[NOTE: Obviously, the work of narco-Indians! -DG]
President Mahuad's grip on power has
been faltering in the face of the
growing protests.
Jim Devine wrote:
Sam Pawlett wrote:
It looks to me like interest rates are important vis a vis the business
cycle witness Volker's rate hike in the early 80's which had profound
effects on the U.S. and world economy
Louis Proyect writes:
I agree that this sort of action can
pulation
that becomes the most radicalized. So, in this situation the country is
stuck
in a transition which becomes a pseudo-metamorphesis. This is the point
Bettelheim takes up at length in the appendix to Emmanuel's book. What
is the solution? Socialism, of course.
Sam Pawlett
a role in Carling)where societies with lower development
of productive forces are selected out by societies with higher
development of pf's through a variety of causal mechanisms like superior
weapons. I wonder of Diamond has read Carling.
Sam Pawlett
Sam Pawlett wrote:
On a more abstract level, Diamond's ideas bear a prima facie
similarity to a type of historical materialism defended by Alan Carling
built on an analogy to natural selection (i don't think actual natural
selection plays a role in Carling)where societies with lower
eans.
11. Europeans invented the modern state.
12. Europeans invented capitalism.
13. Europeans, uniquely "venturesome", were the great explorers
"discoverers" etc.
14. Europeans invented industry and created the Industrial revolution.
p7-8.
Sam Pawlett
?
There were important theoretical differences between the Lenin and
Stalin-Zinoviev comintern but these differences came to nothing in
practice. The Comintern blew it for many reasons, one of them being
eurocentrism.
Sam Pawlett
1900
Italy 1976. Director: Bernardo Bertolucci. Cast: Gerald Depardieu,
Robert Dinero, Burt Lancaster, Sterling Hayden, Donald Sutherland,
Dominique Sanda, Sandra Sandrelli, Laura Betti, Stefania Casini.
English. 311 minutes.
1900 is Bernardo Bertolucci's melodramatic, baroque, operatic,
Michael Perelman wrote:
The New York Times April 24, 2000
UPS Sues Canada Over Postal System
ATLANTA (AP) -- United Parcel Service is suing Canada, alleging that the
country's postal service has been allowed to use its mail monopoly to
expand
into the courier
"Christian A. Gregory" wrote:
Bob Jessop has a fairly easy to read and very good intro to regulation
theory in Michael Storper and Allen Scott, "Pathways to Industrialization
and Regional Development."
I'd also reccommend Alice Amsden's (dead-on)
rejoinder to Lipietz about ten years ago
arms
trade
in
the "Golden Triangle" and "Golden Crescent". Way to go guys! Just wait
until the Taliban fully takes over the Pakistani military. Then we will
have some real anti-communists on our hands!
Sam Pawlett
iolin concerto a cross between Viennese dodecaphony, traditional
western harmonies and folkish harmonies. As always with Bartok, no style
dominates suggesting that various cultures and traditions could live the
same way.
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is being privatized (in a very corrupt
fashion). Has it improved the gender relations? I don't know. It hasn't
helped much in other places. Further,the conditions that led to the
initial wars in Vietnam are being
reproduced.
Sam Pawlett
Doug Henwood wrote:
Even if you don't take the whole Butler dose, I think it's always
important to ask what is happening ideologically when biology - or
"nature" - is invoked.
Yes.
When people start talking about hormones,
there's some invocation of physical necessity against whose
with
the core would equalize forcing the country to industrialize as it can
no longer export its food to pay for manufactures.
Ricardo failed to see that increasing returns of investment in industry
and "human capital" is the rule.
Sam Pawlett
act ethical ideal drawn
up in someone's head then imposed onto society but is rather a product
of historical process. As Engels said "you cannot decree the development
of the masses. This is conditioned by the development of the conditions
in which the masses live and hence evolves gradually."Socialism Utopian
and Scientific, 34.
sam Pawlett
oviet jazz) Quartet Books 1985. S.Frederick Starr
*Red and Hot. The Fate of Jazz in the Soviet Union* Oxford U Press 1983
614pgs. The premier Soviet jazz critic was Alexey Batashev who authored
many books and taught thousands of students jazz history.
