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38311 specter takes form -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Doug, do you come to bury Marx or honor him ? Honor, of course. Besides, the guy is an unburiable specter, remember? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 09:04:24 PST 1999

38312 SNP-Neoconfederate links -- rank: 1000

According to a student of the neoconfederate movement who goes by the nom de guerre Crawfish <http://www.anet-dfw.com/~crawfsh/Index.htm>, there's a rich alliance developing between the Scottish National Party and the neoconfederates. <http://www.dixienet.org/dnframeset.html>. Anyone know anything about this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 09:00:49 PST 1999

38313 technology (Re: Horowitz's center) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Implicitly Brenner makes the same point as Roger. Both seem to think the >ability to realize profits (or to mark up prices in a Smithean fasion) in >the exchange process is fundamentally constrained by some factor--for >Brenner, it's the magnitude of international competition. At this econ >conference in Boston, Shaikh made the crucial point that Brenner's implicit >theory of profit is rather murky and almost surely not a Marxian one. How do you account ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 08:42:19 PST 1999

38314 Capitalism defends itself -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >>you (Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>) wrote: >> >>>Stossel once described his journalistic mission as explaining the beauties >>>of the "free market" to the public. > >Stossel ain't half the man that Mrs. Marcet or Miss Martineau were (see Guy >Routh The Origin of Economic Ideas on how these two 19th century writers >popularized the lessons of political economy for the working man). Stossel >is just a snid ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 08:32:16 PST 1999

38315 More Brenner -- rank: 1000

Rakesh, how do you explain the rise in the U.S. profit rate since 1982? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 08:31:07 PST 1999

38316 FDI -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >Doug, I don't think your data distinguish between foreign direct investment >that are merely M and A's, contrasted with the FDI that consist of the >construction or addition or modification of real productive capacity. I'm >speaking of the latter. I see the former mainly as a financial, property >transfer transaction that may be motivated my many >things.......... You're right, but they're the best numbers we've got on a timely basis. The purchase of mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 08:24:58 PST 1999

38317 incarceration -- rank: 1000

The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates of the mid-1998 prison & jail populations are out <http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/pub/ascii/pjim98.txt>. Growth in the prison population over 1997 slowed to a mere 4.8%, from the 6.9% growth rate since 1990. Growth in the jail population was 4.5%, vs. the post-1990 average of 4.9%. Since population growth in the U.S. is about 1% a year, the incarceration rate is still rising strongly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 15 07:28:45 PST 1999

38318 Oskar warns Gerhard -- rank: 1000

[This was posted from some unsubscribed address, but it seemed worth forwarding.] From: "Editor/NewsCenter" <editor at newscenter.org> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Oskar Warns Schroeder Of Rightwing Shift Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 09:03:30 -0500 Message-ID: <NCBBKECCAKECKOPGJCJKIEJDCKAA.editor at newscenter.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 14 07:12:25 PST 1999

38319 specter takes form -- rank: 1000

Today in history: March 14, 1999, marks the 116th anniversary of the death of Karl Marx; he died in London in 1883. I'm going to remember the day with a polemic! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 20:34:11 PST 1999

38320 Spy hysteria, knee-deep -- rank: 1000

All these reports of "serious damage" caused by spies to U.S. security, blah blah - the country still has no remotely serious rival to world dictator position! How do they measure this alleged damage? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 20:27:09 PST 1999

38321 Dow 1,000,000 -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Hey Doug, interested in being the Chairman of Council of Economic Advisors >in my White House? No, I want to chair the Fed. Yoshie could run the CEA. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 15:40:50 PST 1999

38322 Carnegie's fortune -- rank: 1000

I just got this request from someone teaching at a high school in Florida. If anyone can help out, I'll pass along the info. Doug ---- > i'd like to show them that Carnegie's wealth and >"philanthropy" was based on exploiting workers. do you have handy or know of >anywhere i could find a breakdown of Carnegie's labor costs, fixed capital >costs, and especially profit rate? around the time of the strike 1892 would >be ideal. is this in any business history book that yo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 14:51:22 PST 1999

38323 Dow 1,000,000 -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >And mimimum wage would be $1 million per year. Everyone a millionaire! Henry, you have a future in American politics!! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 14:49:02 PST 1999

38324 Enjoy! (was Re: Zizek on Viagra) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >How about a post-Butler cybersymposium on Kant, De Sade, Adorno & >Horkheimer ("Excursus II: Juliette or Enlightenment and Morality"), Barthes >(_Sade, Fourier, Loyola_), Lacan ("Kant avec Sade"), Zizek ("Kant with [or >against] Sade"), Pierre Klossowski (_Sade My Neighbor_ & _The Baphomet_), >D. A. Miller (_The Novel and the Police_), Eve Sedgwick, and Peter Starr >(_Logics of Failed Revolt: French Theory after May ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 14:26:01 PST 1999

38325 Capitalism defends itself -- rank: 1000

Margaret wrote: >Pity you can't get a forum of comparable reach to use >as a refutative platform. Actually I got a call last week from Stossel's producer, who said they were in the early stages of a program on American triumphalism (not the phrase he used, of course). I was being auditioned for the role of "responsible critic." I said my piece - talked about social polarization, smugness and public stupidity, foreign debt, and the ecocidal aspects of the American way of life. I d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 13 12:58:57 PST 1999