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2521 Keynes and the Bastards -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130500630bd3055133@[128.112.70.72]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >Keynes seems to have been a confused and confusing man, perhaps a first >rate intellect who became so mentally unsettled and unstable by his >catastrophic times that he descended into the true underworld of demagogues >and cranks. Keynes intellectual background with the 'Cambridge Apostles' a group of pointy-headed, religious non-conformists who deconstructed Vi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Aug 10 02:40:11 PDT 1999

2522 Paleoconservatism -- rank: 1000

In message <518B8516EDC0D011BE3F00C04FD4EE5A15837A at smtp.fair.org>, Seth Ackerman <SAckerman at FAIR.org> writes > The greatest works of the >> counter-culture -- McGoohan's epochal "The Prisoner", Hold on a minute. The Prisoner was on mainstream television - I remember watching it as a child. It was funny and sardonic, but it was about as counter-cultural as the Batman TV series. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Aug 10 02:30:47 PDT 1999

2523 Suicide -- rank: 1000

Kelley makes some good arguments, but the correlation between a period of Stalinism/social democracy and suicide seems to jump out of the figures however much you twist and turn them. It's an interesting thought, but maybe the sense of Durkheimian anomie is at its highest in those countries where the state has done most to substitute itself for more voluntaristic forms of human solidarity. I interviewed a child-protection lawyer from Sweden who told some pretty horrific stories about the Swedish ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Aug 9 01:16:06 PDT 1999

2524 Albania: the real story -- rank: 1000

In message <017b01bee23a$212c8960$5419050a at jofix2>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >elena quoted: >a lot of rascist crap from Der Spiegel [snipped] >In the best case this masterpiece of journalism can serve as an example of >how 'free' press works: For a few weeks the Albanians had been presented as >the poor refugees. Today its back to the ordinary rascist stereotypeof >mafians and drg-dealers. This coincides with the mounting tension ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Aug 9 01:52:37 PDT 1999

2525 Paleoconservatism -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.990808191649.539024700A- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> writes > But mass-culture in Adorno's >day, all the way until the Sixties, really, was a dreadfully oppressive, >racist, mind-bendingly patriarchal and stupefying affair; what we see >nowadays -- the occasional black and white film, for example -- is just >the high-quality stuff which survived. I think this is a pretty one-sided account. ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Aug 9 01:42:36 PDT 1999

2526 Keynes and the Bastards -- rank: 1000

In message <37AC750F.B678480F at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes > Keynes, like Hegel [I am out of my league >here, but that was my superfical understanding], was not fully aware of the >revolutionary implications of his ideas. The Post Keynesians take that part >of Keynes that is damning to conventional theory, although they, as Doug says, >are not always antagonistic to capitalism itself. > >Joan Robinson was aware th ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 8 01:52:40 PDT 1999

2527 Wages and Panic Buttons -- rank: 1000

>Jim heartfield wrote: In the 70s > the underlying cause of inflation was >>the declining profitability of capital, which led capitalists to >>artificially hike prices in an attempt to realise profits on the market >>that they had not earned through increased productivity. > In message <v0421011cb3d10d46919a@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >And how do they have the power sometimes to pass along price rises >and other time ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Aug 6 16:26:16 PDT 1999

2528 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <37AAFAC0.C00CDC3A at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes >I don't have time to go into an extended debate. Jim started with his >ridiculous >statement about 1 farmer feeds ..... You might want to ridicule it, but it's not ridiculous, It's not mine, either, its Lester Brown's, a champion of environmentalism. > >I am not sure what the facts are that improve productivity -- because >productivity is >devilishly hard ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 6 11:16:17 PDT 1999

2529 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <37AA1984.923ECB97 at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes >What Jim Heartfield cited below is utter nonsense. Utter nonsense? >In 1900, farmer made their own fertilizer, tractors [then horses], etc. With >the refinement of the division of labor, work that was done on the farm moved >off the farm to the factory. Yes, and this primitive division of labour squandered resources. > >Also, when I wrote Farming for Profit ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Aug 6 03:04:43 PDT 1999

2530 Wages and Panic Buttons -- rank: 1000

In message <JNIJGFLOOGIBAAAA at angelfire.com>, Fabian Balardini <balardini at angelfire.com> writes > >Everybody on this thread seems to agree that inflation is the result of the >fight between capital and labor so I have a couple of questions: > >1) if inflation is the result of unions vs capitalists intitutions fighting for >a larger piece of the pie this implies that unions can be as strong and stronger >that these capitalist institutions on the aggregate so ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Aug 6 03:17:49 PDT 1999

2531 Brown Stuff -- rank: 1000

In message <001701bedf58$b8441be0$5ef246d1 at epinet.org>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >Hey Heartfield, what do you make of this? >I'm looking for guidance here, as a 'brown' >non-Marxist (like yourself?). > >From an interesting post by Louis on PEN-L: > >". . . And what is the nature of this rightwing Christian conspiracy-theory >monger's opposition to the scientific consensus on global warming? She says >that it is an "earth-based ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 5 12:01:35 PDT 1999

2532 Wages and Panic Buttons -- rank: 1000

In message <001401bedf4e$9df90b60$5ef246d1 at epinet.org>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes > >One must distinguish between inflation resulting from >singular events like the oil price spikes, and that >observed in 'normal' economic periods. The 70's >experience does not invalidate the proposition that >as a routine matter, higher inflation is associated >with higher wage and GDP growth. The recent two-year >period in the U.S. is a welcome break, b ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 5 12:08:10 PDT 1999

2533 Is Toby Young the worst journalist in the world? -- rank: 1000

In message <802567C4.002A94EE.00 at notesjanus.flemings.com>, DANIEL.DAVIES at flemings.com writes >Sorry about this unstructured rant, but there's something about the words: > >>By Toby Young > >that just pushes my buttons. Don't apologise, Toby Young is certainly a contender for that hotly contested title. But most remarkable about all of his Tina Brown anecdotes is what a good light they put Tina Brown in. Knowing nothing of her, apart from the TV pictures, hanging out ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 5 02:09:58 PDT 1999

2534 Wages and Panic Buttons -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010bb3ce14fdb091@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Ellen Frank wrote:Does it really? I thought there was a lot of recent research showing >essentially no relation between inflation and growth if you leave out >the rare instances of hyperinflation (which is usually a symptom of a >society in collapse). As I recall, Bob Pollin was citing this against >the austerity crowd. But it cuts both ways. Sure, tight money and >tight ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 5 02:21:31 PDT 1999

2535 "Americans unbalanced these days almost as a matter of policy" -- rank: 1000

In message <14248.21413.267996.80125 at lisa.zopyra.com>, William S. Lear <rael at zopyra.com> writes >this notion of the merit of a >constant craving for material wealth goes back through the ages to >Smith and beyond. The whole edifice of this ridiculous "science" is >rotten to the core. Didn't a famous American Trade Unionist (Gompers?) say that the whole of unionism can be distilled to the simple demand 'more'. Yours, with a constant craving for material we ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 5 02:25:46 PDT 1999