Re: The Great Divergence

2001-04-25 Thread Louis Proyect
rate to state that the explanation is coal. He clearly says that the plunder of the New World has as much weight. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Economics as religion

2002-04-19 Thread Louis Proyect
rator ([EMAIL PROTECTED]; Telephone: 513-529-2850; Fax: 513-529-3308). Published by EH.NET (April, 2002). All EH.NET reviews are archived at http://www.eh.net/BookReview. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/19/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

The political economy of indigenous societies

2002-04-20 Thread Louis Proyect
ect of accumulation. In this sense, the grassroots element can also be 'reborn' in an urban context whenever the official economy fails, even in the North, where the element of continuity with pre-capitalist practices is very weak. Official society can repress these struggles, but canno

Re: The political economy of indigenous societies

2002-04-22 Thread Louis Proyect
tion which is meet that the sons of men should extend to each other all over the globe wherever they are thrown together." That phrase "thrown together" was a poignant reminder of how most Indians in Fiji must have viewed their situation. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists

2002-04-22 Thread Louis Proyect
iding youth jobs in the public sector since 1997. Mr Chirac suggested the introduction of a scheme to allow those under 25 to be subsidised to find a vocation or help in humanitarian work. To get round the high cost of hiring unskilled labour, the main pool of jobless in France, he propose

Peron in a nutshell, or the prequel to Hugo Chavez

2002-04-22 Thread Louis Proyect
>From the Corradi article on Argentina in Chilcote-Edelstein, "Latin America: the struggle with dependency and beyond": An officer in the ministry of war, an important member of the GOU, Colonel Juan D. Perón, had asked and obtained the job of running the labor department. Perón was intellige

Re: A Dutch interview with Harvard Professor David Landes

2002-04-23 Thread Louis Proyect
d an end condition, "the ideal growth-and-development society" (p. 216), which looks very much like pure laissez-faire capitalism. Also exciting was Landes's argument that imperialism is natural: it is "the expression of a deep human drive" (p. 63) and a good thing, whil

Re: Re: Argentina

2002-04-23 Thread Louis Proyect
ially the apprentice. Nor are the various events that move the plot along, including a bank failure. Whether or not, Argentineans regarded this witty film as a commentary on their own society is difficult to say. In a country in which theft is sanctioned at the highest level of government, we must

Japan in the world economy

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
round; state banks are clearing off unrecoverable loans; foreign-exchange reserves are soaring. All this argues that China might hold the line on the yuan -- up to a point. Francesca Fornasari, foreign-exchange strategist at Lehman Brothers, says that beyond 150 yen to the dollar, there is a 50% chance China would adjust the yuan -- and the rest of Asia would likely follow. But she says that even at 140 per dollar, China wouldn't be too concerned. China's stash of foreign currency has been climbing, suggesting the yen's drop isn't blunting China's export competitiveness. -- Jason Singer and Norihiko Shirouzu contributed to this article. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Re: Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
n despotic class relations, they lost their fighting will. In a struggle against fascism, you have to have clearly defined class politics. Watering down social and economic demands leads to the triumph of fascism. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

AOL bombshell

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
often meant more than profit. full: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-042402losses.story Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

A Menshevik's Revenge

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
he former has exhausted its capacity for development. Capitalism had not exhausted its potential when the Bolsheviks seized power, and their project was thus always doomed. full: http://www.arts.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2002/04/21/bodes21 .xml&sSheet=/arts/2002/04/21/bomain.ht

Re: RE: Re: Re: Re: Re: Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
0s or in Venezuela today, I would have organized demonstrations against any coup attempt. By the same token, I would try to patiently explain to the masses that the only way that the social experiments of Peron and Chavez could be safeguarded was through a break with imperialism and the local compradors. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Le Pen triumph thanks to ultra-leftists

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
r, I saw it as eminently principled for Stalin to have signed a non-aggression pact with Hitler (despite the costly illusions that arose out of this.) Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Obstruction of front in France

