s may have
been more effective than sales of stock by shareholders.
Analogously, perhaps instead of worrying so much about where we
buy our shoes, we should organize protests against TNCs, form
worker collectives, attempt to influence organized government to
regulate TNCs, etc.
Regards,
Blair Sandler
University of Southern California.
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direct labour time
spent on their production, but depends rather on the general state
of science and on the progress of technology, or the application
of this science to production" (1973, 704-5).
Isn't this exactly what has taken place in the computer industry
(as well as elsewhere)?
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Back issues available via anonymous ftp from
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Regards to all.
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ght.
One more thing: their idea of a "true rainbow coalition" is
multiethnic but not multicultural. On the contrary, the goal is
that everybody should share 1950s middle America nuclear family
white bread culture. Multicultural is anti-assimiliationist.
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Arthur MacEwan, Julie Matthaei,
and John Roemer.
The article also mentioned the huge conference sponsored by
RETHINKING MARXISM a couple of years ago, "Marxism in the New
World Order," which took place at UMass Amherst.
Rick Wolff had the best quote: "It's fun," he says of Marxism.
Blair Sandler
I've got one hand clapping for Doug Henwood, too. (The other hand
is typing)
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Simplistic Marxist theory (by this I mean that I am representing
the theory crudely): the firm maximizes rate of surplus value. The
logic of capital is to maximize surplus appropriation.
Alternative theory of the firm: enterprises seek to secure access
to the conditions of existence of
Jim: yes, I've read vols II and III of _Capital_. I said,
"simplistic Marxist theory" because I figured most of us would be
familiar with the details. The difference between the value profit
rate and the money profit rate (if I've got the terms right here)
is irrelevant to the point I'm making.
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Sorry to bother people with this, but I am wondering if anyone has
an email address for Joachim Silvestre at UC Davis.
Thanks.
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Anthony: I will forward your message for help to the Ecol-Econ
list.
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reference in this regard?
Much obliged.
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I don't exactly know if this is appropriate on PEN-L, but a friend
is looking for former friends of her, the brothers Ken and Doug
Woodward, who, I am given to understand, are both economists.
Perhaps if anyone knows either of them, they could pass this
message on to them. My friend's name is
Doug Henwood wrote,
"Somewhere - I think it was the Grundrisse - Marx said there is no
such thing as permanent crisis. Now I can't locate the quote. Can
anyone help me out?"
Please post to pen-l; I'm interested too. Thanks.
Blair Sandler
University of Southern California.
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Thanks.
Blair Sandler
Institute for Global Communications also has a "progressive
directory" web page. IGC runs Peacenet, Labornet, and Econet.
Their URL is: (I think)
http://www.igc.apc.org
There you'll find links to all kinds of progressive (if not
necessarily "left") net resources
Blair
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I would also be interested in that article, so please post to the
list. Thanks
Blair Sandler
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ce to the "errors" of BG.
Eric
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Eric Nilsson
Department of Economics
California State University
San Bernardino, CA 92407
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Rich Parkin,
Economics Dept.,
400 Wickenden Building,
10,900 Euclid Ave.,
Case Western Reserve University,
Cleveland, OH 44106-7206
(216) 368-4294 (w)
(216) 368-5039 (fax)
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people in the Amherst School) reject any
effort "to say anything about the real world." Anyone who could think so
has clearly not read or understood the work coming out of the Amherst
School over the past bunch of years.
Of course, I'm just an "airheaded pomo," so what would I
vement of human potential and on other
rhelms of society. Otherwise, why care about a transformation to
socialism?
Eric
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Eric Nilsson
Department of Economics
California State University
San Bernardino, CA 92407
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long involved discussions on this matter. I'm broke, unemployed,
job-searching, paper-writing, and leaving in a week on a trip for a week.
Sorry, Eric.
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tremendously
over the past 10 or more years and particularly so in the last half of that
period.
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ecause it's not how I remember
you). If you're genuinely interested, look at the literature of the Amherst
School over the past 4 years to see a significant number of people thinking
creatively about socialism. (And if I've misread your tone, my apologies.)
Sincerely,
Blair
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been going on for 15 years already and still going strong,
no?). Perhaps sometime we can get into it and give it the attention it
deserves (maybe you could do that now but I can't).
