From dassbach@mtu.edu Sun Oct 1 14:13:55 1995 Date: Sun, 01 Oct 1995 16:13:53 -0400 To: WSN@CSF.COLORADO.EDU From: dassbach@mtu.edu (Carl H.A. Dassbach) >Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 10:19:42 -0600 (MDT) >From: Mike Sosteric >X-Sender: socjourn@gpu1.srv.ualberta.ca >To: electronic-sociology-l@majordomo.srv.ualberta.ca >Sender: owner-electronic-sociology-l@quartz.ucs.ualberta.ca >Precedence: bulk > > > >_CALL FOR PAPERS_ > >The Electronic Journal of Sociology is a refereed outlet for the >publication of scholarly research that makes an original contribution to >the advancement of sociological knowledge. The Journal encompasses the >broad range from macro works comparing societies and cultures to >theoretically insightful micro case studies and accepts submissions from a >wide range of theoretical traditions and methodological approaches. 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If you would like to contribute in this manner, >please contact Mike Sosteric at the above address. > > >Sincerly, > > >Mike Sosteric > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- Carl H.A. Dassbach E-mail: DASSBACH@MTU.EDU Dept. of Social Sciences Phone: (906)487-2115 Michigan Technological University Fax: (906)487-2468 Houghton, MI 49931 USA From ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Sun Oct 1 23:39:43 1995 2 Oct 95 11:25:01 NSK-7 From: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" Organization: Center of New Informational Tech. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 11:24:43 -0700 (NSK) Subject: re: collapse X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" X-pmrqc: 1 Prof. Frank asks me to forward this message to philofhi but I think that it is informative also for wsn. Nikolai Rozov From: "A. Gunder Frank" To: Rozov Please forward this mesage to the net, since my attempt got bounced back to me. gunder frank 1. I did not receive or at least not see Dr. Kim's message = request? 2. I have nothing to say about Alex's model. Too abstract for my limited comprehension, which tries to concentrate on the real world. 3. In this attempt, I HAVE written several things about the "collapse of communism" [NOT MY terminology, since I - and most others! - never thoiught that there is/was any "communism" to collapse!], - in 1990 ... on the REvolution of 1989 [ published many times, including in Problems of Peace and Socialism, whre it appeed under the title "The events of 1989" at least in russian! - in 1991/2 ... on Econmic and Political Ironies ofEast-West [especially European] relations, also publised two ormore different articles published several times, among them in the UNESCO Social Science Journal No. 131 [in english] and 132 in other languages -in 1993/4 .... on "What Went Wrong in Soviet and East European "Socialism"? A World Economic Interpretation [also subtitles an International Political Economic Interpretation] becaue the latter publshed in Nr. 2 of the new REVIEW OF INTERNATINAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, also punished in substantally the same form as "The Thirdworldization of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe" 5. With soe EFFORT and TIME, I could make a list of WHERE these articles were published - if there IS sufficient INTEREST on this net - so that netters could find one or more here or there. 6. I may also have some abstracts somewhere on disc, which I cold post to the net [also if there is sufficient interest only since i would have to search soft disc, since I have moved from Europ to Canada and abandoned my old Europen hard disk over there] 7. ALL of these articles, and especially the last one, are world SYSTEM inteerpretations of what went on- and is still going on. and therevofe also whistorical ones! 8. My Friends Andrea Komlosy and Hannes Hofbauer [or names in reverse?] published a similar interpretatin in the journal CONTENTION about number 5or 6. 9. Te shortest summary of my argument [explanation?] is that these economies were dependent/underdeveloped parts of the world economy/system for a long time, and still are, and that "{socialism" was a catch-up attmept which mostly failed, and especially was not enough to permit them to compete in the presentKondratieff B phase/world economic crisis since l967, so that they were made to bear the burdens of it like Lat Am and Africa and parts of Asia - and of course many sectros in the Western economies also - and therefore were pusehd into economic depression, which brought on political collapse. of course the econ deepression continuues and got even worse after the political change, since the latter was done at the worst possible time [but the only possible time] during this 5th world econ recession , which is the deepest since the world econ crisis began in 1967. 10 regards gunder frank Nikolai S. Rozov Professor of Philosophy PhD., Dr.Sc. Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su From KIM@UWYO.EDU Mon Oct 2 11:50:21 1995 From: KIM@UWYO.EDU id <01HVYPDZTC8W005POS@ROPER.UWYO.EDU>; Mon, 02 Oct 1995 11:49:51 -0600 (MDT) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 11:49:09 -0700 (MST) Subject: re: collapse To: Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov , ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su, wsn@csf.colorado.edu Why did social science so miserably fail to predict the collapse of Soviet Union? What can the world-system theory (perspective) offer in the form of explanation and prediction? In what ways can the world-system theory succeed where social science failed? These questions loomed large in the back of my mind when I asked questions about the collapse of communism. I am glad that I received some responses, very useful directions, and insightful comments from Profs.Rozov and Frank. Much of what I have read so far, both from social science and from world-system perspective are ideographic, historiographic, and post ad hoc. Isn't the purpose of social science, and especially the promise of world-system theory the ability to predict events, events of historical importance? The discussion I wish to provoke on this net is thus threee-fold: What can the world-system theory do where social sceince has failed? What are the verifiable nomothetic theories the w-s theory can offer? Can we compare the Soviet communism with Chinese communism in terms of time and place? Quee-Young Kim Department of Sociology University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 > Date sent: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 11:24:43 -0700 (NSK) > From: Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov > Subject: re: collapse > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Send reply to: ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su > Prof. Frank asks me to forward this message to philofhi but > I think that it is informative also for wsn. > Nikolai Rozov > > From: "A. Gunder Frank" > To: Rozov > > Please forward this mesage to the net, since my attempt got bounced back > to me. > gunder frank > > 1. I did not receive or at least not see Dr. Kim's message = request? > 2. I have nothing to say about Alex's model. Too abstract for my limited > comprehension, which tries to concentrate on the real world. > 3. In this attempt, I HAVE written several things about the "collapse of > communism" [NOT MY terminology, since I - and most others! - never > thoiught that there is/was any "communism" to collapse!], > - in 1990 ... on the REvolution of 1989 [ published many times, including > in Problems of Peace and Socialism, whre it appeed under the title "The > events of 1989" at least in russian! > - in 1991/2 ... on Econmic and Political Ironies ofEast-West [especially > European] relations, also publised two ormore different articles > published several times, among them in the UNESCO Social Science Journal No. > 131 [in english] and 132 in other languages > -in 1993/4 .... on "What Went Wrong in Soviet and East European "Socialism"? > A World Economic Interpretation [also subtitles an International > Political Economic Interpretation] becaue the latter publshed in Nr. 2 > of the new REVIEW OF INTERNATINAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, also punished in > substantally the same form as "The Thirdworldization of the Soviet Union > and Eastern Europe" > 5. With soe EFFORT and TIME, I could make a list of WHERE these articles were > published - if there IS sufficient INTEREST on this net - so that netters > could find one or more here or there. > 6. I may also have some abstracts somewhere on disc, which I cold post to > the net [also if there is sufficient interest only since i would have to > search soft disc, since I have moved from Europ to Canada and abandoned my > old Europen hard disk over there] > 7. ALL of these articles, and especially the last one, are world SYSTEM > inteerpretations of what went on- and is still going on. and therevofe also > whistorical ones! > 8. My Friends Andrea Komlosy and Hannes Hofbauer [or names in reverse?] > published a similar interpretatin in the journal CONTENTION about number > 5or 6. > 9. Te shortest summary of my argument [explanation?] is that these economies > were dependent/underdeveloped parts of the world economy/system for a > long time, and still are, and that "{socialism" was a catch-up attmept which > mostly failed, and especially was not enough to permit them to > compete in the presentKondratieff B phase/world economic crisis since l967, > so that they were made to bear the burdens of it like Lat Am and Africa > and parts of Asia - and of course many sectros in the Western economies > also - and therefore were pusehd into economic depression, which brought > on political collapse. of course the econ deepression continuues and got > even worse after the political change, since the latter was done at the > worst possible time [but the only possible time] during this 5th world econ > recession , which is the deepest since the world econ crisis began in 1967. > 10 regards > gunder frank > > > Nikolai S. Rozov > Professor of Philosophy > PhD., Dr.Sc. > > Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI > (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) > > Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 > Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 > 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su > Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su > From THALL@DEPAUW.EDU Mon Oct 2 16:00:20 1995 id <01HVZ0BC1GG800DJEU@DEPAUW.EDU>; Mon, 02 Oct 1995 17:03:03 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 17:03:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Thomas D. [Tom] Hall, THALL@DEPAUW.EDU" Subject: collapse To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Prof. Kim, Have you read Collins & Waller's 1992 piece on this? No need to rehash it if you have, if not it is worth a look. Tom Hall thall@depauw.edu Department of Sociology DePauw University Greencastle, IN 46135 317-658-4519 From KIM@UWYO.EDU Tue Oct 3 09:23:32 1995 From: KIM@UWYO.EDU id <01HVZYJY7S9C0056Z7@ROPER.UWYO.EDU> for wsn@csf.colorado.edu; Tue, 03 Oct 1995 09:22:41 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 09:22:27 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: collapse To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Dear wsnetters: I have received the following response from Prof. Edward Tiryakin. I am reposting it to the net because I think the comments have important implications for anyone interested in w-s theory and social science. Quee-Young Kim Department of Sociology University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Kim@uwyo.edu (307) 766-5230 > Date sent: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 15:28:50 -0400 (EDT) > From: durkhm@soc.duke.edu (Edward Tiryakian) > Subject: Re: collapse > To: KIM@uwyo.edu > I am sure that the collapse/implosion of the Soviet Empire will lead > to as long-lasting debates as that of the Roman Empire. There is a set > of essays in the May 1995 issue of the American JOurnal of Sociology > which has as a focus the problematic of *Prediciton in the Social > Sciences*. There are three important essays in particular, one by the > economist Kuran saying one cannot make predicitons of abrup regime > changes because social actors hae private preferences different from > their publicly expressed ones; a second essay by Randall Collins says > yes, predictions are possible and that HE DID predict the collapse of > the Soviet empire when nobody else was doing it (if you check his > writings before 1990, you may question just how much of a prediction > he did in fact make), and the third essay is by Charles Tilly, which > takes a judicious middle ground. > While a world system argument might appeal -- especially in > the light of wst having anticipated a decline of capitalism before one > of socialism -- there are two endogenous factors to be retained: the > breakdown of commitment and credibility in the system structure and > its ideology and the significance of a reform-minded leader who > pushed for reforms, like the 18th century enlightened rulers, but who > lacked the steel rigor of Metternich and other reactionaries who > cracked the whip in 1848. From KIM@UWYO.EDU Tue Oct 3 09:47:13 1995 From: KIM@UWYO.EDU id <01HVZZE72RBK0062CZ@ROPER.UWYO.EDU> for wsn@csf.colorado.edu; Tue, 03 Oct 1995 09:47:07 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 09:46:27 -0700 (MST) Subject: re: collapse To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Dear wsn netters: I have received the following message from A. Gunder Frank via Prof. Nikolai Rozov. I am reposting it to the net for the benefit of those who are interested in the topic. Quee-Young Kim Department of Sociology University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Kim@uwyo.edu (307)766-5230 > Date sent: Mon, 02 Oct 1995 11:24:43 -0700 (NSK) > From: Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov > Subject: re: collapse > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Send reply to: ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su > Prof. Frank asks me to forward this message to philofhi but > I think that it is informative also for wsn. > Nikolai Rozov > > From: "A. Gunder Frank" > To: Rozov > > Please forward this mesage to the net, since my attempt got bounced back > to me. > gunder frank > > 1. I did not receive or at least not see Dr. Kim's message = request? > 2. I have nothing to say about Alex's model. Too abstract for my limited > comprehension, which tries to concentrate on the real world. > 3. In this attempt, I HAVE written several things about the "collapse of > communism" [NOT MY terminology, since I - and most others! - never > thoiught that there is/was any "communism" to collapse!], > - in 1990 ... on the REvolution of 1989 [ published many times, including > in Problems of Peace and Socialism, whre it appeed under the title "The > events of 1989" at least in russian! > - in 1991/2 ... on Econmic and Political Ironies ofEast-West [especially > European] relations, also publised two ormore different articles > published several times, among them in the UNESCO Social Science Journal No. > 131 [in english] and 132 in other languages > -in 1993/4 .... on "What Went Wrong in Soviet and East European "Socialism"? > A World Economic Interpretation [also subtitles an International > Political Economic Interpretation] becaue the latter publshed in Nr. 2 > of the new REVIEW OF INTERNATINAL POLITICAL ECONOMY, also punished in > substantally the same form as "The Thirdworldization of the Soviet Union > and Eastern Europe" > 5. With soe EFFORT and TIME, I could make a list of WHERE these articles were > published - if there IS sufficient INTEREST on this net - so that netters > could find one or more here or there. > 6. I may also have some abstracts somewhere on disc, which I cold post to > the net [also if there is sufficient interest only since i would have to > search soft disc, since I have moved from Europ to Canada and abandoned my > old Europen hard disk over there] > 7. ALL of these articles, and especially the last one, are world SYSTEM > inteerpretations of what went on- and is still going on. and therevofe also > whistorical ones! > 8. My Friends Andrea Komlosy and Hannes Hofbauer [or names in reverse?] > published a similar interpretatin in the journal CONTENTION about number > 5or 6. > 9. Te shortest summary of my argument [explanation?] is that these economies > were dependent/underdeveloped parts of the world economy/system for a > long time, and still are, and that "{socialism" was a catch-up attmept which > mostly