and well put. As the title of the book state, all economic quantities
for Marx are forms of *capital*--they express the dynamics of the
"system of social domination."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
now very little yet. Theoretical pronouncements and
slogans are grossly premature for us. Our ability to study and respond
will test the quality and utility of these lists. As yet little indeed has
been posted, but (give the devil his due!) Rolf Martens has so far made a
real contribution. I hope we see a lot more from many more contributors,
and soon.
Shane Mage
hat got
Kondratiev shot...
Brad Delong
You mean Voznezensky, don't you?
Shane Mage
ount the result
must be a significant decrease in average labor-cost of production,
providing a sufficient margin for a meaningful increase in the total of
employed workers.
Shane Mage
Colin Danby asked
At the level of the individual firm, a reduction in the working day must
raise labor costs unless wages
James and Ricardo seem to share the same vulgar-economics confusion: that
*value* is the same thing as *wealth*. Marx leaves no room for this
confusion. Value *is* the mass of socially necessary labor time embodied
in the social product of a given period. Wealth *is* the mass of use-value
No explanation is required for a passage from a rough draft ("Rohentwurf")
which its author chose not to use in the published version, which alone can
be taken to represent his considered formulation. In any case, this
passage is no evidence that, when he was writing his rough draft for
Kapital,
system.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true. (N
Title: Re: [PEN-L:23827] Re: Re: Re: Re: Marx vs.
Roemer
When we read on a printed
page the doctrine of Pythagoras
that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical,
mystifying,
even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of
Pythagoras
that
all things are
on any defective points in my argument.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
At 3/17/2002, you wrote:
I thought that the total size of the demonstration was more like
100,000. That is very welcome considering how mass demonstrations
have fallen away in the USA.
Lef of center press here (Argentina) reported that 250,000
protesters marched through Barcelona
Alan
something, because he is a human being.'
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
James Devine quotes Hal R. Varian of the NY TIMES:
What Mr. Nash recognized was that in any sort of strategic interaction, the
best choice for any single player depends critically on his beliefs about
what the other players might do. Mr. Nash proposed that we look for outcomes
where each player
the floor and get back in the ring within the next
two or three days. Victory is more than possible, but not if
*anyone's* sectarian posing gets in the way.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Michael Perelman asks:
...How much to the right of Gore is Chirac?
--
By American standards, Chirac is clearly to the left of Gore.
Shane Mage
Chris Burford, in the name of Stalin (aka Dimitrov) invokes a
completely nonexistent fascist menace and thereby supports--Chirac!
Typical.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Time to read Dimitrov
162-163).
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Is it coincidence that on the day of the second round of the French
presidential elections I should stumble across the following quotation from
Toussenel
' prescriptions--equality between the
sexes, abolition
of private property and the patriarchal family, higher education,
etc.--as prescriptions for *totalitarianism*?
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that
all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
done
no better. Totally, pathetically, unconvincing, of course.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
at all
Islamistic about his expressing, not for the first time,
this home truth.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
emphatically denied
knowledge of the flights.
Is there anyone in the world who imagines that airplanes could fly into
and out of this besieged terrorist stronghold without the explicit and
deliberate approval of the highest US command authorities?
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things.
Herakleitos
a cow.
engineer: the glass is badly designed, being twice as big as it needs to be.
Socrates: are you in the process of filling it or of drinking from it?
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all things
are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying
e Presidency to demand, incessantly, 'Why are they holding up
all sorts of vital (sic) legislation just to keep the Senate from
*voting*?'! The whole 'striker replacement' charade... was nothing but a
fraud."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Adam, the father of us all. s
Who said it? mbs
"Is this improvement in the circumstances of the lower ranks of the people
to be regarded as an advantage or as an inconvenience to the society? The
answer seems at first sight abundantly plain. Servants, laborers, and
workmen of different
by descent
and hereditary privilege. The Sokratic/Platonic philosophic elite
is defined by profound education and practical ability, its members
have no knowledge of even their immediate parentage, and in
regard to wealth and income they are below the lowest members
of the commonality, si
Some 300 years ago, La Fontaine ("Le loup et l'agneau") drew the moral
of this travesty: "La raison du plus fort est la plus forte raison."
Shane Mage
For the amusement of all you legal types . . .
