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916 euro and kautskyism -- rank: 1000

LP: >Chris Burford posted this to LBO-Talk, but I have exceeded my quota there. >I will answer him here. Basically, I accused him of being some kind of >neo-Kautskyite for believing the Eurodollar would bring the world closer to >peace. An elusive distortion of the issue. My reference was to peace in western Europe, not world peace. And as I argued, the European Union grew consciously out of Schuman's Iron and Steel Confederation established between France and Germany specifically fo ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 7 14:58:14 PST 1999

917 europhoria -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect could not be bothered to wait to the next day to post the following because he had exceeded his quota on LBO-talk. Instead he posted in on his own list. I am therefore posting it here for him. And will reply in due course. Chris Burford London. >X-Sender: lnp3 at popserver.panix.com >X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 >Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 19:52:22 -0500 >To: marxism at lists.panix.com >From: Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> >Subject: Rep ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Jan 7 00:35:44 PST 1999

918 europhobia -- rank: 1000

At 22:13 06/01/99 -0800, you wrote: <> >Another way of looking at London is that through deregulation, London is in fact >an America financial outpost for Europe and Russia and also for East Asia. >One of the unspoken reason the Japanese adamantly refuse to liberalized the Tokyo >financial markets is that they do not wish to have Tokyo turn into a London of the >East, dominated by American capital. Unruly members in the Diet have raised this >issue countless time in deb ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jan 6 23:57:14 PST 1999

919 europhobia -- rank: 1000

At 20:55 06/01/99 -0000, Sol wrote: >The piece under Blair's name in the WSJ seems to be part of a charm offensive >belatedly launched from London when Brit ruling circles as usual realised too >late that the perfidious continentals are aiming to use the Euro and their >greater unity within the EU to attack London's dominance as the main global >centre for 'offshore' finance. The laser shows and general jollifications in >Frankfurt for the Euro-launch made London seem periphera ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Jan 6 15:48:17 PST 1999

920 Obuchi travels to Europe -- rank: 1000

Soon after the launch of the euro, Japan's Prime Minister Obuchi is travelling to Europe to discuss the world financial system. This itself has a symbolic message. Japan is welcoming opportunities in a world that may no longer be dominated solely by the dollar, even if it is careful to say Obuchi is not making any formal proposals. However the Japanese government has been promoting the idea of "managed flexibility" in exchange rates between the euro, the dollar and the yen to control e ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jan 5 23:25:07 PST 1999

921 europhoria -- rank: 1000

At 12:14 05/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >>No euphoria. More impressively, prudent confidence. A major, major shift in >>the co-ordination and centralisation of global capital, in conformity with >>a civil society, dominated by the capitalists but open to informed working >>people. >> >>Chris Burford > >FT Asia Intelligence Wire > >1998 BUSINESSWORLD (PHILIPPINES) > >August 18, 1998 > >Businesswise- United we stand... > >January 1, 199 ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Jan 5 15:59:04 PST 1999

922 europhoria -- rank: 1000

At 22:37 04/01/99 +0100, you wrote: >I'm kind of out of touch down here in Appalachia, but it seems the euro has >had a remarkable debut, with continental stock markets up about 5% and the >currency strong against the US$. What it's all mean? Any thoughts, esp from >you folks over there in Euroland? > >Doug Sorry but I am not in Euroland. Interesting you feel out of it in Appalachia. I have been watching on CNBC, and Bloomberg's plus CNN, Sky and BBC. Does personal contact with ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 4 23:41:39 PST 1999

923 Euro-ka! -- rank: 1000

At 19:36 04/01/99 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Buford: >>What has happened now that makes it serious to argue that capitalism has >>brought the prospect of peace to western Europe? It is that monopoly >>capitalism has become transnational capitalism. It has gone far beyond the >>bounds of a single national state. > >Have you been dipping into Kautsky again, you naughty boy? Note the unprincipled shifting of ground without self-criticism. No comment on the issue of ca ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 4 23:51:09 PST 1999

924 Euro-ka! -- rank: 1000

So the Euro has survived the first trading day stronger than it went in. A perfect docking was achieved with the computers. No disasters occurred. The French did not pull out on the grounds that Duisberg is staying in for a full 8 years. The Euro crept up on modest trading from 1.17 to 1.18 dollars, and may go over 1.20 this year. Informed commentary emphasises how major central banks particularly those of mainland and Taiwan China, plus major institutional investors will be transferring funds o ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Jan 4 15:18:05 PST 1999

925 What is wrong with empiricism? -- rank: 1000

At 11:17 03/01/99 +0000, you wrote: >In message <3.0.2.32.19990103084312.00fc10f4 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris >Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >>Going back to Jim H's original post, I do not doubt that logical >>positivists were intelligent enough to allow verbally for the limits of >>observable reality, but the philosophical enemy is surely better defined as >>empricism. > >What's wrong with empiricism? >-- >Jim heartfield Getting empi ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 4 10:50:24 PST 1999

926 AIDS and capitalism -- rank: 1000

While the tobacco capitalists of the USA and the UK are investing to deepen their control of the market in third world countries, very little money is being spent on the third world by the booming western pharmaceutical companies. In 1997 the death rate from AIDS in the USA halved. This was with the advent of combination therapy involving protease inhibitors. But in a country like Uganda, where AIDS may have originated, the cost of this treatment at around 1,500 dollars a month per patient is im ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 3 15:26:48 PST 1999

927 there's no such thing as positivism -- rank: 1000

Going back to Jim H's original post, I do not doubt that logical positivists were intelligent enough to allow verbally for the limits of observable reality, but the philosophical enemy is surely better defined as empricism. Chris Burford London. At 11:35 AM 12/29/98 +0000, Jim Heartfield wrote: >Sam Pawlett wrote > >>> Logical Positivism is not the enemy. The Vienna Circle were all progressives, >>Neurath >>> was a Marxist. > >It's true that if you read any co ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 3 00:43:12 PST 1999

928 Castro on the fall of capitalism -- rank: 1000

At the 40th anniversary of the Cuban revolution, the media report: >> The current capitalist-dominated world economic order will, Castro predicted, "fall inevitably", while speculative cash-flows and neoliberal globalization had taken the world to the edge of disaster. << [Interesting BTW that he does not think "there is no such thing as neo-liberalism".] But does anyone have access to the actual text, or to the Party's thinking, to explain the argument that capit ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Jan 3 01:04:21 PST 1999

929 Threat to dollar from Euro -- rank: 1000

Before Christmas there were reports of Japanese investors preparing to move heavily into the Euro, but today commentators on CNBC and CNN were not predicting a massive strengthening of the Euro. One argued that the US has probably been following a deliberately weak dollar strategy for some time, but rather unobtusively, and that with people like Lafontaine having greater influence in Europe, Europe is likely to try to follow a weaker Euro policy than it otherwise would. The result would be not c ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jan 1 15:49:50 PST 1999

930 Tobacco capitalists' global offensive -- rank: 1000

This article targets the tobacco capitalists, and not the smokers of the USA, as the opening sentence shows. Chris Burford London. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "The global perspective: a new opium war" Dr Judith M. Mackay, Director, Asian Consultancy on Tobacco Control Hong Kong &g ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Jan 1 11:22:27 PST 1999