Re: The political economy of indigenous societies

2002-04-21 Thread Romain Kroes
Robert Biel, The New Imperialism (Zed Books, 2000): -- Louis Proyect, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/20/2002 Marxism list: http://www.marxmail.org Rosa Luxemburg made this analysis in 1913 and 1915 (Die Akkumulation des Kapitals, complete version published in 1922). She even went any further,

Palestinians kaput?

2002-04-21 Thread Devine, James
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/opinion/la-28304apr21.story MIDDLE EAST Will Palestinians Go the Way of Native Americans? By LAILA AL-MARAYATI Laila Al-Marayati is a Los Angeles physician and spokesperson for the Muslim Women's League. L.A. TIMES/April 21 2002 While in Monterey

RE: Economics as religion

2002-04-21 Thread Devine, James
I wrote:normative assumptions seem inherent in the process of building models. Models, by their very nature, simplify empirical reality in order to understand it. Then you must decide which simplifying assumptions to make. The standard one is perfect competition without externalities (etc.) -- so

Thousands march in S.F. protest

2002-04-21 Thread Seth Sandronsky
April 21 All, Two newspapers (SF Chronicle and Sacramento Bee), two takes on the April 20 protest against war, poverty and racism in SF. Seth Thousands march in S.F. protest At least 20,000 decry Bush's Mideast policy, Israeli actions Jim Herron Zamora, Chronicle Staff Writer

Socialist Embodied Realism was tactics in Venezuela

2002-04-21 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, Charles Brown posed an indirect question about email? US foreign investment / tactics in Venezuela by Charles Brown 18 April 2002 20:17 UTC [PEN-L:25124] Charles Maybe there is a challenge as to whether it (Social Revolution - Doyle) will be on email. Doyle I want to

Support for Socialist Embodied Realism

2002-04-21 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, This supplements the thesis of my first email in this series, on Socialist Embodied Realism affecting the tactics of mass movements like the recent events of Venezuela. The New York Times today presented some interesting email related market thoughts about

PS to Socialist Embodied Realism

2002-04-21 Thread Doyle Saylor
PS, Economists, Here are some interesting supportive information concerning television and telephone information differences. Two areas, first paper from Cambridge University press on visual aspects of seeing motion, secondly, collaborative tools in scientific communications. In regard to

I am not a Marxist

2002-04-21 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
Try Engels to Conrad Schmidt, 5 Aug 1890. Or try http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1880/05/parti-ouvrier.htm The quote is discussed in detail in Hal Draper's marxological work, Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution (section: I am not a Marxist, said he) but I haven't got the books here so

The Largest Demonstration for Palestine in U.S. History

2002-04-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
The protest was larger than the estimate in the article below suggests. I'd say much more than 100,000. Yoshie Manny Fernandez, Demonstrators Rally to Palestinian Cause, Washington Post, 21 April 2002, p. A1, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22230-2002Apr20.html. -- Yoshie

Re: I am not a Marxist

2002-04-21 Thread Chris Burford
At 21/04/02 04:17 +, you wrote: Can someone give me a cire to the letter where Engles reports Marx as saying (in French), I am not a Marxist? Thanks, jks _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at

Re: Palestinians kaput?

2002-04-21 Thread Tim Bousquet
--- Devine, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps the Palestinians should start building casinos now. They already have: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/980923/1998092348.html tim JD = Check out the Chico Examiner listserves at:

Re: Re: I am not a Marxist

2002-04-21 Thread Justin Schwartz
Thanks, got several cites, also Engels to Bernstein, Nov 2-3 1880 (the quote in French). jks Can someone give me a cire to the letter where Engles reports Marx as saying (in French), I am not a Marxist? Thanks, jks 7th option from Google with I am not a Marxist Sadly 28th option from the

Tue., April 23: Burn!

2002-04-21 Thread Yoshie Furuhashi
Critical Perspectives on Wars, Classes, Empires Screening: _BURN!_ (Dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969) William Walker (played by Marlon Brando), a British agent provocateur, arrives at the Caribbean island of Queimada -- a lucrative sugar-producing colony of Portugal (so named after the island

Re: Thousands march in S.F. protest

2002-04-21 Thread Michael Perelman
A few years ago, I worried about discussions about this subject taking place on the list. From my Berkeley days, I recalled too many leftist jewish people getting irrational about Israel. I feared that that subject would just lead to flame wars. Am I wrong in seeing a growing clarity within

Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now

2002-04-21 Thread Shane Mage
The French presidential election's first round today produced a catastrophic result for the traditional parties of the Left. Socialist candidate Lionel Jospin got fewer than 16% of the vote, 1.5 points less than the fascistic nationalist Jean-Marie Le Pen and 4 points behind Chirac. Eliminated

RE: Re: Re: Thousands march in S.F. protest

2002-04-21 Thread Forstater, Mathew
On an NPR program, an Israeli professor says, in response to criticisms of Sharon, yes, but he is a democratically elected leader and the citizens can vote him out of they want to, whereas the Palestinian and many other leaders of Arab countries are not democratically elected as though this

Palestine Vietnam

2002-04-21 Thread Max B. Sawicky
This is aimed at a couple of different lists, so parts of it that seem commonplace to some will provoke others, and vice versa. If it's not too obvious, it seems worth saying that the Middle East complex of issues -- fundamentalism, terrorist attacks on the U.S., oil, and Palestine -- is what

China's FDI increases by 28% in Q1 of 2002

2002-04-21 Thread Ulhas Joglekar
Hindustantimes.com April 14, 2002 China's FDI increases by 28% to $10 bn in Q1 of 2002 AFP Beijing , 13-04-2002 China's foreign direct investment (FDI) in the first quarter of 2002 increased by 27.5 per cent from the same period last year to $10.1 billion, state media said on Saturday. In

Japan built world's fastest computer

2002-04-21 Thread Sabri Oncu
As usual, let me give the credit to where it is due. I became aware of this through my dinosaur friend Ergin's Monday article in Cumhuriyet. Sabri == Japanese Computer Is World's Fastest, as U.S. Falls Back New York Times, April 20, 2002 By JOHN MARKOFF SAN FRANCISCO, April 19 — A

Re: Japan built world's fastest computer

2002-04-21 Thread Michael Perelman
My take on this for my class last week was that by denying global warming and by pushing the stockpile stewardship nonesense, the US is screwing up the economy. On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 08:15:35PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote: As usual, let me give the credit to where it is due. I became aware of

Re: Japan built world's fastest computer

2002-04-21 Thread Doyle Saylor
Greetings Economists, On another list we had some discussion of this issue. Paul starts with, Jack Dongarra is the Times consultant on High Performance Computing, it seems. An excellent person, friendly, approachable and extremely busy. Also he knows a LOT about the mathematical foundations of

Re: Disaster in France-What Must Be Done Now

2002-04-21 Thread Sabri Oncu
Let us hope that this is a wake up call not only to the French Left but to the entire World Left. Let us hope that this is the last nail on the coffin of the Third Way. Let us hope that our French friends can stop Le Pen. Sabri French Police Fire Tear Gas at Anti-Le Pen

Re: RE: Re: Thousands march in S.F. protest

2002-04-21 Thread Michael Pugliese
A book I just bought, Perceptions of Palestine, by Kathleen Christison, University of Ca. Press, 1999, has this footnote. Pg. 316, fn. #29, The original quote-, 'A country without a nation for a nation without a country, - came from Lord Shaftesbury in 1839. (Michael W. ) Suleiman