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331 Beyond academic marxism (was: marxism on wgn-fm) -- rank: 1000

At 02:57 19/02/01 +0000, Justin wrote: >Chris, Academic Marxism is the only kind that is left. The mass social >movement that called themselves Marxist are gone. The struggle is not >gone, and insofar as the (academic) theory is true, which it is to a >considerable degree, it correctly describes the struggle, but outside a >few backwaters, the only serious social movement that still calls itself >Marxist is the Brazilian PT, and its prospects are not so great, given >what ha ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 23:19:16 PST 2001

332 "Volatility as Social Flaring" -- rank: 1000

My conclusion from this exchange was that Barkley's article is indeed to a large extent tautologous, *and* that it is valuable, because expressing a common pattern in mathematics is one of the routes to scientific advance. I see Barkley as a committed leftist, with significant social skills, as Doug has, only different ones. This is an important quality in leftists, and by no means universal. While on the one hand Barkely is frequently skittishly disarming and humorous, the article adopts the to ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 22:19:38 PST 2001

333 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

At 21:20 17/02/01 -0800, you wrote: >http://tribapps.tribune.com/rafiles/wgnam/shows/ex720/Audio/marxmr.ram > >http://www.nd.edu/~remarx/index2.html OK what I got from this was 1. the chairperson saying many people in US universities remain impressed by Marx 2.Erik Olin Wright arguing that it is better to talk about the Marxist Tradition as a terrain of debate rather than Marxism, and 3.David Ruccio, Editor of Rethinking Marxism, arguing that a core concept of marxism is class exploitat ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 09:18:43 PST 2001

334 Volatitily as social flaring -- rank: 1000

I'll be off giving a talk at the Atlanta Fed.... (on "Volatility as Social Flaring," available on my website, more creepy chaos theory stuff). Barkley Rosser A few words please, Barkley, to translate your article into more lay language. I am generally in favour of your approach although I am left behind by the mathematics. But the groundings appear very speculative and require a lot of cautious creeping. Suppose using social flaring as an explanation for kurtosis is in essence a tautol ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 15 16:15:27 PST 2001

335 Fw: [ASDnet] Guardian - Nato mocked those who claimed there was a plan for Caspian oil -- rank: 1000

At 22:35 14/02/01 -0800, you wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4136440,00.html >A discreet deal in the pipeline >Nato mocked those who claimed there was a plan for Caspian oil > >Special report: the petrol war > >George Monbiot >Guardian > >Thursday February 15, 2001 >The line will run from the Black sea port of Burgas to the Adriatic at >Vlore, passing through Bulgaria, Macedonia and Albania. It is likely to >become the main route ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 14 23:17:43 PST 2001

336 American intellectual property -- rank: 1000

"American intellectual property is our greatest trade asset." said by one on the victors side of the Napster case Is that now true? Any figures? Chris Burford

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Date:	Mon Feb 12 23:07:28 PST 2001

337 Kliman responds again - value theory -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman forwarded the following through me, as he could not get through directly CB From: "Drewk" <Andrew_Kliman at msn.com> To: "Chris Burford" <cburford at gn.apc.org> Subject: RE: Kliman responds/value theory Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 02:22:43 -0500 In reply to Michael McIntyre: He wrote: "All Marx did in Vol. III was postulate a set of prices for a commodity and derive value as the mean price. But, of course, you need to run the chain in the opposite di ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 9 15:44:59 PST 2001

338 Kliman responds -- rank: 1000

At 16:55 07/02/01 -0600, you wrote: >Well, never say it can't be done until you've seen how someone proposes to >do it, I suppose, but HOW does Marx's derivation of price from value work >if you remove the equilibrium constraint? All Marx did in Vol. III was >postulate a set of prices for a commodity and derive value as the mean >price. But, of course, you need to run the chain in the opposite >direction if you want to show that price depends on value, not vice >versa. I ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 7 16:14:32 PST 2001

339 A Topic Too Hot to Handle -- rank: 1000

At 15:34 05/02/01 +0100, you wrote: >This week Norman Finkelstein's "The Holocaust Industry" is to appear in >German translation. First signs of public hysteria are already manifest. >Watch out for more in the next weeks. > >Johannes Perhaps this is a tactless way to address the question in Germany but Finklestein as I understand it, is battling against the control by the "holocaust industry" particularly within Jewish American circles. What needs to be address ...

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340 Mitrovica and Southern Serbia today -- rank: 1000

At 13:50 01/02/01 -0500, Seth wrote: > Chris Burford wrote: > > > The military clashes in Southern Serbia and Mitrovica form a qualitatively > > > > different contradiction to those about the self-determination of the > > population of Kosovo as a whole. > > > > It is essential that self-determination should be a right for > > geographically economically coherent areas. It is reasonable that old > > boundaries keep their status as uni ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 1 23:09:52 PST 2001

341 A Modest proposal for the Empire -- rank: 1000

At 29/12/01 09:59 -0500, Jim F wrote: >I think that Carrol is quite right here. It is simply too >early to tell whether imperialism will benefit or suffer >in the long term because of 9/11. I broadly agree, and I agree with the details of the arguments for and against. Generally though I think that for all the USA's re-asserted arrogance, the events have accelerated a process of globalising the political agenda and trying to find a global new juridical formation. An aspect not discusse ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 30 16:17:29 PST 2001

342 Marxism and "Science" -- rank: 1000

At 30/12/01 15:15 -0800, Thomas wrote: >Hmmm, Carrol, I wonder what Chairman Mao would have >said about Superstring theory and hyperdimensionality >then? "If you want to know what a Superstring is, >bite it"?????????????????? Well a superstring cannot be bitten and nor can electromagnetic radiation, though the latter has practical uses. Only materialist however can dare to suggest that superstrings, and membranes which are derived from them, are proliferating mathematical ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 30 15:55:59 PST 2001

343 Marxism and the psychology of self-deception -- rank: 1000

At 29/12/01 10:48 -0500, Jim F wrote: >I think that Marx's point concerning the role of ideology >is that certain false theories (like neoclassical economics) >help the bourgeosie stay in power because they help to >obscure the reality of exploitation in the eyes of the non-bourgeois >strata. That still leaves open the question of whether the >bourgeosie themselves really benefit from their being >deceived by their own ideologies. That is do the bourgeoisie >really bene ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 30 15:22:46 PST 2001

344 How Do IMF Economists Justify This? -- rank: 1000

At 29/12/01 15:43 -0800, you wrote: >IMF encourages debtor countries to decrease imports >and increase exports (devalue currency, produce for >export, etc). This might work in an individual case, >but it would seem to be stupid when prescribed >globally (who is going to import???) What would an >IMF economist reply to such a criticism? > >Thomas Naive questions from intelligent people who are not afraid to pose naive questions, are sometimes the best. Who is going to im ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 30 12:35:24 PST 2001

345 Michael Hardt -- rank: 1000

At 29/12/01 23:09 -0800, you wrote: >< http://www.duke.edu/~hardt/ > And more modest than I recall it, and not updated since October http://www.duke.edu/literature/Hardt.html Chris Burford

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