dualism is of the epistemological rather than the ontological
variety i.e more about what we can know rather than what exists. I still
find Chomsky's philosophical views very confusing.
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to nobody except
Chom defends Cartesian rationalism and Cartesian dualism anymore. These
writings are fairly abstract but that goes with the questions he is
addressing.
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.( Korea's
Place in the Sun p 336).
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ior vis a vis the media in the Gulf
War "even gung ho Soldier of Fortune scribblers complained about being
stuck in briefing rooms with a 'bunch of boobs and dorks'" Cumings, War
and Television, p 110.
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is fine, as long as they hold
political views I disagree with.
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has a number of papers on the Tobin tax including a
speech and QA by Tobin himself.
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was actually exporting food during
its famines?
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world?
Further, NE does not apply reductionism consistently. A consistent
reductionist like James Watson only admits that atoms exist. So, if you
are going to allow entities larger than atoms to exist, why stop at
individuals?
more later,
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story". I would imagine that most of
us would want to avoid that.
Yes. Analysis that are too structural leave out human agency. Incidentally,
that is another serious flaw of NE, its crude and false theory of human agency.
best,
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note to Mike L. in lurker-land: Resub! Matthew Shipp was awesome!
a character.
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-Beneficieries of Federal subsidies: Amoco Corp., ATT, CitiCorp,
DuPont, General Electric, General Motors, IBM, Motorola, Time Warner
Inc (Public Citizen)
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eing alone too much. Psychotics cannot
differentiate reality from phantasy. Someone in psychosis might attack
another with a knife on the belief that that person is the devil
persecuting them etc. I don't think Althusser was that out of it.
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ure theory as such has done much damage
, its the reality that has done the damage.
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[NOTE: The "United States" is lying through its rotting teeth!
Not only are there swarms of "advisers" in Colombia, but special
units of the U.S. military have been operating there at least
for the past year. Mind you, I am not even counting the number
, like all art, I think, is meant to be enjoyed. Art
doesn't need to have political or philosophical messages/meanings to be
enjoyable and great.
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.
Extreme perfectionism!
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Radical writers who refuse to give detailed footnotes show an utter contempt
for practical use of their work. In talking with people, in writing a leaflet,
in letters to the local paper, it gives one little margin to quote "the leading
marxis
hes out his argument in his book _Karl Marx_ and his article
"Marx and the Critique of Justice", Philosophy and Public Affairs, VI
no. 3 1972.
Seems to me that Wood's main goal is to avoid pigeonholing Marx as a
utilitarian or as a partisan of a deontological(Kantian) form of ethics.
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Michael Hoover wrote:
Kant wrote in "What Is Enlightenment?":
'Argue as much as
you will, and about what you will, only obey!'
Yoshie
didn't Kant also write somewhere that government must suppress
criticism that does not show 'respect and devotion towards the
existing
"Objectivity, a sense of justice and sentimentality would only hinder
the Germans in their world mission. This mission does not consist in
extending culture and education throughout the world but in taking wheat
and oil away."
--Joseph Goebbels *Monologe im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1944 p 362.*
Doug Dowd wrote an interesting and short book called *The Waste of
Nations*. There is also a fascinating and very original book called The
World's Wasted Wealth by J.W. Smith a non-academic, Montana ranchhand
and arch left populist.
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satisfaction. The reason: most clients-and
prostitutes- were too frightened, for, hanging up in front of the
whorehouses were a lot of male Communist genitals--like bananas hung out
for sale."
cited in Benedict Anderson *Spectre of Comparisons* p294, Verso,1999.
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ASIET News Updates - July 21, 1999
==
* Top generals laugh off report of deal with Megawati
* Indonesia is preparing for massive post-ballot slaughter
* Indonesia expects Timor poll loss, plans evacuations
* Martial law may be called in Aceh, Irian: Minister
UP or M-19 trying to insert itself
into Colombian political life is immediately wiped out through violence
making violence the only means of pressing the class struggle.
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ly difference between China
and the USA.
The two of three of these self-styled "activists" have been
jailed for receiving foreign funds to carry out anti-China activities on
Chinese soil. These inviduals have nothing to do with labor issues in China.
OK.
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ed to as "angry"
music because it was intense, at times ferocious and dissonant. Yet
these artists claimed they were doing the opposite, creating a music of
peace and harmony. But of course a work of art can have meaning outside
of the artist's intention.
