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991 Vulnerabilities of Titoist economy -- rank: 1000

At 07:29 03/08/99 -0400, you wrote: >> Essentially land appears to have been owned communistically. >> Chris Burford > >about 85% of agricultural land was privately owned small parcels, about >2/3rds of housing stock (village houses, private apartments, single- >family dwellings) was on privately owned land...non-agricultural, non- >residential land not committed to collective farming or state allocated >social housing was considered to be owned by society... Micha ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Aug 3 15:21:23 PDT 1999

992 social planning (was 'revolution and proletariat') -- rank: 1000

Concerning Doug's observations I doubt if he is some sort of wimpy reformist more a hard critic of what reforms mean and who they actually serve. But Doug also accepts the relevance of reforms. >>> I agree that it's not very productive to talk about planning in the Hayekian style; that kind of comprehensive planning - which is the only kind Hayek wants to talk about in The Road to Serfdom, for him it's maximal planning or almost none at all - just isn't relevant for an OECD economy tod ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Aug 2 23:46:55 PDT 1999

993 Faking what democracy? -- rank: 1000

At 20:59 02/08/99 +0100, you wrote: > >>From the Op-Ed page of the Times, London, > >August 2 1999 OPINION > >Mick Hume >Dr David Chandler, author of Bosnia: Faking Democracy after Dayton, even >suggests that "autonomy for Kosovo under the UN and Nato is increasingly >looking no more democratic than life under the old Yugoslav regime". What democracy is being faked? What is the idealist concept of democracy by which we can see Bosnia is a fake? Is Democra ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Mon Aug 2 15:33:46 PDT 1999

994 social planning (was 'revolution and proletariat') -- rank: 1000

At 20:34 01/08/99 CB: >. . . >Lenin emphasised out how small a proportion of the working force of Russia, >was proletarian. I think the points made here by Jim O'Connor are broadly >correct. They suggest the thesis that one reason for the fall of >centralised socialism was that it was premature in terms of the development >of the relations of production. And was in fact an inappropriate leap from >certain primitive communists methods of peasant organisation to would-be >s ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 1 23:27:37 PDT 1999

995 inadequate badges of ability -- rank: 1000

At 12:45 01/08/99 -0400, kelley wrote: > how is labor >extracted from the regular workers? my boss was also openly uncomfortable >about this b/c to do so she had to lie w/ the 'promise' of pay >raises/promotions. there was a well-known glass ceiling. once a cook, >for ex, reached $8/hr they would often be summarily fired as examples. not >all, but some: if you wanted to work your way up, then you'd best not get >too cocky about pay raises and you'd best earn them cont ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 1 23:32:38 PDT 1999

996 revolution and proletariat (jim o'connor) -- rank: 1000

At 11:44 01/08/99 -0800, Jim O'Connor wrote: > >Marx and Engels theorized that capitalist accumulation, industrialization, >and the development of the mass worker (who is not only formally but really >subordinated to capital, and who could be hardly said to exist in Marx's >time) would make revolution. This involved two kinds of statements by Marx: >first, the generic version, familiar to all; second the historical version, >which has it that the working class is needed to s ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 1 15:44:07 PDT 1999

997 badges of ability -- rank: 1000

At 11:13 31/07/99 PDT, kelley wrote: >to get on with the list discussion of Hidden Injuries of Class I think the argument is a convincing one about how people internalise social relations as qualities within their individual selves. It becomes fetishistic, as Marx analysed commodities to be. Indeed of course under capitalism labour power is a commodity. Marx argues in chapter one of capitalism how the social qualities of the commodity are hidden as in a fetish. I think it is necessary to reme ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun Aug 1 03:09:04 PDT 1999

998 Three pre-occupation theses on Kosovo- evaulating the results -- rank: 1000

At 22:16 31/07/99 +0100, you wrote: >In message <3.0.2.32.19990731200522.013e74b0 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris >Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes > >>One of my differences with the left opportunist line is over the role of >>the state. For some it is enough to be a marxist to oppose everything that >>your imperialist government may do. That is not the marxist theory of the >>state. A ruling class cannot hold state power without at times having to & ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 1 03:22:11 PDT 1999

999 HKMA beginning to swing the bat -- rank: 1000

At 09:55 29/04/99 -0400, you wrote: >While the HKMA is a highly competent organization, it is misleading to call it >a central bank. HKMA, because of HK's currency board regime, lacks the >monetary policy independence to perform most central bank functions. The >remote-controlling central bank for HK is the US Federal Reserve. >Also, because the HKMA is hierachially subservient to the HK Finance Secretary, >it is very different than the relationship the politically independen ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri Apr 30 00:10:45 PDT 1999

1000 Thatcher and Blair's other "buddies" -- rank: 1000

At 09:26 29/04/99 -0400, you wrote: >> Ultimately class and economic forces are the >> determining factors, >> and Blair is a dedicated opportunist riding them. Don't >> sneer, analyse. > >Why not do both? > >Carl Remick And laugh. But having berated Barkley on accuracy in another post, I had better correct the figures in the opinion poll, which I took down in note form. I think I did not quite believe what I heard. >This morning, following my post last nig ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Apr 29 15:51:45 PDT 1999

1001 IMF Special Drawing Rights. -- rank: 1000

At 12:34 28/04/99 -0400, Barkley wrote: [thread title Re: Marshall Aid for Balkans, Africa] >Chris, > The IMF does not "print SDRs." In that regard >my remarks regarding the "nonexistence" of SDRs >should be kept in mind. They are less "real" than >euros, which also are not yet "printed" and do not >exist as a medium of exchange, although they exist >as a form of bank money. The European Central >Bank can issue euros through ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 29 01:06:45 PDT 1999

1002 Thatcher and Blair's other "buddies" -- rank: 1000

At 18:06 28/04/99 -0800, Marta wrote: >Former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (and new Blair buddy) said >something ..... Blair has a systematic policy of allying with individual prominent Conservatives on particular issues. Thus he asked John Major to chair a committee advising on Princess Diana's estate. He got a noted Tory elder statesman, Lord Wakeham, to chair the important reform of the House of Lords. Many members of this list may be bitterly opposed to the policy, but Blair makes ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Apr 29 01:04:06 PDT 1999

1003 Tories in trouble -- rank: 1000

Early next month the British Conservative Party, the Tories, should be starting their climb back to power. In local elections across the country they are contesting seats last contested at a time of maximum unpopularity of the old Conservative government. They are bound to win quite a large number of seats. In Wales and Scotland where proportional representation is being used for the vote for the local assemblies, for the first time, they have a chance of winning at least some seats, instead of ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 28 15:44:48 PDT 1999

1004 Delay, not surprisingly, on gun control -- rank: 1000

>From the Office of the Majority Whip, House of Representatives. No mention of course of gun capital. Chris Burford London >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> April 27, 1999 "Only one thought came to mind when watching the President unveil his proposal today, How dare you? Although my experience was far less severe than the Color ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Apr 28 00:03:31 PDT 1999

1005 Demonizing Milosevic, NATO -- rank: 1000

At 15:26 27/04/99 -0400, Barkley wrote: > BTW, I would ask those who criticize the "demonization" >of His Excellency: How would the world be different today if >HIs Excellency had fallen dead of a heart attack in about 1986? I am not sure that Barkley's comments amount to a demonization although they show a cordial disrespect. Generally I prefer a more austere position that the social, economic and political formation in Serbia has to explain how a fascist politics coul ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Tue Apr 27 16:00:15 PDT 1999