[PEN-L] Marx voted greatest philosopher

was in Eric Hobsbawm's observations on the result - available on the internet. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] london bombings

to a world in which 20 thousand children die each day, each of whom has a weeping mother. Blair says something acceptable about that too, but not quite so loud. Even in this crisis he remains the most acceptable face of international finance capital. IMHO Chris Burford - Original Message

[PEN-L] BBC nobbles Bush

er at this moment in human history. Don't look too closely at the pock marks. They are just work in progress. Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] Blair ascendant over Chirac

ng a great statesman. President of Europe Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] PK on China Challenge

w centimeters. And this is happening under the surface, while Bush and Blair posture for the moral ideological high ground over Africa and the environment, These issues are the ideological drapery for the enthronement of some sort of new world government. But who will have control of the money? Chri

[PEN-L] patronising Africa

mics for a perspective influenced by Marxist thinking about the uneven accumulation of exchange value as capital, all talk of cancelling debts, and ensuring "fair trade" will reproduce this patronising outlook. Chris Burford London most of whose forebears left Africa 3,000 generations ago.

[PEN-L] traffic control

rises. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration?

e capital in all its forms. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 2:53 PM Subject: [PEN-L] is the EU on a path towards monetary disintegration? <http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Col

[PEN-L] multitudes against Empire

world's available savings. The whole pattern looks very unstable. Organising pop conferences to give charity to Africa, may only give a moral cover to what looks like a chaotically fragile global and economic political system. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] a galloway dream

" and helped tipped the balance in the development of the parliamentary tradition from bourgeois to somewhat more radical. The latest gesture with the cigar is inspirational. A real two-fingered salute to George Bush, that keeps the story alive for the media. Chris Burford - Origin

Re: [PEN-L] Galloway - BBC

ernational network of media. A world concept of justice is being forged in battle. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Carl Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:40 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Galloway The BBC World News tonight led with st

[PEN-L] "Christian Fascists"

nged rather than *whether* they should be challenged. I suspect however it is a mistake to regard Roman Catholics as in this group. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Michael Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2005 8:00 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Avak

Re: [PEN-L] capital lost clout?

part of an effective mix of technical skills and technology. The means of production continue to socialise themselves within the framework of private ownership. Chris Burford PS the thread title relates to a shorter term secular phenomenon - the turn in the capitalist cycle, which has been disguised by t

Re: [PEN-L] moral framing, vision

hat the left has to have a moral as well as an economic and a political perspective. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Michael Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 27, 2005 12:02 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] moral framing, vision [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0

[PEN-L] "working class revolution" in Kyrgyzstan

ng over suspected islamic terrorists for colourful interrogation methods with which the Putin regime probably has no difference of principle.] Contradictions. Contradictions. How to put a lid on them? Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] capital lost clout?

ing before our very eyes, and add a little class struggle. Chris Burford London economic autodidact.

[PEN-L] "corporate seismic shift"

ards finance capitalism being so highly socialised in form, that it just needs political struggle to start tipping it over into socialism.   A bit of class struggle might help the political battle too.   IMHO   Chris Burford London      

[PEN-L] why a global matrix exists now

. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Doyle Saylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2005 3:39 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life Greetings Economists, The matrix is a fantasy about creating versimultudenous

[PEN-L] "truly terrifying appointment"

World Development Movement blames European governments for Wolfowitz nomination http://www.wdm.org.uk/news/presrel/current/wolfowitz.htm

[PEN-L] why a Matrix couldn't be realized in real life

uman mental interconnectiveness. Thus IMHO finance capitalism remains the eve of the world socialist revolution. Thus a matrix (but not a Matrix) is indeed being realized in real life in front of our very eyes. It is just that it is invisible to our eyeballs. Regards to Charles and Ravi Chris Burford

[PEN-L] Leowontin reviews Steven Rose's latest book on the brain

From the Lancet March 12 2005 The 21st-Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind Steven Rose. Jonathan Cape, 2005. Pp 344. £20·00. ISBN 0-224-06254-9. In their attempts to make the mysterious complex

Re: [PEN-L] slime mold socialism

;socialist camp" starkly counterposed to capitalism, and communism was assumed to be a distant utopia? It might just not be Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 4:34 PM Subject: [PEN-L] s

[PEN-L] 8 million children die each year within the first month

From the editor of the Lancet (UK medical journal) - Original Message - From: "Lancet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 04, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: The Lancet - Neonatal Survival Series Eight million children are either stillborn or die each year within the firs

Re: [PEN-L] Fwd: White Paper on Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China

* decline by comparison with the economic epicentres? Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:58 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Fwd: White Paper on Regional Autonomy for Ethnic Minorities in China >Hi Loui

[PEN-L] basket of currencies

Mr Mandelson called on Beijing to protect intellectual property rights and revalue the yuan, pegging it to a basket of currencies including the euro, rather than only the dollar. Is this the new international measure of value? Has the dollar already been nudged out by computerized formulae? Chris

