tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post3985815577122696134..comments2024-03-29T02:03:49.151-04:00Comments on History Unfolding: Finance capital!David Kaiserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-23443011412176823092010-06-02T15:23:59.760-04:002010-06-02T15:23:59.760-04:00PS
If you google Monopoly Capital, wikipedia has a...PS<br />If you google Monopoly Capital, wikipedia has a ref to "The Sales Effort and Monopoly Capital", very good '09 article, for those having an interest in such things.<br /><br />Perhaps becoming kind of passe by the moment now; but....Hitler's techniques were ostensibly drawn from Madison Avenue too.<br /><br />all the best,<br />GMBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-87531531441066104602010-06-02T14:22:00.588-04:002010-06-02T14:22:00.588-04:00Just ran across this topic. New jewels abound here...Just ran across this topic. New jewels abound here.<br />I loved the "Most Ironically..." part; also glad to see someone in the universe, in a response, took a look at Braudel once upon a time.<br /><br />The Wall Street Markets have not for a long time been closely associated with the domestic American economy. That, after all, has been one aspect of the problems such a unin faces now.<br /><br />Sweezy and Baran wrote a book, a long time ago, Monopoly Capital; dated now, but what a wonderful title. <br /><br />I am really something of a different kind of animal, but some of Marx's expositions, as you intimate, have not been improved on.<br /><br />All the Best,<br />GMBozonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18078858723231122013noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-62415754216226178362010-03-03T05:16:13.835-05:002010-03-03T05:16:13.835-05:00A great article indeed and a very detailed, realis...A great article indeed and a very detailed, realistic and superb analysis, of this issue, very nice write up, Thanks.College Term Papershttp://www.ghostpapers.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-11410050632836848772009-12-05T00:44:44.867-05:002009-12-05T00:44:44.867-05:00I think we may disagree on a few issues here.
Fir...I think we may disagree on a few issues here.<br /><br />First I don’t think the relationship between finance and the real economy has been given anywhere near the level of attention it deserves. Many on the left show little interest in financial questions.<br />I think the problem goes well beyond the micro-economic level of loan regulation. Indeed it goes beyond macro-economics and into the realm of political economy. You can also find information about <a href="http://www.interchangefx.co.uk" rel="dofollow" rel="nofollow">Currency rates</a>.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-52026047346176087552009-09-05T11:53:17.068-04:002009-09-05T11:53:17.068-04:00Each individual human being possesses a unique, hi...Each individual human being possesses a unique, highly <br /> developed, and sensitive perception of variety. Thus <br /> aware, man is endowed with a natural capability for enact-<br /> ing internal mental and external physical selectivity. <br /> Quantitative and qualitative choice-making thus lends <br /> itself as the superior basis of an active intelligence.<br /> <br /> Human is earth's Choicemaker. His title describes<br /> his definitive and typifying characteristic. Recall <br /> that his other features are but vehicles of experi-<br /> ence intent on the development of perceptive <br /> awareness and the following acts of decision and<br /> choice. Note that the products of man cannot define <br /> him for they are the fruit of the discerning choice-<br /> making process and include the cognition of self, <br /> the utility of experience, the development of value-<br /> measuring systems and language, and the accultur-<br /> ation of civilization.<br /> <br /> The arts and the sciences of man, as with his habits,<br /> customs, and traditions, are the creative harvest of<br /> his perceptive and selective powers. Creativity, the <br /> creative process, is a choice-making process. His <br /> articles, constructs, and commodities, however <br /> marvelous to behold, deserve neither awe nor idol-<br /> atry, for man, not his contrivance, is earth's own <br /> highest expression of the creative process.<br /> <br /> Human is earth's Choicemaker. The sublime and <br /> significant act of choosing is, itself, the Archimedean <br /> fulcrum upon which man levers and redirects the <br /> forces of cause and effect to an elected level of qual-<br /> ity and diversity. Further, it orients him toward a <br /> natural environmental opportunity, freedom, and <br /> bestows earth's title, The Choicemaker, on his <br /> singular and plural brow.<br /><br /> Human is earth's Choicemaker. Psalm 25:12 He is by <br /> nature and nature's God a creature of Choice - and of <br /> Criteria. Psalm 119:30,173 His unique and definitive <br /> characteristic is, and of Right ought to be, the natural <br /> foundation of his environments, institutions, and re-<br /> spectful relations to his fellow-man. Thus, he is orien-<br /> ted to a Freedom whose roots are in the Order of the <br /> universe. selahJim Baxterhttp://www.choicemaker.net/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-27290088766845058082009-09-01T14:34:51.357-04:002009-09-01T14:34:51.357-04:00Ms. Friday,