Sam Pawlett
her, maybe it is
better for the children if they are raised by women? I don't know.
Mine
Sam Pawlett wrote:Well, it is necessary that the male penetrate
the female or the species will fail to reproduce itself.
...except for the occasional turkey-baster.
or canoe paddler.
Why
Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
Other open secrets:
FDR knew about Japanese "sneak" attack on Pearl Harbor.
America did not help Jews fleeing from Nazi Germany
Truman used the two nuclear bombs on Japan mostly to warn the Soviets.
Cardinal Spellman was very inflential in Kennedy's early decision
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
How many 'covert actions' are open secrets?
Yoshie
Doesn't the word "covert" imply that these actions are or are supposed
to be secret? Why not call them overt operations?
SP
o
are working it directly...The Indian councils will enter into real possesion of
the lands which belong to them. This will promote the development and
strengthing of these native communities." in Revolutionary Writings_ p 238.
Sam Pawlett
p.s. doesn't the Brecht forum offer nightschool classes in learning Spanish
language?
f the so-called Socratic method in legal courtroom
practice. The witness is not allowed to ask questions and can only answer the
questions directed at her.
Sam Pawlett
I've always wondered just how much Francis Cornford was influenced by
Marxism. Anyone know? His translations of Plato contain a lot of Marxish
language. He translates Thrasymachus like this:
"In every case, the laws are made by the ruling party in its own
interest; a democracy makes democratic
I would add that there was a good article on the Colombian attorney
general in CAQ a few issues ago. Some of the civil servants are sincere
in their battle for human rights and against corruption. They are in the
minority however. They receive death threats and are quite often
murdered. Many
, of
course, is the opposite. I think one can analyse the state in terms of property
rights without falling into Douglas North style excessive generalaties.
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I don't know if these articles have been forwarded yet. I've lost track
of all of the crosspostings.
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favorites especially in Kubrick's "The
Killing" and Bertolucci's epic about class struggle in S.Italy "1900" (should
the partisans have tried Robert Dinero at the end?). Didn't Hayden move in CPUSA
circles at least for a time? Did he have problems during McCarthyism?
Sam Pawlett
humane system
long ago. I would suggest that they adopt the language of concern for civilians
only when it serves their interests to do so. There are no principles at work
here, just straight Machiavellianism. By nabbing Kosovo, the U.S. expands its
sphere of control eastwards.
Sam Pawlett
U.S. Jets Bomb North Iraqi Artillery Sites
What's the matter with these guys? Haven't they seen Lawrence of Arabia?
To Accaba!
Sam
and ELN do not like foreign NGO's operating in Colombia because
they, rightly, view NGO's as instruments of imperialism and neo-liberalism cf
James Petras article on Imperialism and NGO's in Monthly Review from awhile
back.
At any rate, I always take what Sam Pawlett says with the
greatest degree
wallet, be careful who you talk to and
don't buy drugs on the street!
Adelante!
Sam Pawlett
and Stevenson is the best
alternative.
Holding certain views as sacrosanct and beyond questioning is also
destructive.
Sometimes one should read an opposing viewpoint with the intention
that just maybe
you might be convinced. Just to keep you on your toes.
Sam Pawlett
Franklin's book is one of those
of the
intelligence "community" often become members of the capitalist class and vive
versa. William Casey was director of ABC/Cap cities for a time I believe. Bush
has oil interests. The brothers Dulles were directors of United Fruit at the
time of the coup in Guatemala.
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As an intellectual movement, analytical Marxism has run out steam. There remains a
body of excellent work, even if the people who produced it are no longer mainly
working in the area.
Yes. One of the reasons for this was that AM and the debates within it
were
.. Many
professional philosophers are themselves dissatisfied with the current
situation. Hundreds of journal articles do nothing but clarify a few
terms (their real function is to promote careers.) The
motto "never a climb a fence unless you can sit
on it" fits here.
Sam Pawlett
uot;. Most of the bombing is now
conventional "dumb" bombing of Korean War vintage.
Sam Pawlett
She gave a famous speech to the UN putting down NGO's, no?