failed, and especially was not enough to permit them to > compete in the presentKondratieff B phase/world economic crisis since l967, > so that they were made to bear the burdens of it like Lat Am and Africa > and parts of Asia - and of course many sectros in the Western economies > also - and therefore were pusehd into economic depression, which brought > on political collapse. of course the econ deepression continuues and got > even worse after the political change, since the latter was done at the > worst possible time [but the only possible time] during this 5th world econ > recession , which is the deepest since the world econ crisis began in 1967. > 10 regards > gunder frank > > > Nikolai S. Rozov > Professor of Philosophy > PhD., Dr.Sc. > > Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI > (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) > > Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 > Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 > 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su > Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su > From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Tue Oct 3 10:24:10 1995 id <01HW04KMRW4MHTSLK2@grove.iup.edu>; Tue, 03 Oct 1995 12:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 12:23:41 -0400 (EDT) From: s_sanderson To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania This is in reply to Edward Tiryakian's comment as to whether Randall Collins correctly predicted the Soviet collapse before 1990. Yes, he did in fact do so. He wrote an essay around 1980 in which he predicted the collapse based on the Soviet overextension of its empire. To the best of my knowledge, this essay was first published in his 1986 book, Weberian Sociological Theory. The article he published with David Waller in 1992 is simply an updated version of his original argument. However, the correct prediction may be a piece of luck. I'm not convinced that Collins's explanation is the right one, although he may indeed be on to something. His argument is definitely worth serious consideration. Stephen Sanderson From KIM@UWYO.EDU Tue Oct 3 11:03:41 1995 From: KIM@UWYO.EDU id <01HW0232KXY8006HJV@ROPER.UWYO.EDU> for wsn@csf.colorado.edu; Tue, 03 Oct 1995 11:03:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 03 Oct 1995 11:02:57 -0700 (MST) Subject: Re: collapse of communism To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Hi, everyone, I have received this message from Prof. Sanderson. It contains not only excellent bibliographic information but also insightful comments. All of us interested in world affairs should find it interesting. Quee-Young Kim Department of Sociology University of Wyoming Laramie, WY 82071 Kim@uwyo.edu (307)766-5230 > Date sent: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 16:10:06 -0400 (EDT) > From: s_sanderson > Subject: collapse of communism > To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK > Send reply to: SKSANDER@GROVE.IUP.EDU > This is in response to Quee-Young Kim's questions concerning the collapse of > communism. > > In the 3rd edition of my MACROSOCIOLOGY, I have a discussion of the collapse of > communism on pp. 314-21. I review a couple of explanations of the collapse, in > particular that offered by Randall Collins and David Waller, which is a > Weberian theory relying on the notion of the overextension of the Soviet > empire. I advance my own interpretation by way of two main points: The Soviet > economy was severely hampered after a time (i.e., about 1975) because of its > extreme bureaucratic centralization, and thus massive economic problems were > produced; and the constraints on the Soviet economy exerted by the surrounding > capitalist world-economy also produced severe economic problems. The > combination was deadly. > > To understand the collapse you need to know something about the economic and > political reforms initiated by Gorbachev after 1985. I discuss these on pp. > 188-195, and in the later discussion (pp. 314-21) the two parts of the overall > argument are linked. > > References to other important discussions of the collapse of communism can, of > course, be found in my discussions. I particularly recommend the analyses by > Collins and Waller and by Krishan Kumar. The latter has written an extremely > insightful article on the collapse. > > This should get you started. Your reaction to my argument is quite welcome. > > Stephen Sanderson From claudiu@ix.netcom.com Tue Oct 3 19:10:44 1995 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 1995 18:10:35 -0700 From: claudiu@ix.netcom.com (Claudiu Secara) Subject: Re: collapse To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu The academic question of "scientific" prediction of collapse, etc. is not one that a gentleman reading books in his apartment or teaching teenagers from other people's books would ever be able to satisfy. As one of those 'intellectuals' who left Romania in early 1980s, after years of "living" research among real people and corporate shortcomings, I left that system with an intimate knowledge of its systemic imminent disintegration. I wish that same myopic 'ex cathedra' moralizing lecturing would not continue with the same superior ignorance of reality, always behind the events. For those interested in more details I recommend my book soon to be available in print: THE NEW COMMONWEALTH. From Bureaucratic Corporatism to Socialist Capitalism. Thanks, Claudiu A. Secara From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Wed Oct 4 10:18:48 1995 id <01HW1IWIO3X28Y51EC@grove.iup.edu>; Wed, 04 Oct 1995 12:17:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 12:17:32 -0400 (EDT) From: s_sanderson To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania Sorry to bother the entire list with this message, but, Terry Boswell, what is your e-mail address? I want to sent you a message. Steve Sanderson From chriscd@jhu.edu Wed Oct 4 12:03:04 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW1MML3BCW8Y4XGU@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Wed, 04 Oct 1995 14:02:46 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW1MMF57CW8WX3KE@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Wed, 04 Oct 1995 14:02:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 04 Oct 1995 12:51:14 -0400 Subject: Wallerstein's review of Arrighi Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Immanuel Wallerstein's review of Giovanni Arrighi's _The Long Twentieth Century (Verso 1994) is now published as Book Review #6 in Volume 1 of the _Journal of World-Systems Research_. You can access and retrieve a copy by using gopher to csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/journals/ or a web browser (e.g. Netscape) to http://csf.colorado.edu/jwsr.html chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Thu Oct 5 04:16:30 1995 5 Oct 95 16:09:33 NSK-7 From: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" Organization: Center of New Informational Tech. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 16:09:16 -0700 (NSK) Subject: collapse of dogmas X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" X-pmrqc: 1 Almost all replies to Dr.Kim's question on Collapse of Communism refer to ENDOGENOUS factors: geopolitical, economical, ideological features and processes in communist regimes, first of all in Russia (all agree that namely the constellation of all these factors occured to be crucial). Georgii Derlugian (U. of Michigan) also wrote me about two more primary predictors: Isaac Deutcher whose book about the future of USSR written in 1950-s is highly valued by I.Wallerstein, and Russian dissident Amalric who analysed in 1970's if USSR exist until 1984. If anybody noticed that all endogenous explanations are contradictory to one of common places of WS approach, that USSR and its satellites were not more than semispherical parts of global world capitalist system (Wallerstein, Chase-Dunn, Shannon, etc)? Really, if it is one global system, the explanatory reasons MUST also concern the interior mechanisms of the system as a whole. If the main reasons are specific for communist countries, say, Russia, we should already consider (at least) TWO world-systems (I think until 1980-90-s there were THREE: Western World Economy and two communist systems dominated by USSR and China that had basic typical features of world-empires). Only A.G.Frank included in his explanation the B-phase of Kondratieff since 1967. Well, nobody says that there were no mutual influences between two (or three including China) world- systems. At the same time I argue that it was not intra- systemic but namely INTER-SYSTEMIC influence. Remember the Great Depression of 1930-s which was owful even for core countries. By traditional WS theory, the core had to move pression to pheriphery and semipherophery, say, socialist- communist "sub-system". Not at all! The industrialization continued (surely by terrible means: GULAG, collectivization, etc) but even such national schock as Hitlerian invasion up to Moscow and Volga-river did not lead to collapse of USSR, but on the contrary - caused integration, spread of Communism to all Eastern Europe and 20 years of post-war real mass enthusiasm. The rejection of dogma of globality of world- economy urges us to reevaluate some historical views. When the Western capitalist world-economy became global? Not in late 19th century but only in 100 years - now! Even this date is not evident. If China is already deeply involved in world economy, Russia is not yet. The ideological trend for isolation are rather strong here and it may take 3- 5-10 years for real and steady involvement. We are used to hear and tell each other that we live in the end of epoch of global capitalism. Isn't it an intellectual schock for some of us to realize that we only NOW enter into the epoch of global world-economy? I will be very grateful for comments and counter- arguments. Nikolai Nikolai S. Rozov Professor of Philosophy PhD., Dr.Sc. Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su From wally@cats.ucsc.edu Thu Oct 5 06:40:55 1995 From: wally@cats.ucsc.edu Date: Thu, 5 Oct 1995 05:40:47 -0700 To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: response to rozov It is a long way from Santa Cruz to Novosibirsk, but we seem to be part of the same world-economy. Our views however differ considerably: Prof. Rozov's post on the collapse of Communism raises questions that would take untold gigabytes to respond to in full. I see three main issues in his challenge to what he calls "dogma." (1) Was Russian communism's collapse caused "endogenously" or by world-systemic forces? He implies the former, since most of the posts on this issue have cited ideology, geopolitics, economics. He mentions A G Frank's post as an exception. At the least, it is necessary to get beyond a simple-minded endogenous/exogenous view of change in any particular locale. If, as many of us believe, the USSR was a part of the whole capitalist world-economy, it was at once subject to the cyclical dynamics of that whole and (especially as a major military power and guardian of a great reserve of natural resources) an important piece of that whole. It was a semi-peripheral state controlling both semi-peripheral and peripheral zones. One might want to separate its devolution into separate sovereign states (loss of some of its historically continuous "empire" aspects) from the partial undoing of its "communist" aspects, but both of those processes are at the least contemporaneous with and congruent with the waves (1) of regional reorganization (supra and subnational) in many parts of the world, (2) of democratization in most of the semiperiphery (E Europe, S Korea, Taiwan, Southern Cone, S Africa--see here among others the work of A Bergesen and R P Korzeniewicz), and (3) of denationalization of state enterprises and the embrace of "neo-liberalism" in many of these same places. Explaining all this by "contagion" or imitation or miraculous simultaneity seems foolish to me; the B-phase invoked by Frank and others, the decline of US hegemony, and the new time/space- compressing technologies seem like much better places to start. In treating the Soviet case specifically, the consequences of cold war militarization loom particularly large, but this can hardly be counted as an "endogenous" matter. (2) Does the Soviet experience of agonized and costly industrialization during the 1930s and after the victory over Nazi Germany cast doubt on world-system interpretations of its trajectory, since during B-phases the core supposedly "pressures" the semiperiphery and presumably all semiperipheries suffer? Not in my view. As Wallerstein has pointed out on many occasions, B-phases bring opportunities for a few semiperipheral states to advance through "mercantilist" partial withdrawal from world-economic involvement (largely forced on the USSR by the collapse of international trade), the use of borrowed technology (soviets plus electrification, let a hundred Pittsburghs bloom), and military aggrandizement (often in alliance with one or more core powers--here the WW2 coalition). [B-phases also bring opportunities for some to advance in the "development by invitation" mode, viz the 70s/80s boom in E Asia, as analyzed by Arrighi and his collaborators among many others.] (3) Did the world-economy become fully global around the end of the 19th century or is it only just now (or very soon) becoming global with the integration of the laggard world-empires of Russia/USSR and China/PRC? As implied in (2), my short response to this question is to emphasize the former. The story of Russia's initial incorporation (mostly 18th c.) into the capitalist world-economy is told in Vol. 3 of MODERN WORLD-SYSTEM, that of China (19th c.) in works by F Moulder, A So, and many others. Throughout modern history, especially during B-phases, commodifying activities tend to intensify in many locations where previous incorporation had resulted in claims to sovereignty, or superficial resource extraction, or "mere" peasantization, in the "hybrid" societal types emphasized by the "articulation of modes of production" school, or in the "hybrid" political type of mobilized "catch-up" absolutism self-styled as "communism." These waves of intense commodifying are indeed experienced by many as a "shock," as it is their land that is expropriated, and their labor that is proletarianized, their "roots" that are torn up, their landscapes altered, their communities transformed, their livelihoods jeopardized--Chiapas might serve as the best but by no means the only example today. But should social scientists be "shocked" by this current wave of capitalist intensification and mistake it for (finally) globalization? Not if we've been paying close attention to twenty years of theoretical and empirical work. An electronic bear hug to Prof Rozov and other participants in this discussion! From chriscd@jhu.edu Thu Oct 5 07:32:31 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW2RG1Z8EO8Y4XO9@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 05 Oct 1995 09:31:50 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW2RFVBQGW8WXENF@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 05 Oct 1995 09:31:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 05 Oct 1995 08:20:14 -0400 Subject: the soviet union, china and the world-system Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Nikolai Rozov has raised the question of whether or not China and the Soviet Union were parts of a larger world-system or separate systems. This question was the focus of a huge debate in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Most of the points of view are included in a book I edited that was published in 1982, _Socialist States in the World-System_ (Sage). Albert Szymanski and Vicente Navarro, both marxists, argued the position that these societies were largely separate systems. Though no one predicted that the Soviet state would collapse in 1989 most of the essays discussed the ways in which the Soviet Union was becoming more and more reintegrated in to the capitalist world-economy. I argued that the Soviet Union had experienced a communist revolution that was intended to create a separate system but that never really escaped the capitalist world-economy. The necessities of survival as a state required the mobilization of military strength and negotiations with the "great powers." So the Soviet Union never escaped the interstate system. The Communist state did mobilize a great effort to protect economic development from world market forces and in this is was partly successful, as Prof Rozov points out. But this is not entirely different from what other upwardly mobile semiperipheral states have done. Even the United States used tariff protection in the nineteenth century to protect "infant industries." And twentieth century "successes" have used state power to mobilize national industrialization to an even greater degree. The Soviet Union and China are distinctive mainly in the extent to which used socialist ideology to mobilize national industrialization. As predicted, both China and Russia have been increasingly reintegrated in to business as usual in the capitalist world-economy. My most recent contribution to this topic focusses on the spiralling interaction between capitalist and socialist development over the last 200 years. "The spiral of capitalism and socialism" Pp. 1665-187 in Louis F. Kriesberg (ed.) _Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change_ Volume 14, (Jai Press, 1992). Here I contend that antisystemic movements such as workers' coops, granges, agriculutral collectives, labor unions, socialist parties and communist states have pushed capitalism to expand the scale of market integration and firm size as these socialist organizational efforts have become reincorporated in to capitalism. And the socialist movements also increased their scale and type of organization in response to expanding capitalism. The point is that we are now in a period in which global capitalism requires global socialism. Terry Boswell and I are working on a book on this latter point. We are very interested in Warren Wagar's idea of a world party to carry forth the project of a global-level democratic socialism. chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Fri Oct 6 09:45:29 1995 6 Oct 95 20:53:39 NSK-7 From: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" Organization: Center of New Informational Tech. