The wealth of a household = disposable income + unpaid work.
You wouldn't catch me saying that. If I was married and said things like
that, my wife would have a fit, and boot me out.
If the wife
earns less than the man, then it is reasonable for him to expect her
to do most or all of the
Given, then, the specifically bourgeois form of the state--and I
admit to being hardly clear as to what these structural limits on
real democracy are, but this is what I would like to
investigate--perhaps we should not be surprised by both (a) the
limits on state stabilization policy and
Hi Rakesh,
Jurriaan, I would like to read it. There is a chapter on the state in
Late Capitalism, if I remember correctly. This would have been
written after that?
Yes. Mandel was influenced considerably by Leo Kofler (1907-1995), who was a
German social philosopher/historian from Cologne.
Hi Rakesh,
Jurriaan, I would like to read it. There is a chapter on the state in
Late Capitalism, if I remember correctly. This would have been
written after that?
Yes. Mandel was influenced considerably by Leo Kofler (1907-1995), who was a
German social philosopher/historian from Cologne.
Haroldo Dilla And The Cuban Revolution
by Louis Proyect
Swans, November 17, 2003
The September/October 2003 issue of Against the Current (a monthly
journal affiliated with the socialist group Solidarity) includes an
article by Haroldo Dilla Alfonso titled Cuba: Opposition and
Repression. Whatever
I would strongly advise the consumption of a very large
grain of salt when reading any of these explanations
of why the market did this or that. This particular
one comes from a Reuters wire service report that was
being put out around 1800GMT when the Scotsman would
have been put to bed. As it
Jim Devine wrote:
. . . snip
[quote]
This case above is a case where the rate of surplus-value is different for
different groups of workers (and could apply instead to different ethnic
groups, e.g., Blacks vs. Whites in the USA).
In my article on the so-called transformation problem (in RESEARCH
Thanks for the comment. Even Scots can get a bit sexed up it seems in
their analysis.
In general, it is usually vain to try and find reasons
for anything happening in the stock market which are
located in the world outside the stock market.
I wouldn't agree with that, but I see what you mean.
Jurriaan wrote:
. . . a differential rate of exploitation for males and females due to the
fact that females get
paid less than males, or to greater productivity at work.
I like the expression differential rate of exploitation. In a
left-Keynesian mode of analysis, which I am supporting,
In a message dated 11/17/03 9:38:45 PM Pacific Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Well, I agree, but certain issues do need to be thrashed out like whatis "women's work" -- see above, or the general (both Marxist andCapitalist) dismissal of the "mere" work of reproduction.Joanna
Comment
This of course means there are probably times when I am not part of
the solution. There are times on the dance floor where I have stepped
on my partners feet, but very few times when they have stepped on my
feet. I wonder why that is?
I asked my wife and she said something about trying to lead.
A very exciting formula.
thanks, though exciting formula seems to be an oxymoron.
I have to get the full article on my
next trip to
the library. Could the formula also be applied in a
transnational situation
as, e.g., when a Haitian sweatshop produces for the Disney global
corporation
the differential rate of exploitation divides and conquers the working class (either
domestically or internationally or both) and all else equal, raises the over-all rate
of exploitation. Similarly, the weaker the working class in terms of organization and
consciousness, the less able to fight
http://www.house.gov/appropriations_democrats/PorkReport.pdf
Grab yourself a can of pork soda
You'll be feeling just fine
Ain't nothin' quite like sittin' 'round the house
Swillin' down them Cans of swine
Primus--'Pork Soda'
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/15/03 10:27PM
when I studied tax history in New Zealand, I discovered
that the working class paid no income tax prior to the 1930s (except a
negligible amount in some cases, and possibly some taxes related to
home
ownership and so on). It was the farmers, landowners and
Hi Rakesh,
You said,
Now that is someone (Adler) who very much interests me.
Well I don't know, in some ways Adler is a bit obscure these days. But
what's interesting is that he asked all the questions that needed to be
asked at the time they needed to be asked, and he didn't go along with that
few folks paid federal income tax until 1930s (if memory serves, part
of debate over 16th amendment to u.s. constitution - ratified in 1913 -
was over whether or not wages would be taxed)...about 15% paid prior to
new deal, about 80% were paying by end of ww2...fdr's one 'great' tax
policy was to
Public debt after WWII was about 114 percent of GNP.
Pretty high. So reducing that to under 30% by the
70s was a non-trivial use of income tax revenue.
There wasn't much welfare $ in the 60s, compared
to the 50s (lots of highway spending). The big
run-up in domestic $ at the Federal level came
Jim wrote:
the differential rate of exploitation divides and conquers the working
class (either domestically or internationally or both) and all else equal,
raises the over-all rate of exploitation. Similarly, the weaker the working
class in terms of organization and consciousness, the less able
Title: Re: [PEN-L] value and gender: dirty deeds done
dirt ch
Jim notes
the differential rate of exploitation
divides and conquers the working class (either
domestically or internationally or both) and all else equal, raises
the over-all rate of exploitation. Similarly, the weaker the working
Yeah, fuck Disney and the mouse. Infinitely more delectable is the
divine Betty (Boop), whose creator, Max Fleischer was far more
imaginative, fun, creative, iconoclastic than Disney. You can get the
complete (6 vol) Betty Boop cartoons on video for sixty bucks or so.
