Maybe when the Democrats are (s)elected, they'll float
government bonds and tax the plutocrats to save the
Social Security system. The ex-workers of the baby
boom generation form a very large market to throw
inventory surpluses at. It would be ashame to see
them and their buying habits fade
Is it possible that this manuscript could be posted on the pen-l web-site?
Jim
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From: paul phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 11/12/2003 4:58 PM
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Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Karl Marx on
Is it possible that this manuscript could be posted on the pen-l web-site?
Jim
If you post that on the website, I suppose I better cancel my subscription.
J.
Judging from the politics chat roomsmany (but
not all) are incapable of political discoursebeyond
mudslinging matches between people who consider themselves liberals or
conservatives, or democrats and republicans..Socialism is a term used by
conservatives to apply to any liberal or
no, I don't mean posting it to the list-server. Last time I looked, there were
archives at the web-site. Paul's paper -- and others -- could be added to the archive.
Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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From: Jurriaan Bendien
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 3:28 AM
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Karl Marx on the role of public debt and taxation in
primitive accumulation - an insufficiently noticed passage
|the lack of a
| cogent and coherent theory and analysis, and
How do we think in the present context, of the system of national debts,
the modern system of taxation, and the international credit system,
which often conceals one of the sources of primitive accumulation in this
or that people.
I have a lot of ideas about it, I thought about it for a long
I wrote a fairly substantial paper on the role of public finance in primitive
accumulation with respect to Canada and the finance of the First World War.
First, Marx is quite explicit on the role of war finance in spurring primitive
accumulation via debt finance and subsequent non-progressive
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From: paul phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I wrote a fairly substantial paper on the role of public finance in
primitive accumulation with respect to Canada and the finance of the
First World War. First, Marx is quite explicit on the role of war
finance in spurring
That is pretty amazing. I supposein America
ithas to be sexy, yet civilised,and use the right words. In the USA,
I have noticed you always have to keep it verysimple, especiallyif
you are talking about anything bigger than an individual, because otherwise they
just do not understand it.
Jurriaan,
Do you want me to e-mail you a copy? (as a Word Perfect attachment)
Paul
Jurriaan Bendien wrote:
That is pretty amazing. I supposein America
ithas to be sexy, yet civilised,and use the right words. In the USA, I
have noticed you always have to keep it
Do you want me to e-mail you a copy? (as a Word Perfect
attachment)
Well, if you could, that would be very kind indeed,
I would read it with interest !
Jurriaan
Moralism, vague or rambunctious, is one of the chief routes away from
Marxism -- it is especially infectious during periods of working-class
(and hence marxist) weakness. The tendency is to compensate for defeats
in the actual world with merely rhetorical victories over the horrors of
(the following passage by Marx is insufficiently noticed by the literal
Marxists, presumably because it does not appear in the chapter The scret of
primitive accumulation, but in the chapter on the Genesis of the
industrial capitalist. Bourgeois leftists are fond of quoting the
concluding sentence
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