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 20:52:37 -0700 (NSK) Subject: collapse of dogmas:reply X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" X-pmrqc: 1 Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 08:27:33 -0400 (EDT) From: hishpv@admin.ac.edu (Hubert van Tuyll) Subject: collapse of dogmas:reply To: philofhi@YorkU.CA A brief comment on Nikolai Sergeevitch's post concerning the collapse of the USSR and world-system implications; I agree that this requires more attention. One suggestion for additional consideration is to inquire whether we are entering an era of "devolution." The "state" in history has dominated both west and world since the seventeenth century. But there are numerous examples of states being threatened by either breakup or at least a loosening in the ties. This is spectacularly obvious in the case of the USSR and Yugoslavia, but can be seen more subtly in Britain, in the United States, and to varying degrees in other places. Of course this does not rule out the impact of economic world systems, which may be overpowering the three-centuries old nation-state system. I have not worked this out to a sufficient degree to turn this into a testable theory but perhaps some of our list members have considered this possibility already. Hubert van Tuyll, Augusta College GA Nikolai S. Rozov Professor of Philosophy PhD., Dr.Sc. Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su From chriscd@jhu.edu Fri Oct 6 10:00:15 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW4AVYFHKG8Y4Y0C@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 06 Oct 1995 11:59:06 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW4AVSHWGW8WXUF1@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 06 Oct 1995 11:59:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 10:47:29 -0400 Subject: Fw: Monthly Reminder Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Dear WSNers: all this applied also to WSN. Just substitute WSN for IPE in the following. chriscd This is a monthly reminder of some of the listserv commands at your disposal. I have used caps for emphasis -- all commands and addresses are case insensitive. The commands/messages discussed below should all be sent to LISTSERV@csf.colorado.edu or LISTPROC@csf.colorado.edu The unsubscribe command is just two words: UNSUB IPE These two words should be in the body of the message, not the subject line. Most common mistakes: 1. The inclusion of personal names with the unsub request. 2. Punctuation marks near the two words E.g., "unsub ipe" rather than unsub ipe >unsub ipe rather than unsub ipe unsub ipe. rather than unsub ipe unsub rather than unsub ipe 3. Trying to unsubscribe from an new address when your subscription is registered under an old address. To determine the address under which you are subscribed, send listserv@csf the two word request RECIPIENTS IPE If your efforts to unsub have been frustrated, please write to gonick@csf.colorado.edu (or to manager@csf when I'm absent), rather than taking the problem to the list. It is helpful to forward a copy of mail from listserv@csf that shows the source of your problem. ------------ MAIL SETTINGS ------------ If you would like to receive IPE messages twice-a-week in a batch instead of one-by-one, everyday, send the following command to LISTSERV@csf If you are going to be away and want to postpone messages from IPE again send a message to LISTSERV@csf and in the message box use SET IPE MAIL POSTPONE To unpostpone your mail or return to one-at-a-time message delivery, use SET IPE MAIL ACK All subscribers have one of three settings: ACK, DIGEST or POSTPONE ACK is the default setting. To determine which setting you have on your mail, send the command SET IPE -------- INDEX and GET cmds ---------- If you want to see an index of the logs of past messages and other files send (to LISTSERV@csf) the command INDEX IPE The list of files returned from the index command are retrievable with the get command. 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IPENet maintains a gopher and www archive. gopher csf.colorado.edu http://csf.colorado.edu/ipe/index.html Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From chriscd@jhu.edu Fri Oct 6 17:24:17 1995 id <01HW4QEXFC808Y4Y0P@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 06 Oct 1995 19:23:29 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW4QETWE0W8WY8HI@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 06 Oct 1995 19:23:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 06 Oct 1995 19:23:15 -0400 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Political Economy job opening (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 16:23:37 -0400 From: John Gaventa To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Political Economy job opening We encourage PSN'ers to help to shar the word about the following position. Thanks. John Gaventa University of Tennessee. The Department of Sociology invites application for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor rank. Preferred area of specialization is political economy with a special emphasis on economic analysis of class and gender. Applicants with a well- established record of research publications or strong potential to develop one and strong teaching credentials will be given priority. Both beginning and advanced assistant professors will be considered. A Ph.D. by September 1995 is required. Salary and benefits are competitive. Applicants should include a letter presenting teaching and research interests, a resume, and a list of three persons who may be contacted as references. Materials should be addressed to Dr. Neal Shover, Search Committee Chair, Department of Sociology, 901 McClung Tower, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996-0490. Review of applications will begin January 15, 1995 and will continue until the position is filled. UTK is an EEO/AA/TitleIX/Section504/ADA Employer. From chriscd@jhu.edu Sun Oct 8 08:21:01 1995 id <01HW701Y0C0W8WY2DV@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Sun, 08 Oct 1995 10:20:56 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW701WYNS08WY0BY@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Sun, 08 Oct 1995 10:20:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 08 Oct 1995 10:20:42 -0400 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: correct jwsr web address To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu I gave the wrong world wide web address for the _Journal of World-systems Research_. the correct address is http://csf.colorado.edu/web/wsystems/jwsr.html chris Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu From chriscd@jhu.edu Mon Oct 9 10:23:15 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW8GHQ7NKW8WYO89@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:22:35 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW8GHMTDF48WYP9F@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 11:22:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 10:11:03 -0400 Subject: Fw: Job opening at the University of Leeds Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------ From: PG Cerny To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Subject: Job opening at the University of Leeds I'd like to bring this job opening to the attention of both potential applicants and those who might know of any. I'm putting it out on the ipenet now because the ad itself (in a shorter version) will probably not appear until the November issue of the APSA Personnel Newsletter. Phil Cerny (Professor-elect, University of Leeds) UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS State and Economy/International Political Economy The Department of Politics at the University of Leeds (United Kingdom) invites applications for a position in State-Economy Relations and International Political Economy of Advanced Industrial Societies, to begin any time after March 1, 1996. This will normally be filled at Lecturer A level (equivalent to a tenure-track, entry-level or junior Assistant Professor position), although there may be some possibility of appointment at the lower end of the Lecturer B scale for an exceptionally well-qualified candidate. The Politics Department has always focused on relations between politics and economics and state and society across a range of sub-fields. The most recent development has been the establishment of a Chair in International Political Economy, to which Professor Philip G. Cerny has been appointed with effect from January 1, 1996. A specialized graduate program in IPE is also being set up with links to both existing and new departmental and interdisciplinary graduate programs in industrial policy, international studies, democratization, international resources and development, European studies (which is also headed by a new director, Professor Juliet Lodge), communications studies, and international business. We are looking for an applicant whose interests combine aspects of Comparative Public Policy, Government-Industry Relations and the like with International Political Economy. Relevant research interests would include industrial policy, trade policy, macroeconomic policy, etc. Candidates may have a geographical area interest in any advanced industrial society or region, although a specialism in Britain or Germany would be particularly welcome. A strong existing publication record, or evidence of strong publishing potential, is required. Candidates should either have a completed Ph.D. or be in a position to complete within six months after starting the appointment. Applications will be reviewed starting January 8, 1996. The University of Leeds is a major urban research university, and is the largest single-site British university, with 19,000 students. Leeds is a lively post-industrial city (once the cradle of the Industrial Revolution) of 700,000 in the heart of West Yorkshire in the North of England. The West Yorkshire conurbation has a population of just over 2 million. It has fast rail links to London and other major British cities, including a direct link to Manchester Airport (as well as having a smaller airport of its own with direct links to major European cities). Further information is available from Mrs. S.M.D. Wheeler, Director of Personnel, Office of the Registrar, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, United Kingdom, to whom applications should also be sent. Applications (two copies) should include a cover letter, a full curriculum vitae and list of publications, writing samples, and the names and addresses of three referees (including telephone and fax numbers and email addresses where possible). Informal enquiries about the post may be made to David S. Bell, Chair, Department of Politics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK (tel. 011-44-113-233-4397; fax 011-44-113-233-4400). Enquiries may also be addressed to Professor Philip G. Cerny: before the end of 1995, he may be contacted at the Department of Politics, University of York, York YO1 5DD, UK (tel. 011-44-1904-433547; fax 011-44-1904-433563; email ), or after January 1, 1996, at the Department of Politics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK (tel. 011-44-113-233-4399). Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu Mon Oct 9 10:56:44 1995 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Mon, 9 Oct 1995 11:01:25 -0600, MDT Subject: w-s & commodification of genetic material I thought that this message would raise some interesting theoretical and practical problems. Jack Owens Idaho State University ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 16:26:37 -0500 From: "Gordon C. Thomasson" Subject: COLONIALISM? Subj: RAFI Press Release: Indigenous Person Patented ***Please! Direct any e-mail replies to: rafiusa@harlan.pdial.interpath.net*** FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE * INDIGENOUS PERSON FROM PAPUA NEW GUINEA CLAIMED IN US GOVERNMENT PATENT * "Another major step down the road to the commodification of life" says Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) Director Pat Mooney. * RAFI moves to take the life patenting issue to the World Court. * Patenting Indigenous People In an unprecedented move, the United States Government has issued itself a patent on a foreign citizen. On March 14, 1995, an indigenous man of the Hagahai people from Papua New Guinea's remote highlands ceased to own his genetic material. While the rest of the world is seeking to protect the knowledge and resources of indigenous people, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is patenting them. "This patent is another major step down the road to the commodification of life. In the days of colonialism, researchers went after indigenous people's resources and studied their scoial organizations and customs. But now, in biocolonial times, they are going after the people themsleves" says Pat Roy Mooney, RAFI's Executive Director, who is at The Hague investigating prospects for a World Court challenge to the patenting of human genetic material. The Hagahai, who number a scant 260 persons and only came into consistent contact with the outside world in 1984, now find their genetic material - the very core of their physical identity - the property of the United States Government. The same patent application is pending in 19 other countries. Though one of the "inventors,"resident in Papua New Guinea, apparently signed an agreement giving a percentage of any royalties to the Hagahai, the patent makes no concrete provision for the Hagahai to receive any compensation for becoming the property of the US Government.. Indeed, the Hagahai are likely to continue to suffer threats to their very survival from disease and other health problems brought by outsiders. RAFI's Jean Christie has recently returned to Australia after consultations with the governments of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands (one of whose citizens is also subject to claims in a related US Government patent application). On her return from Port Moresby and Honiara, Christie said "This outrageous patent has provoked anger in the Pacific and is a matter of deep concern worldwide." In response to 1993 investigations by the Government of the Solomon Islands and RAFI, NIH's Jonathan Friedlander (Physical Anthropology Program Director) wrote to the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the United Nations, allaying their concerns by saying that the patent applications "will likely be abandoned entirely or not allowed." Contrary to Friedlander's indication, in the course of routine research prior to Christie's trip to the Pacific RAFI discovered that the patent was issued 6 months ago. Linked to the "Vampire Project"? The first-ever patent of an indigenous person comes as an international group of