Endless entertainment for
Yeah, fuck Disney and the mouse. Infinitely more delectable is the
divine Betty (Boop), whose creator, Max Fleischer was far more
imaginative, fun, creative, iconoclastic than Disney. You can get the
complete (6 vol) Betty Boop cartoons on video for sixty bucks or so.
Endless
Jim wrote:
the differential rate of exploitation divides and conquers
the working
class (either domestically or internationally or both) and
all else equal,
raises the over-all rate of exploitation. Similarly, the
weaker the working
class in terms of organization and consciousness,
did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the way he did with
his animators?
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
It's a true testament to Walt that he was able to create
Mickey Mouse with
such depth and
Devine, James wrote:
did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the
way he did with his animators?
lawrence lessig, in a talk at princeton, suggested that the character
(mickey mouse) was copied from an existing one (buster keaton's
'steamboat bill') for 'steamboat
there's nothing new under the sun, of course. The arrogance of Disney _et al_
is to declare something new and to make it their intellectual property (e.g.,
suing the Oscars for appropriating Snow White).
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/18/03 04:48PM
did Walt D. really develop Mickey M.? or did he rip off others, the way
he did with his animators?
Jim Devine
fwiw, wd apparently drew first mm (initially named mortimer) but he
didn't draw it too well, one of his animators drew chracter that
appeared in
Mickey Mouse was born in Walt Disney's imagination early in 1928 on a train
ride from New York to Los Angeles. Walt was returning with his wife from a
business meeting at which his cartoon creation, Oswald the Rabbit, had been
wrestled from him by his financial backers. Only 26 at the time and
Title: Santana on Bush
Was this reported
in the US?
Carlos Santana
Calls On Bush To End His Evil Ways
5 November 2003,
11:04 am
by Richard S.
Ehrlich
BANGKOK, Thailand
-- After denouncing the U.S.-led war in Iraq, rock legend Carlos
Santana told more than 10,000 cheering fans at a sensational
URL: http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/PID.jsp?articleid=9008BAE System's Dirty DealingsBySasha LilleySpecial to CorpWatch
It sounds like the stuff of pulp fiction: The UK's largest armaments producer running a £20 million ($33.4 million) slush fund to finance prostitutes, gambling trips, yachts,
(posted to Marxmail by Robin Maisel)
In the mid 1990's when I worked as a staff attorney and clients' rights
advocate at the Orange County (California) Regional Center, protecting the
civil, legal and service rights of people with Developmental Disabilities,
we had a great deal of trouble getting
I wrote previously in reference to New Zealand:
After the second world war, more and more women were drawn into
the labour force...
This formulation, although true, blinds us to the fact that during the
second world war, very large numbers of New Zealand women were suddenly
recruited both into
For some recent overview data on the female labour force in the USA, see:
http://www.dpeaflcio.org/policy/factsheets/fs_2003_prowomen.htm
Specifically, this site notes that in 2002, the pay of US women was 76% of
that of men. For women of color, the gap was wider. African American women
earned
--- Rakesh Bhandari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The idea that the United States was a
singularly unequal or
exploitative or inhumane advanced industrial country
due to continued
racial problems--that racism was the secret to why
there was no
socialism in the US--was more persuasive before the
Keynes was hardly a radical, but think of how far we are from Keynes'
proposal today!
Keynes, John Maynard. 1940, United States and the Keynes Plan. The New
Republic (29 July); reprinted in CW, 22, pp. 144-55.
145: at the end of the war it is the profit-earning class which owns,
in the shape of
didn't a milder version of this plan actually happen? in the US, during WW2 workers
accumulated more war bonds than ever before, so for many it wasn't true that they
owned nothing. This helped moderate the post-war recession. Then, based on their
political power, they were able to get the GI
Savings bonds were intended to curtail spending. In school we were
supposed to collect our coins, put them in cards, and then purchase bonds.
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:06:46PM -0800, Devine, James wrote:
didn't a milder version of this plan actually happen? in the US, during WW2 workers
In addition to fatalities of about 12,000 in round figures, New Zealand
casualties in World War II included over 19,000 wounded in the war itself,
and more than 10,000 were captured as prisoners of war (prisoner figures
include those missing in action). Media attention nowadays tends to focus on
Such is the worry of an attack [on Bush during his state visit to Britain]
that the stock markets in Wall Street and elsewhere fell sharply, with the
Dow Jones dropping 130 points at one stage and the FTSE 100 down 58.1 at
4338.9.
http://www.news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1272842003
Here's 9 excerpts from Tony Blair's foreign policy speech at the Lord
Mayor's Banquet, Guildhall, London, 10 November 2003:
(1) In particular, I want to re-affirm the twin pillars on which rest
Britain's place in the world today: our alliance with America; our
membership of the EU. Both are
It's a true testament to Walt that he was able to create Mickey Mouse with
such depth and personality that, on his 75th anniversary, Mickey continues
to take us on adventures, make us laugh and inspire us, said Mark Eisner,
chairman and chief executive of The Walt Disney Company.
Watching the Dutch TV news tonight, the articulate Dutch reporter in London
pointed out that really Mr Bush's state visit, which had been planned some
months earlier, could objectively not come at a more inconvenient time for
Blair, because he is trying to downplay the whole fracas in Iraq and
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