2002-04-24 Thread Louis Proyect
t is necessary to have a lot more socialists. That is why the Trotskyist election campaigns are important. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/24/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Comments on a Michael Hardt NLR article

2002-04-26 Thread Louis Proyect
obs, to keep them healthy, to educate them, you need a STATE. Furthermore, you need working class power in order to defend clinics and schools from counter-revolutionary attacks. Of course, some people are happier thinking about the ideal world of the future when there will be so much food that hoarde

The Collapse of Argentina, part 3: Juan Perón

2002-04-27 Thread Louis Proyect
1. chapter on Argentina by Juan Eugenio Corradi in Latin America: the struggle with dependency and beyond, edited by Ronald Chilcote & Joel Edelstein. 2. George Lambie, "The Failure of Peron's Economic Policies in the Immediate Postwar Years: a Case of Internal Mismanagement or International Manipulation" (MA dissertation, 1983) 3. Donald C. Hodges, "Argentina 1943-1976: The National Revolution and Resistance" (U. of New Mexico, 1976) 4. Robert Alexander, "Juan Domingo Perón: a History" (Westview, 1979) -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/27/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Comments on a Michael Hardt NLR article

2002-04-28 Thread Louis Proyect
US Embassy, >and a party like the PT of Brazil has some >prospects. Neither Hardt nor Louis Proyect >appear to see a line of advance here, but I >would be suprised if the contribution of the PT >on the world economic situation is totally >irrelevant. I certainly would not dismiss

Hard times in high tech

2002-04-29 Thread Louis Proyect
oville will continue to collect unemployment. What he's hearing on the street is "almost always the same story: When the economy comes back, there will be jobs. They just started saying this at the beginning of April," Scoville said. But he believes that people "are generally more hopeful than the reality holds." Reporter Brian Sullivan contributed to this story. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Argentina sacrificed for bankruptcy reform

2002-04-30 Thread Louis Proyect
bers that attempted to take power numerous times. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: RE: RE: Response to JD re 1956

2002-04-30 Thread Louis Proyect
> Anyone read this book? "Workers' Control and Socialist Democracy: the Soviet >Experience, " (Verso, 1982), by Carmen Sirianni??? Or the Maurice Brinton >pamphlet on the Soviets??? >Michael Pugliese I have. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Monbiot on the New Right

2002-04-30 Thread Louis Proyect
and Socialism have not had a single issue addressing indigenous questions in the 10 years or so that I have either been reading or subscribing to them. This is a scandal. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Still on Stalin???

2002-04-30 Thread Louis Proyect
tractor-driving farmworker on my living room wall. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/30/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: To abolish money and social revolution

2002-05-01 Thread Louis Proyect
experience. Abolish money? How would you pay people? Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Million demonstrators in France

2002-05-02 Thread Louis Proyect
as well as competence, whole swathes of the French population will be left to their own devices, with unpredictable consequences for European democracy. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/02/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Re: Million demonstrators in France

2002-05-02 Thread Louis Proyect
But the results had been decided long ago due to the spinelessness of the reformists. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/02/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Million demonstrators in France

2002-05-03 Thread Louis Proyect
zi initiative to unseat an SP elected official in Saxony--something they called a "Red Referendum". -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Fascist advance in England limited

2002-05-03 Thread Louis Proyect
riting to all other party leaders to engage a unified response to the problem. The debate was also fuelled by the publication of a new poll in Scotland on Sunday newspaper which showed that almost half of Scots would back moves to return immigrants to their country of origin and a majority - 58 per cent - believe it is too easy for immigrants to enter the country. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: RE: Re: Re: Million demonstrators in France

2002-05-03 Thread Louis Proyect
ser because of his "enlightened" social policies. Marx answered them with Critique of the Gotha Program. This is an unending job because of the ability of the ruling class to exert enormous pressure on our ranks. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Giddens: get tough on crime

2002-05-03 Thread Louis Proyect
y/0,3604,709089,00.html> -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Million demonstrators in France