Blair
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Obviously in the
mainstream press North Korea is described as near-Gulag, not to mention
desperately poor, etc. Could you say briefly what you see as "the best" of
the North?
Thanks in advance.
In ignorance,
Blair
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interested in such information. Please copy any
email notes to me. Thanks.
Blair
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The obvious conclusions are that welfare benefits were
astonishingly high to begin with, and that the recipients
are slow learners.
Peter
You, Sir, have a dry and acerbic sense of humor I rather like. :)
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enter and is based in the Thoreau
Center for Sustainability in the Presidio of San Francisco.
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This is a response to Jim Devine's message, copied below.
I frankly did not understood what Steve meant by his off-the-cuff,
tongue-in-cheek (?) comment about "what you see is what you get." I didn't
think it helped explain anything, and I don't think your snide (so it seems
to me) response
he effectivity of a "thing" is just what the
thing is. Since things are all different, so is their effectivity, and thus
it doesn't make sense to say they are "equally" effective (important). For
a concrete argument of this point, see THE ECOLOGIST 26/3, May/June 1996,
pp. 98-103, for John O'Neill's short but excellent critique of cost-benefit
analysis on just these lines.
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ignificant? Is this old territory, written about and discussed ad nauseum
already?
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about what a sleezy slimy slug he
is.
Blair
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Antonio wrote,
I hope I am not irking any Hegelians out there
Oh come now, Antonio: you *like* irking Hegelians! :)
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I'm listening to a very cool CD of Thelonious Monk (advanced jazz?) as I
write this. But he's African American, so it's okay, right?
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Oh shit, I better turn in my union card, I listen to classical music
(rgh)
slimy slug
he is.
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y courses, and most of the class and extra-curricular discussions with
professors and students, were extremely valuable. I do not regret for a
moment having obtained my Ph.D. from there.
Blair
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Under NAFTA, governments have obligations to investors, but not to
environment or public health.
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o question management.
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o the West as to the East of England. So
"Middle East" is completely unhelpful in terms of locating anything. It has
come to be accepted as a name only because of the history of English (and
now U.S.) imperialism. Can't we give this one up?
Blair
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de the Persian Gulf
countries as they do not border the Mediterranean. Even Jordan would
technically be excluded. Perhaps "Greater Levant" is intended to solve this
problem.
I actually *like* "Afro-Asia." "Western Asia," of course, does not include
Egypt, so that's a problem with *that* name.
Blair
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reless. My apologies. It should be obvious that my
question/criticism refers equally to the "Far East" or "the Orient."
Actually, from the point of view of England, I'd think that Ireland is the
Far East.
And for the U.S. the Far East would be California. Hey, that's me! :)
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d I hear
someone say bye-bye community?).
It seems that the only circumstance in which the job guarantee will take
effect is if a company wants to produce fewer cars because it loses market
share.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but what exactly did the UAW gain with this
contract?
Blair
Robert Naiman writes,
"we're tired, we're cranky, we don't like the government"
How about,
"we're sick, the earth is sick, we're pissed, we hate big business"
??
:)
Blair
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"read"; then transfer to trash. This avoids a dialog box if you
manually empty Eudora's trash.)
On a Mac, if you're not using Eudora, it's pretty easy to write an
AppleScript (or QuicKeys macro) to do the same thing.
Blair
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ed on Earth: extremists,
communists, vandals, saboteurs, reds, terrorists. Never the words *rebel*
or *revolutionary*, words of which half the Earth (at least) might approve.
No, they were isolated groups of insane, destructive terrorists."
Okay, that's all. I'm interested in comments from others who have (or
haven't) read this work.
Blair
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Someone mentioned that Eudora can filter out mail, though perhaps the
shareware version I use is not up to this task.
Sandy, I believe this is the case, though as I don't use the shareware
version I'm not sure.
Blair
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ing those tendencies in those who are or will be in business; or
do you teach that unions can increase productivity; "environmentally
friendly commodities" can be profitable, and the like, thereby reinforcing
liberal tendencies at the cost of pushing "socialism" away?
Eagerly a
uld like institutionally is
underdeveloped but far from nonexistent.
On this point, again, I suggest you look at CNS. Lots of great articles
about political economy and political ecology (where in my mind politics is
about power).