[PEN-L] CEO's as gilded intelligentsia

possible to bring back red-blooded owner-entrepreneur capitalism? Probably not as the dominant mode of capitalist production. Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] British job expansion in state sector

ocial democratic Keynesianism, rather than populist tax-cutting right wing. Chris Burford

[PEN-L] Britain and China call for reform of IMF

As relayed in IHT of Tues Feb 22 Fund and World Bank face era of change BEIJING Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown of Britain and Finance Minister Jin Renqing of China on Monday called for the reform of international financial institutions to help deal with rapid economic change. . Brown, ch

[PEN-L] Intifada in Lebanon

2000 by the Middle East Intelligence Bulletin jointly published by the United States Committee for a Free Lebanon and the Middle East Forum:- http://www.meib.org/articles/0004_l1.htm Some apples take long to ripen. Chris Burford

[PEN-L] crumbling NATO - growing Empire?

y nevertheless be accelerating. Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] Significant legal victory against transnationals from European Court

inance capitalist organisations will have to factor it into their readiness to adapt their policies to respond to the demands of radical campaigners for social accountability and responsibility. Food is becoming a front line. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] Arthur Miller, Playwright, Is Dead at 89

ips, which will remain a challenge even under socialism, and communism. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 11, 2005 3:54 PM Subject: [PEN-L] FW: News Alert: Arthur Miller, Playwright, Is Dead at 89 Arthur

Re: [PEN-L] Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy?

balance of forces. At least something along these lines. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, February 10, 2005 5:06 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Thinking for Ourselves: What do we mean by democracy? Thinking for Ourselves: Wh

Re: [PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism

ndividuals, and capital. And Capital. Chris Burford Lodnon - Original Message ----- From: "Chris Burford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 7:35 PM Subject: [PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism It is little consolation to socialists but alongside the

[PEN-L] Collapse of anti-communism

heir heads and know how to play the game on their own terms. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] The Negro and His Nemesis

This statement expresses for me the sense of solidarity from the community of working people and from previous generations.   I experience it as a spiritual statement grounded in material reality.   Thank you.   Chris Burford  Debs is amongst many that watches over us.

[PEN-L] Make Poverty History

http://www.cafod.org.uk/policy_and_analysis/policy_papers/make_poverty_history/mph_briefing christian liberal rubbish? skirmishing between aid voluntary organisations for profile - eg who can get Nelson Mandela to endorse a news story? Or utopian socialism on a world scale? Chris Burford PS I

[PEN-L] Ghana water privatisation

extremely valid but a bit artificial as far as the consciousness of the local people is concerned. On the other hand I could well imagine that the very opposite is the case ... Any comments please? http://www.wdm.org.uk/biwater/index.htm Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] Auschwitz and the Logic of Destruction

This is the subtitle of "Architects of Annihilation" by Goetz Aly and Susanne Heim. p 294 "Our study has shown that the modern praxis-oriented social sciences and the reception of their findings in the seats of political power played a significant part in the decisions that led to systematic mass m

Re: [PEN-L] all quiet on the Leftern front

ation. This is total Empire. In the name of freedom the bourgeois rights of finance capitalism will rule in every corner of the world. Nothing to be quiet about, but the strategy and the tactics of resisting this and turning it against itself into global socialism will be highly complex. Chris Burfo

[PEN-L] Heterodox Economics

Does anyone know any of the organisations in this Association? and have a recommendation? http://hetecon.com/ Chris Burford London

[PEN-L] The Historicising of Auschwitz

I suggest, still a highly problematic act of historicisation that should be contested, for the sake not just of people of Jewish cultural descent, nor just of ordinary German people, like my deaf old friend who is both, but for the sake of the ordinary people of the world. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] British exceptionalism

There have been many factors, which in my opinion are broadly in conformity with a framework of historical materialism, but it should also be said that the English have been lucky. Randomness is part of a pattern of probability. Chris Burford Quoting Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTEC

[PEN-L] WSJ finds caring role?

for international technical and managerial planning will start to alter the nature of global capitalism, and address the massive contradiction between the price of labour power in different parts of the world, which is the mirror image of the uneven accumulation of capital on a world scale. Chris

[PEN-L] Lisbon Earthquake 1755

tsunami's. Voltaire refers to it in his widely-read Candide. The civil society that will be united by this latest earthquake however is global and not merely European, and that has something to do with the development of the means of production. Chris Burford

[PEN-L] Universal interventionism

solidating global capitalism, rather than making it more vulnerable and more accountable to the demands of the masses, collectively and as individuals. IMHO Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "g kohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, December 31, 200

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory

excited? I personally think I am lugubrious enough already, but as Michael discourages characterisations I will not invite corrections at this point. Seasons greetings! Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Patrick Bond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2004 5

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory

to respond, with legal and administrative concessions. It allows us to participate in a Gramscian struggle of global dimensions, although each individual contribution may appear petty. Thanks for sharing. Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle - UN Declaration of Human Rights

out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection. in reply to: --- To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: economics and class struggle behind legal victory. From: Chris Burford Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 ---> snip