2002-05-03 Thread Louis Proyect
people into voting for him, when Chirac's policies have created the conditions for xenophobia and worse. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/03/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: unending job (long)

2002-05-04 Thread Louis Proyect
f course not. Gramsci was a prisoner of the fascists and had to watch every word he said. He was elliptical and oblique, while Lenin was laser-like in his clarity. For those who are not confined to a fascist prison, a foggy obliqueness might serve other purposes, of course. -- Louis Proyect, [E

Raffarin, Madelin, Le Pen

2002-05-07 Thread Louis Proyect
ing the Front. THE SOCIALIST FORMER CULTURE MINISTER, JACK LANG, SPOKE OF A "BLACK DAY FOR THE REPUBLIC . . ." HE ACCUSED THE REGIONAL POLITICIANS WHO MADE DEALS WITH THE FRONT OF "RENEGING ON PROMISES TO THE PEOPLE" AND "SLURPING THE VILE SOUP OFFERED BY THE . . . NEO-FASCISTS". (clip) Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Problems of the Left in North America

2002-05-10 Thread Louis Proyect
two, if you check the PEN-L archives (http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/pen-l/2002II/), you will find no such reference to me or anybody for that matter calling him a "Tawat". Isn't there some way that PEN-L can be protected from these disruptions? Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Barbara Epstein

2002-05-10 Thread Louis Proyect
to PSN, you need send your email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I hope this helps. Yours truly, Louis Proyect At 07:58 AM 5/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: > Lou, you are such a **!!! > Barbara Epstein at UCSC, if you'd read her book from U.

Re: RE: Rebel without a clue

2002-05-10 Thread Louis Proyect
sed by stress, family dysfunction, etc. Autism, schizophrenia and OCD are all as much an expression of a systemic organic failure as are Parkinsons, epilepsy or Alzheimers. You might as well use "talk therapy" on somebody with Alzheimers as with schizophrenia. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Rethinking the transition from feudalism question

2002-05-11 Thread Louis Proyect
x27;urban' refer to places with a dense and permanent concentration of people who pursued a variety of non-agricultural occupations. The population need not have been very large - a town could have had 300 inhabitants - and many towns were unwalled, and had not been granted a borough charter or other privileges. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/11/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: psychopathology and meds

2002-05-11 Thread Louis Proyect
tively demonstrate the opposite, why should we believe the tendency evolved as such? Michael H. Goldhaber -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/11/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Common Courage Press

2002-05-12 Thread Louis Proyect
yesterday opens with the following: --- Common Courage Press 1 Red Barn Road Monroe, ME 04951 207-525-0900 fax: 207-525-3068 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10 May 2002 The only thing worse than -robbing a bank is owning one." -Bertolt Brecht Dear Louis Proyect, Common Courage Press and 84 other

Re: "The World We're In" by Will Hutton

2002-05-14 Thread Louis Proyect
the present and the future." Speakers and commentators form an intellectual bouillabaisse of academic disciplines, countries, and ideologies: from the Dakar-based Maoist, Samir Amin, the author of Eurocentrism to the Wall Street-based billionaire currency speculator George Soros.<< Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Re: "The World We're In" by Will Hutton

2002-05-15 Thread Louis Proyect
recommending tobacco to somebody with lung cancer. If, on the other hand, you mean the kind of arrangement the USSR had with COMECON, which effectively subsidized the Cuban and Eastern European economy, then I'm for it. Of course, people like George Soros, Tony Blair et al are obstacles to

Re: Re: "The World We're In" by Will Hutton

2002-05-16 Thread Louis Proyect
tically, the Marshall Plan generated the conditions for its ultimate obsolescence as a policy measure. Post-WWII prosperity leads to intensified competition, which leads to neoliberalism, which leads to unemployment, hunger and war. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Big bourgeoisie funding of "alternate media" on the Internet