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Peter
will just say that given the crap that is taught in public schools
no wonder students drop out and don't do their homework. I dropped out
of highschool twice.
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t of a National Health Service and other macro measures. The Von
Misesians truly hate Schumpeter.
I think Keynes was just being a gentleman after the heated polemics
when Hayek arrived at the LSE.
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Underlying it all is a deep fear of democracy, a fear that one
might lose his life of leisure, power and privilege.
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rse people have different abilities and capacities but that is
something to be celebrated. Conservatives can't seem to acknowedge this
fact. I know I will never be able to play like Horowitz or Jarrett or
write like Isaac Deutscher but I take pleasure in that fact.
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rocodile and Lava Lounge in Seattle were looking very tacky. I
didn't have the guts to ask whether this was a deliberate strategy to
keep the rich out. Exit the tattoos and nose rings and enter the power
suits strutting along proudly displaying their Nordstrom's shopping
bags. Seattle still has an awesome transit system and a great jazz
scene.
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arly work. They rely heavily on "the old spies"
for their information, there is no way of verifying their claims. They
also make the case the U.S. government or powerful forces therein are
really out to destroy Israel. Yet the use of Nazi's and Fascists is
compatible with support for the Israeli state.
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Jim Devine wrote:
it's true that it's often difficult to draw the line between speech and
action. But it's usually much easier between those who simply talk or write
(like my brother the philosopher, who equates abortion with murder in his
treatise on the ethics of homicide)
Murder, by
It might be helpful to lay out what we mean by corruption here too.
Michael P., what is your take on the importance of corruption vis-a-vis
the economy? I don't know of many good books except R.T. Naylor *Hot
Money*.
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For example what is it that causes someone to get out of bed?
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[Apologies for the poor formatting. Articles like this appear everyday
on JRL] --SP.
Johnson's Russia List
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New York Times
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[for personal use only]
Russian Money-Laundering Investigation Finds Familiar Swiss Banker in
the
By
of
the CIA" is flawed but good. Bruce Cumings in his massive "The Origins
of the Korean War" has a good analysis of the Nitze written NSC 68 (one
of the most important documents of the cold war) and the associated
"rollback" mileau in US government/elite circles.
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oriented gangsters.
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ce there is no point comparing actual existing
capitalism with something that only exists in theory (socialism).
Whenever the mass media write about Marxism or socialism it falls into
the novelty category. Sort of like doing a story on flying fish or the
Edsel.
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negligible effect on the economy. Copper prices did
drop slightly but that can be explained by factors other than the fall
of Sumitomo.
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Carrol Cox wrote:
Sam, careful. You are implying a teleology to evolution. Even in
strictly historical and social terms I see no evidence that "hopes ...
of reproductive success" play any part in human affairs.
Not consciously. The argument is genetic.
SP
[NOTE: In what I think is a first, this article quotes a
Pentagon spokesman admitting --on the record-- that
American personnel are, in fact, fighting "in the
field!" These are not "DEA agents", however. They are
"special operations." -DG]
la guerra sucia
=
The attacks, attributed by witnesses to the
right-wing Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia
(AUC), have taken place in the northern
ow will pay off
later in terms of reproductive success. Most human brains operate at
about 10-15% capacity (and that's not just some of the participants on
usenet
groups).
But, Ajit, perhaps you know all this?
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there are
exceptions like Rickey Ray Rector. Certainly we would want the
exceptions to have the same rights.
There must be some criterion for assigning rights (if one is to assign
rights at all) or else cars and trees would have rights.
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John Lloyd was embarrased by Peter Gowan in a debate carried in the New
Left Review# 215. Lloyd it looks has changed his tune since his
neo-liberal ravings in NLR and a previous piece in the LRB.
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cantile capital grew
stronger during recession and famine. Dobb really takes the bull by the
horns and answers the tough question of: where did the capitalists come
from? Essentially the capitalist class grew out of merchant capital
together with the upper crust of the gilds and the burghers.
m
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Alan Carling's synthesis of Cohen and Brenner, which Wood completely
rejects as an imposible mix (not everything mixes, try putting car
oil in your soup) can be found in his book, Analytical Marxism.
I'm afraid I'm going to have to endorse Ricardo's observations
that FARC have not committed atrocites or
excuse their sometimes behavior. But, of course, revolution isn't a tea
party.
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people a guideline of what and where to
change , rather than placing faith in magic and mad
scientists developing time machines. If you disagree with the analysis and
the projections then refute them.