Re: [PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory.

al capitalist economy, and are semi-lumpen. Or "under-employed" to use more neutral economic terminology. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "g kohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 2004 4:00 PM Subject: Re: [PEN

[PEN-L] economics and class struggle behind legal victory.

e - working class and self-employed workers on the land - a more radical agenda of  human rights is to their advantage, but there is a downside in that it ultimately tends to emphasise atomised individualised rights, despite Lord Hoffman's praise for the "social organism".   My take on the dialectics, behind this victory.   Chris Burford London  

[PEN-L] Stunning legal victory on the "real threat to the life of the nation"

and in the world. They will succeed. Chris Burford London _ Lord Hoffman 91. What is meant by "threatening the life of the nation"? The "nation" is a social organism, living in its territory (in this case, the United Kingdom) under its own form of government and subject to a sys

Re: [PEN-L] Henry C K Liu articles

diplomatic restructuring of the global financial system, in order to preserve the creative processes of capitalist exploitation from too close public scrutiny. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Charles Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

[PEN-L] "Marx seems clearly to have gotten wrong"

progressive features relative to the objective state of 21st century global finance capitalism. That will most persuasively emerge in the course of struggle. I suggest Chris Burford

Re: [PEN-L] online source on German left affairs

Thanks. Perhaps you would draw attention to a particular article from time to time and briefly say why. I see Bisky advises caution about PDS prospects in 2006, despite the successes earlier this year. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "g kohler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L] Imperial amoeba digests Ukraine

lf is doing. It is Empire. Despite the fact that the EU is the main player. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Chris Doss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, November 27, 2004 10:46 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Ukraine --- [EMAIL P

Re: [PEN-L] Decline of the dollar

towards a qualitative change in the mode of world-wide capitalist organisation? Can this be happening? Now?? And what are the future implications for class struggle? Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L] class struggle in the Ukraine

suggest. Chris Burford London

Re: [PEN-L] Impact of dollar decline?

almighty military as a pre-eminent chip in international power politics. In the long term this is foolish but it might be the best strategy for keeping the Republicans in power for the next ten years. Chris Burford London. - Original Message - From: "Eugene Coyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[PEN-L] Now Russia offers to forgive 80% not 100% of Iraq's debts.

. Because that would challenge the whole basis of the internationalist finance capitalist system. The new Iraq must be born onto the world stage as a debtor nation. Unlike of course, the USA! Chris Burford CNN>> It was the last holdout, waiting to give its OK while President Bush and Russian Pres

Re: [PEN-L] Growing Chinese economic influence

mpany will pass wholly into Chinese hands. No I do not think they are money grubbing about this. I think they are operating in a world in which they know the rules are ones of control by large blocks of finance capitalism over workers, resources and markets. Chris Burford - Original Message

Re: [PEN-L] the end of the left....

ry, a new kind of barbarism is now afoot in the world and one fears the consequences. The optimism of the postwar decades seems like a bygone age. If the left is dead, the concerns that gave rise to it are as powerful and urgent as ever." But we can work out the plot for ourselves. Chris Burf

Re: [PEN-L] Growing Chinese economic influence

capitalist corporation in the world. Probably with a smoother life expectancy than the Murdoch corporation over the next ten years, and proven ability to outmanouevre someone like George Soros. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Louis Proyect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To

[PEN-L] Paris Club "forgives" 30b dollars Iraqi debt

production and the longer term accumulation of capital. Unfortunately however pure voluntarism and pure utopianism are not enough to focus the minds of the power brokers of the world. Chris Burford CNN:- Eichel said 30 percent would be written off immediately, a further 30 percent in a second s

Re: [PEN-L] in hock to the Chinese

y NOT connected with any public policy comment. Whether it ultimately provides conditions for a more socialist world and the overthrow of the power of capital as dead labour, will be highly contested territory. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Max B. Sawicky" <[E

Re: [PEN-L] on the subject of China

stakeholding over a decade or two. How could the USA object to this pleasant offer below that the poor Chinese will generously help tourism and rail travel in Argentina? Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Anthony D'Costa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PRO

[PEN-L] in hock to the Chinese

not to lose this strategic advantage. They are in a sense drawing the USA into the orbit of the Middle Kingdom in a world of advanced finance capitalism. The fly is caught in the mesh. Chris Burford Mike Friedman wrote: Dollar's Decline Is Reverberating Sun Nov 14, 7:55 AM ET By David Strei

Re: [PEN-L] sliding dollar, rising dragon?

waiting for 2040 to find that China is a dominant player on the world stage. The Chinese have too long a history to laugh and no need for schadenfreude. Chris Burford London - Original Message - From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sen

Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times

dent is in office. Chris Burford - Original Message - From: "Carl Remick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 3:46 PM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Sam Smith on bad times I remember how bleak the world looked at the time of Nixon'

[PEN-L] The great imperial slide

of US imperialism, ironically presided over by a showman of the smug self-righteous right. Regards Chris Burford London