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32761 Kliman responds -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "Drewk" <Andrew_Kliman at msn.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: value theory Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 16:27:21 -0500 A brief reply to Michael McIntyre, who wrote "I'll admit that I gave up on value theory a long time ago, but what does equilibrium analysis have to do with it, in any case? The problem is deriving price from value (not value from price as in Vol. III). Until you can do that, you can't derive profit f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 13:28:24 PST 2001

32762 telecom dereg in NY -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I just read where Billy Tauzin, the repug point man on telecom >deregulation in the House, says that the two states the FCC okayed for >local competition, New York and Texas, are models for the rest of the >country. As he puts it, "once people knew approval was coming, local >competition took off like a rocket." Somehow I missed this. I don't >believe I've gotten so much as a single piece of junk mail offering me an >alternative local phon ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 13:15:57 PST 2001

32763 election analysis -- rank: 1000

[Fleming edits Chronicles, the magazine of the paleoconservative Rockford Institute. More of these at <http://www.rockfordinstitute.org/HardRight.htm>.] December 18, 2000 "God bless Jesse Jackson, and God bless Al Sharpton and Charles Rangel, too." This is the prayer that right-wing Republicans must be saying on Sunday when they attend the Episcopal church or country club of their choice, that is, if there are any right-wingers left in the Republican Party. Mr. Jackson's hyster ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 13:04:01 PST 2001

32764 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >But all of these ideas are regional. They don't make much sense as global >schemes without indulging in the kind of "global civil society" talk one >hears from Chris Burford. Why not global proletarian and/or revolutionary society? It doesn't have to be civil, thank god. For global uncivil society! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 12:15:06 PST 2001

32765 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Well, for one thing, if South Africans are all buying their cars from local >Ford branch plants, how are they ever going to develop their own automobile >industry? Or shipbuilding or semiconductors or aircraft or any of the other >things that turn poor countries into rich countries? Don't they in some way >need to delink? Can every small country in the world develop its own car, shipbuilding, chip, or aircraft industry? South Africa with 41 million people? Zi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 11:13:41 PST 2001

32766 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >But what does that have to do with *economic* linkages? When Thai farmers >send commodities to a Mexican maquiladora to be exported to New Jersey, is >that a "social network"? Or is it just an expoitative economic network that >needs to be unraveled. I'm not aware of many Thai ag products going to Mexico for processing, but aside from that - capitalist production has always been about creating social production on a large scale. Since few of us work in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 10:35:20 PST 2001

32767 value theory -- rank: 1000

From: "Drewk" <Andrew_Kliman at msn.com> A "COPERNICAN REVOLUTION" IN MARXIAN VALUE THEORY? Alan Freeman and Andrew Kliman Thursday, February 22, 2001, at 7:30 pm Brecht Forum 122 West 27th Street, 10th floor (Manhattan) Phone: (212) 242-4201 www.brechtforum.org Sliding Scale: $6 / $8 / $10 Value theory has frequently become an abstruse branch of "Marxian economics" that bears only a tenuous relation to the realities of capitalism. This situation arises, we ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 10:01:34 PST 2001

32768 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >As for reforming Empire Who's talking about reforming Empire? The idea is to take the social networks that Empire has produced and move beyond them - throw off the constraints of capital and liberate the multitude. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 09:56:08 PST 2001

32769 Daniel Singer memorial in NYC -- rank: 1000

There will be a tribute to Daniel Singer, the distinguished author, lecturer, journalist, and European Correspondent for The Nation. Saturday, March 3rd, 2001 at 3pm Saint Peter's Church, 619 Lexington Ave. (at 54th St.), NYC

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 06:28:39 PST 2001

32770 Just in time for Davos -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I think you're right even though I'm not well-travelled. However, isn't it >true that European parliaments contain a higher percentage of women than the >U.S. Congress? True for most of them (with the prominent exception of France). But at the level of daily life, things seem more egalitarian here. Maybe I'm rushing to judgment; corrections eagerly received. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 6 16:41:02 PST 2001

32771 Sociology of Bushies: After Meritocracy -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >In that and other ways, Clinton does remind me of Harding. And I >have the feeling that Clinton is destined to be seen as the same >colossal figure as H. in the eyes of history. Believe it or not, Clinton's approval ratings were pretty high - and W's initial rating (57% approve, 25% disapprove) is quite low for a first-term first month honeymoon. Doug ---- U.S. PRESIDENTIAL APPROVAL BY TERM approve disapprove gap Roosevelt III 74% 17% +57% ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 6 13:48:10 PST 2001

32772 US recession, Steel, rail, teachers, Israel -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >News of the low-level of consumer confidence in the US added to the >evidence of big layoffs in the dot.com sector of an approaching >recession in the US. The consumers got blamed for the slowdown both >ways: for not buying enough, and for buying too much from abroad on >credit. But only a few years ago the Federal Reserve concluded that the >long period of growth in the US was the consequence of wages being held >down by 'worker insecurity' (Federal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 6 13:38:45 PST 2001

32773 Empire: Hardt responds -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>While in Germany, I saw a teen girl, who looked to be about 14, >>who'd decorated her backpack with silver magic markered versions of >>U.S. corporate logos - among them the Nike swoosh, of course, and >>FUBU (For Us By Us, intensely popular in black urban >>neighborhoods). What does that mean? Why did she do that? Is is >>"manipulation," or was she expressing some desire? "America" >>represents something to peopl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 6 11:20:42 PST 2001

32774 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Comrade, just leave that hardback bulk of a book behind. Take the >tight new paperback Kagarlitsky trilogy from Pluto instead; it's all >the rage in the activist crowd. And what's the goal of these activists' activities? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 10:15:54 PST 2001

32775 Just in time for Davos -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Were Japanese feminists & leftists alive & kicking (rather than >stagnant & bereft of imagination as they are) The Zizek Lenin conference had, I think, 16 presenters. Of them, two were women - Charity Scribner read her own paper, and a woman whose name I forget read Alain Badiou's paper because he wasn't able to come. In my own presentation, I mentioned the thin female presence. When several of us went to lunch after the final session, a woman who'd bee ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 6 09:03:09 PST 2001