scientists are embarking on the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGDP), which aims to draw blood and tissue samples from as many indigenous groups in the world as possible. While the Hagahai are not specifically mentioned in the draft "hit list" of the HGDP -- dubbed the "vampire project" by its opponents worldwide -- it has targeted over 700 indigenous groups, including 41 from Papua New Guinea, for "sampling" by researchers. Friedlander, who wrote that the patent application would likely be withdrawn, participated in the development of the HGDP and was among those at its founding meeting. Within weeks of the patent's issue, Friedlander returned the Pacific on business related to the collection of blood samples. At the same time, indigenous people and NGOs from across the Pacific are working on the implementation of a "Lifeforms Patent-Free Pacific Treaty." As recently as last week's UNESCO Bioethics Committee meeting, HGDP Director Dr. Luca Cavalli-Sforza claimed that the project did not support the patenting of indigenous peoples' DNA. In contrast, at the Beijing Women's Conference, Sami indigenous women from the Nordic countries added their voice to the dozens of indigenous peoples' organizations that have denounced the project as a violation of their rights. "The thin veneer of the HGDP as an academic, non-commercial exercise has been shattered by the US government patenting an indigenous person from Papua New Guinea," said Edward Hammond, Program Officer with RAFI-USA in North Carolina. The Value of Human DNA: Mining Indigenous Communities for Raw Materials NIH's patent (US 5,397,696) claims a cell line containing the unmodified Hagahai DNA and several methods for its use in detecting HTLV-1-related retroviruses. The team that patented the cell line is headed by the 1976 Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Dr. D.Carleton Gajdusek. Recent cases have concretely demonstrated the economic value of human DNA from remote populations in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and development of vaccines. Blood samples drawn from the asthmatic inhabitants of the remote South Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha were sold by researchers to a California-based company which in turn sold rights to its as yet unproved technologies for asthma treatment to German giant Boehringer Ingelheim for US $70 million. NIH patent claims on indigenous people's genetic material are pursued abroad by the National Technical Information Service, a division of the US Department of Commerce. Ronald Brown, the US Secretary of Commerce has left no question as to his interpretation of the controversy, stating "Under our laws... subject matter relating to human cells is patentable and there is no provision for considerations relating to the source of the cells that may be the subject of a patent application." The Hagahai, and millions of other indigenous people, in other words, are raw material for US business. RAFI believes that this is only the beginning of a dangerous trend toward the commodification of humanity and the knowledge of indigenous people. Whether human genetic material or medicinal plants are the target, there is scarcely a remote rural group in the world that is not being visited by predatory researchers. Indigenous people, whose unique identity is in part reflected in their genes, are prime targets of gene hunters. Says Leonora Zalabata of the Arhuaco people of Colombia: "This could be another form of exploitation, only this time they are using us as raw materials." RAFI Challenges the Patenting of Human Beings RAFI has been closely following the patenting of indigenous people since 1993, when pressure from RAFI and the Guaymi General Congress led to the withdrawal of a patent application by the US Secretary of Commerce on a cell line from a Guaymi indigenous woman from Panama. RAFI is currently investigating prospects to bring the issue of human patenting to the World Court at the Hague as well as the Biodiversity Convention and relevant multilateral bodies. CONTACTS: Pat Mooney, Executive Director Ottawa, ONT (Canada) (613) 567-6880 Jean Christie, International Liaison Queensland, Australia (61) 79 394-792 Edward Hammond, Program Officer Pittsboro, NC (USA) (919) 542-1396 DATE: 4 October 1995 From chriscd@jhu.edu Mon Oct 9 13:48:22 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW8PPG5UE88Y4YH0@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 15:46:54 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW8PPAAU348WYROA@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 15:46:52 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 14:35:15 -0400 Subject: correction Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English mental malfunction. the machines are doing fine. the correct Web address of the World-Systems Archive is http://csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/wsarch.html I erroneosly sent out the wrong address in the notice about Andre Gunder Frank's essay. chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From chriscd@jhu.edu Mon Oct 9 14:04:09 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW8PGR164W8Y4YFT@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 15:39:54 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW8PGLLAW08WYJBV@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 09 Oct 1995 15:39:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 09 Oct 1995 14:28:17 -0400 Subject: gunder frank on soviet demise Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Excerpts from an essay by Andre Gunder Frank on the demise of the Soviet Union are now available from the electronic World-Systems Archive at csf.colorado.edu the address for ftp and gopher is csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/papers/frank_ag/ the World Wide Web address is http://csf.colorado.edu/web/wsystems/wsarch.html (then choose "papers" and frank_ag) chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From chriscd@jhu.edu Tue Oct 10 11:04:58 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HW9YANIDZ48Y4YNX@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:03:05 -0400 (EDT) id <01HW9YAETUHS8WZ1AL@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 13:03:00 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 11:51:20 -0400 Subject: Fw: Report on meeting of Latin American sociologists Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------ From: mcastro@umiami.ir.miami.edu To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Report on meeting of Latin American sociologists The disaster that "neo-liberal" economic programs have wrought upon the vast majority of the region's people was a central theme when sociologists from all over Latin America met in Mexico City last week. The event was the XX Congress of the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Sociologia (ALAS) held Oct. 1-6 in the Mexican capital. Among the keynoters was Immanuel Wallerstein, who lectured in a heavily accented but fluent and comprehensible Spanish. Wallerstein predicted, among other things, that immigrant workers would become the "dangerous class" for capitalists in the core countries of the world-system in the 21st century. An overflowing crowd of several hundred people listened to Wallerstein in a stifling hot auditorium just across the street from the Aztec Templo Mayor. Pablo Gonzalez Casanova and Rodolfo Stavenhagen were among the many Latin American social scientists who gave keynote addresses. One who was not was Fernando Henrique Cardoso, a former president of the association and now president of Brazil. His economic policies were sharply criticized by several of the presenters. Organizers of the event said 2,000 people registered for the event, including many students. There were relatively few U.S. participants. One reason may be that the event came on the heels of the LASA meetings in Washington, DC. Now that the who, what, where, and when have been taken care of, I will share some brief observations about the meeting. This was the first time I have attended a meeting of ALAS. The most striking thing was the extent to which the mainstream of Latin American sociology still is what in the U.S. would be regarded as the critical or progressive wing of the discipline. I had the feeling that Latin American sociology was re-emerging from its own crisis, and there were many allusions to the fact that this event was more spirited than those in recent years. Several speakers spoke of the event as "the Congress of hope." On my way back to the hotel on the very first day of the conference, I noticed a crowd gathered at the Zocalo, the main square in the city. Flames leapt out from somewhere in the middle of the square, which right across from the national palace, the Cathedral and my hotel, which was once known as "El Gran Hotel de la Ciudad" and now is better known as Howard Johnson. It turns out that some of those marching in a protest marking the 27th anniversary of the Oct 2, 1968 Tlatelolco massacre, where 500 people were killed by government forces, had commandeered several buses and set fire to them in the most visible place possible. The police did not show up to make arrests until the buses were destroyed, and it was clear that they were under orders to avoid bloodshed, which they did. Some things have changed in Mexico, and many others have not. The most encouraging thing about the experience for me is that I sensed a real interest, among many people that were obviously not professional sociologists, in what the social scientists had to say about the big structural questions. For the Mexicans especially, these questions do not seem abstract at all as they watch the value of their currency sink and their standard of living erode. Although I am loath to engage in what may appear as self-promotion, my paper for the conference was on the immigration debate in the United States and the issue of whether we are entering a new nativist era. The paper is in Spanish, although there is a shorter draft version in English. I would share either version with anyone interested, and invite comments as I hope to develop it into a book project. Max J. Castro North-South Center University of Miami Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Tue Oct 10 22:28:21 1995 11 Oct 95 10:22:17 NSK-7 From: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" Organization: Center of New Informational Tech. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 10:21:46 -0700 (NSK) Subject: V.Bilenkin: predictions of collapse X-Confirm-Reading-To: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" X-pmrqc: 1 From: achekhov@unity.ncsu.edu To: ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 17:26:07 -0400 (EDT) Concerning historical predictions In his recent comment on the "collapse of communism" Dr. Rozov mentioned Isaac Deutscher and Andrei Amalrik as its "more primary predictors." Since the issue of historical prediction is inseparable from that of historical understanding which is the subject of this net, I'd like to clarify a few things about who was the real predictor of the events under consideration. Leaving aside Amalrik who prophesied the end of the "Russian Empire" in a Chinese-Soviet war, it must be pointed out that Deutscher never acknowledged, let alone predicted, the possibility of capitalist restoration in the SU/Russia. On the contrary, till his very end he disagreed on this point with Trotsky who was and is the only one to have envisioned the possibility of such development, outlined its stages, and analyzed its social, political and economic causes, both internal and international. This theoretical feat was accomplished 60 years ago in his "Revolution Betrayed," the last fundamental work in the tradition of classical Marxism. Deutscher, who called the book one of the seminal in this century, rejected Trotsky's conclusion that unless the Soviet workers restore the power of the soviets and overthrow the bureaucracy through a political revolution the latter will eventually restore capitalism in the country and convert itself into capitalist class. Deutscher's optimism was based on the ongoing "de-stalinization from above" that seemed to undermine Trotsky's thesis on the necessity of a political revolution from below. Deutscher believed that--though uneven, half-hearted and incomplete--this process was to awaken the political consciousness of the masses whose activism would easily prevent any attempt at a bureaucracy-led counterrevolution. Even when he finally had to admit (in 1967, right before his death) the existence of a "moral-psychological potential for restoration in the SU" Deutscher continued to reject its possibility "if only because the rejection of planned economy would deal a crushing blow to Russia's national interests and her position in the world" (I quote from memory). He was wrong, wrong out of despair. Not seeing any signs of the political awakening of the Soviet workers Deutscher, contrary to his own Marxist convictions, put his last hopes on the national sentiments of the Soviet ruling caste. (As late as 1990 and by different reasons, Samir Amin made the same mistake in "Delinking"). The theoretical power of Trotsky's analysis has been confirmed by history itself and at a bitter price. I cannot think of any other historical prognosis of such proven scientific exactitude. Yet, Trotsky's achievement remains unrecognized by Western academia, both left and right, except in the dubious form of partial, less or more thinly disguised plagiarizing. But to discuss the reasons for this scandalous silence would mean to go far beyond the usual academic protocol. Vladimir Bilenkin Nikolai S. Rozov Professor of Philosophy PhD., Dr.Sc. Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su From chriscd@jhu.edu Wed Oct 11 07:26:52 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWB50FW1ZK8Y4YVT@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:26:27 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWB50EGV408WZE4O@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:26:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 08:15:02 -0400 Subject: Fw: Re: Position Announcement Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------ From: George Lord To: PROGRESSIVE SOCIOLOGISTS NETWORK Subject: Re: Position Announcement University of Michigan - Flint. The Department of Sociology invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level to begin Fall 1996. Candidates should be prepared to teach Research Methods (both quantitative and qualitative), Social Statistics (including SPSS or SYSTAT), Formal Organizations, and Introductory Sociology. PhD in Sociology required at time of appointment. Send application including letter outlining teaching philosophy and research agenda, vita, and three letters of reference to George Lord, Chair, Search Committee, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, University of Michigan-Flint, 48502-2186. RReview of applications will begin January 5, 1996. The University of Michigan-Flint is an equal opportunity educator and employer and specifically invites and encourages applications from minorities and women. Electronic Mail inquiries to LORD_G@CROB.FLINT.UMICH.EDU GEORGE LORD Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu Wed Oct 11 07:46:09 1995 id <01HWB5I9D5EE8Y4ZPL@grove.iup.edu>; Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:41:07 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 11 Oct 1995 09:41:07 -0400 (EDT) From: s_sanderson Subject: Criticisms of Cardoso at ALAS meetings To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Organization: Indiana University of Pennsylvania From: NetMail%"mcastro@umiami.ir.miami.edu" 10-OCT-1995 16:35:24.45 To: NetMail%"SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu" "s_sanderson" CC: Subj: RE: your mail Return-path: id <01HWA5O9R6Z48ZG959@grove.iup.edu>; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:34:59 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWA5MZ0ZP28ZE5Z4@umiami.ir.miami.edu> for SKSANDER@grove.iup.edu; Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:33:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 10 Oct 1995 16:33:49 -0400 (EDT) From: mcastro@umiami.ir.miami.edu Subject: Re: your mail In-reply-to: <01HWA3UQBQHU8Y6FRB@grove.iup.edu> To: s_sanderson Regarding criticisms made of Fernando Henrique Cardoso's policies at the meeting of ALAS (Asociacion Latinoamericana de Sociologia). The essential criticism of Cardoso, which often came up more as allusion than as a direct analysis, was that he has bought into the logic of neoliberalism and