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now to give people a guideline of what and where to
change , rather than placing faith in magic and mad scientists developing
time machines. If you disagree with the analysis and the projections then
refute them.
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are a barrier to economic growth.
Northern environmentalism is just another means of keeping the South under
the boot. I am sensitive to that argument.
I'll stop here since I've forgotten what the point of this whole exchange
was.
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the goodies of
capitalism. Do you agree? Socialism,for me, is about more than doing
capitalism better than the capitalists.
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in
related science and technology.
Waiting for Godot.
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to work hard to pick up where he left
off. I'll never forget him.
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ding and a good reference text.
The Kolakowski of the 80's and 90's was Jon Elster.
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Just regular 'nuts'n' bolts' of social science with
some Marxian concepts mixed in. Kolakowski's erudition is(was) quite
stunning. The complete works of Lenin, Trotsky, Kautsky, Plekhnakov,
Luxembourg, Lukacs,Gramsci and on ...in the original languages.
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of Justice the best place for stats on violent
crime?
This stuff is for,you guessed it, an article on biological explanations
of violence (i.e. violence as a male reproductive strategy.)
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Check out this important Gould/Dawkins debate.
http://www.improbable.com/airchives/paperair/volume6/v6i5/evolutionary-war.jpg
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r".
Yes, and hard wiring is consistent with any number of behaviors
(multiple realizability of brain states.)
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music, though the big companies(EMI,DG,etc. whose classical
music divisions are in trouble) are now re-issuing their back
catalogues at super cut prices. You can get Marc-Andre Hamelin's Alkan
recording for $12.Will everything eventually be re-issued on CD? Maybe.
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Justin Schwartz wrote:
Canada's a different world in many fields. The leading Canadian philosophy
journal, CJP, takes Marxism seriously; regularly publishes in radical
philosophy;
Not anymore now that Kai Nielson and Robert Ware (University of Calgary)
no longer edit it.
Sam P.
our separate ways. In my view, if helping the poor results in some
getting richer than others, that doesn't bother me a bit.
The kulaks were hated by just about everybody.
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someone a business licence to sell stolen goods is a reduction ad
absurdum of property rights.
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Original Message
Subject: [evol-psych] The left can celebrate the latest news on genes,
but not too much
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 14:02:07 -
From: "Ian Pitchford" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: "Ian Pitchford" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization:
Is it true that Nozick repudiated Anarchy, State and Utopia? Any
references?
In his The Examined Life. On the whole a crappy book, full of Buddhist and
Hindu nonsense and other grade 'A' bullshit about America being a democracy.
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ASIET News Updates - September 7, 1999
==
* Race against genocide!
* Bishop attacked as army take over Timor
* Surge of nationalistic, anti-foreigner posturing
* Australian unions imposes sanctions on Indonesia
* Timor's political cleansing
* Army conspires
[Please let me know if you want me to stop clogging your mailbox with
these reports--SP]
ASIET News Updates - September 12, 1999
===
* News vacuum as reporters go missing
* Victims 'left to die' on streets where they fell
* UN team visits Timor as Jakarta
gree, have been realized. I think
Chomsky, Kolko, Mark Curtis and Bruce Cumings have done the best work
showing the nature and extent of government planning for imperialist
order.
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ilver of their own
Growth." Mandeville, Fable of the Bees,p115,1714
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nes ae scarcely sufficient to answer their
occasions; and though
they are sensible of this, yet they find by Experience they can'tprevent
it."
Jacob Vanderlint *Money Answers All Things",52-4, 1737.
All this is not to deny the importance of the precious metals in
domestic class formation.
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Mathew Forstater wrote:
Norwood Hanson's work, mentioned in your post, is cited in the paper,
Hanson was quite a character. A teacher of mine who was a student of
his said he hated walking through the department each morning so he
would park his harley davidson and climb through his office
ng even after the colonies won their nominal
political freedom (p31)"
Trade, Development and Foreign Debt Vol.1.
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ecially in economics, theorists start with what they are trying to
prove and then go to work. The political conclusions are drawn at the
outset.
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and trade relations but failed to analyze the class
basis of the spread of K. The upshot is that the solution for 3rd world
countries is autarky and not socialism. I find Brenner quite convincing.
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look at the rise in suicide, especially teen suicide, rates with
structural adjustment programs as well as mental health and things like
alcoholism (traditional stress relievers) The suicide rate in N.Zealand
skyrocketed after the SAP began in the 80's. Same with Russia.