2002-05-17 Thread Louis Proyect
ticle every two months," the memo stated, mentioning as possible publications The Wall Street Journal, The Times of London, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Financial Times, The Economist, The Independent and The New Statesman. "While one or more of these articles might be written by R. S.," the memo continued, referring to Mr. Scruton, "we would do our best to get other journalists to join in." Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: "The World We're In" by Will Hutton

2002-05-18 Thread Louis Proyect
has to be a policy for >Africa. Right, the imperialist shark Paul O'Neill and his stooge Bono are visiting this part of the world making noises about how poverty can be eliminated. An utterly grotesque spectacle. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/18/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

What NACLA used to read like

2002-05-18 Thread Louis Proyect
land were seized and distributed among 1,843 landowners. Moreover, this extreme monopolization forced the masses of immigrants to settle in the cities and join the labor force of the industrial and service sectors. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/18/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Dean Acheson on Peron

2002-05-18 Thread Louis Proyect
"Peron was a fascist and a dictator detested by all good men--except Argentinians". (Acheson was Harry Truman's Secretary of State) -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/18/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Marshall Plan for Third World?

2002-05-19 Thread Louis Proyect
st Century", current issue of Links Magazine) -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/19/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: pro Bono

2002-05-19 Thread Louis Proyect
see where it all came from. Loyalty to sports teams is a close cousin to patriotism; and after Sept. 11, the N.F.L. recast the entertainment, adopting the theme "Heroes, Hope and Homeland." -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/19/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Re: pro Bono

2002-05-20 Thread Louis Proyect
is that progressive citizens of >the USA will oppose US hegemonism not that they >will oppose US patriotism. It is a crucial part >of that task to win a hearing and make the >distinction. A US patriot, or a British friend, would never have performed at a jingoist war rally. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/20/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

The Collapse of Argentina part 4 (conclusion): the incredible shrinking economy

2002-05-20 Thread Louis Proyect
movement led by a Marxist revolutionary organization. Sources: 1. Donald C. Hodges, "Argentina 1943-1976: The National Revolution and Resistance" (U. of New Mexico, 1976) 2. North American Congress on Latin America, "Argentina in the Hour of the Furnaces" (1975) 3. William C. Smith, "Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy" (Stanford, 1989) -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/20/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Hutton's declaration of war 2

2002-05-20 Thread Louis Proyect
plains, the remote corners of the countryside or marginal neighborhoods of the cities to practice the noble profession of medicine? More than a medical school, our most fervent hope is that this will be a school of solidarity, brotherhood and justice. full: http://makeashorterlink.com/?Y5CC217E -

Re: Cuban cows

2002-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
y cloned a cow. "We have big things coming," says Dr. Morales. Mr. Ponce, the agronomist, says the Revolution will not let its people down. "We must succeed in such projects if we are going to feed our people," he says, leaning against Ubre Blanca's glass case. Asked if

Re: RE: Re: Cuban cows

2002-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
ng in the wild give birth to foxes. As far as Castro "micro-managing", I am under the impression from the WSJ article that he is doing any such thing. Mostly he seems to be "motivating" the project as we used to say in the SWP rather than squinting through microscopes. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Levins & Lewontin on Lysenko, was Re: Cuban cows

2002-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
rol Yes, of course. There is another side to Lysenko. In fact Stephen Jay Gould treats him with considerable respect in one of his essays although I can't remember the technical details. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: RE: Re: Levins & Lewontin on Lysenko, was Re: Cuban cows

2002-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
ame The Party Line, a line which had >state power behind it. Those who doubted, suffered. >JD This is a link for the chapter on Lysenkoism in Helen Sheehan's "Marxism and the Philosophy of Science", a truly great book. http://www.comms.dcu.ie/sheehanh/lysenko.htm Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Bono visits the happy natives

2002-05-21 Thread Louis Proyect
patients have to pay for each visit to hospital and the cost of any surgery or treatment. They are not released if they don't pay. If they die, their bodies are not released until relatives find the cash. The Heavily Indebted Poor Countries initiative (HIPC) is supposed to relieve countries like Ghana of much of its external debt. But it comes with strings attached. All loans and write-offs are conditional on privatisation of utilities Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Marx predicted the triumph of capitalism?