globalization with a vengeance. Emir Sader, of the Universidad de Sao Paulo, made the most explicit criticisms that I heard. He offered the observation that Brazilian interest rates are twice as high as those of the countries with the next highest rates in support of the notion that on this matter Cardoso is applying an extreme version of the model. As there were seventeen concurrent working groups at the conference, I cannot say if others defended Cardoso in these sessions. Max J. Castro North-South Center Please feel free to post these comments to any list you wish. On Tue, 10 Oct 1995, s_sanderson wrote: > Dear Professor Castro, > > I wonder if you could share with the WSN network some of the criticisms that > were made of Cardoso's work at the ALAS meetings in Mexico City. Chris > Chase-Dunn forwarded your comments to the WSN, which I read with interest. The > entire WSN list could benefit from the comments on Cordoso, if you could > summarize them briefly. > > Thanks. > > Stephen Sanderson > > From wxhst3+@pitt.edu Thu Oct 12 12:49:25 1995 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:41:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Bill Haller Subject: Re: Criticisms of Cardoso at ALAS meetings To: s_sanderson In-Reply-To: <01HWB5I9D5EG8Y4ZPL@grove.iup.edu> I feel obliged to respond to the criticism of Cardoso. This aspect of what he's done, > He offered the observation that Brazilian > interest rates are twice as high as those of the countries with the > next highest rates in support of the notion that on this matter Cardoso > is applying an extreme version of the model. should come as no surprize to anyone the least bit familiar with Brazil's historical problems with inflation. Considering that Cardoso decided to do what he could working within the system, he had to work with the Brazil that he inherited. (If one would criticize him for failure to be another Mao or Che, then that's another matter.) Those on the left who think that inflation is merely a bourgeois concern apparently haven't considered how hard it is on the poor -- to have the value of what little money they're able to scrape together drop in value when already they are just barely getting by at the sheer margin of subsistence. It is because of inflation that Brazil has had to change its currency so often, lopping off three orders of magnitude every few years or so from its basic unit of exchange (be it the Cruzeiro, the Crusado, the Crusado II, or whatever). Bill Haller -------------------------------- ------------------------------ Bill Haller ^ University Center for Department of Sociology ^ Social and Urban Research University of Pittsburgh ^ 121 University Place Pittsburgh, PA 15260 ^ Pittsburgh, PA 15260 --------------------------------^------------------------------ From chriscd@jhu.edu Thu Oct 12 14:04:41 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWCX4KH4Q88Y4Z1Z@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 16:02:20 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWCX49LBKW8WZI2R@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 16:02:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 14:50:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [Ted Goertzel : Visit to Cardoso's Brazil] Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 14:02:31 EDT From: Robert Wood To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: [Ted Goertzel : Visit to Cardoso's Brazil] Since Fernano Hernrique Cardoso was mentioned in a recent communication on WSN, I thought WSNers might be interested in the following short piece by my colleague Ted Goertzel, who is working on a book on Cardoso. Bob Wood, Rutgers-Camden --------------- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 95 9:52:38 EDT From: Ted Goertzel To: wood Subject: Visit to Cardoso's Brazil A Sociologist as President: Report on a Visit to Fernando Henrique Cardoso's Brazil by Ted Goertzel Rutgers University at Camden goertzel@crab.rutgers.edu During a three week trip to Brazil this August, I interviewed sociologist President Fernando Henrique Cardoso briefly in his office in Bras!lia, and attended a press conference which he gave on August 22, 1995. This essay reports on what I learned, from Cardoso and other people, about his accomplishments as a sociologist in power. After ten months in office, Cardoso was still riding a wave of popularity based on his remarkably successful economic policies. The Plano Real, which Cardoso implemented in his role as Minister of Finance during the last year of the preceding administration, has ended Brazil's hyper-inflation. This inflation, which had been as high as 40% or 50% per month, has now reached almost zero. This has placed the country on a sound foundation for economic growth, while significantly increasing the real incomes of the poor. For the first time, a person who earns only the minimum wage can actually afford to buy the market basket of basic commodities used as an index by Brazil's econometricians. President Cardoso told me that his training as a social scientist helped him to achieve a broad, objective understanding of Brazil's complex social problems. He was quick to point out that he had a broad background in the social sciences, including political science, anthropology and economics, in addition to sociology. His administration is a laboratory for interdisciplinary social science, not for sociology as a separate discipline. As a young professor, Cardoso was part of a now famous Marx Study Group, which carefully analyzed all three volumes of Das Kapital, paragraph by paragraph, over a period of several years. The participants were selected from different academic backgrounds, including philosophy as well as the social sciences, and each interpreted Marx from the perspective of the latest theories and research in his or her discipline. They also read Keynes, Rosa Luxembourg and others. Today, the alumni of this group hold many leading roles in Brazilian intellectual and political life. President Cardoso did not think that his social science skills alone were responsible for his becoming President. Very important was what he called a "strong personality," with the ability to make firm decisions and to project a vision of the future to the population. Also critical was the ability to motivate people and coordinate teamwork among staff members. Cardoso used these skills decisively as Finance Minister in the Itamar Franco administration, which preceded his own. When his economic advisors told him it would be impossible to end inflation before the end of the Franco administration, Cardoso insisted that it could be done and had to be done. Drawing on his training in economics, he helped the economists work out the Plano Real which took advantage of Brazil's existing indexing mechanisms, and a number of economic reforms, to convert prices to a stable, hard currency. This success assured Cardoso's victory in the 1994 Presidential election over the more charismatic Labor Party candidate, Luis Ignacio da Silva (Lula). Many Brazilians thought Lula lacked the preparation needed for the Presidency. His proposals seemed vague when compared with Cardoso's plan which was already working. Despite his social democratic politics, and his education in Marxism, Cardoso had the strong support of the nation's business groups. He had the support of many political leaders who had been associated with the military regimes which he had opposed in the past, and many leftists perceive him as having the socialist convictions of his youth. Cardoso is quick to point out that he was never a Marxist in an ideological sense. He believes that his fundamental political values have not changed since his days as a young professor, although he has naturally been influenced by changes in the world situation. Cardoso's sociological work always focused on the empirical realities of specific historical conjunctures such as nations, regions or cities, not on abstract or universal principles. In his writings, he draws on classical sociological theory to explain the structural contradictions and dynamics of these evolving systems. He was never interested, for example, in "theories of dependency" in the abstract, but in studies of dependency and development in specific countries at specific points in time. Despite the demands of the Presidency, he continues to write sociological essays and to speak at academic conferences, and engages in lively debates with his intellectual critics in the pages of Brazil's Sunday newspapers. In these debates, Cardoso defines himself as a social democrat, although he recently coined the term "neosocial" to describe his policies in response to the accusations of "neoliberalism". Brazilians use the term "liberal" in its European rather than its American sense. In fact, however, the "neoliberal" catchword does not describe Cardoso's policies very well. While he has privatized some industries, and is eagerly courting foreign investment, he has also increased spending on many social programs. With their emphasis on rationalizing government and improving services, he and his anthropologist wife Ruth are more reminiscent of Bill and Hillary Clinton (without Bill's image of indecisiveness) than any other American President and first lady. The strongest opposition to Cardoso is from government employees who fear losing their protected positions, and from some labor leaders who have been able to win privileges for their members through their connections to the bureaucratic structures established by previous Brazilian regimes. The greatest beneficiaries of Cardoso's policies have not been the wealthy, but the unorganized and miserably paid workers at the bottom of Brazil's steep income pyramid, because these workers were least able to protect themselves from inflation. The losers have been middle income workers on fixed salaries, who have had to pay more for services. When Cardoso first went into politics, his intellectual brilliance awed many of his colleagues. In his maiden speech to the Federal Senate in 1983, he quoted Max Weber on the need to attempt the impossible if one is to achieve the possible. His Senate speeches were often at the same high intellectual level as his academic writings. President Itamar Franco appointed him Foreign Minister because of his international prestige as an intellectual, his political reputation, and the fact that he spoke English, French, Spanish and German. Most of Brazil's Presidents, including Franco, spoke only Portuguese. Cardoso accepted the Finance Minister portfolio, against the advice of many of his friends, after a series of Ministers had failed to end inflation. Many people thought it was a hopeless assignment which would destroy a brilliant career. Cardoso thought it was his responsibility to serve where the President needed him, and had the self-confidence to believe he could succeed despite the obstacles. In his interview with me, Cardoso observed that sociology today has become part of everyday knowledge. Journalists, taxi drivers and other citizens in Brazil readily discuss sociological concepts such as the role of authority and economic concepts such as the role of the central bank in setting interest rates. A great many social scientists in Brazil have become involved in policy research, and there is a close tie between the government bureaucracies and the research institutes. A number of prominent sociologists have important posts in his administration. A critical responsibility of sociologists, Cardoso believes, is to debunk the myths propagated by the media. He is particularly critical of the catch phrase "neoliberalism" which is being used to stigmatize his administration. He insists that this term has nothing to do with his policies, or with Brazil's realities. He observed that some sociologists are too isolated from the realities of the decision-making process. Instead of debunking the mythologies of the press, they repeat them. He thought that many Brazilian leftists, including some sociologists, repeat empty slogans rather than formulating alternative social policies. For this reason, the Brazilian opposition is not fulfilling its proper function of formulating policy alternatives. It is easy to attribute Cardoso's success to his intellectual brilliance and personal strength, but as a sociologist he modestly observes that Brazilian society had evolved to the point where it was ready for the kind of leadership he had to offer. Brazilians were fed up with hyperinflation, and ready to take the measures needed to end it, including setting up a Social Emergency Fund to keep the government running without printing money. Brazilians were also fed up with corruption in government, and President Collor de Mello was the first in Brazilian history to be forced from office by a legal impeachment process. Many credit Cardoso's honest and effective administration with restoring Brazil's self-esteem, but he insists that the nation deserves the credit for restoring its own sense of dignity. Although intellectuals in general are held in high regard in Brazil, the discipline of sociology does not seem to have benefitted as much as might be hoped from having a sociologist as President. Friends advised me to introduce myself as a political scientist (relying on my affiliation with a Public Administration department) instead of as a sociologist, in seeking appointments with Brazilian intellectuals and political leaders. Although many sociologists are involved in practical policy matters, in and outside of the Cardoso administration, the discipline's image is still tinged with ideological and rhetorical perspectives which seem dated in contemporary Brazilian society. ----------- Ted Goertzel, Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, Camden NJ, is beginning work on a biography of Fernando Henrique Cardoso. He did his dissertation research in Brazil, speaks Portuguese, and has friends who know Cardoso well. His recent books include Turncoats and True Believers and, with Ben Goertzel, Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics.! From chriscd@jhu.edu Thu Oct 12 14:21:02 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWCXP5M9UO8WZQYT@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 16:19:03 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWCXP27IGW8WYNPH@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 16:18:51 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 15:07:12 -0400 Subject: Fw: NEW JOURNAL - CALL FOR PAPERS Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------ From: "P.A.Deans" To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Subject: NEW JOURNAL - CALL FOR PAPERS PLEASE FEEL FREE TO REDISTRIBUTE THIS MESSAGE; APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING. GLOBAL SOCIETY We are pleased to announce the launch of "Global Society: Journal of Interdisciplinary International Relations" (ISSN 1360-0862) to be published by Carfax Publishing Company on behalf of the University of Kent at Canterbury. 