Q: I'm not a lawyer and I don't understand the recent Supreme Court
deci
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 12/15/00 11:28PM
Again, the reality is quite the opposite. Plato has Sokrates
contend that only a philosophic, not an aristocratic, elite would
rule in the "best" city. An aristocratic elite is defined by descent
and hereditary privilege. The Sokratic/Platonic philosophic
asy to go on and on, but that would make this post almost
as long and tedious as the one to which I'm replying. The points are
clear enough.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
asy to go on and on, but that would make this post almost
as long and tedious as the one to which I'm replying. The points are
clear enough.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
source of hydrogen for the fuel cells that
will power an ever-increasing number of motor vehicles and
"distributed generating" stationary power sources.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
To make my points in a less combative manner. Crop
ctions. When a large majority of households are to some
degree, directly or indirectly, part of the securities markets, the
term "belong" seems a bit exaggerated, however predominant
the rich are in those markets.
Shane Mage
"immortal mortals, mortal immortals, living their de
ly important to
working people, until their concessionary though fraudulent successor
could undo them with a stroke of the pen?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
any voter
disgusted enough with Gore and Clinton to vote instead for the
leftist Nader-LaDuke ticket, *not* have voted for McReynolds?
Do you know of a single Florida voter whose electoral preferences
went 1) Nader, 2)Gore, 3)McReynolds?
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
to be in...
Zinoviev and Kamenev were communists--weak, vacillating, capitulating
communists, but communists nonetheless. And Stalin? No communist at
all--always an Okhranik
infiltrator, certainly in his way of thought and practice, and probably in fact.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steer
nauseam? If so, then the law, sir, is an ass.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made
...incompetent ones[experts]
at the section on *Das Rheingold*
in The Perfect Wagnerite.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things
I think that we have had enough of Stalin.
As Lenin said 80 years ago...
Shane Mage
immortals mortals, mortals immortals, living their deaths, dying their lives
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
Michael Perelman asks:
Does anyone know about this or is it just conspiracy fodder?
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/10/09/1034061258269.html
The Age (Melbourne) October 10 2002
Media gag on alleged plot to kill Gaddafi
By Paul Daley
Mr Shayler - a 36-year-old
former MI5 officer
expression is C/(s+v).
Simplifying for the benefit of algebraically challenged
readers, Marx made (in v.I) the assumption that the
entire capital stock turned over (ie., depreciated 100%)
every year. This has led to much confusion among commentators.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page
(even though, for
limited periods, this tendency can be denied expression by
the
countervailing factors discussed by Marx).
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that
all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read
r--Finland.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
And some simple truths:
ÉLECTIONS AMÉRICAINES
Quelle légitimité pour le prochain président des États-Unis ?
(14 novembre 2000)
http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/dossiers/etatsunis2000
Une semaine après les élections américaines du 7
novembre, l'issue
the
conversion occurs.
Thus, the greater your taxable income in the year of conversion
the worse are the odds of gaining by the transaction (that is,
the greater the percentage of the IRA that has to be liquidated
in order to pay the taxes).
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page
Recalling the Brest-Litovsk negotiations, Trotsky
recalled that he felt a measure of relief when,
after all the Germano-Austrian diplomatic circumlocutions
about self-determination for Ukraine etc., General
Hoffman put his soldier's boot on the table and
announced what the German Empire wanted
Laden is no
longer a direct agent of the worst criminals in the
CIA/NSA/NSC apparat. But if he was, what would
he or they have done any differently? In my
opinion, nothing.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos
everything to stand still.
Joanna
But it only works if the [mathematical] relations
themselves are immutable--the immutable part (better, ground)
of reality.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying
the starving Biafrans.
So much for Farrakhan.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
of the Democratic
Party,
by those organized-crime-linked, pro-imperialist hard-core
DLC Democrats who are typified by the circle of cronies of
right-wing ideologue and war-monger Senator Joseph
Lieberman.
Shane Mage
immortals mortals, mortals immortals, living their deaths, dying
their lives
, and lottery losings
are
in practise never deductibles from pretax income)?
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that
all things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras
rate
to the expected random outcome. A sufficient positive
outcome (say, at a 99.9% confidence level) should be
enough to convince even the strictest Popperian that
the hypothesis that astrology is pseudoscience had
been falsified.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras
of the higher stage
of communism had been achieved.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
cells, are already on the
road in several European and North American cities
and many more are on order.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
of disinformation
to obstruct effective investigation of that which is being
covered up.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
will inevitably
have anything of value it might offer drowned in a sea of
purely associative feelings and emotions. Stick to The Numina.
