism, i.e., involving positive conotations.
OK, this is for the sake of discussion, since I wouldn't presume to
advise UFPJ. First, I think that, just by being who they are, they pose
a question to groups involved in economic globalization. If, say,
Public Citizen works with UFPJ, they necessarily weaken their ties to
corporate
Well, since it appears that nobody else is going to
do it, and some folks are curious, I just went off and googled
around on Iraq mass graves and got a lot of hits, but not
a definite picture. The most scarifying story was on Middle
East Media Report from a bunch of Arab journalists who
Chris,
Yeah, I'm stifled
(gag...!).
So, to be more precise, chaotic
dynamics are complex
dynamics, but there are many other varieties of
complex
dynamics that are not chaotic, a rather long list indeed
that
I shall not bore the list with. For a fuller accounting
of the
many varietites,
I was referring to the Afgan mass graves, where the US buried prisoners
who suffocated or were shot.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:26:06PM -0400, Barkley Rosser wrote:
Well, since it appears that nobody else is going to
do it, and some folks are curious, I just went off and googled
around
Title: not physical mistreatment?
www.nytimes.com Inmates Released from Guantnamo Tell Tales of Despair
By CARLOTTA GALL with NEIL A. LEWIS
KABUL, Afghanistan, June 16 Afghans and Pakistanis who were detained for many months by the American military at Guantnamo Bay in Cuba before being
Michael,
I think this is an artifact of your email overload. I
originally asked late in a reply to a message from
Chris Burford if anybody knew the details of the
Iraqi mass graves because this was increasingly
being given as the stop the discussion argument
by pro-war types against critics
Title: not physical mistreatment?
Actually, I would say that mass
graves in Afghanistan are
history, and tied to wartime anyway, a lot like Saddam's from
1991. This Guantanamo situation is an ongoin outrage,
a
concentration camp. Saddam had prisons and lots of
political
prisoners, many of
There's a big range. I had two Straussian teachers in Michigan polisci. One was a liberal feminist, utterly commited to democracy. She didn't blink when I wrote a paper defending what I took to be Lenin's ideal of direct democracy in SR. The other Straussian teacher of mine was very conservative,
I'm not sure where it originates from, but I
have heard it claimed that Marx and Engels
said that distribution under socialism was to
be from each according to his ability, to
each according to his work.
Barkley Rosser
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From: Forstater, Mathew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Barkley Rosser wrote:
I'm not sure where it originates from, but I
have heard it claimed that Marx and Engels
said that distribution under socialism was to
be from each according to his ability, to
each according to his work.
If I recall correctly, the phrase is Stalinist in origin and
may
Key points in testimony to the House of Commons foreign affairs select
committee.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2996366.stm
Cooke's is probably more analytical and penetrating. Short may have coined
the most damning phrase for Tony Blair: that he was guilty of an
honourable deception.
Title: RE: [PEN-L] Cooke and Short detail charges against Blair
as I said one time, Blair is the weak link in Bush's chain-mail. The British system seems much more democratic than the US one, which makes it hard for Blair to be a permanent ally.
BTW, is Robin Cook the same guy who writes
I will admit (actually I said it in an earlier e-mail) that my knowledge
of Straussian mores comes from my own experience and not from any sort of
systematic study. It may well be that I encountered an unrepresentative
sample, although (1) grad students I talked to who had been dragooned into
There is a new German documentary about the massacre. Hundreds were
loaded into trailers. Most suffocated. The rest were shot and buried
along with the others. The US has refused to let anyone investigate.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:49:51PM -0400, Barkley Rosser wrote:
Michael,
I think
Thanks. There were some initial reports
about this at the time, but it certainly disappeared
from the news pretty quickly. I am not surprised
that the US is not allowing anybody to investigate
this. What I find really peculiar is that we are not
letting the UN weapons inspectors into Iraq.
From each according to his need...
I believe that Marx got it from Louis Blanc who adapted a slightly different
notion from the St. Simonists. The basic idea is biblical.
Tom Walker
604 255 4812
Chris:
On the basis of one hundred years of western mathematics
chaos theory has produced something as mystical as the
Mandelbrot set. It also produces that heart stopping
moment for all of us, when we learn that the cardiac
rhythm is not actually mechanically totally regular,
but is in a
In Marx's Critique of the Gotha Program he talks about it, saying that
to each according to need is communism, but in the transitional stage
(socialism or workers state or whatever terminology you prefer) it is
payment according to work. As I remember it, he was saying that payment
according to
forwarded from Alex Foster
I used a pretty restrictive string, (Iraq! AND atleast4(mass grave!)),
which probably missed a few very brief reports. I also limited the
search to stop at September 11, 2001.
FWIW, the largest single grave - if Fisk can be believed here - may be
the one interring the
Forwarded from Bob McChesney:
The situation in Washington is critical for media ownership. Please read
this, act on it, and pass it on. It is a
statement from the group I started with John Nichols, called Free Press.
We have a genuine chance to make history,
and reverse decades of corrupt media
Sorry to have gone on too long about this book (Postmodern Pooh,
Crews)... and talked about postmodernism itself. After this post, I will
not mention Pooh again.
But I have just finished it... reread it even. I also actually searched
for the footnote citations and found every single one. As one
Pipe Dreams is a very nice book.
Michael Pollak wrote:
London Review of Books
Vol. 25 No. 10
22 May 2003
Donald MacKenzie
Empty Cookie Jar
Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego and the Death of Enron by Robert Bryce |
PublicAffairs, 394 pp, £9.99
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
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From: michael perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pipe Dreams is a very nice book.
==
See, folks, there's just no way to catch up with him..
Ian
* Iraq's lethal peace
It could yet change American minds
Leader
Monday June 16, 2003
The Guardian
...Almost unnoticed outside Iraq, the senior US administrator in
Iraq, Paul Bremer, has issued a proclamation outlawing any
gatherings, pronouncements or publications that call for the return
of
* Barriers to Peace
(Middle East Report 223, Summer 2002)
The Shrinking Space of Citizenship
Ethnocratic Politics in Israel
Oren Yiftachel
(Oren Yiftachel teaches political geography at Ben Gurion University
in Beer-Sheva, Israel.)
On February 14, 2002, the Israeli government sent several
We can seize the day
The task is not to overthrow globalisation but to use it for a
democratic revolution
George Monbiot cannot be take seriously. Number one, globalization cuts
both ways. While it allows everybody to get online and send email back
and forth, it also tends to impose imperialist
This is a difficult question. The global justice movement has, in
general, been willing to align itself with old-fashioned
protectionist interests in the US. They have more money than we do
and more access to media and politicians. Activists recognize that
the interests involved are
Boston Globe Magazine, June 15, 2003
Middle Class and Out of Work
When white-collar professionals get the pink slip, they face a reality
they never expected: Getting back into the work force is a full-time
and often futile job.
By Carlene Hempel, 6/15/2003
Tracy Vachon is standing in the
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