Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-29 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Somepossible sourcesof original accumulation within a society based on the capitalist mode of production (I note explicitly this is not intended asa completelist): 1) setting up alegal or illegalnew business venture or entrepreneurial activityfrom scratch ("business start-ups") with loan

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-29 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Do you want me to explain to you how to do it ? Jurriaan - Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Regulation, state, economy I don't see how this has anything to do with whether

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-29 Thread Sabri Oncu
Yes please! Not the seeing part but how to do a stateless capitalism, whatever that means. Sabri Do you want me to explain to you how to do it? Jurriaan I don't see how this has anything to do with whether stateless capitalism is possible. jks

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-29 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
of stateless capitalism is conducive to the advancement of socialism or at any rate an egalitarian society. All the best, Jurriaan - Original Message - From: Sabri Oncu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:02 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Regulation, state

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-29 Thread Sabri Oncu
First you would have to persuade me that an analysis of stateless capitalism is conducive to the advancement of socialism or at any rate an egalitarian society. All the best, Jurriaan As far as the eye can see, there is no stateless capitalism in existence, so I think it is pointless to

Re: Regulation, state, economy-Mandel versus Marx

2003-08-29 Thread Waistline2
I of course take Marx over Mr. Mandel any day on every question of political economy. "But before doing so, we might ask, how does this strange phenomenon arise, that we find on the market a set of buyers, possessed of land, machinery, raw material, and the means of subsistence, all of them,

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Hi Ian, But didn't they offload these costs [create a beneficial set of externalities-for them] precisely because using their own security became a drain on their cash? Armies/Navies as the vanguard of socialism due to economies of scale? This was Frederic Lane's thesis in Profits from

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread andie nachgeborenen
Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable without state regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is happening, and it happened already in history. If you think that the Dutch East India Company was simply a mercantile outfit you are wrong, because they established factories and

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Doug Henwood
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable without state regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is happening, and it happened already in history. If you think that the Dutch East India Company was simply a mercantile outfit you are wrong, because they established

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: andie nachgeborenen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:41 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Regulation, state, economy Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable without state regulation, I am saying it is conceivable

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Justin wrote: You confuse primitive accumulation -- the naked taking by force of labor and raw materials -- with its product in the world system, capital. You must think I am thick or something ! I am not confusing this at all, it is 95 percent of Marxists who confuse it, by identifying

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Devine, James
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: Doug argues capitalism is inconceivable without state regulation, I am saying it is conceivable, it is happening, and it happened already in history. If you think that the Dutch East India Company was simply a mercantile outfit you are wrong, because they

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/28/03 4:35:13 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Justin wrote: You confuse primitive accumulation -- the naked taking by force of labor and raw materials -- with its product in the world system, capital. You must think I am thick or something ! I am not

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Okay then, I will post my original letter to Paul (22 August 2003): Hi Paul,How's things ? I was reading some more discussion about primitiveaccumulation on OPE list, and I have a question. When I read Marx's Capitalin German, I never found any place in which he uses the term

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Hi Jim, The LORD is my shepherd, isn't that what they say ? Check out Estelle Reyna. also, the Dutch East India Company and similar organizations _merged_ the functions of a privately-owned enterprise with those of a state (a monopoly of force within the geographical area). So the DEIC didn't

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Shane Mage
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

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread andie nachgeborenen
I don't see how this has anything to do with whether stateless capitalism is possible. jks --- Shane Mage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/28/03 10:08:58 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Paul, How's things ? I was reading some more discussion about primitive accumulation on OPE list, and I have a question. When I read Marx's Capital in German, I never found any place in which he uses the

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/28/03 12:25:29 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't see how this has anything to do with whether stateless capitalism is possible. jks A stateless property relations is not possible and this includes public property. There is a real question as to

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Devine, James
discussed by Marx is another issue. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: Jurriaan Bendien [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Regulation, state, economy Thanks

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-28 Thread Waistline2
In a message dated 8/28/03 1:26:55 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The suggestion of Marxists is that first you have primitive accumulation and then you have capitalism and after that the primitive accumulation is finished; and this is just nonsense, no serious analyst

Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-27 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Doug Henwood wrote: An unregulated capitalist economy would quickly destroy itself. Capital needs the state to discipline and rescue it. The idea of bourgeois regulation is to preserve the system, not transform it, which was what ME were all about. This is basically correct in practice I think,

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-27 Thread Eubulides
- Original Message - From: Jurriaan Bendien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Henwood wrote: An unregulated capitalist economy would quickly destroy itself. Capital needs the state to discipline and rescue it. The idea of bourgeois regulation is to preserve the system, not transform it,

Re: Regulation, state, economy

2003-08-27 Thread Doug Henwood
Jurriaan Bendien wrote: This is basically correct in practice I think, but - if you keep deregulating and privatising in the neo-liberal fashion, then is the state ultimately able to regulate anything much, other than through military and security forces ? Many corporations today already have