Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-06 Thread Chris Burford
At 06/02/03 01:12 +, Alois wrote: I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx.

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-06 Thread ravi
so, what kind of business is the catholic church? hmmm! webster's unabridged dictionary says: Liberal \Liber*al\: - Free by birth; refined; noble; independent; free; not servile or mean; - Bestowing in a large and noble way, as a freeman; generous; bounteous; open-handed;

RE: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34374] PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS Alois writes: #1 For all your carping about business, businesses CREATE JOBS. People would be out of work if business did not create jobs for them. -- why is it that JOBS are so important? why is it that people want THEM so

redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Drewk
Well, thank god someone -- Chris Burford -- got to the point: whether left wing political economy should primarily be about fairer distribution. In emphasizing liberalism with his caps -- redistributionist LIBERALS -- Alois was right. Andrew Kliman

Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Michael Perelman
someone -- Chris Burford -- got to the point: whether left wing political economy should primarily be about fairer distribution. In emphasizing liberalism with his caps -- redistributionist LIBERALS -- Alois was right. Andrew Kliman -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California

Re: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Bill Lear
On Thursday, February 6, 2003 at 07:49:04 (-0800) Michael Perelman writes: I am not sure that distribution should be at the center. An auto worker with 30 hours of overtime makes a good wage, but probably does not lead a good life. Marx said that all economics comes down to the economics of

RE: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Devine, James
Title: RE: [PEN-L:34395] redistributionist liberals I worry about how a big chunk of workers' effort (surplus-labor) is redistributed to another part of the population simply because the latter (with the blessing protection of the state) control the means of production and the ability

RE: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-06 Thread Forstater, Mathew
Alois wrote: I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. At this point I was sure we were going to be told we should stop being so reformist.

Re: Re: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Carrol Cox wrote: blunting working-class power in the imperialist center. I don't think Lenin was right about super-profits providing a bribe for imperialist workers, but that is quite secondary to his core perception that imperialism, _in some way_, underwrites opportunism in the working class.

Re: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Carrol Cox
Michael Perelman wrote: I am not sure that distribution should be at the center. An auto worker with 30 hours of overtime makes a good wage, but probably does not lead a good life. Marx said that all economics comes down to the economics of time. It has always seemed to me that what

RE: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Max B. Sawicky
primarily be about fairer distribution. In emphasizing liberalism with his caps -- redistributionist LIBERALS -- Alois was right. Andrew Kliman -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Tom Walker
Holy Nassau Senior, Perelman! What will become of the morals of our children and young people if those auto workers are turned out of the warm, pure atmosphere of the factory into the heartless and frivolous outer world? Michael Perelman wrote, I am not sure that distribution should be at

Re: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Louis Proyect
Tom Walker wrote: Holy Nassau Senior, Perelman! What will become of the morals of our children and young people if those auto workers are turned out of the warm, pure atmosphere of the factory into the heartless and frivolous outer world? What constitutes the alienation of labour? Firstly,

Re: Re: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Bill Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harry Glasbeek has made a very firm contribution to economic justice in his book *Wealth by Stealth: Corporate Crime, Corporate Law, and the Perversion of Democracy* (Between the Lines, 2003). = An excellent

Re: RE: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: Max B. Sawicky [EMAIL PROTECTED] I thot it was surplus value that was redistributed in the first place. love me, love me, love me, I'm a RD liberal . . . mbs = Appropriated.. Quite apart from this crude tearing-apart of

Re: Re: redistributionist liberals

2003-02-06 Thread Waistline2
I am not sure that distribution should be at the center. An autoworker with 30 hours of overtime makes a good wage, but probably does not lead a good life. Marx said that all economics comes down to the economics of time. The "economics of time" provides an entry point into the logic of the era

Re: Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-06 Thread Waistline2
At 06/02/03 01:12 +, Alois wrote: I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx. reply

PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread hudal
I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx. Well here are some things that you seem to

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Carl Remick
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities whose economic schemes all seem to involve big government coming in to enact their redistributionist schemes. I see a lot of talk about economics, including the discredited Marx. Well here are some

RE: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Max B. Sawicky
gee i never thought about it that way before . . . -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PEN-L:34374] PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS I look

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Doug Henwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People who don't like working for a company should START THEIR OWN BUSINESS. And people who don't like getting old should JUST GET YOUNGER! People who don't like being sick should JUST GET HEALTHY! I can forsee an entire genre of SELF-HELP HERE. Doug

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Ian Murray
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities === You forgot to mention that we're also a bunch of pantheists who see all of space-time as a temple with way too many money changers wrecking the place.

RE: Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Marens, Richard S.
Doug Sounds good to me, maybe you've writing the wrong kind of books. I'm sure you guys and gyns have discussed this already, but is Christopher Hitchens on some kind of medication? He sounds not so much reactionary as to my ears as incoherent, like the people who used to wander up and down

Re: Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread andie nachgeborenen
I'm a liberal, but not from a university. The universities didn't want me because i was too radical. This is actually true. jks Ian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message -From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread dsquared
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I look at PEN-L and all I see are a bunch of LIBERALS from universities Absolutely right mate. In fact it might be worse than that. I think that some of them are practically SOCIALISTS! Perhaps it would help if somebody could look up a few statistics from the

Re: PEN-L equals redistributionist LIBERALS

2003-02-05 Thread Grant Lee
During the Lenten Season, please help support the mission of Catholic Online by purchasing goods and services from our sponsors at http://www.catholic.org/clife/lent Sounds suspiciously like your church is sponsoring redistribution, Alois. What's more, I can say for certain that a lot of us