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76 Forces of Production -- rank: 1000

I thought it worth a check in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, second edition 1991 ed Tom Bottomore "The productive forces were conceived by Marx as including means of production and labour power." "Relations of production are constituted by the economic ownership of productive forces; under capitalism the most fundamental of these relations is the bourgeoisie's ownership of means of production while the proletariat owns only its labour power." I thought that Doug's stimulati ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 9 23:28:50 PST 2003

77 goodnews in today's Guardian -- rank: 1000

And even better in yesterday's Telegraph was a report from a highly placed Downing Street source that the British government was asking the US to put off an invasion till the autumn to allow time for the weapons inspectors to do their work. The Telegraph is a particularly interesting source. Although it is the old imperialist Conservative voice, it also has close links with the British military, who are dovish about any actual possible war. By lunchtime yesterday the BBC was carrying a report qu ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 9 17:06:43 PST 2003

78 More on Hardt & Negri from Brennan -- rank: 1000

At 09/01/03 11:10 -0500, you wrote: >Thomas Seay wrote: > >>Now what do you think that this means? I have never >>read any such thing from Michael Hardt or Antonio >>Negri. It certainly cant mean that Hardt and Negri >>dont support strikes, etc or that Hardt and Negri dont >>support workers struggles against capital, Because >>that isn't true. So what does it mean? > >Yeah, I'm wondering just what's so evil about Empire. You can find it >wro ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 9 16:59:22 PST 2003

79 Marx After Marxism -- rank: 1000

At 08/01/03 21:45 -0500, you wrote: >http://pulpculture.org/MarxAfterMarxism.html > >After more months than I care to actually look up and document, I finally >got 'round to putting Justin's paper, Marx After Marxism, up at >Pulpculture.org. It is difficult to do justice to this paper, which I have at this moment in time only been able to read for its main themes. But it seems to me to miss one of the concepts that resurfaces from time to time in the writings of Marx and Engels - ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 8 23:06:26 PST 2003

80 And the Poll SAYS! US biggest threat to peace -- rank: 1000

And now North Korea 23.6 % Iraq 18.2 % The United States 58.2 % out of 11218 I noted that CNN wisely excluded The United States from the pick list, in their latest poll. But even that, rather arkwardly, gave the wrong answer, and out of 124 thousand votes. Jan 6th Is North Korea a bigger threat than Iraq? Yes 64% No 36% http://www.cnn.com/POLL/results/320051.html Chris Burford London At 08/01/03 14:27 -0500, you wrote: >heh. this just came across D ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 8 15:15:20 PST 2003

81 recipients of dividends -- rank: 1000

At 06/01/03 21:18 -0800, you wrote: >[New York Times] >January 7, 2003 >The Politics of Portfolios >By RICHARD W. STEVENSON CNN:- >Americans with higher incomes would benefit more from a cut in the tax on >dividend income because they invest more in stocks and bonds. > >Figures from the Internal Revenue Service illustrate that point. >About 15 million tax returns with an adjusted gross income of less than >$50,000 reported dividend income last year, totaling $26.9 b ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 6 23:25:05 PST 2003

82 privatizing Medicare -- rank: 1000

At 03/01/03 13:52 -0800, you wrote: > >---------- >gang, > >looks like they are going to get Medicare first. Privatizing Medicare is >much more likely with the Libermans running the Democrat party. >marta The UK Conservative government's attempts to introduce market principles were delayed by detailed discussion stimulated by left wing health care workers, about what a market actually means. Who has information? How efficient is it? A market in baked beans is not the same a ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 4 03:23:33 PST 2003

83 NYT and Washington Post -- rank: 1000

At 03/01/03 16:43 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>The International Herald Tribune, which I get in London, announces that >>it is no longer going to be published by a syndicate of these two papers, >>but is being wholly taken over by the NYT. >> >>Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What changes should I be wary of? > >There's going to be much less content from the WP and other sources, and >more "repurposed" material from the N ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 4 00:03:16 PST 2003

84 NYT and Washington Post -- rank: 1000

The International Herald Tribune, which I get in London, announces that it is no longer going to be published by a syndicate of these two papers, but is being wholly taken over by the NYT. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What changes should I be wary of? Chris Burford

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 13:17:48 PST 2003

85 stock market facts -- rank: 1000

At 23/07/02 11:18 -0400, Nathan wrote: > Revolution is a process, not an event. On dipping into State and Revolution recently, to check on my reprehensible reformist tendencies, I noted again that Lenin refers to "the entire historical period which separates capitalism form 'classless society', from Communism" (his italics) Chris Burford -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20020724/160b6f05/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Tue Jul 23 17:21:37 PDT 2002

86 California -- rank: 1000

Congratulations. Interest on this side of the Atlantic in the Californian decision to impose tighter anti-pollution measures on automobiles. This is seen as congruent with Tokyo, and undermining of Bush. Chris Burford London

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Date:	Tue Jul 23 00:53:22 PDT 2002

87 stock market facts -- rank: 1000

At 22/07/02 19:51 -0400, you wrote: >Today's close in the S&P 500 is 46.3% off its 3/24/00 high. That's a hair >behind the 10/3/74 low in the last serious bear market, -48.2%. It took >630 days to make the low in 1973-74, and 850 to get to today's. But >there's a way to go before matching the low of 5/32 (using monthly rather >than daily data): -82.3% > >The Nasdaq is 74.6% off its 3/10/00 high. The Dow is off a mere 33.6% from >its 1/14/00 high. > >The bull mar ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 23 00:51:36 PDT 2002

88 The Guardian: In Face of Corporate Corruption, Strange Silence from the Left -- rank: 1000

At 17/07/02 12:31 -0400, you wrote: >Chris Kromm wrote: > >>This is article is right-on. I fear that the left isn't strong enough to >>sieze the opportunity presented by present crisis and "smite our undeniably >>vulnerable foes." > >Yup, but isn't this time drippingly rich with possibility? The bourgeoisie >fucked up bigtime, and lots of people - including many of the bourgies - >know it. Opportunities like this don't come often. I'm feeling energiz ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 22 00:49:36 PDT 2002

89 The Guardian: In Face of Corporate Corruption, Strange Silence from the Left -- rank: 1000

> >Imagine if you can a scandal -At 15/07/02 20:55 -0400, you wrote: >This is article is right-on. I fear that the left isn't strong enough to >sieze the opportunity presented by present crisis and "smite our undeniably >vulnerable foes." >CK > >Published on Monday, July 15, 2002 in the Guardian of London > >This Strange Silence From the Left >Free Enterprise Flaunts Its Failings and Social Democrats Say Nothing > >by Roy Hattersley Arguably Gordo ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 16 17:42:06 PDT 2002

90 "the Cheney question" -- rank: 1000

Many would sympathise with Chuck's reaction, and his warning about an attack on Iraq, but I think his comments underestimate the extent to which the leaders of US society are going to have to bring in reforms. They are scrambling over this, and the consequential implications of different proposals are not clear to them. The worst scenario for them is that Cheney is not actually a crook, but a hard player according to inherently unstable rules. The scrambled debates, despite themselves, pose the ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 11 23:57:51 PDT 2002