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40816 Geo-temporal Displacment via Fictitious Profits (reply to Comarde Bond) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Indeed for Mattick the rise of govt production and debt was the most >important new feature of post WWII capitalism, a view also shared by >Gabriel Kolko. The so called golden age from rose colored glasses or the so >called totally administerd society from the perspective of critical theory >was only the mirage of a boom; it was an age characterized in Mattick's >conceptually innovative theory by *fictitious* profits and fictitious >capital, and it wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 07:52:58 PST 1998

40817 Conservative Students -- rank: 1000

Mathew Forstater wrote: >Doug- Where can one find the data and conclusions Jason cites below? How do >"packaged" stuff like mutual funds, retirement accounts get figured in? >thanks, Mutual fund holdings are allocated according to the underlying security, so that mutual fund holdings of stocks appear as stocks, etc. I've got a summary of the SCF data at <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Wealth_distrib.html>. I've been meaning to add a link to the original paper, which is a ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 3 07:28:22 PST 1998

40818 the Halloween Document -- rank: 1000

[More on IP] Date: Mon, 2 Nov 1998 18:54:39 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: love at cptech.org Originator: info-policy-notes at essential.org Sender: info-policy-notes at essential.org Precedence: bulk From: James Love <love at cptech.org> To: Multiple recipients of list INFO-POLICY-NOTES <info-policy-notes at essential.org> Subject: the Halloween Document MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Comment: To unsubscribe from this list, send the message "unsubscribe info-policy-notes" to "listproc at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 07:00:45 PST 1998

40819 Hang Seng remains over 10,000 -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Although I'm sure you've demonstrated >it before, could you briefly give >the figures on this ? ( or >a page reference in your book ?) >How you calculate it ? >The obvious >question is are the categories used >to calculate neo-colonial plunder >in 1998 even there in >the statistics of bourgeois >institutional statistics ? > >Wouldn't it take a lot of >digging below the surface >to do a Marxist calculation >of this ? No, I've n ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 09:13:43 PST 1998

40820 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >As Meszaros argues against the Frankfurt School they were no longer >engaged in a critique of Capitalism, but a generic critique of >industrial production as such. They were no longer arguing for a >dialectical transformation of capitalist production into socialism, but >a romantic refusal of the modern. > >In interpret this to mean that the New Left had as its social basis not >the working class, and its struggle over the social product, but rather ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 2 07:46:44 PST 1998

40821 Russian health crisis -- rank: 1000

[from Johnson's Russia List] Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 22:52:11 -0000 Subject: THE RUSSIAN MORTALITY CRISIS From: Ray Thomas <r.thomas at open.ac.uk> To: Russian-Studies list <russian-studies at mailbase.ac.uk> Radical Statistics THE RUSSIAN MORTALITY CRISIS by Ray Thomas The average male expectancy of life in Russia declined from 65 years in 1986 to 57.5 years in 1994. A fall of this magnitude must be unprecedented in world history for any country capable of maintaining a statistic ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 2 07:15:11 PST 1998

40822 Hang Seng remains over 10,000 -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Capitalism is a world system. No generalizations can >be made about Hong Kong unless you trace its historical roots in the global >banking system. The "success" of places like Hong Kong or Switzerland are >dialectically related to the failure of Indonesia and the former Yugoslavia. On an instinctive level, I know this is true, though I'd probably want to pair, say, the Netherlands and Indonesia, and the U.S. and Mexico. I have no doubt that the initial ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 2 06:36:16 PST 1998

40823 Brazil -- rank: 1000

Can our Brazilian correpondents report on what's happening with the politics of the IMF austerity package? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 1 15:26:39 PST 1998

40824 Living Wage Book -- rank: 1000

[Bob Pollin asked me to forward this. The exchange referred to as an attachment is appended to the end of this post.] Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 22:20:48 -0500 From: Robert Pollin <pollin at econs.umass.edu> Subject: Living Wage Book In the category of shameless self-promotion, I am sending along news of my new New Press book with Stephanie Luce, The Living Wage: Building A Fair Economy. This includes a bit of advertising blurb, and, as an attachment, Paul Krugman's trashing of the book in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 1 15:19:19 PST 1998

40825 `Hacktivists' of All Persuasions Take Their Struggle to the Web -- rank: 1000

Jon Fine wrote: >But what's the >story with the Maosit International Movement? As far as I can tell, they're a few folks in Ann Arbor who deem themselves hyperrevolutionary. They spell it "Amerikkka." They think the Amerikkkan working class consists of imperialist pigs. They produce an awful newspaper, and use noms de plume like "M3" and "AH23." I used to get into flame wars with them, but they've disappeared from cyberspace. I got their name wrong - it's Maoi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 1 15:14:11 PST 1998

40826 BOUNCE Re: Vous avez le tropique ! -- rank: 1000

[This, from Tom Kruse, bounced because it was posted from a non-sub'd address.] Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 12:24:49 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: SITBOL <sitbol at albatros.cnb.net> Subject: Re: Vous avez le tropique ! In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19981101050611.006a3c14 at pop.openlink.com.br> References: <1.5.4.32.19981031030923.00a5a548 at albatros.cnb.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" "emilio" notes: >In case you ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 12:11:24 PST 1998

40827 BOUNCE Boris Kagarlitsky -- rank: 1000

Date: Sun, 01 Nov 1998 07:46:04 +0000 From: Jeffrey Sommers <jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu> Reply-To: jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu Organization: World History Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Boris Kagarlitsky The World History Center and the Center for the Study of Russia and the Soviet Union are bringing BORIS KAGARLITSKY to five New England venues. He will speak on the contemporary situation in Russia at all ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 11:33:44 PST 1998

40828 `Hacktivists' of All Persuasions Take Their Struggle to the Web -- rank: 1000

James Farmelant quoted: >`Hacktivists' of All Persuasions >Take Their Struggle to the Web > > By AMY HARMON Harmon was a member of the hilarious Maoist International Movement when she was in college at the University of Michigan (MIM is HQ'd in Ann Arbor, in what must be the funniest local residence since the Stooges' Fun House was there). I don't know if she's still a loyal Maoist; hard to tell from this piece. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 11:16:25 PST 1998

40829 thread themes on outlawing fascistic racist speech -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Murray, I watched a bit of a talk he gave recently to the right-wing Allegheny Institute on C-SPAN last night. His theme was how far U.S. society has strayed from the vision of the Founding Fathers. Among the milestones he listed in the departure from their original vision was giving women the vote, eliminating property requirements for the vote, and banning the poll tax. He said that while he wasn't about to stand there and advocate denying women the vote or reinstating the poll tax ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 1 11:13:32 PST 1998

40830 Reading USA Today -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >According to an article in the Business Section of the Chicago Tribune >(Nov. 1), 70% of U.S. households are linked to cable. (Do *all* U.S. >households have TV of any kind? The article -- concerned with another >topic to which cable is relevant -- does not indicate whether it is >dealing with *all* households or all households *with TV*.) According to the Statistical Abstract, over 98% of U.S. households have TVs, and of those, 93% are color. Only 94% have a ph ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 10:21:37 PST 1998