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: it was cheaper to do that and
then buy more slaves in their place).
Has anyone here read Robin Blackburn's histories of slavery? He argues
that slavery was seminal in the development of Europe. Any comments?
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e old mode of production and the rise of the capitalist
mode, this happened in reverse on the basis of the capitalist mode of
production, *once it had been created*" [K3,ch 20,451-2,Vint.]
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give a check to the domestic consumption of
superfluity, in order to have the more hands for the supply of
strangers." James Steuart *Principles of Political Economy*424,(1767)
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in whose favor it was established."
Ibid.
Smith may have been opposed to the economic nature of colonialism but
accepted political colonialism. I think Smith was just a free-trade
imperialist.
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HUdson,460.
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ts own advantage and upgrading its land, labor and
capital.
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in polarisation and the world continues
to polarise between a minority of rich countries and the rest. The key
is understanding the mechanisms by which this polarisation occurs and
most importantly how to rectify the situation.
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occurred because it is now the only
party in Chile, outside sectarian groups, that defends the working
class, supports autonomous working class action from the comprador union
officials and believes in socialism. A rejuvenated and more democratic
Communist Party and a more confident labor movement could sig
Mr P.A. Van Heusden wrote:
Marx for Beginners is a disgrace, if you ask me. It's a badly written,
confusing account of Marxism. At least the version I read.
I was thinking of "Trotsky for Beginners" by Tariq Ali which is quite
good.
Sam P.
Eric Cumins reports that anyone in Tennessee prisons declaring
him/herself a Marxist was automatically given the death sentence. Is
this law still on the books?
Sam
Michael Yates wrote:
Next month I will begin teaching a class at a maximum security state
prison in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Be careful.
Short,
clearly writtten articles that illustrate features of the political
econmy might be especially useful. Thanks.
I would recommend *The
ASIET News Updates - September 6, 1999
==
* Refugees flee as East Timor burns
* The butchery begins in East Timor
* International community betrays the Timorese people
* Expelled activist tells of Indonesia's payback
* Jakarta's bloody hands: military back
ir full of unsubstantiated assertions and opinions. His evidence
consists of rumors and a handful of conversations with locals made
around 1995. His evidence in no way supports any of his conclusions.
Stoll gets a D for effort and an F for content.
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Sources:
David Stoll. *R
he
contrary. Some people argue that Crick and Watson successfully reduced
biology to chemistry. Non-reductionist materialists rely on somewhat
wooly concepts like "supervienence" and "anomolous monism" to show how
ideas and "mental" things are physical matter but can't be reduced to
brain science in an explanation.
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quot; in the third world today. But rising
expectations can lead to serious political change. I don't know.
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translated into
english. Many lost their lives in Latin American political struggle.
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, explain everything? Is sociology just
physics and engineering?
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Beginning in the 1970's and continuing today, Latin American
countries have undertaken reforms and restructuring in the mining
sectors of their economies. This process is part of a wholesale
restructuring of the Latin American economies, which in turn, is part of
a continuing global
noir aesthetic
(though in Godard's case its hard to tell whether he is parodying it or
not.) Noir is still the greatest film genre to come out of America doing
for american film what neo-realism did for Italian and the New Cinema
did for French.
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[from a work in progress.SP]
Notes on Development Theory Sam Pawlett
Introduction
Development theory took off after WWII with the first wave of
decolonization. The problems
facing the newly independent countries became of concern to
intellectuals who wanted
Wojtek Sokolowski wrote:
Carroll, let's keep separate things separated. There is a difference
between a genuine social movement -- i.e. one that has real support in a
population or its segment -- and one that exists mostly in the imagination
of moral entrepreneurs striving for a
e which altered the balance of class forces
between the domestic and overseas investors and producers."
James Petras "Globalization:A Critical Analysis", Journal of
Contemporary Asia, Vol 29 no 1,1999,p3-37.
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don't
do much for my utility function.
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Michael Yates wrote:
Friends,
In a review of "In Defence of History: Marxism and the Postmodern
Agenda" (edited by Ellen Wood and John Foster, Monthly Review 1997),
economics professor, Yanis Varoufakis of the Univ. of
nsparent.I don't think the dystopia of
Bladerunner is that fanciful. It contains a lot of great lines..its not easy to
meet your maker...
Its too bad she won't live...but then again, who does?
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Doug
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