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2176 Distribution of Farm Productivity Gains -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210103b4187b893c87@[24.6.249.56]>, Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >> >>Of course the form of social organisation of the capitalist farm means >>that the lion's share of productivity gains are translated into profits, >>not wages. >> >>-- >>Jim heartfield > >Ummm.... > >The wage share was still above 60% when I last looked. The lion's >share of productivity gains are translated neither into (far ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 30 17:59:05 PDT 1999

2177 O Brave New World -- rank: 1000

>> Is this for real? I was just innocently browsing through a MacMall >> catalogue in search of printer cartridges (btw, anyone know where you can >> still get cartridges for a dinosaur Deskwriter 310?), when this software >> title jumped off the page: >> >> Imperialism II Puts me in mind of the Saki story about the liberal parents, who, despairing of their children's violent toys resolved to buy them worthy ones. Imagine their horror when they found them pla ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 30 12:38:00 PDT 1999

2178 Meszaros, progress -- rank: 1000

In message <37F3649A.474838B1 at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >Re productivity as "saving time." Then the clock has been running backwards >for about 12000 years. Hunter-gatherers seldom labor over 15-20 hrs >per week. Capitalism also eliminated scores of xtian holidays in order >to increase hours of work. And if one includes commute time in the >work week (as one should), then the work week in the u.s. has been >increasing for d ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 30 10:09:57 PDT 1999

2179 reparations -- rank: 1000

In message <s7f2032d.033 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Charles: I don't think the Marxist position is that most of what is obvious is >false consciousness, is it ? I realize there is the famous quote from Marx on >the differences between appearances and essence, and we wouldn't need science if >all things were the way they appeared., but I don't treat that as a call to >treat all or even most appearances as false. ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 29 18:28:49 PDT 1999

2180 Chiapas my ass -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.3.94.990929100501.3739A-100000 at rhenium>, Mr P.A. Van Heusden <pvanheus at hgmp.mrc.ac.uk> writes > After all, which is more >progressive? The 'backwards' productive methods of Mexican peasants, or >the 'modern' productivity of an industrialised farm? If it is the >industrialised farm, then I ask again which is more progressive - the >peasants of the Chiapas 'autonomous municipality', or the farmers of the >US corn belt? Oh, without a doubt, t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 29 10:23:24 PDT 1999

2181 Marx on free trade -- rank: 1000

In message <199909282231.SAA07394 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >I recollect Draper suggesting that class 'in itself'/'for itself' >formulation is Hegelian residue in Marx, Yes, and he could have added Kantian, too - but then that would be no bad thing (contra Yoshie?). Thanks for the reference. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 28 19:08:45 PDT 1999

2182 reparations -- rank: 1000

In message <s7ef9dc7.086 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Charles: I agree that a dialectical method in history demands that we see leaps >not just gradual development. However, it is crystal clear in the U.S. that >today's racism is very significantly a sublation of slavery; it both negates >and >preserves it. This is because Black people were the main slave class and are a >main oppressed racial group. The idea t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 28 11:51:55 PDT 1999

2183 Marx on free trade -- rank: 1000

In message <19990928151814.19622.qmail at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes >Au contraire, while people may have a romanticized view of the "sensitive, >localized capitalism" of yore, I think multinational corporations *force* >people to recognize how little sway over corporate conduct they actually >have. People soon realize that combating MNCs -- which are everywhere and >nowhere at the same time -- is like grappling with a fog b ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 28 10:57:44 PDT 1999

2184 Car post script -- rank: 1000

In message <00aa01bf0975$f712eee0$d818c897 at bellatlantic.net>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >Say a little more about this Group, if you don't mind. > >mbs He's an old friend of mine. They don't have any big sponsors if that's what you are asking, though I am sure he wouldn't refuse. Austin worked in town planning in Newcastle, (as an architect I think), as does the other researcher who does some stuff for them. Four weekends ago, the TRG organised a conferenc ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 28 07:38:24 PDT 1999

2185 Malcolm X on paying dues -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421013cb415788f9b06@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >>Somewhere Malcolm X wrote something about how dues should be high >>enough that people notice paying them, because it makes membership >>more meaningful. I don't suppose you know where he wrote that? I >>wouldn't know where to begin looking. Can't help you on the specifics, but this is a basic of political organisation, surely. If you want to build an organisation ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 28 07:33:05 PDT 1999

2186 Littleton: it's Adorno's fault -- rank: 1000

In message <v03130300b415b1a08192@[140.254.112.91]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes > In other words, >they are empty of historical content. Further, in an inverse form, the >same psychoanalytic musings can be easily put to a homophobic/sexist >purpose: e.g. "non-genital sexuality or 'partial drives' have been >integrated into capitalism while the destruction of genital sexuality is >the form that sexual repression takes today." Is this ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 28 01:02:38 PDT 1999

2187 Car post script -- rank: 1000

Doug posted two articles on Cars that I forwarded to Austin Williams of the pro-car Transport Research Group. These were his replies: Killer Cars The article states that each car "puts out 59.7 tonnes (65.8 tons) of carbon dioxide, and creates 26.5 tonnes (29.2 tons) of solid waste. Or, from another perspective, each car will kill three trees and sicken 10; every seventh car injures someone, every 100th handicaps someone, and 450th kills someone. One out of every 100 people are killed in a ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 27 18:19:18 PDT 1999

2188 Istvan Meszaros -- rank: 1000

My take on Meszaros Beyond Capital was that it was a step backward from the heights of Power of Ideology, and of Alienation. The biggest flaw is that he objectifies capital to such an extent that it seems insurmountable. This is particularly marked in the passages explaining the resurrection of the market in the Soviet Union. Troubled by the reversal, Meszaros tries to argue that the capitalist mode of production is salted away more deeply than had been thought, in the very character of the tech ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 27 15:24:43 PDT 1999

2189 Marx on free trade -- rank: 1000

In message <199909271604.MAA06423 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >Controlling capital will depend upon whether a 'class in itself' of >international laborers and wage-earners becomes a 'class for itself.' I seem to remember that somewhere in Hal Draper's many volumes on Marx, he says that Marx never counterposed 'class in itself' and 'class for itself', but 'mass in itself' and class for itself': the point being that until it was se ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 27 11:14:33 PDT 1999

2190 Marx on free trade -- rank: 1000

I don't think that 'the worse, the better' is Marx's central point. His opposition to protectionism was pretty straight forward. The anti-corn law league were more progressive than the landowners, who sought protection at the expense of the working class. It was always the case that Marx sought the clarification of the opposition of proletariat and bourgeoisie by resolving all those questions of democratic rights that preoccupied the artisan working class. He writes similarly upon political repr ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 26 18:32:41 PDT 1999