Sam
Has anyone read Alan Gilbert's book on Latin American cities? Those are
cities drastically in need, of well. something. Paul Goodman wrote
something interesting stuff on urban planning in his Utopian Essays. He
has an essay on banning cars from Manhatten. Imagine that!
Sam Pawlett
mself on the fork. All the major characters in the
film end up dead. A fitting denouement to this horrible war.
In short, the film is a brilliant 'Full Metal Jacket' of the Bosnian
war even if its explanations are flawed.
Sam Pawlett
as mathematicians and not as philosophers. Whatever
Harvey's motives, I'm sure he could have found a basis for his ideas in
more sound and less woolly philososphies.
Sam Pawlett
5/23/2000
The US-China Society of Friends is regularly distributing artcles on
Chinese Marxism, "socialism with Chinese characteristics," Chinese
politics
and economics, and similar topics. If you wish to receive these
materials,
send your e-mail and snail mail addresses to Sidney Gluck at
. There's also an good bibliography for
beginners which might be useful.Didn't the URPE publish a macro text
with Monthly Review some time ago?
Sam Pawlett
The airline industry is strange. Wild price fluctuations, bucket shop
seats, open jaws, student fares, standby etc. I once bought an open
ended ticket from Vancouver to LA return for $C50. Another flight over
from Asuncion Paraguay to Leticia in Colombia was $US800 even though it
is a shorter
Doug Henwood wrote:
[Gore has the answer to airplane safety - prayer!]
Look Tinkerbell! We Can Fly! Thinking will make it so!
SP
arguments that socialism is inevitable and that is just
the
way it is. Marx himself is often criticized for being romantic and
utopian. Being romantic and utopian is ok by me , but then I'm young and
foolish.
Sam Pawlett
works exist not _because_ but _in spite_ of capitalism. Its not the
profit motive, incentives, or capitalist social relations that allowed
Schubert to write his quartets, Coltrane to play or "A Love Supreme" or
Wittgenstein to write the Investigations. The working class doesn't do
much in the way of creative activity because it is too busy working.
Sam Pawlett
Sunday's Superbowl was one of the best I've seen...in terms of its raw
drama the last quarter of play.
Today, Monday, a good many of your students will return from watching it
and thinking about it only in terms of that raw drama...with maybe a bit of
enthusiasm for the home team...
There
The History of Mexico is the History of Class Struggle.
Mexico's Hope. James Cockroft. MR Press.1999.435 pgs.
This is the best general introduction to Mexican history and
political economy available in English. Cockroft's book is a sweeping
history of Mexico from the pre-colonial era to
[NOTE: Break out a bottle of Tres Esquinas (Colombian rum) and
sit back to read this one. As this is not from the lobotomized
U.S. media, you will actually be called upon to think! -DG]
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s executed by the Gestapo in France in 1941.
It looks to me like interest rates are important vis a vis the business
cycle witness Volker's rate hike in the early 80's which had profound
effects on the U.S. and world economy
Sam Pawlett
ring better management
control of the workforce. This tactic works well here in Canada where we
consistently have unemployment rates of 8-12% and college grads lined up for jobs
in the service sector. I still think B.Russell's paper "In Defense of Idleness" is
where its at.
Sam Pawlett
by Alan Cantwell( not a good name for a doctor)
etc.One of the more plausible c-theories was that it was spread through
hepatitus B vaccines. The first reported case of HIV was in the early
80's, no?
Sam Pawlett
Eugene Coyle wrote:
Another quote: "Capitalism's critics often fret about the wealthy
having too much, but uneven income distribution plays a role in
developing markets. ... Without society's wealthy, fewer new goods
and services would find their way to the rest of us. Indeed, the
Also;
Kate Millet Sexual Politics
S. Firestone The Dialectics of Sex
Erica Jong Fear of Flying
D.Cooper ed. Dialectics of Liberation.
The movie 'Platoon' is instructive in that two characters represent the
political spectrum, one played by Willem Dafoe represents the doves(
Anthony
If I was to teach a course on the 60's:
Michael Vickery, Malcolm Caldwell and Ben Kiernan on Cambodia.
