Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-10 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Jim Devine" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Nathan wrote: ... when a people democratically support atrocities by their -government, it is not just the leadership that bears responsibility but -the people themselves. this sounds as if you are

Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-10 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:2914] Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile, el 10 Oct 00, a las 0:36, Nathan Newman dijo: Contra many folks, though, I think the US's collective guilt has far less to do with its particular military actions, some of which like Kosovo and Haiti I can defend, but in its

Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-10 Thread JKSCHW
It seems to be a constant with Anglo politics that they will always kill you or rob you on the basis of some "principle", as the Irishman George Bernard Shaw once pointed out... And this is worse than robbing or killing you on the basis of no principle? --jks

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-10 Thread Carrol Cox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to be a constant with Anglo politics that they will always kill you or rob you on the basis of some "principle", as the Irishman George Bernard Shaw once pointed out... And this is worse than robbing or killing you on the basis of no principle? --jks

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-10 Thread Jim Devine
Néstor wrote: It seems to be a constant with Anglo politics that they will always kill you or rob you on the basis of some "principle", as the Irishman George Bernard Shaw once pointed out... JKS wrote: And this is worse than robbing or killing you on the basis of no principle? --jks

Re: RE: Re: Yugoslavia again

2000-10-09 Thread JKSCHW
In a message dated 10/8/00 6:01:36 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then we shouldn't be sorry to see the nationalist thugs at the CIA, DOD, NSA etc go too.Once we figure out how to get rid of them of course Surely we will not. Though they mostly aren't

Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-09 Thread Louis Proyect
I was away for a couple of days, so I'm behind and I'm confused. I thought Yeltsin used state power to bomb the Duma, and Pinochet used the army to overthrow Allende. I could swear the special bodies of Serb armed men essentially laid down their arms and gave in to the throngs in the streets.

Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-09 Thread Louis Proyect
Actually, I agree that Milosevic was not so undemocratic compared to many other regimes. He was a brutal murderer who promoted the use of rape as a weapon and ethnic clensing as policy. But the fact that he was able to do so reflects not just his personal qualities but a rough reflection of

Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-09 Thread Nathan Newman
- Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But the fact that he was able to do so reflects not just his personal qualities but a rough reflection of the Serbian democratic will, an unfortunate reflection on that population. And that is one reason

Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile

2000-10-09 Thread Ken Hanly
icans deal with their collective guilt? Cheers, Ken Hanly - Original Message - From: Nathan Newman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 09, 2000 4:06 PM Subject: [PEN-L:2895] Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia to fSU and Chile - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect&qu

RE: Re: Yugoslavia again

2000-10-08 Thread Lisa Ian Murray
I'm sorry to see Milosevich go. In God's name, why? Don't *ever* be sorry to see nationalist thugs go. Were you sorry to see Tudjman go? Were you sorry to see Mobutu go? Were you sorry to see Galtieri go? Brad DeLong == Then we shouldn't be sorry to see the nationalist thugs at

Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-10-06 Thread phillp2
Michael, I am sure there are. But what is the relevance in this case? Paul Date sent: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 18:22:42 -0700 From: Michael Perelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:2747] Re: Yugoslavia To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send reply

Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-10-06 Thread Michael Perelman
I can't recall the case, but someone will remember. A compliant president was elected who wanted to go against the parliament, but the US demanded that the authority be given to the president. I suspect that the same will happen in Yugoslavia. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, I am sure

Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-10-06 Thread Nestor Miguel Gorojovsky
En relación a [PEN-L:2748] Re: Re: Yugoslavia, el 6 Oct 00, a las 20:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Michael: Paul, aren't there other examples about the US defending figure head presidents vs. strong legislatures when it suited them? Paul: Michael, I am sure there are. But what

Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-18 Thread phillp2
I mistakenly erased Louis response to my post and his summary of Estrin's position in his 1991article. I essentially agree with a lot of what Estrin says, in particular about the failure to develop an effective capital market. But that was the point of my arguement that the 1975 move to

Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-18 Thread Louis Proyect
But whatever, I don't see how this provides any evidence for Louis' bald statement that this proves the non-viability of market socialism. It is the same as saying that the collapse of the Soviet Union is proof in the non-viability of central planning and/or the non- viability of socialism.

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-18 Thread phillp2
, University of Manitoba. Date sent: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 13:37:31 -0400 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Louis Proyect [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[PEN-L:21957] Re: Re: Re: Re: Yugoslavia Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] But whatever

Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-17 Thread Jim Devine
Paul, thanks for the very informative post. At 04:10 PM 7/17/00 -0500, you wrote: Jim, in the case of Slovenia at least, unemployment did not rise during the crisis as it remained around 2 per cent though this was in part due to overemployment by enterprises. right. Also, wasn't a lot of the

Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-17 Thread Louis Proyect
Jim, in the case of Slovenia at least, unemployment did not rise during the crisis as it remained around 2 per cent though this was in part due to overemployment by enterprises. Contrary to the prevailing neoclassical orthodoxy (Ward-Vanek) workers were overly protective of fellow workers

Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-16 Thread michael
Debt Trap. Monthly Review Press, I think. Michael, What is the reference for that? Thanks, Steve On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Michael Perelman wrote: Paul, what do you think of Cheryl Payer's analysis of Yugo.? She says that the US encouraged self-management to split Yugo. from the USSR.

Re: Re: Yugoslavia

2000-07-16 Thread Michael Perelman
I am working by memory, but her work said that the U.S. encouraged Yugoslavia to follow through with a self-management as a means of further differentiating itself from the Soviet Union, worried that the two countries might develop a rapprochement. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, This is