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35896 FROP etc -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >This creates a downward pressure on profits since the base for >creating surplus value, productive labor, is reduced and the value >on which a return must be earned, constant capital (plant and >equipment), expands. But this tendency for profit rates to fall can >be counteracted by the fact that surplus value can indeed rise >dramatically for several reasons (not all discussed by Marx or even >existing at the time he wrote) including some (technological) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 08:01:58 PST 2000

35897 geezerology -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I think the radicalism of the 60's >compared to today makes some of you >young'uns uncomfortable. You magnify >the aberrant and negative aspects, of >which there were many, discount >the positive, and sound like a >reincarnation of the YPSL. And vice versa. Different times, different people, different styles. Last week, a bunch of students took over the president's office at Penn to protest sweatshops. Ok, so there were only a dozen or so of them, but st ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:48:13 PST 2000

35898 Thailand -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 00-02-17 02:11:10 EST, you write: > ><< Was it Joan Robinson who said that that capitalist exploitation is > exploitation, but that in many times and at many places the absence of > capitalist exploitation is worse? >> > >Sure, look at Russia. I mean now, not then. --jks Wasn't her wording more like, "Under capitalism, the only thing worse than being exploited is not being exploited"? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:36:24 PST 2000

35899 Thailand & China -- rank: 1000

DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com wrote: >As a matter of logic, exploitation under capitalism is always better than >the alternative, because people with better alternatives can't be >exploited. Well of course, which is the point that Joan Robinson made. > The point is to ask why _that_ alternative is _the_ >alternative. But Krugman will never ask that, or he wouldn't have a NYT column. To him the only two choices are exploitation or marginalization. That's why he should burn in hel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:27:46 PST 2000

35900 Kerry to run New School -- rank: 1000

[The New School's devolution continues....] Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 17, 2000 Sen. Bob Kerrey to Assume Presidency of the New School University By JULIANNE BASINGER The New School University on Wednesday named U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey as its new president, a move he said signaled a committed shift for him away from politics toward higher education as a career. The Nebraska Democrat will begin his college presidency in January 2001, after his term as senator ends. Mr. Kerr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:20:22 PST 2000

35901 Thailand & China -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >I mean, didn't the developed world become so by >in part by running roughshod over intellectual property rights? Yes, didn't the U.S. chemical industry really get going by stealing German patents during WW I? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:23:03 PST 2000

35902 What Workers Think & Objectivity (was Re: Cops Etc) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In other words, Foucault & Co. have made popular either an inability or a >refusal to make a distinction between prisons & schools, for instance, >_just because_ the latter also "police" people's behaviors. Oh it's not just Foucault - it's lots of kids who experience the awfulness of so much American schooling (can't say what it's like elsewhere). Places that make you into "just another brick in the wall," if you want to be really deb ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 17 07:06:55 PST 2000

35903 unions call for immig amnesty -- rank: 1000

[Brad De Long forwarded this from the WashPost website, but it bounced bec it came from an unsub'd address. His comment: "Very nice to see...."] Washington Post - February 17, 2000 Unions Ask Amnesty for Illegal Aliens By Frank Swoboda Washington Post Staff Writer NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 16 - In a significant policy shift, organized labor today called for amnesty for an estimated 6 million illegal immigrants and repealing current law that imposes sanctions on employers that hire them. Labor ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 16 23:01:20 PST 2000

35904 What Workers Think & Objectivity (was Re: Cops Etc) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There really are >"actual people" out there, and they have to be considered, but not >in the context of maillist discussions. What are the 300+ of us? Chopped liver? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 16 22:55:36 PST 2000

35905 What Workers Think & Objectivity (was Re: Cops Etc) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It ain't about "personal responsibility"; it's about government budgets! >The question is, which do you want your tax dollars to get spent on -- >cops, prisons, & armed forces _or_ schools, health care, unemployment >benefits, social security, etc.? This gotta be a no-brainer even in a >post-Foucauldian world! What's Foucault have to do with this? What the urge that brings him into this? Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 22:54:33 PST 2000

35906 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney DefendsGoreEndorsement -- rank: 1000

Paul Krugman wrote: >because the >developing world is still so poor, what looks to careless observers like >exploitation is often far better than the alternative. Reading something like this makes me wish there was a Hell for the author to burn in. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 16 22:32:53 PST 2000

35907 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >please banish GenX from the >discourse! News from some months ago that Grecian Formula was developing a new men's hair coloring formula for Gen X'ers put a new spin on the demographic for me. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 22:22:57 PST 2000

35908 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends GoreEndorsement -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And Seattle was in many ways one of the shining results. I just got back from a talk by Mark Malloch Brown, the new director of the UN Development Program(me), and former PR chief of the World Bank. Brown - who is a very slick fellow - said that the Washington Consensus was "completely derailed" by "Seattle." He proposed a "Third Way" of globalization - between the one that rejects the antiglobalism of NGOs (and he made it clear that Zedillo ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 17:17:13 PST 2000

35909 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement (fwd) -- rank: 1000

John Gulick wrote: >I imagine you've seen the same claims in the same places I have, namely >on various and sundry "left" chat groups. I really don't recall if those >who were making this argument presented hard empirical evidence that U.S. >trade negotiators raised this threat in Seattle or any time hence. It >certainly makes _logical_ sense to me that U.S. trade negotiators would do >this -- that way the Clinton Administration ensures continued AFL-CIO >loyalty ( ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 13:56:08 PST 2000

35910 Save us from 60s Nostalgia (RE: Sweeney Defends Gore Endorsement -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug, it's your tone, not mine, which is the tone of Yaweh. It's >you, not me, that stands on the lectern up above the crowd daring >them to answer your questions. Nope, I'm what Blake called the idiot questioner. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 16 13:56:32 PST 2000