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For further information please contact The Editor: Dr. Jarrod Wiener or the Deputy Editor: Phil Deans All manuscripts should be sent to: Dr. Jarrod Wiener Editor, Global Society Graduate School of International Relations Rutherford College The University of Kent CANTERBURY CT2 7NX U.K. Tel: +44 1227 764000 ext. 3379 Fax: +44 827033 Phil Deans Lecturer in the IR/IPE of East Asia Graduate School of IR Rutherford College The University of Kent CANTERBURY CT2 7NX U.K. Tel: +44 1227 764000 ext. 7233 Fax: +44 1227 827033 From chriscd@jhu.edu Thu Oct 12 17:39:22 1995 id <01HWD4O54E288Y4Z1Z@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:38:10 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWD4O0GSYO8X02EM@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:38:03 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 1995 19:37:41 -0400 From: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Latin American sociologists meeting--books (fwd) To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Among the books on display at the recent ALAS meeting in Mexico was a three-volume work titled "La Teoria Social Latinoamericana." The series is coordinated by Ray Mauro Marini and Margara Millan. The third volume in the series is "La centralidad del marxismo (1995, UNAM). There is also a new journalistic account on the EZLN that has been getting a lot of attention, and apparently some critcism from supporters of the movement as well as praise from those who see it as a thorough and objective description of the genesis and evolution of the Zapatistas. The book is "La Revolucion de las Can~adas" by Carlos Tello Diaz (Cal y Arena, 1995). Max J. Castro From mschetti@colmex.mx Fri Oct 13 10:27:19 1995 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 10:32:30 -0600 (CST) From: Macario Schettino To: Christoph Chase-Dunn Subject: Re: Latin American sociologists meeting--books (fwd) In-Reply-To: On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, Christoph Chase-Dunn wrote: > There is also a new journalistic account on the EZLN that has been=20 > getting a lot of attention, and apparently some critcism from supporters= =20 > of the movement as well as praise from those who see it as a thorough and= =20 > objective description of the genesis and evolution of the Zapatistas. =20 > The book is "La Revolucion de las Can~adas" by Carlos Tello Diaz (Cal y= =20 > Arena, 1995). >=20 > Max J. Castro >=20 From=20Mexico, I wouldn't agree that the book by Tello D=EDaz is an objecti= ve=20 description of what has happened here. While I don't doubt many things=20 reported in it are true, some of them have no clear reference, even being= =20 fundamental for the analysis. Moreover, I don't see the whole truth=20 there. Tello D=EDaz hhas published another book before "El Poder. Historias= =20 de Familia" where he talks about the history of Porfirio Diaz in Paris,=20 after exile. The book is bad. Badly written, bouncing from theme to=20 theme. I see lack of ideas, and lack of writing abilities... Macario Schettino From chriscd@jhu.edu Fri Oct 13 10:37:20 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWE47Y2MB48Y4Z6M@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:35:53 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWE47V5LK08X0M70@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 13 Oct 1995 12:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 1995 11:24:08 -0400 Subject: Fw: 2nd RIPE Annual lecture Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------ From: L.M.Craig@newcastle.ac.uk (Lynn Craig) To: pgc3@tower.york.ac.uk, chriscd@jhu.edu, denemark@strauss.udel.edu, Subject: 2nd RIPE Annual lecture ANNOUNCEMENT RIPE ANNUAL LECTURE in association with University of Durham, Dept of Geography, UK England Professor ALAIN LIPIETZ of CEPREMAP, Paris 'THE POST-FORDIST WORLD: LABOUR RELATIONS, INTERNATIONAL HIERARCHY AND GLOBAL ECOLOGY' Tuesday 7th November at 18.30 pm Lecture Theatre, 201, Elvet Riverside, Durham For further information contact Ash Amin +44 (0) 191 374 2465 Until mid December, 1995: Lynn Craig RIPE OFFICE Room 458,Claremont Bridge University of Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 7RU England, UK Thereafter: Angus Cameron University of Sussex Dept of International Relations Falmer Sussex BN1 9QN England, UK email: ripe@sussex.ac.uk Newcastle tel/fax/email until January 1996: Tel: +44 (0)191 222 7577 Fax: +44 (0)191 222 8522 email: L.M.Craig@ncl.ac.uk To join the discussion list write to mailbase: Discussion list: mailbase@mailbase.ac.uk join rip-pol-econ From chriscd@jhu.edu Tue Oct 17 11:47:15 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWJRRZF5YO8Y5RO8@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:44:56 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWJRRTDLNK8X14IY@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:44:48 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:33:20 -0400 Subject: wallerstein's ALAS paper Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu, ipe@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Immanuel Wallerstein's address to the twentieth congress of the Asociacion Latinoamericana de Sociologia (ALAS) in now available from the World-Systems Archive. The title of the article is "La reestructuracion capitalista y el sistema-mundo." It is in spanish. The text version is available from csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/papers/wallerstein_i The name of the file is alas.txt You can read this in the text version but it will be easier to read if you call it up in WordPerfect or some other word processor because it will better handle the special characters (e.g. tildas etc.) in the text. chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu Tue Oct 17 11:48:10 1995 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:53:22 -0600, MDT Subject: Patenting of person -- response More information on this matter. I apologize for the cross-posting to those who have seen the message before. Jack Owens ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 10:31:15 -0700 Reply-to: H-NET List for World History Note: the item posted on this list about the alleged patenting of a person has been posted elsewhere as well. The response below was forwarded to H-world from one of these lists. Subj: RAFI's charges of gene patenting: reply by Friedlander Sender: Academic Town Hall Reply-to: mdlieber@UIC.EDU Following the advice of several ACADEMY netters, I did some more digging on RAFI's charges. I called them and spoke to their fund-raiser, who promised me that their North American representative would call back and answer some of my questions. He never called and returned none of my subsequent phone calls. In the meantime, Johnathan Friedlander has responded to the post that I forwarded two wweks ago. I am posting Friedlander's reply to charges. I have known Johnthan Friedlander for many years, and I trust his honesty and integrity. Mike Lieber ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: Re: Re[2]: Patent on DNA of a PNG person Author: Jonathan Friedlaender at NOTE Date: 10/16/95 10:45 AM This is a summary (as of this morning) of what I know about the RAFI charges. As far as I am concered, this can go out to whomever you want to send it to. I am very upset about this entire flap, primarily as it concerns the fate of the Institute of Medical Research in Papua New Guinea, secondarily the progress of the Human Genome Diversity Project, and thirdly my own reputation. What is not understood to the moment is how outrageous RAFI has been in spreading what can, most generously, be called gross distortions about all concerned. And to date no one has been willing to call them on it. That time has come. Some background. 1. The IMR, Carol Jenkins, and the Hagahai. The IMR in Papua New Guinea is an exemplary organization, and the Papua New Guinea government has been extremely wise to support it. Their staff is international - meaning Australian, American, African, Indian, and Papua New Guinean, among others - and they have an outstanding record of biomedical research achievement and public health education. A few examples include the identification and cure of a formerly widespread and lethal disease ("pigbel"), very important malaria research, ongoing and important public health education efforts in nutrition, tuberculosis, AIDS, and ecological degradation. Their Director, Michael Alpers, recently received a coveted tropical medicine award and Carol Jenkins, a medical anthropologist with primary training in cultural anthropology, has received considerable recognition for her work in a number of areas. She is an international authority on AIDS epidemiology and education, works extensively for the WHO, and currently has support from the MacArthur Foundation for her work with the Hagahai in a remote part of Papua New Guinea. These are the researchers being attacked as biopirates by RAFI, and who RAFI is threatening to take to the World Court in the Hague. The Hagahai are a very small population (a "Fringe Highlands" group) in PNG that were contacted a few years ago by an IMR expedition with Jenkins involved. It is more correct to say that the Hagahai contacted the outside world, in despair, since their numbers were declining rapidly and they sent men to other villages to get western medical aid to fend off extinction. The IMR has provided various services to them over the past few years, part of which involved figuring out what diseases, western and otherwise, they had been exposed to that could be responsible for their heavy mortality rates (eg. flu, t.b., measles, etc.). In the course of this, NIH researchers found that some Hagahai were infected with a viral strain (of HTLV-1) that had not been seen before. A patent application was filed on this viral variant found in the pooled blood sample from about 20 Hagahai (contrary to RAFI's claim, no one has ever tried to patent a Hagahai's genes, much less a Solomon Islander). The Gene Patent Application. In coordination with the NIH, a patent on the HTLV-1 variant found in the Hagahai pooled sample was filed (a second, on a related variant found in a Solomon Islander, was also filed about the same time). This was done at a time, under NIH Director Healy in the Bush Administration, when there was a clear policy to patent newly identified gene segments, human and otherwise. This was a very controversial stance, nationally and international- ly, and caused a number of resignations of scientists who disagreed with the policy, including James Watson. Geneticists working for the NIH, or with NIH funding, were obliged to file patent applications as they found them. As part of the applications, cell lines containing these segments had to be deposited at the American Type Cultue Center in Rockville, Maryland, and that while the applications were under review, no one could access those cell lines. I understand that the patent application specifies that neither Jenkins, the IMR, nor the government of PNG stand to gain financially from the patent - but that 50% of any potential profit would go to the Hagahai themselves. When they heard that some of them had an infection (apparently benign) that was interesting to western doctors and might be worth something, and that a legal paper was being drawn up to ensure that they would share in any profits, they were eager that it go through. Jenkins signed the document at a meeting of the Amer.Assoc.of Physical Anthropologists, with witnesses, and with great approbrium for her role. Parenthetically, people in PNG are very familiar and comfortable with the idea of residual rights in such things as songs and trees, and general "compensation." A patent is not some peculiar idea that only westerners can understand (whether or not it is legitimate in this instance). The PNG patent case was approved during the past year, with the Hagahai's strong support, while the related case of the Solomon Islands HTLV-1 application was abandoned in favor of a continuation (equivalent, I'm told, of putting on the back burner), and,finally,withdrawn by the NIH. A NIH official said that the reason the PNG case was not withdrawn was because of the assurance of Jenkins that the Hagahai expressly wished to pursue it. The Human Genome Diversity Project. The Human Genome Diversity Project (hereafter HGDP) is a planned (not function- ing) systematic collection of genetic, demographic, anthropological, and epidemiological information on human populations world-wide, that has also been subject to vitriolic criticism from RAFI, on the grounds (as best I can tell) that it represents potential bio-piracy (making money from the genes of people around the world - also called gene mining and bio-colonialism);and that the (genetic) information gleaned may be used to develop insidious tools of genocide. This potential project, along with the viral DNA patent cases just mentioned, are seen as part of a general (US) government plot to continue past exploitative/colonial relationships. The HGDP has been developing a legal/ethical protocol that its members hope will be adopted if the project gets underway. I have seen drafts, and it provides extensive protections of people participating in the way of property rights, preservation of individual anonymity, and a large number of related issues. I can say that it goes well beyond heretofore common practice in medical research investigations in such safeguards. There is a policy of foreswearing any potential financial benefits in any potential discoveries that might come from the project, and in developing a mechanism for devolving any such benefits to the participating populations. My involvement. I am a Temple University professor of (biological) anthropology, recently returned from a 3 year stint as Director of the Physical Anthropology Program at the National Science Foundation (not the NIH, as RAFI has said). While prog ram director, I supported the development of the HGDP, but was not (and am not) on an HGDP committee. I have done my own research in PNG and the Solomon Islands over the past 30 years, and am attempting to resume that activity after my NSF stint. In September, 1994, as a result of a conversation with the Solomon Islands Ambassador to the US, UN, and Canada, who wanted to know about the gene patenting application on a Solomon Islander, I inquired at the NIH and wrote a letter on its status to the Ambassador that month (9/94). I said the Solomons case had been abandoned in favor of a continuation, and that the PNG case was also likely to be abandoned or not allowed. It was only this past June, when I visited the IMR in PNG, trying to establish my own collaborative project, that I discovered that the PNG viral patent case had in fact gone for- ward at the urging of the people concerned, as described above. RAFI has now insinuated that I intentionally misled the Solomons Ambassador. NIH's gene patent policy I have had a couple of phone conversations with NIH officials on their policy on gene and gene fragment patent policy. It is clear that the confusion and apparent contradiction in this matter is a reflection of changing NIH policy on this issue, from Director Healy's time to the present, under Harold Varmus. The NIH now generally discourages DNA patents (hence, for example, the withdrawal of the Solomons case. This is very clear in their stance on the patenting of cDNA's. RAFI's attacks Members of RAFI have flooded the internet with misrepresentations of the patent cases mentioned above and have begun attacking the IMR, the HGDP, as well as the US federal government in a way that is truly irresponsible. I have not been in direct contact with them, but others have tried to correct their more serious misrepresentations/misconceptions. They will not listen. The latest salvo is a threat to take Jenkins to the World Court in the Hague. The major problem is that this entire situation reflects on the widespread distrust of the scientific/technological enterprise, and of the willingness of many to believe the worst of people with scientific knowledge. It also shows we are too willing to accept the charges of self-proclaimed champions of all indigenous peoples who,in this instance, are willing to distort facts that appe ar, at first, to represent exploitation by powerful international interests. From chriscd@jhu.edu Tue Oct 17 11:52:32 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWJRXZT2V48X0BQ8@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:49:53 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWJRXHI7S08X0WVM@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 17 Oct 1995 13:49:35 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 12:37:36 -0400 Subject: mcgowan's syllabus Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu, ipe@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Prof. Pat McGowan's syllabus for his seminar, "The Modern World-System" is now available from the World-Systems Archive. The address is csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/syllabi the title of the file is mcgowan:the_modern_world-system chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From s001023@ipe.tsukuba.ac.jp Wed Oct 18 05:00:10 1995 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 95 19:59:43 JST To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Subject: unsuscribe From: s001023@ipe.tsukuba.ac.jp (Sakellariou Panayiotis) To whom it may concern: Please send me the instructions to unsuscribe and suscribe. I will be away for some time and I don't want to overload my mailbox. Sincerely, Panayiotis Sakellariou From ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Wed Oct 18 09:52:21 1995 18 Oct 95 21:47:02 NSK-7 From: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" Organization: Center of New Informational Tech. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Wed, 18 Oct 1995 21:46:48 -0700 (NSK) Subject: Philosophy of History World Wide Web page Please feel free to repost; apologies for cross-posting. 