You are under a misconception. I a...Ms. Friday,<br /><br /> You are under a misconception. I am not at MIT, but at the Naval War College. (That's another David Kaiser at MIT.) To answer your question, if I could identify the person who started the misattribution I suppose there might be a case there, but I'm afraid only the National Security Agency could do that! Meanwhile a lot of people like yourself have found me.<br /><br /> DKDavid Kaiserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05020082243968071584noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-77076419098598558682009-09-01T12:06:28.239-04:002009-09-01T12:06:28.239-04:00On August 14th, I received the Obama/Hitler essay ...On August 14th, I received the Obama/Hitler essay you purportedly wrote and after researching it, sent out a correction to the email chain containg a snapshot of your blog and citing Snopes.com. Despite debunking the essay, I received the same email from the same sender ten days later! I wrote the sender again, asking him why he thinks it's OK to knowingly send out a fraudent email that uses the name of a respected scholar of history to lend it credibility, but I got no response. <br /><br />I am, of course, completely frustrated by this (so I can only imagine your frustration). <br /><br />Is it, I wonder, legal for someone to send out their essay using your name--and your credentials? Isn't it slander to do so? Though you probably don't have the time and energy, I really wish you would enlist the help of some of MIT's computer staff and students to track down the originator of the piece. And that you would then sue them. I fear that if we don't put a stop to this sort of misinformation on the web (which is unfortunately usurping the power of the press), our democracy is doomed.Carol Fryday - Pittsburgh, PAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-41363322238472246572009-08-17T19:28:02.564-04:002009-08-17T19:28:02.564-04:00I am glad that I found this blog, while investigat...I am glad that I found this blog, while investigating the anti_Obama email which is going around. I e-mailed you after reading it because I was so upset, but now I am having second thoughts because it appears that you did not write that e-mail. And after reading your blog which I found very interesting I can see that the e-mail is a fraud. I apologize to you for my harsh words that I sent to you in my email. ElizabethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-52688180361186390122009-08-13T11:35:52.938-04:002009-08-13T11:35:52.938-04:00In one matter I could not agree more with Mr Curra...In one matter I could not agree more with Mr Curran--I would pay good money to see Dr Kaiser on Glen Beck's show. It would be the perfect platform to address all those people who have found the aforementioned email to resonate deeply with their understanding of the world. Though The Colbert Report might be even better. Or Glen Beck and Dr Kaiser together on The Colbert Report.Antiquated Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08727187247287268014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-68072425884189255442009-08-13T00:45:23.493-04:002009-08-13T00:45:23.493-04:00Sir...love reading your posts...one question...did...Sir...love reading your posts...one question...did you author the email that's been going around. Some say no...but the writing style of the email as well as the detail seems to fit much of what I've studied on your site. But it's impossible to be sure. I figure there must be a reason that letter or email has been attributed to you though, so maybe it's true. I mean, it's everywhere, so who really did write it, if not you, do you know who? Here's one link: http://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=398591<br />Has anyone in the media contacted you to speak on television...mainly Fox News, I would hope, and especially Glenn Beck. I think as far as media on the radio or TV goes he's the only one who cares to seriously investigate and tell us who all these crazies are. <br />Well...if you could articulate all that you know on a show like his (I know that could take years, but it would be worth it!) then Americans might just wake the hell up! I hope we can correspond sometime soon. And now that I've found your site, I hope you can give me your permission to spread the word to all who follow mine...I feel you're a tremendous source of knowledge that not only will influence my own beliefs but encourage me further that I'm on the right track and always have been even though I couldn't possibly pull from the same advanced pool of experience that you have. Either way...thank you.<br />Ian Curran - Tampa, FL<br />http://saveamericasavefreedom.blogspot.com/Save_America1sthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10725402173164398119noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-66954279187553165132009-08-12T10:11:35.839-04:002009-08-12T10:11:35.839-04:00Dr Kaiser,
