FW: [PEN-L] absolute general law of capitalist accumulation

Paul Sweezy addressed the subject in The Theory of Capitalist Development, chapter one section one The Use of Abstraction. I will try to summarize some of his points (my comments in brackets): Marx was a strong adherent of the abstract-deductive method which was such a marked characteristic of

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FW: [PEN-L] THE GAME OF GO AND THE CHINESE WAY OF WAR

I've heard that Mao made the military study go and I've also heard that he suppressed the game socially. Can't confirm if either is true. It appears as though it may be destined to be West Point's new past time. Jayson Funke Michael Perelman wrote: Didn't Mao write about Go?

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FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article

The best place to look for confirmation of this is the Harvard Institute for International Development (now dissolved). HIID was perhaps the dominant organization offering economic recommendations to Russia. Ironically, HIID collapsed primarily as a result of internal corruption by its own

FW: [PEN-L] FW: [PEN-L] Andre Gunder Frank article

In regards to deliberate derailing of the Russian economy. I didn't intend to infer that there was deliberate intention to cripple the Russian economy at HIID BEYOND that which is latent in neoliberal ideology! As Michael Yates points out in Naming the System (and others too), neoclassical

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FW: [PEN-L] The Origins of Continents

I ran across this definition that sheds some light: A continent (from the Latin continere for to hold together) is a large continuous mass of land in the planet Earth. There is no single standard for what defines a continent, and therefore various cultures and sciences have different lists of

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FW: [PEN-L] The Empire Falls Back - Niall Ferguson

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