2002-05-22 Thread Louis Proyect
that are doing most to solidify poverty. Even from a tactical perspective, arguments expressed in the language of the free market are listened to, whereas moral sentimentality about excessive inequality is worthy but ineffective. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

The Strange World of Empire

2002-05-22 Thread Louis Proyect
, and even to some measure of dispute between the EU and the USA. full: http://mysite.freeserve.com/whatnext Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Kufuor Connections

2002-05-22 Thread Louis Proyect
recent summits on issues of corporate accountability and the new economy. http://www.neweconomics.org/default.asp?strRequest=aboutnef&pageid=65 Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

The country that was taken away from us

2002-05-23 Thread Louis Proyect
will never be the way I wanted it to be, after that… full: http://www.marxmail.org/ussr.htm Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Why socialism is necessary

2002-05-24 Thread Louis Proyect
r in pursuit of militants or to smash terrorist training camps, it can expect to meet resistance at least as fierce as on Kargil's mountains. A more ambitious assault with air power risks provoking overwhelming retaliation. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Joe Sacco's "Palestine"

2002-05-24 Thread Louis Proyect
rhaps the greatest of his achievements." Here is a page from "Palestine": http://www.marxmail.org/sacco.jpg The book is available from amazon.com -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/24/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Why socialism is necessary

2002-05-24 Thread Louis Proyect
education and housing for everybody, the tension would die down immediately. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/24/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Re: Why socialism is necessary

2002-05-25 Thread Louis Proyect
nd to the killing, we will have to accept that we will have to continue as part of India. If we go on fighting for independence, or for Pakistan, we will starve." -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/25/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Why socialism is necessary

2002-05-25 Thread Louis Proyect
d other men be ready to intone the funeral dirge with the staccato singing of the machine-guns and new battle cries of war and victory." Che Guevara, April 16, 1967 Message to the Tricontinental -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/25/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Why socialism is necessary

2002-05-25 Thread Louis Proyect
t they--and the regimes that preceded it--regard it as Chinese territory. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/25/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

NGO's

2002-05-25 Thread Louis Proyect
nt to make even a pittance of a difference? full: http://www.counterpunch.org/keeney0525.html -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/25/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Surrealism, Freud and Trotsky

2002-05-26 Thread Louis Proyect
Pen-l'ers who appreciated my post on movies and madness might find this interesting as well: http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/culture/breton.htm -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/26/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Hutton on Desai

2002-05-27 Thread Louis Proyect
o distort the reality of colonialism in the same fashion as Bill Warren did, the last Marxist with any kind of credibility who promoted a modernization theory in the name of Marxism. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/27/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: RE: Rethinking the transition from feudalism questi on

2002-05-27 Thread Louis Proyect
Jim Devine: >>It should be mentioned that Brenner (a common target of Louis' ire) doesn't "belittle the achievements of the past and to assume in a patronizing way that medieval people were primitive and ignorant..." Rather, he assumes that people were basically "economically rational" and tha

Malawi

2002-05-29 Thread Louis Proyect
e then CDC has sought to rid itself of its long-term agricultural investments, which have average returns of 6 to 8 per cent. Mr Gillespie hopes to attract new private capital by channelling funds instead into telecommunications, shopping malls, banks and energy firms, which can offer rates of

Colonialism and the rise of capitalism

2002-05-31 Thread Louis Proyect
was all about. One should not have to point out such elementary distinctions to someone whose work has been celebrated so generously in Historical Materialism. http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/sangat/Colonial.htm -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/31/2002 Marxism list: http

Fidel Castro answers George W. Bush

2002-06-01 Thread Louis Proyect
e honor and glory of our people against which their wicked plans will smash, I assure you. Compatriots: In the face of dangers and threats, long live today more than ever the Socialist Revolution! Homeland or Death! We shall overcome! -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/01/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Markets and Diversity