Regards,
Blair
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program of art and cultural
activities. The full schedule of art, panels and plenaries, along with
information about registration, travel instructions, accomodations,
daycare, and publishers' exhibitions is available on the web site.
Hope to see you there!
Blair
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ns from corporations regarding long term job security for workers,
or are these various promises on the part of the corporations little more
than rhetorical dressing so the unions can save face?
On the other hand, CAW workers got health and some other benefits for
same-sex partners.
Blair
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AL, Marx was arguing not *for* but *against* the
Ricardian notion that the rate of capital falls.
Of course in the last sentence I meant that the rate of *profit* falls, not
the rate of *capital*. Sorry for the typo. It was 5:00 AM when I wrote that.
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arguing not *for* but *against* the
Ricardian notion that the rate of capital falls. Also, see Steve
Cullenberg's book, THE FALLING RATE OF PROFIT: RECASTING THE MARXIAN
DEBATE, Pluto Press, 1994.
Regards,
Blair
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this
point very explicitly in his book.
Yes, but it should be obvious that in interpreting debates on a subject
one's own interpretation on the subject is revealed as well. And I know
Steve would agree with this.
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but
irrelevant to the question I posed about concessions, rhetoric and saving
face.
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hese posts
or a summary with anyone else who requested it of me.
Thanks in advance.
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used the subject header "teaching reform and revolution?"
Appreciating all the replies so far; keep 'em coming, folks!
Thanks.
Blair
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the nerve to argue that the Internet was the proof that government can't
pick research and should stay out of the way and let private capital decide
what to do. It even acknowledged (in one sentence) that the Pentagon
started the Internet. Sheesh!
Blair
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st defense cutbacks, because there aren't any!
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strated my understanding of the course material and more,
and when he wouldn't raise my grade, requested another opportunity to take
a test. Nope. The only F I got at Yale. I wasn't an econ major at that
point; I'm not quite sure why that didn't stop me from switching my major
to economics later.
Blair
ry, it seems to me to indicate the necessity of *greater*
collective political action, specifically of communal or communist class
processes, wherein workers collectively appropriate their own surplus labor
and decide what to do with it (and thus how to organize their work, etc.).
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of these
individuals or their work, UMass offers a broad range of different
heterodox perspectives on social theory.
Blair
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es is part of a
service sold as a commodity by the dental corporation.
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tainable development.
I have to go now but I'm going to send this out now as a teaser. I'll be
back later this weekend with more about my take on post-modernism and
what's valuable about these three books.
Blair
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At 8:39 AM 11/1/96, Blair Sandler wrote:
And DEVELOPMENT BETRAYED is a book-length critique of modernism (NC theory
comes in for repeated attacks on just that basis) in the form of
development theory and practice, and a post-modern analysis of the need for
and possibilty of sustainable
her
argument, which is nonetheless fundamentally post-modern. (THE COMING
PLAGUE).
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deadlines). Sheesh!
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, the strings lack of elasticity when talking about basic
Neoclassical economics, the remaining strings are assumed to be stiff.
My interpretation is, that here with the spider net is the initial
connection and simultaneously starts the divergence.
What do you think about that?
Blair Sandler
On Mon, 28 Oct 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
I hate to say it but UMass Amherst is the obvious place to go, with Rick
Wolff, Steve Resnick, Sam Bowles, Nancy Folbre (and Ann Ferguson down the
hall), Julie Graham in geography, David Kotz, Jim Crotty, Jim Boyce, even
(shudder) Herb Gintis
life, I am unlikely to
respond.
Pete Bohmer
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ople might view differently.
I certainly can't say this about myself.
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of my own perspectives on pomo (those
three books), but keep wanting to respond to specific things that come up
and I'm already stealing time from other deadline things I need to do.
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of
accessible, political theory based on pomoish insights?
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a commodity are three to four
times the market value?
[I would really like to know the source of these estimates and am pissed
that they aren't cited. What I tell my students is that even if the
estimates are too big by three to four times, then they're still the
equivalent of the market cost and the same question is appropriate.]
Blair
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further. Case in point, his great articles in LBO 71 and 72
criticizing David Korten's book, WHEN CORPORATIONS RULE THE WORLD, and the
International Forum on Globalization. Those articles really helped
crystallize my own thinking already in formation.
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ell as
anything else, I think, the powerful *predictive* ability of Marxian theory.