Alfred McCoy The Politics of Heroin
James Miller Democracy is in the Streets
Martin Lee Acid Dreams
Michael Herr Dispatches
F.Fitzgerald Fire in the Lake
Howard Zinn The Politics of History
Henry C.K. Liu wrote:
Freidman normally writes about foreign affairs.
He is also an apologist for Israeli atrocities in Lebanon. cf Chomsky The
Fateful Triangle.
Sam
-independance majority in Timor. Any one know what's going
on? Also, how has the major depression in Indonesia affected the
Timorese economy?
Sam Pawlett
us lowered productivity. Poor nutrition and disease also
contributed to the failure of the communes.
I/m doing a lot of research on Cambodia right now and plan to post a longer
article when I'm finished.
Sam Pawlett
Louis Proyect wrote:
Doug:
The WB says 53% of the population was urban in 1980.
I don't know much about long wave theory, but from the summary accounts
I've read there is some empirical evidence for it. But, what exactly
hinges on the existence of long waves? Just the ability to explain and
predict economic growth?
Sam Pawlett
mous problem of getting the surplus from the
peasants. Preobrazenski called this socialist primitive accumulation. These are
all facsinating questions and the best discussions of them, I think, took place
in the USSR in the 1920's.
Sam Pawlett
Ken Hanly wrote:
Are these references to John Locke's tabula rasa and to a certain
work by John Cage :)
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Yes, that was my updated version of 4'33. Hope you enjoyed it. This has
been a Sam Pawlett rip-off concert.
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Jim Devine wrote:
Do you really think "Democratic" Kampuchea was moving in the direction of
the "Asiatic" mode of production, whatever that is? or in the direction of
the tributary mode of production, a similar type of system that's b
forgotten how
nice it is here in the springtime."
"Have you been here before", I replied.
" Haven't we all?"
That would be a great beginning to a novel.
Sam Pawlett
p.s. I delivery man came into work the other day. The following
conversation took plac
ation--this is what jazz is all about. I think
jazz speaks to that..you can hear it in their music the way the musicians
speak of their socio-political position."
Sam Pawlett
Class' of our time. Bourdieu is talking about French culture but Elster lived in
France and studied with Althussar. Zizek, Butler, Derrida and Lacan might be
helpful, if one could understand what the hell they're talking about.
Every gadfly has his hemlock.
Sam Pawlett
f why a square peg won't go in a round hole. By analogy,
explanation at the level of atoms or even individuals will not be the best
explanation of the laws of motion of capitalism. Higher level explanations are
sometimes better and parsimonious. But enough for now, I'm got the flu and feel
even more spaced o
Peter Dorman wrote:
I like Dave Douglas, Mingus, Max Roach -- and their politics -- too, but
I think you have judged the classical crowd too harshly. From my
experience most performers and composers except for the very elite, in
the US anyway, are on the left, moderately to intensely.
The Amazon.com catalogue lists a new publication by David Harvey called
_Limits to Capital_ to be published in April of this year (192 pgs). Is
this an update of his earlier work of the same name? I tried several
mail-order operations and the 1982 version of Limits to Capital is out
of print and
itch gives a good account of his life and activities
in his very useful book on Yugoslavia. I agree with everything else Jim said in
his post.
Sam Pawlett
2) More importantly, I think that the "right of nations to
self-determination" is too often a sham and a delusion. In some situa
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ll put out the alternative budget? Seemed that there
was some real creative thinking going on there.
Sam Pawlett
Vancouver
BTW, Tom, has Jock Finlayson changed his toupee recently?
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Here's a little post I wrote on Cohen this morning
Sam Pawlett wrote:
The main problem I have with Cohen et al. is that their work is
Marxological rather than Marxist. The AM's string a bunch of quotes from
m not
sure that an all-encompassing theory can be designed to take into
account the wild discrepancies between areas in the development of the
productive forces.
Sam Pawlett
lit. or Communication studies. An old prof/friend of
mine Kathleen Akins just recieved a 1 million dollar Macdonnell Douglas
grant to study the connection between neuroscience and the phil of mind.
Generally I am really down on young people, but the nineties are an
awful time to be a young person(I
to achieve
nationalist ends as Khieu Samphan admitted. But enough for now.