2002-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
From there she has descended into the pits of hell. Her portrait of the Hamptons does not work as social commentary, nor is it interesting in a kind of trashy cable network fashion that you see on the E Network which features Howard Stern. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Free entertainment threatens the bottom line

2002-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
means of distribution, promotion, and manufacturing. You've lost quality control -- in some sense, there's been a quality-control coup. You've lost your basic business model -- what you sell has become as free as oxygen. full: http://www.nymag.com/page.cfm?page_id=6099 Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Dividends make a difference

2002-06-03 Thread Louis Proyect
ived and prospered, gradually, for 56 years averaging less than 9 percent. So can you. Put away the party hats and noisemakers. Welcome to reality. full: http://www.msnbc.com/news/760636.asp Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Decline and fall of Barbara Kopple

2002-06-04 Thread Louis Proyect
ight. The film is sumptuous with lavish pastel princes and princesses of posh. There are throbbing beats of summer and crystalline views of a place that, really, is fairy-tale gorgeous. Kopple, an Academy Award-winning documentarian whose "Harlan County USA" looked at West Virginia coal country, has traveled a long way. Now she mines for glitter. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Comments on a Leo Panitch article in the latest MR

2002-06-04 Thread Louis Proyect
nt, with the support of labour unions and the necessary alliance it would have to form in congress, could even undertake long-stalled reforms such as that of the social security system. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Bono the useful idiot

2002-06-05 Thread Louis Proyect
of it cannot be told any longer without rock, and the music that came after it, and the music that came before it. It certainly cannot be told while standing in the shadows, smirking an implicit endorsement of the way things are. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/05/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Global unequal exchange

2002-06-06 Thread Louis Proyect
there will be an unequal exchange of >value on a massive global scale, inherent in the very fabric of the >international market, which is self perpetuating and indeed accelerating. Yes. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Deal-makers implode

2002-06-06 Thread Louis Proyect
yco's request, according to internal e-mails of the acquired company. This action had the effect of boosting Tyco's cash flow and making the deal appear more attractive. Tyco has said the Raychem actions weren't aimed at boosting Tyco's results and that the issue was investigated and cleared by the SEC. Company spokesman J. Brad McGee says its acquisition strategies have "resulted in us having world-premier-franchise leaders and low-cost producers in all our businesses." All of Tyco's accounting practices are consistent with generally accepted accounting principles, he says. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Noam Chomsky in the Ivory Tower

2002-06-07 Thread Louis Proyect
ruth serum so that its agents can extract information from captured spies, that researcher will be obliged, in formulating the serum, to analyze how particular drugs affect the thinking process, and thus be of use to the population at large in a variety of crucial ways." Needless to say, this would have provided a comfortable rationale for a Nazi scientist doing experiments on a Jewish inmate at Auschwitz. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Consumer confidence

2002-06-08 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times, June 8, 2002 Doubts on Economic Index Create Doubts on Recovery By LOUIS UCHITELLE Consumer confidence has been a mainstay of economic forecasting for more than 25 years. Alan Greenspan invokes it as a source of strength for the struggling economy. Wall Street traders buy or sell on e

A South African tycoon

2002-06-09 Thread Louis Proyect
NY Times Magazine, June 9, 2002 A Tycoon and His Conscience By MARK GEVISSER At 4:30 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon, a silver Jaguar convertible with white leather interiors and vanity plates (CAT 1, as in cool cat) sweeps up the driveway of a grand residence north of Johannesburg and comes t

Anti-globalization babe

2002-06-10 Thread Louis Proyect
xhausted from the two years of "seriously hard work" that had gone into her 80,000 word book and her hour-long Channel 4 documentary The End of Politics - which covered pretty much the same territory as Silent Takeover. But to me this hardly seemed like Stakhanovite labouring. The ideological position she occupies now - an aggressive questioning of the pernicious status quo, but with only a febrile grasp on any potential solution - seems what used to be expected of a precocious adolescent, rather than a Cambridge assistant professor entering her mid-thirties. But then I realised Santayana had been right, Hertz and her apolitical generation were changed by Thatcher (and now Blair) and have failed to retain their collective political past. Watch this space for a grim fulfilment. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Anti-capitalist fashion