Will you forgive me for reproducing som...Dr Kaiser,<br />Will you forgive me for reproducing something from the conclusion of <b>The Perspective of the World: Civilization and Capitalism 15th-18th centuries</b>, which bears upon the relationship between US government policies and corporate capitalism, and in fact between the state and capitalism in general.<br /><i>The worst error of all is to suppose that capitalism is simply an 'economic system,' whereas in fact it lives off the social order, standing almost on a footing with the state, whether as adversary or accomplice; it is and always has been a massive force, filling the horizon...<br />A businessman might reply that at present politics is the most important, that the power of the state is such that neither banking nor industrial capital stand a chance compared to it. And there are certainly serious commentators who have written of the all-powerful state, crushing everything in its path, stifling initiative in the private sector, sapping the beneficial freedom of the 'innovator.' The state, they say, is a mastodon that must be driven back into its cave. But it is of course possible to read the opposite -- that capital and economic power are entrenched everywhere, crushing the freedom of the individual. We should not let ourselves be deceived: the truth is of course that both state and capital -- a certain kind of capital at any rate, the monopolies and big corporations -- coexist very comfortably, today as in the past; capital does not seem to be doing so badly. It has, as it always did, burdened the state with the least remunerative and most expensive tasks: providing the infrastructure of roads and communications, the army, the massive costs of education and research. Capital also lets the state take charge of public health and bear most of the costs of social security. Above all, it shamelessly benefits from all the exemptions, incentives, and generous subsidies granted by the state, which acts as a machine collecting the flow of incoming money and redistributing it, spending more than it receives and therefore obliged to borrow. Capital is never very far away from this providential source of bounty. "Contrary to the myth of the private sector as the source of initiative whose dynamism is stifled by government action, late [or as some people would say, mature] capitalism has found,in the range of activities peculiar to the state, the means of ensuring the survival of the entire system." This reflection comes from a review by the Italian economist Federico Caffe of two books generally in agreement with this position, by C. Offe on contemporary Germany, and James O'Connor on the United States in 1977. Lastly, it is thanks to its friendly relations, indeed symbiosis, with the state -- the dispenser of fiscal incentives (to stimulate the great god Investment), of lucrative contracts, of measures which make it easier to reach foreign markets -- that 'monopoly capitalism', which J. O'Connor contrasts with the 'competitive sector', prospers. Consequently, O'Connor argues, 'the growth of the state sector [including the welfare state] is indispensable for the expansion of private industry and in particular the monopolist industries'. Although 'economic power and political power are formally separate, there is a close network of informal relations between them.' I will not quarrel with that, but collusion between the state and capital is nothing new. It dates back to the beginning of the modern period and is so regular that every time a state falters -- whether the state of Castile in 1557 or the French monarchy in 1558 -- capitalism visibly misses a beat too.</i>Antiquated Toryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08727187247287268014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-56935621229832951592009-08-10T16:32:20.230-04:002009-08-10T16:32:20.230-04:00Wonderful reading with many great insights...loved...Wonderful reading with many great insights...loved it.<br />One point worth a mention. After World War 2 America was the only industrial country left standing. We lent money globally to our defeated enemies and we supplied all the infrastructure to rebuild their country. The American unions asked for top wages and with so much money rolling in to the USA the bosses and politicians gave it to them and in return they got a peaceful work-place. For 30 years 1945 to 1975 America lived in a dream world. With Globalization reality has set in..those days will not come back. The solution eludes me.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03380452016663929286noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8746692.post-63543426177031845222009-08-10T02:57:49.468-04:002009-08-10T02:57:49.468-04:00Mr. Kaiser,
Another stunning read. I had the...Mr. Kaiser,<br /> Another stunning read. I had the privilege of stumbling across your blog while investigating the anti-Obama that was falsely attributed to this blog. I am very happy that the myth was debunked and that I found this outlet for thought.<br /> I believe that you are right on in your assessment of what is wrong with the economy and the disconnect between the "market" and the average American. I believe that part of the problem here is that the primacy of the "market' is reinforced by the American middle and upper classes move to embody that the market is really a measure of how well the economy is doing. It is no longer a measure of this at all as far as the vast majority of Americans are concerned but we have all been conned into thinking in very simplistic terms that "market" up = good and "market" down = bad. If 50,000 auto workers are laid off and the Dow rises in response, how can that be good for the economy as a whole and the average American in particular? <br /> Thanks again for the writing and keep up the good work. Also, please feel free to check out a blog that some friends of mine and I started just a few months ago at www.americanbullmoose.com. <br />Sincerely,<br />RoyRoyhttp://www.americanbullmoose.comnoreply@blogger.com