Consumer Trap

2003-10-14 Thread Michael Dawson
s. Chomsky endorses the argument. Link: http://www.press.uillinois.edu/s03/dawson.html or look on Powell's or Amazon. Thanks for your attention, and I'd welcome your feedback. In Solidarity, Michael Dawson Portland, OR, USA

Re: Participatory Economics

2003-10-21 Thread Michael Dawson
Troy wrote: "I'd like to hear any critiques from anyone on this list." Here's a simple one: "ParEcon" -- This sounds Stalinist/Sovietesque. For a program that seeks to transcend socialism's equation with the USSR, this a rather bad thing.

Re: moore on mumia

2003-10-27 Thread Michael Dawson
Moore needs to answer for what he has said, and needs to be urged to repair the damage that he has done. I disagree with your conclusion here, and with your seeming belief that Moore has a thesis that Mumia is guilty. What Moore was doing was saying he personally thinks Mumia is guilty, on the

Re: Greens and Kucinich

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Dawson
Dan Scanlan wrote: the Democratic Party ... focused on chads and courtroom tension and ignored the disenfranchisement of blacks and others turned away from the polls. As usual, the Democratic Party fought the wrong battle. Why is the left so bloody silent about the blatantly obvious issue in the

Re: Greens and Kucinich

2003-10-28 Thread Michael Dawson
The fact that Gore received more votes than Bush is off-topic? This interpretation is precisely the problem.

Question for Louis Proyect

2003-11-30 Thread Michael Dawson
Dear Mr. Proyect: In what sense do you mean your claim that "urban life is unsustainable?" Do you mean we need better cities, or that cities themselves have to go? Please clarify. Your 11/27 posting appears to argue against the continued existence of urban living of any kind. True or

Re: Question for Louis Proyect

2003-11-30 Thread Michael Dawson
I did not call you an FBI agent on LBO-talk, though I did say you have penis envy regarding Doug Henwood. Meanwhile, I assume you're too embarrassed by your own argument that urban life is unsustainable to answer my question. - Original Message - From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

Re: Estimating the surplus\Doug's question

2003-12-05 Thread Michael Dawson
Moseley re-cast the data into authentic Marxian categories. I agree with Doug. I also agree with G. Lukacs -- Orthodox Marxism, therefore, does not imply the uncritical acceptance of the results of Marx's investigations. It is not the 'belief' in this or that thesis, nor the exegesis of a

Fw: [PEN-L] John Kenneth Galbraith

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Dawson
- Original Message - From: Michael Dawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: PEN-L list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:46 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] John Kenneth Galbraith Galbraith is a treasure. He was also protective of the left during the 60s. -- Michael Perelman

Re: Estimating the surplus\Doug's question

2003-12-13 Thread Michael Dawson
paul phillips wrote: Since that time, we have been in a period of demand constraint. Not hardly in the U.S. The 1990s expansion was the most consumption-intensive in history. The MPC was something like 104% measured over the whole cycle. It's been something like 99% since the early-2001

Re: Dean and the Iowa primary

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Dawson
If we cannot shift the terms of the discussion away from the individual, we are doomed to fail. Joanna Shift all you want. Properly targeted anger, in any form, is verboten in our corporate media system and its PBS/NPR step-child. Pabulum about protecting children is political sawdust, and

Re: pop quiz Friday

2004-01-23 Thread Michael Dawson
Q: How many mainstream economists does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Doesn't matter: They all just sit around in the dark waiting for the Invisible Hand to do it.

PR History Question

2004-03-09 Thread Michael Dawson
Does anybody know the origin of the claim that "America is engaged in a love affair with the car"? Was this originally an industry campaign, or did it just spring from journalism somewhere? I can't seem to find the root. Thanks.

Re: America's Love Affair with the Car

2004-03-10 Thread Michael Dawson
- From: michael perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 8:50 AM Subject: [PEN-L] America's Love Affair with the Car The ever-energetic Jurriann, asked me to forward this to Michael Dawson, but I thought it might interest others. I think you should try

Re: Marx and the Civil War

2004-03-10 Thread Michael Dawson
Sorry for the jarring formality. It's just that I've read your books and articles, and wanted to show my appreciation... To me, among the many reasons to know about the struggle to keep Britain out of the U.S. CW is its strong refutation of sophomoric (overstated) structuralism. History and

Love Affair Update

2004-03-12 Thread Michael Dawson
Nobody knows where the phrase originated. I'm going to go spend some time in the stacks trying to figure it out.

Re: Observations on the Socialist Scholars Conference

2004-03-16 Thread Michael Dawson
Grant on union decline: Similar trends abound in the developing world. I think this tells a lot about the failure of social democracy/labourism/reformism on both the industrial and political fronts, specifically the theoretical/strategic bankruptcy of the mainstream left in the late 60s and