2002-06-10 Thread Louis Proyect
close. " 'And if a double decker bus crashes into us,' " replies Brian Kirkby, smiling, " 'to die by your side, the pleasure and the privilege is mine ...' " "And what was it called again?" There is a light that never goes out. ** Navy silk "Basta" dress, pounds 865 ** Navy wool "Critical Mass" skirt, pounds 810, and "Montag's" shirt, pounds 378 ** "The Day the Dress Stopped" in floral silk, pounds 810 ** "Transition Jersey" with leather sleeves, pounds 595 All clothes from Boudicca Spring/Summer Collection available from a selection at Something, 1-3 Chepstow Road, London W2, enquiries 020-7229 9944, or at B Store, 6 Conduit Street, London W1, enquiries 020-7499 6628. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

The Earnings Cult

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
rove the technology boom and fueled Cisco's historic rise in the 90's -- shows no signs of recovering from a two-year slump. Cisco beat its forecast, and that's all that matters. full: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/09/magazine/09EARNINGS.html Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Charlie Post reviews Hardt-Negri's Empire

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
in Parts I and II of Workers in a Lean World is the basis of most of my theoretical and empirical critique of Hardt and Negri. 4. I cannot present a detailed criticism of Hardt and Negri's account of the transition from a 'modern/industrial' to 'postmodern/in

Serial acquirers

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
orporate acquirers provides spectacular reminders of lessons we've seen decade after decade. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is an associate dean at the Yale School of Management and author of "The Hero's Farewell." Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

tompaine.com

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
the British website www.opendemocracy.net is a platform for libertarians of the Spiked Online variety. Clearly there is useful information on tompaine.com, but I would urge the reader to exercise a little caution considering the background and funding. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

It can only end in tears

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
sting. Stephen Roach is the leading economist at the US investment house, Morgan Stanley. He comments that the world economy is on "an inherently unstable path that can only end in tears." full: http://www.marxist.com/Economy/digging_a_deeper_hole.html Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: tompaine.com

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
;working day. He could also say negative things >about allies when they were wrong. You and I are different, Michael. For me it is more important to make telling criticisms, even when they are made against people with saintly reputations. -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/12/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: RE: tompaine.com

2002-06-12 Thread Louis Proyect
ribing the conference as 'magical' - the 'defining moment' of his presidency, Mr Clinton shot back: 'I hope it is not all downhill from here. ' -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/12/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org

Displacing Europe as the source of capitalism

2002-06-13 Thread Louis Proyect
Postzionism Debate: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture, Routledge, London and New York. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Re: Re: Re: Sokal and Bricmont

2002-06-13 Thread Louis Proyect
al, social, or intellectual, to the ultimate reality of elementary material particles: "Scientific thought with its methods cuts like a diamond drill through the complex phenomena of social ideology to the bedrock of matter, its component elements, its atoms with their physical and mechanical properties." Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Arthur Anderson: guilty as charged

2002-06-16 Thread Louis Proyect
I get a real satisfaction out of this. Back in 1988 I was at Goldman-Sachs when a large contingent of people from the Arthur Anderson consulting division came in to replace people like me, who had become dispensable. These were mostly snot-nosed kids in "power ties" and red suspenders who had only

Comparing the cost of living in Cuba and LA

2002-06-18 Thread Louis Proyect
s from: http://www.walterlippmann.com/ Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Forest fires

2002-06-18 Thread Louis Proyect
ge, except at the lowest elevations near the plains. Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

An alternative to Micro$oft

2002-06-20 Thread Louis Proyect
the world, donating their time and talent to making a dent in the Microsoft monopoly. full: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/technology/circuits/20STAT.html Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

Firing whistle-blowers on Wall Street

2002-06-20 Thread Louis Proyect
ut? full: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/20/business/20COMP.html Louis Proyect Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org

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