Shane Mage
immortals mortals, mortals immortals, living their deaths, dying their lives
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
profitabilty that
drives investment.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self
Title: Re: Regulation, state, economy
Jurriaan wrote:
...When I
read Marx's Capital
in German, I
never found any place in which he uses the term primitive
accumulation, rather, he uses the term ursprungliche
Akkumulation, that
is to say,
the initial or original accumulation.
Do you have any
be to divert Chinese
exports to non-dollar areas and thereby *lessen* China's
trade surplus vis-a-vis the US.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
in the NEP.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/Economy/Saudis+push+privatisation.htm
Saudis to push privatisation
Monday 29 September 2003, 3:06 Makka Time, 0:06 GMT
The Saudis decided last year to open up the economy
, as its name declares, is the private property of the
al-Saud family.
Cheers, Ken Hanly
- Original Message -
From: Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: Saudis joins the privatisation push (putsch)
Privatization? Since
nothing for safety. We
found against GM. On the next day I read in the
Financial Times an article reporting that before
Schwarzenegger agreed to buy a Hummer he had
insisted that GM include exactly the reinforcement
that had been at issue in our trial!
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things
more. Plus huge numbers of jobs from construction of the
farms, reconfiguration of the vehicle fleet, revitalization of
depressed areas, etc., etc.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
, methane,
wood, cow dung, coal. A fuel (except uranium)
is nothing
but a way of storing and releasing solar energy in the form
of its hydrogen atoms.
...Shane Mage sees hydrogen as a way to
reconfigure our vehicle fleet. Why not think a
little about getting rid of the need for our vehicle
fleet
Did Chalabi oppose the war? I doubt it.
Jurriaan meant Gulf War II. He was of course a warhawk
for GWIII. I have no idea what his position, if any,
was on GWI--except that he stayed well away from the action.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Dakota. Solar
farms in Arizona-New Mexico. Enough for all our transportation uses
and much more. Plus huge numbers of jobs from construction of the
farms, reconfiguration of the vehicle fleet, revitalization of
depressed areas, etc., etc.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos
, emotions welling
up naturally in the body) but does not admit them as a real factor in
argumentation or rational inference
since our rational faculties can never understand what
is completely unknown to them.
Shane Mage
To be Greek, one must have no clothes.
To be Medieval, one must have
, from which surplus-value takes the
form of a deduction. Thus fixed capital must historically tend
to grow faster than relative surplus-value.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly
works--often
from the keyboard. Jean Baptiste Lully (the favorite composer of
the Roi Soleil) used a wooden stave--and died from gangrene
after accidentally striking his own foot.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems
It's very simple. Our people risked their lives. Friendly coalition folks
risked their lives, and therefore the contracting is going to reflect that,
and that's what the U.S. taxpayers expect, Ui said. Vino vendibili hedera
non opus est.
Non Ui sed Ubu
Bob Herbert was being ironic. Anyone who actually read the
column knows that by best he meant most informed
about trivia, and that such information is part of the
process of entertaining ourselves to death.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things
?
Shane Mage
Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 62
Michael wrote:
Lakoff's framing is very important. We don't know how to do it -- at
least I have not figured out how.
But it's the simplest thing in the world--always has been. Just
establish virtually monopoly control over all the means of
mass communication. Good luck. :-)
of patrician ancestor)?
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently
.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true. (N.
Weiner)
to various middlemen and indirect taxers.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers
Editors' Note: We offer this unfettered pledge of fealty to Israel by
John Kerry as yet more evidence that there's scarcely a dime's worth
of difference between the major political candidates of both parties
on the life-and-death issues of our time.
This is not the issue on which to come down hard
York, Texas, Indiana,
Mississippi, etc.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers
be even in its wildest dreams.
Shane Mage
(Not in favor of the mutual ruin of the contending classes)
, in total violation of US and International law.
After this, how can anyone still be so foolish as to expect
that Ubu and the Bushits will permit a mere election to effect
a regime change in God's Country?
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
Mussolini on the Abyssinian invasion. A pungent
British response was:
No more coals to Newcastle!
No more Hoares to Paris!
Does anyone know who should get credit for this line?
Was it Churchill?
Shane Mage
Mortals immortals, immortals mortals,
living their deaths, dying their lives
Herakleitos
will be far down on the list of national emergencies.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made
, the class antagonism between capital and labor.