Blair
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At 7:44 AM 11/4/96, Blair Sandler wrote:
Doug Henwood, for example, has a way of producing information that often
leads me to new understandings, or at least assists me in developing my
understandings further. Case in point, his great articles in LBO 71 and 72
criticizing David Korten's book
will change anything,
since he's not going to be elected. And if he were, everything would be
different and so who could say what might change in that event?!
Blair
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created conditions for
communist class processes, in which LTV would be transcended. [I'm being
simplistic and sloppy here but the general idea should be clear.]
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On Mon, 4 Nov 1996, Blair Sandler wrote:
Merhaba Fikret, is it possible to know how you think Nader will change
the present system of the financial oligarchy which effectively
marginalizes
and ghettoizes the broad masses of the people? Or is this not his aim?
Shawgi Tell
Shawgi: you
What I meant was that Social
Text Co. were caught with their pants down and have had a lot of
explaining to do.
Certainly no question about that in my mind! What if anything it says about
post-modern wars is another question entirely.
Blair
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At 12:01 AM 11/5/96, Blair Sandler wrote:
What I meant was that Social
Text Co. were caught with their pants down and have had a lot of
explaining to do.
Certainly no question about that in my mind! What if anything it says about
post-modern wars is another question entirely.
One thing
academics is not appreciated.
Of course, if I'm being overly sensitive and in fact your hopes expressed
below are sincere, than I thank you for your good wishes. I would indeed
appreciate a reasonable full time paid job that would enable me to get out
of debt.
Sincerely,
Blair Sandler
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history and I don't particularly
think I can contribute anything new and important to it at this point.
Thanks for the discussion.
Blair
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obligation is to insist that class has its own, unique
effectivity, that exploitation is a form of social injustice, and that
social justice will therefore be diminished, weakened, difficult, or
impossible, without explicit and specific attention to class processes.
Contra your assertion, *none* of the bourgeois lackeys you named would
agree with this underestanding of the importance of class.
Respectfully,
Blair Sandler
At 3:35 PM 1/9/96, SHAWGI TELL wrote:
Blair, thanks for your thoughtful response. I'm not sure what we are
doing here but I agree with most of what you say. Although I think I'm
going to stick with the notion that class EXPLAINS a far broader range of
social phenomena than other social factors
st or something else?), and others. I will look forward to reading
your article.
Blair Sandler
At 11:02 AM 1/15/96, Mike Meeropol wrote:
Marx's approach stated that the relationship was the result of HUMAN EFFORT
-- both past and present.
I still haven't been convinced that he or his followers have made a good
enough case for that particular yardstick. the biosphere, the "gaia-given"
ass politics and class struggle among all sorts of
social movements and on a mass scale. As this is my concern and interest in
Marxism, my allegiance is clear.
Respectfully,
Blair Sandler
At 10:02 AM 1/17/96, James Devine wrote:
I think the Marxian "meta-economic vision" or "problematic" or
whatever you want to call it almost automatically implies that the
concept of "socially necessary abstract labor time" (i.e., value)
is central to the political economy, helping us to address
accumulation crowd.
Maybe I'm being too harsh, too judgmental, allowing my personal biases to
get the better of me. I'm interested in other's opinions.
Blair Sandler
At 10:09 AM 1/17/96, Michael Perelman wrote:
Here are my thoughts on censorship:
I do not believe that free speech should be censored when that speech occurs
in the public domain, such as publishing in books or broadcasting. I do not
regard pen-l as the public domain. Instead, pen-l is a space
-modernism to post-marxism. This move is illegitimate, as there are
post-modern marxists. (He says, hating to sound like a broken record)
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of
externalities that focuses on market status. My work, as people might have
guessed, centers on understanding the relationship between capitalist class
exploitation and environmental degradation.
Blair Sandler
At 11:02 AM 1/18/96, Peter.Dorman wrote:
The relationship between ecology and socialism/democracy? We need socialism
in order to have the instruments by which to create a sustainable society. Of
course, having the instruments doesn't mean we will use them wisely, so even
in a "perfect"
ut P-K material,
but I thought this was the fundamental point of Keynes thinking about
uncertainty (that none of the curves stay still long enough to get a good
look at them, so to speak), and Joan Robinson's "logical time."
I'd appreciate mid-course corrections if I'm spouting nonsense here
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