Sam Pawlett
angela
Wasn't Jevons the guy who argued that sunspots helped explain recessions?
SP
Tom Walker wrote:
"It is evident that questions of this kind depend greatly upon the character
of the race . . . A man of lower race, a negro for instance, enjoys
possession less, and loathes labour more; his
Hitchens has a book on tyeh Elgin marbles doesn't he?
SP
Louis Proyect wrote:
This discussion about Andrew Mellon, Warhol, etc. reminds me of the article
in the latest Lingua Franca on the Elgin Marbles, which are a frieze from
the Parthenon that the British seized in the 19th century. The
Jim Devine wrote:
...I don't think the dystopia of
Bladerunner is that fanciful.
Luckily, L.A. isn't as bad as Bladerunner yet. Of course, I live in a
pretty good place (Culver City, a racially-integrated middle-class minicity
in the middle of L.A., which unfortunately has an
rough and not referenced properly.
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From Branka Magas _The Destruction of Yugoslavia_ Verso 1992.: p179ff
"Yugoslavia, February 1989. Albanian miners from the Trebca zinc and
lead mine in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo are striking
underground--if necessary to death--in defence of their national and
political rights. In the
he obvious one. I'm not saying that Sam Pawlett really wants
to keep women in the nursery. What I am saying, however, is that
Sam has give his comrades reason to fear his trustworthiness.
"When the Information Bureau published its resolution, the Belgrade
fascist fiends began to complain that
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think The analogy to Stalin's liquidation of Kulaks is accurate
except
that ejido holders are the poor peasants not the rich. Most ejidos are
under 5 acres. David Barkin's book is the best in English on all this
but his work is pre-Ezln and pre-El BArzon.
Sam Pawlett
ole. Groups of altruists do better than groups of
exploiters (defectors).
Sam Pawlett
t the goal of the state is to get the capitalist class
to co-operate but the working class to defect (as a whole).
Sam Pawlett
most forceful advocates of
Malthusianism and the Malthusianism of the mainstream environmental
movement (Sierra Club etc.) as well as being the main financial backers
of
said movement.
Sam Pawlett
exposition and critique of structural adjustment theory and reality as
applied to NZ.
Sam Pawlett
Lamont and Spencer write
about their experiences and continue their commitment to social change
in L.A. Their experience and dedication is badly needed in the movement
here.
Sam Pawlett
Why in God's name would this kind of "experience and dedication" be "badly
needed&
I forgot to add that the Paz brothers and Maria Marchi confessed under
torture thus invalidating their confessions under international law.
SP
Sam Pawlett wrote:
Christine Lamont, 39, of Vancouver B.C. and David Spencer, 35, of
Moncton N.B. were given full parole yesterday by the Canadian
ncer write
about their experiences and continue their commitment to social change
in L.A. Their experience and dedication is badly needed in the movement
here.
Sam Pawlett
the globe as
BBC foreign affairs correspondent, author of 12 high quality and well
received books, radio and TV host of programmes of the highest calibre,
elected as Labor M.P. twice and came to know many major figured of 20th
century artistic, political and intellectual life.
Sam Pawlett
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And hopefully libertarianism with him...
http://www.hno.harvard.edu/gazette/2002/01.17/99-nozick.html
Title: Harvard Gazette: Philosopher Nozick dies at 63
Search the Gazette
of
voluntary exchange between individuals is created by understanding the
whole (society) in terms of the part (individual) i.e. the appearance of
capitalism as a just system of competing individuals is created by
capitalism itself. Hope that helps.
Sam Pawlett
-based export
agriculture. The Brazilian seems to think a pareto optimal situation is an
egalitarian one.
Any thoughts on this?
Sam Pawlett
the poor hook their
fortunes to Al Davis and the NFL? (The possibility of "full socializaton"
seems off the agenda.)
There was an article in *Dollars and Sense*, "The Sports Stadium
Rip-off" about a year ago that dealt with these questions. I'll try and
dig it up and post some
lated and demonized in the international community. Its surprising
just how succesful U.S. foreign policy since NSC 68 has been.
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