Their counterparts today are those who ignore the class
identity between Dumbocrats and Republicons and seek
out differences between Ubu and Kerry in order to avoid
anything smacking of independent workingclass politics.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
from the race in
Florida, Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Oregon, and West Virginia). You
say that Kerry would rather see Ubu elected than make
such a deal? My point about class politics, then, would be proven.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things
Marvin Gandall writes:
...bourgeois-dominated but worker-based
parties like the Democratic party in the US...
If Marvin thinks the Dumbocrats are worker-based
they're most welcome to his support.
Shane Mage is right in noting that Lenin was talking of intervention in a
class party, ie
the Republicon/Dumbocratic political duopoly as
a single party with two right wings. Don't cry for Kerry, Australia.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read
PAUL SWEEZY
Paul Sweezy was a great teacher with an open and inventive mind, the
very example of a lucid and courageous militant life. A friend.
Paul Sweezy was one of those marxists for whom marxism did not stop at
Marx but started from him. In Vol. II of Das Kapital, by putting to
Isn't this being published a week too early?
We're being fiddled, say violinists
AP, Berlin
Wednesday March 24, 2004
The Guardian
Violinists at a German orchestra are suing for a pay rise on the grounds
that they play many more notes per concert than their musical colleagues
- a litigation that
some of my best friends are Philistines.
Not all Philistines are philistines.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
-Original Message-
From: Shane Mage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 7:36 AM
To: [EMAIL
The STRATWHOR INTELLIGENCE BRIEF has revealed Dumbocratic
presidential candidate John F Kerry's four-step plan to take
over the White House:
1.) Change his name to John F Kerredy and his campaign slogan
from The Real Deal to JFK-The Real Second Coming, and
nominate Senator John McCain
THE STRATFOR WEEKLY
15 April 2004
Bush's Crisis: Articulating a Strategy in Iraq and the Wider War
Summary
President George W. Bush's press conference on Tuesday evening
was fascinating in its generation of a new core justification for
the Iraq campaign: building a democratic Iraq. It is unclear
, and
obscurantism of Ubu and his Bushits, will be pursued
intelligently and competently by tested servants of Empire.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen
The Bridge A Rant
by Stan Goff
WARNING: This commentary may cause anxiety.
http://www.freedomroad.org/milmatters_22_bridge.html
image-assistance. His
people have a package ready.
Al Zarqawi to Bin Laden: Mission accomplished.
Bin Laden to Ubu: Well we did it, Bushbaby. See you in October.
Shane Mage
Thunderbolt steers all
things.
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
I'm struck by the fact that we
Isn't there someone here who can tell us how the BJP is really the
lesser of two evils?
Doug
No, but yesterday there would have been plenty around
to tell us how voting Communist Party (of your choice)
would throw the election to the BJP.
Shane
It was clearly a positional error. The pilot thought he was in...
Massachussetts!
U.S. Reportedly Kills 40 Iraqis at PartyBAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - A U.S.
helicopter fired on a wedding party early
Wednesday in western Iraq, killing more than 40 people, Iraqi officials
said. The U.S. military said it
The Great Satan doing God's work again!
Shane Mage
I am part of that force which always does good by attempting
to do evil. (Mephistopheles)
May 21, 2004
NEW YORK NEWSDAY
Chalabi aide is suspected Iranian spy
BY KNUT ROYCE
WASHINGTON BUREAU
May 21, 2004, 7:29 PM EDT
WASHINGTON -- The Defense
the Pillars of Herakles, is evidently a bay with
a narrow entrance [in Phaedo he compares the Mediterranean to a frog
pond] but that yonder [the Atlantic] is a real ocean, and the land
surrounding it may most rightly be called, in the fullest and truest
sense, a continent.
Shane Mage
When we read
, Aristotle,
or Demosthenes. For the ancient Greeks it was always much
more us vs. us. Nor did they consider Europe, Asia, and
Libya to be continents in the sense indicated by Plato, but
rather as areas within a much larger landmass whose total
dimensions were only vaguely known.
Shane Mage
against Cuba.
Shane Mage
When we read on a printed page the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems mystical, mystifying, even
downright silly.
When we read on a computer screen the doctrine of Pythagoras that all
things are made of numbers, it seems self-evidently true. (N
The stone age didn't end because people ran out of rocks (Sheik Yamani)
The New Yorker
June 4, 2004
BUSHIDO:THE WAY OF THE ARMCHAIR WARRIOR
by EVAN EISENBERG
Issue of 2004-06-07
Posted 2004-05-31
Knowledge is not important. The armchair warrior strives to attain a
state beyond knowledge, a state of deep, non-knowing connection to
the universe: in particular, to that
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