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John Selby ______________________________________________________________________________ Please Reply to: John Selby Educational Development Unit Coventry University Coventry CV1 5FB E-mail j.selby@cov.ac.uk Telephone +44 1203 838149 (Direct Line) +44 1203 631313 (Switchboard) Fax +44 1203 838293 _____________________________________________________________________________ ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 23:28:47 +0000 From: Nigel Gilbert To: socbb@soc.surrey.ac.uk, european-sociologist@mailbase.ac.uk Subject: Research Network for Comparative Research on Europe (RENCORE) *** Please distribute to interested colleagues. Apologies for cross-posting *** Research Network for Comparative Research on Europe (RENCORE) Following a successful meeting of a working group at the European Sociological Association's Budapest conference in September 1995, it has been resolved to establish under the auspices of the ESA a network on methods of comparative research on Europe. The aim of the network is to encourage and enhance comparative empirical research of individual, national and institutional level data from the states of Western, Central and Eastern Europe. This aim will be met through the following objectives: 1. The support and promotion of cross-national European research, both quantitative and qualitative. 2. The development of comparable indicators for comparative research. 3. The enhancement of information exchange between those who create and use cross-national datasets. 4. The refinement of methods for the analysis of data obtained from a number of European countries. The network will act as a forum and channel for discussion and communication between those involved in cross-national European research, either as data collectors or as data analysts. The activities of the network will include: a. The organisation of meetings and workshops on topics related to comparative empirical research. These will be held about once a year. The first workshop will be on the subject of "Asking questions across Europe" and will be concerned with formulating survey questions to yield answers which permit cross-national comparisons. It is proposed to hold this first meeting in October 1996. The second meeting will be held at the 1997 European Sociological Association's conference (venue yet to be decided). b. The establishment of an email discussion list and WWW page. The email list will enable discussions between those in the network, and the WWW page will describe the network members, their interests and their research activities. c. The organisation of scientific visits between members of the network. A directory of opportunities for research visits (e.g. for sabbaticals, post-doctoral studies, exchanges and short visits) will be compiled. The directory will also list external sources of funding to support visits. Administration The network will be administered by a small Executive Committee who will stand for election every two years (at the ESA meeting). The network will be established by a small ad-hoc Committee consisting of Loek Halman (Netherlands), Peter Mohler (Germany), and Nigel Gilbert (UK). Membership of the network will initially be free, although a subscription may be levied once the network is well established. Potential members should write (or email) their application for membership to Nigel Gilbert, at the address below, explaining their involvement in comparative European research and listing relevant publications. Applications should include a full mail address, an email address, and telephone and fax numbers. All those who are engaged in European comparative research, where ever they may be working, are welcome to apply for membership of the Network. Nigel Gilbert (Department of Sociology, University of Surrey, Guildford GU2 5XH, England. email: gng@soc.surrey.ac.uk). Peter Mohler (ZUMA, PO Box 122 155, D-68072 Mannheim, Germany. email: Mohler@ZUMA-Mannheim.de) Loek Halman (WORC, University of Tilburg, PO Box 90153, 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands. email: loek.halman@kub.nl) ____________________________________________________________________ Prof G. Nigel Gilbert, Department of Sociology, University of Surrey Guildford GU2 5XH, UK. Tel: +44 1483 259173 Fax: +44 1483 306290 Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From denemark@UDel.Edu Thu Oct 19 23:09:59 1995 Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 01:09:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Denemark To: world system network Subject: Andre Gunder Frank Festschrift Forthcoming (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 01:08:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Robert Denemark To: Robert Denemark Subject: Andre Gunder Frank Festschrift Forthcoming Announcing a forthcoming publication of commissioned essays on world development and world history. THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPMENT Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank Edited By Sing C. Chew and Robert A. Denemark Table of Contents Chapter 1 On Development and Underdevelopment Sing C. Chew and Robert Denemark Chapter 2 The Underdevelopment of Development Andre Gunder Frank PART 1: ON DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT Chapter 3 On Development: For Gunder Frank Samir Amin Chapter 4 Pathways Toward a Global Anthropology Eric R. Wolf Chapter 5 Underdevelopment: Culture and Geography Philip Wagner Chapter 6 The Debt Crisis Revisited Otto Kreye Chapter 7 Developmentalism: An Eurocentric Hoax, Delusion, and Chicanery Herb Addo Part 2: On Peripheral Regions Chapter 8 Latin American Underdevelopment: Past, Present, and Future Theotonio dos Santos Chapter 9 Asia in the World-System George Aseniero Chapter 10 On the Origins of the Economic Catastrophe in Africa Samir Amin Part 3: On the World Historical System and Cycles Chapter 11 How to Think about World History William H. McNeill Chapter 12 The "Continuity Thesis" in World Development Barry K. 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To order phone (805) 499-9774, fax (805)499-0871, mail P.O.Box 5084, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-9924, e-mail order@sagepub.com From chriscd@jhu.edu Fri Oct 20 11:35:35 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWNYAOZIWG8X1JPH@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:34:41 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWNWS2HO9S8X1TAQ@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:50:58 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 11:39:14 -0400 Subject: Book announcement Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 09:09 -0700 (PDT) From: Linda Hall-Martin To: scc1@axe.humboldt.edu Subject: Here's The Book Announcement Announcing a forthcoming publication of commissioned essays on world development and world history. THE UNDERDEVELOPMENT OF DEVELOPMENT Essays in Honor of Andre Gunder Frank Edited By Sing C. Chew and Robert A. Denemark Table of Contents Chapter 1 On Development and Underdevelopment Sing C. Chew and Robert Denemark Chapter 2 The Underdevelopment of Development Andre Gunder Frank PART 1: ON DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT Chapter 3 On Development: For Gunder Frank Samir Amin Chapter 4 Pathways Toward a Global Anthropology Eric R. Wolf Chapter 5 Underdevelopment: Culture and Geography Philip Wagner Chapter 6 The Debt Crisis Revisited Otto Kreye Chapter 7 Developmentalism: An Eurocentric Hoax, Delusion, and Chicanery Herb Addo Part 2: On Peripheral Regions Chapter 8 Latin American Underdevelopment: Past, Present, and Future Theotonio dos Santos Chapter 9 Asia in the World-System George Aseniero Chapter 10 On the Origins of the Economic Catastrophe in Africa Samir Amin Part 3: On the World Historical System and Cycles Chapter 11 How to Think about World History William H. McNeill Chapter 12 The "Continuity Thesis" in World Development Barry K. Gills Chapter 13 World-Systems: Similarities and Differences Christopher Chase-Dunn Chapter 14 The Art of Hegemony Albert Bergesen Part 4: On Social Movements and Social Justice Chapter 15 Social Movements in the Underdevelopment of Development Dialectic: A View from Below Gerrit Huizer Chapter 16 Frank Justice Rather than Frankenstein Injustice: Homogenous Development as Deviance in the Diverse World Pat Lauderdale Chapter 17 Women's Interests and Emancipatory Processes Virginia Vargas Chapter 18 Underdevelopment and its Remedies Immanuel Wallerstein Appendix: Publications of Andre Gunder Frank January 1996/ 425 pages/ $52.00(h) (72601) / $25.95 (p) (7261X) Sage Publications Inc. 2455 Teller Road, Thousand Oaks, California, USA 91320- 2218. To order phone (805) 499-9774, fax (805)499-0871, mail P.O.Box 5084, Thousand Oaks, CA 91359-9924, e-mail order@sagepub.com From chriscd@jhu.edu Fri Oct 20 12:39:58 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HWO0K0W8O08Y5NH0@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:39:12 -0400 (EDT) id <01HWO0JXPN3K8X2FDN@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Fri, 20 Oct 1995 14:38:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:27:10 -0400 Subject: Fw: Economic Globalization Teach-in, No (fwd) Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English ------------------------------ From: Peter Cooper To: INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL ECONOMY Subject: Economic Globalization Teach-in, No (fwd) This should prove to be an outstanding conference!! Peter Cooper Public Citizen Global Trade Watch 215 Penn Avenue SE Washington DC 20001 Internet: pcooper@Citizen.ORG ---------- Forwarded message ------- THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION presents A PUBLIC TEACH-IN: The Social, Ecological, Cultural, and Political Costs of ECONOMIC GLOBALIZATION Co-sponsoring organizations: Institute for Policy Studies, the Harriman Institute, the Learning Alliance, Public Citizen, People-Centered Development Forum, Third World Network, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Friends of the Earth U.S., Rainforest Action Network, Council of Canadians, The Ecologist, the Foundation on Economic Trends, the International Center for Technology Assessment, Equipo Pueblo, Institute for Local Self-Reliance, Action Canada Network, Daybreak Magazine, Foundation for Deep Ecology, The Humane Society of the U.S., The Humane Society International, World Society for the Protection of Animals, American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Program on Corportions, Law and Democracy, The Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, International Rivers Network, Greenpeace U.S., ECOROPA, Redefining Progress, Chilean Ecological Action Network, International Society for Ecology and Culture, Cordillera Women's Education and Resource Center, Sierra Club. WHEN: November 10-12, 1995 WHERE: Columbia University New York, New York TICKETS AND INFORMATION: New York: The Learning Alliance 324 Lafayette St., 7th floor, New York. N.Y. 10012 Tel: 212-226-7171 Fax: 212-274-8712 Email: alliance@blythe.org -or- San Francisco: The International Forum on Globalization 950 Lombard Street, San Francisco CA 94133 (415) 771-1102 THE INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION: The International Forum on Globalization (IFG) is a new alliance of leading activists, economists, researchers, and philosophers who have joined together to respond to the threats of economic globalization to the environment, communities, human rights, equity, and democracy. We believe the world's corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may be as historically significant as any event since the industrial revolution. If continued, this trend will have grave impacts on every aspect of human life, and on the natural world. This event is the first in a series to be held in the United States, Canada, and abroad, to focus increased attention on the major issues resulting from the rush to globalize. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 8 pm-11 pm International House, Davis Hall, 500 Riverside Drive, New York NY THE CRISIS OF GLOBALIZATION Ralph Nader, Public Citizen - The Assault on Democracy Vandana Shiva, Third World Network - Social and Ecological Impacts on the Third World David Korten, People-Centered Development Forum -The Failed Paradigms of Globalism Maude Barlow, Council of Canadians -NAFTA, and the Dismemberment of Canadian Sovereignty and Culture John Cavanagh, Institute for Policy Studies -U.S. Politics and Corporate Domination Open discussion from the floor. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 9 am-7 pm Columbia University Altschul Auditorium, School of Internationall & Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street, New York, NY PANEL #1: REPORTS FROM THE PLANET Martin Khor, Third World Network -GATT: Neocolonialism in the Third World Sara Larrain, Chilean Ecological Action Network -NAFTA and Chile Agnes Bertrand, Institut d'Etude sur la Globalisation Economique, France -Resistance in the European Union Leah Wise, Southeast Regional Economic Justice Network -Internal Colonialism: The South in the North Carlos Heredia, Equipo Pueblo -NAFTA, the World Bank, and the Mexican Bailout Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Cordillera Women's Education and Resource Center -Globalization's Assault on Native Peoples Open discussion from floor PANEL #2: RELOCALIZATION, DECENTRALIZATION, ALTERNATIVES TO GLOBALIZATION Helena Norberg-Hodge, International Society for Ecology and Culture -The Pressure to Modernize Edward Goldsmith, The Ecologist magazine -The Need to Return to the Local Economy Colin Hines, Co-author, "The New Protectionism" -The New Protectionism John Mohawk, Daybreak magazine -Indigenous Communities and Long-Term Viability David Morris, Institute for Self-Reliance -Steps to Localization Open discussion from floor PANEL #3: ENVIRONMENT, TECHNOLOGY & GLOBALIZATION Carl Pope, Sierra Club -The Coming Monoculture Jeremy Rifkin, Foundation on Economic Trends -Biotechnology, Computers and the End of Jobs Andrew Kimbrell, International Center for Technological Assessment -Biocolonization and Intellectual Property Rights Randy Hayes, Rainforest Action Network -Globalizing Means Ravaging the Globe Leesteffy Jenkins, The Humane Society -Animal Issues and GATT SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 9 am-5pm Columbia University Altschul Auditorium, School of Internationall & Public Affairs 420 West 118th Street, New York NY PANEL #4: NEW ORGANIZING STRATEGIES AND INITIATIVES Mark Ritchie, Institute for Agricultural and Trade Policy -Cross-Border Organizing Lori Wallach, Public Citizen -NAFTA, GATT & the WTO Richard Grossman, Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy -Dismantling Corporations Tony Clarke, Action Canada Network -Reversing Corporate Rule Carolyn Kazdin, Union of Needletrades, Industrial and Textile Employees -Labor Rights, NAFTA, and GATT Brent Blackwelder, Friends of the Earth -Environmental Activism and Globalism Ted Halstead, Redefining Progress,- Creating New Economic Paradigms WORKSHOPS (Partial listing): New Paradigms: Redefining Progress Organizing Against Corporate Rule Organizing Against the World Trade Organization Technological Assessment and Resistance Organizing in the New York Area (The Learning Alliance) Uniting Labor and Environment Globalizing the New Protectionism World Bank/IMF: 50 Years is Enough Uniting the South and the North Other speakers and workshop leaders at the Teach-In will include: Walden Bello, Institute for Food and Development Policy Atila Roque, IBASE (Brazilian Institute for Socio-Economic Research) Nilo Cayuqueo, South and Meso American Indian Rights Center David Levine, The Learning Alliance David Phillips, Earth Island Institute Jerry Mander, Foundation for Deep Ecology Candido Grzybowski, IBASE Mika Iba, Network for Safe and Secure Food and Environment (Japan) Ruth Mayne, OXFAM Patrick McCully, International Rivers Network Ignacio Peon Escalante, Mexican Action Network on Free Trade Steve Shrybman, Canadian Environmental Law Association Victor Menotti, International Forum on Globalization Maria Gilardin, TUC Radio TICKET ORDER FORM International Forum on Globalization presents: a Teach-In on "Economic Globalization" Mail to: The Learning Alliance, 324 Lafayette St., 7th Floor New York, N.Y. 10012 Tel: 212-226-7171 Fax: 212-274-8712 Email: alliance@blythe.org No mail requests can be filled after November 1, 1995. 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Date:______ From OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu Sat Oct 21 21:30:43 1995 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: WSN@csf.colorado.edu Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 21:35:33 -0600, MDT Subject: Re: Patenting of biological material from indigenes I am forwarding this message to the list at the request of its author. Jack Owens, Idaho State Univ. ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 18:39:17 +0800 To: OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu From: kjkhoo@pop.jaring.my (KHOO Khay Jin) Subject: Re: Patenting of biological material from indigenes The following report from Nature, 5 Oct 1995, while not necessarily negating Friedlander's response - indeed, may add further substance to it as per RAFI's influence, may interest those who have followed this matter. There is also an editorial on the matter in the same issue of Nature (p.372). One point, though: a criticism of HGD has been its lack of expression of concern over the extinction of indigenous groups. However, it might be noted that such an expression of concern on HGD's part may well make their project unwelcome to many governments under whom many of these indigenous groups live. This may substantiate a charge of self-interestedness on HGD's part. On the other hand, if collection of this material is crucial to future knowledge and understanding, then perhaps HGD's reticence at open expression of concern may well be justified. At the same time, the issue of intellectual property rights as well as how the project will benefit indigenes has to be spelt out clearly and practically. It has happened all too often that claims of benefit vanish into thin air on closer examination. Finally, it might be pointed out that in all likelihood some of this sort of work, i.e. collecting biological material from indigenous peoples, is going on quietly. This is likely to be more both more insidious and of no benefit to indigenes. On this score, HGD, by being open about their project, has to be commended. At least they have given everyone a chance to air their views and objections. KHOO Khay Jin Kuching, Sarawak ------------------------ Genetic diversity proposal fails to impress international ethics panel Paris. A multimillion-dollar project to study genetic variation in populations worldwide - the Human Genome Diversity Project (HGD) - appears unlikely to receive the endorsement it has been seeking from the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco). The project - in which DNA would be collected from around 25 individuals from about 500 of the 5,000 or so different ethnic groups - is the brainchild of Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, a renowned population geneticist at Stanford University in California. Knowledge of the origins of populations would have "enormous potential for illuminating our understanding of human history and identity", and provide information on the genetic basis of predisposition and resistance to disease. The project, which it is estimated would cost around $5 million annually, has been backed by the Human Genome Organization (HUGO). But it has obtained little funding, partly because of controversy about its procedures and implications. Its supporters have been lobbying Unesco to set up an ethics committee to oversee the project, in a bid to improve HGD's image and to increase its prospects for funding. But at a meeting of Unesco's International Bioethics Committee (IBC) in Paris last week, a working group on population genetics set up by the committee strongly criticized the HGD, and recommended UN organizations not to endorse any individual project in this area in order to "safeguard" Unesco's "independence, neutrality and credibility". One Unesco official also says it rejected a separate request from HGD for direct funding. The working group acknowledged the validity of the project's scientific goals. But it also endorsed criticisms by indigenous peoples, the main target of HGD. The group said, for example, that the project needs to clarify how - if at all - intellectual property rights would be claimed on biological material derived from populations. Indigenous groups are angry that the US Department of Commerce has filed patent claims on cell lines taken from indigenous people from the Solomon Islands. The islands' government has protested. But Ron Brown, the US Secretary of Commerce, replied last year that the origin of cells was irrelevant to the patent application. The working group also asked HGD, which is managed by a subcommittee of HUGO, to "formulate concretely" its general claims that the project would benefit local populations. HGD's claim that it will lead to the development of local research laboratories, for example, needs to be clarified so that "it becomes obvious how this would happen". The working group also wants confirmation that HGD would not seek commercial funding, despite its fragile financial situation, and called on HGD to include indigenous peoples in all stages of the project. The long list of criticisms reflects a general feeling at the meeting that the enthusiasm of the project's supporters for scientific results has led to the neglect of wider issues, in particular human rights. The working group pointed out that although HGD has "expressed urgency" in collecting samples from peoples in danger of cultural and physical extinction, it had not expressed concern about their extinction per se. Indeed, speaking at last week's meeting, Debra Harry, a Paiute North American Indian who works with the Indigenous People's Biodiversity Network, said that genetic research is "not a priority for indigenous peoples". She pointed out that basic human rights, such as access to better health care, are a better guarantee of their well-being and survival, and added: "They've come to take our blood and tissues for their interests, not for ours." Harry invoked the 1964 Helsinki Declaration - "in research on man, the well-being of the subject takes precedence over science and society" - to argue for a halt to HGD on the grounds that indigenous peoples feel they will not benefit from it. Indeed, she claimed that information from HGD would in fact increase discrimination against indigenous peoples. Cavalli-Sforza has argued that HGD would reduce the risk of racism by showing that the notion of race is flawed. But the IBC group described this as the "most debatable" claim of the project, arguing that the prejudice that gives rise to racist and eugenic attitudes tends to pervert scientific results to its own ends. Genetic reductionism, argued many at the meeting, represents a threat to those mythologies of human origins that are different from those of the dominant world cultures. Moreover, the working group argues that opposition is based upon more than misunderstandings of the scientific aims or anti-science attitudes, but "is a clash of philosophy and cultura insight". Harry, for example, says that "genetics is a violation of our ethics, it attacks our culture's world view". She adds: "We don't view our genes as protein actions ready to be interpreted; for us our genes are sacred." One ethnological researcher at the meeting urged biologists to learn to "respect community rights", adding that their discipline has become accustomed to working under enormous constraints. These include lengthy approval procedures, and making notes available to the groups being studied. Cavalli-Sforza, who attended last week's meeting, said he welcomed the committee's analysis, and "shared their concerns". HGD, he added, was drafting protocols that would go "even further" than the committee's recommendations. But he dismissed the claims concerning the project's risks as "exaggerated", and continued to attribute them to misunderstanding. "I have become used to being called a planner of genocide and of being accused of economic interest," he says. "My main aim is to defend the project and defend science." - Declan Butler --------------------------------------- From OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu Tue Oct 24 12:19:42 1995 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 12:24:36 -0600, MDT Subject: Patenting of person (?) -- another reply Yet another intervention on this subject. Jack Owens ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 09:35:56 -0700 Reply-to: H-NET List for World History From: Ken Pomeranz Subject: Re: Patenting of person (?) -- another reply (fwd) From: hgreely@leland.stanford.edu (henry t. greely) Subject: Re: A note to RAFI Papua New Guinea Patents, the Human Genome Diversity Project, and RAFI The Rural Advancement Foundation International (RAFI) put out a press release on Wednesday, October 4, entitled "Indigenous Person from Papua New Guinea Claimed in US Government Patent." As a member of the North American Committee of the Human Genome Diversity Program, I share RAFI's concern about the patenting of a cell-line derived from a member of the Hagahai population, or from anyone else, indigenous or non-indigenous, who may not have given fully informed consent to such use of his tissues or who may otherwise have been treated unfairly. But I am also concerned that the Human Genome Diversity Project not be treated unfairly by RAFI. Its press release contained such a host of misrepresentations and outright lies about that Project that I am compelled to respond. Fact -- The Human Genome Diversity Project had nothing to do with the collection, analysis, or patenting of the cell line from Papua New Guinea or with the patenting of any other cell lines, indigenous or otherwise. Fact -- The Human Genome Diversity Project is a regionally organized project. In most of the world, including the Pacific and the Americas, it remains entirely in the planning stage. In Europe and China, local researchers are engaged in pilot studies that might end up being part of the Project. Fact -- The Human Genome Diversity Project has stated, over and over, a) that the Project will not try to capture for itself any commercial value that its samples or data may generate, through patenting or in any other methods, b) but that should such value arise, the Project will seek to ensure that the sampled population gets a fair share of any benefits. Fact -- The North American Committee of the HGD Project has gone farther and stated that no patenting or commercial use of samples collected by the Project should be allowed without the express and informed agreement of the sampled population, provided by whatever authorities are appropriate within its culture. We expressly reject unfair and exploitative "gene hunting." Fact -- The HGD Project has not supported the U.S. government patent applications on cell lines from indigenous peoples. In fact, I personally helped the Guaymi General Congress and RAFI persuade the NIH to drop its patent application on a cell line from Panama. I discovered the nature of the patent application, the named inventors on the application, and the background of the patent and passed that information on to RAFI, which didn't know any of it. I wrote to and talked with the relevant federal officials in the efforts that led to the withdrawal of the Guaymi claim. I also offered to help the government of the Solomon Islands in the same manner. Fact -- There is not, and never has been, an HGD Project list of populations to be sampled. In October 1992, a planning workshop for the Project created a set of tables showing examples of the kinds of populations that would be of particular interest for studying the genetic diversity, and hence the genetic history, of humanity. The Project gave a draft copy of those tables to RAFI, which has proceeded for several years to refer to them as showing "targeted populations" and now as being "a hit list." As we have told RAFI often, these drafts were never completed and the idea of even discussing specific populations as examples was abandoned more than two years ago because of the way it was being misunderstood. Fact -- When Edward Hammond of RAFI says "The thin veneer of the HGDP as an academic, non-commercial exercise has been shattered by the US government patenting an indigenous person from Papua New Guinea," he is, to be most charitable, grossly misinformed. The HGD Project is NOT the United States government. It is an international effort by scholars from around the world to increase our understanding of our common human heritage. Although several years ago, it received minor federal funding for planning workshops, it has no current funding from the United States government. It hopes to get federal funding, but even then I am sure it would not accept funding that required the samples to be patentable without the informed consent of the populations involved. Fact -- All the facts stated above are known to RAFI and have been for some time. It may well be useful for RAFI in getting publicity and funding to have a frightening sounding "Human Genome Diversity Project" or, better yet, "Vampire Project," to attack. But "useful" is not the same as "fair." Or "honest." RAFI says it opposes "bio-piracy," the theft of valuable genetic information from indigenous populations. So does the HGD Project. The Project, in fact, sees its open, international, non-commercial and non-governmental structure as a solution to bio-piracy. RAFI apparently doesn't. We have areas of agreement and areas of disagreement. It is well past time, however, for RAFI to deal honestly with both the areas of agreement and disagreement. It is well past time for RAFI to stop lying about the Human Genome Diversity Project. I could, and, for the purposes of the Human Genome Diversity Project, probably should, end here, but in investigating this situation, it has become quite clear to me that the HGD Project was not the only party recklessly abused by the RAFI press release. In fairness to the others involved, I want to say a few words about them, even though I suspect they will be posting their own responses to RAFI's false charges. First, the N.I.H. had decided to withdraw its application to patent the cell-line derived from blood from Papua New Guinea. The N.I.H. changed its decision at the request of members of the Institute of Medical Research, an agency of the government of Papua New Guinea. An Institute scientist is listed as a co-inventor on the patent application and, by agreement, her half of any proceeds from the patent are to go to the Hagahai -- not to the co-inventor, the Institute, or the general government of Papua New Guinea. (The agreement is not part of the patent because patents do not include information on the distribution of the royalties they produce -- they just describe the protected "invention.") The Institute and its staff have sterling reputations for service to the peoples of their country; this patent issued as part of their service to the Hagahai. The Institute believed that it could best protect the interests of the Hagahai by a patent. That may or may not have been correct, but it certainly was not exploitation of the Hagahai -- quite the contrary. Second, the similar patent application for cell-lines derived from the blood samples from the Solomon Islands was not prosecuted by the U.S. Government. It was "continued," which means "put on the back burner," last spring, and I am told that it has now been formally withdrawn. Dr. Friedlaender's letter to the Ambassador from the Solomon Islands was entirely accurate about the Solomon Islands application. It also would have been accurate about the PNG application, except that it did not foresee the strong request from the PNG Institute of Medical Research that the patent application from Papua New Guinea be prosecuted. Third, RAFI, which purports to be know something about patents, has grossly misstated the nature of this patent. The patent was not, of course, on "a person." Nor was it on the information contained in the person's genetic material. Instead, the patent is on a cell-line that is infected with a particular variant of a virus called HTLV-1 and on the possible uses of that cell-line in developing diagnostic tests. No patent right was claimed in the human genetic information whatsoever; that material is present in the cell-line because it is present in human cells and the virus needs a human cellular host. Patents, once issued, are public documents and publicly available. This patent, U.S. Patent no. 5,397,696, is called "Papua New Guinea human T-lymphotropic virus" and issued on March 14, 1995, to a group of five inventors. I have found a copy of the patent in electronic format and would be happy to send its somewhat turgid and technical prose to anyone who would like it. The patent included five claims, which are reproduced below verbatim: "What is claimed is: 1. A cell line, designated papua New Guinea-1(pNG-1) ATCC CRL 10528. 2. A viral preparation comprising the HTLV-I-variant in the cell line ATCC CRL 10528 of claim 1. 3. A bioassay for the diagnosis of infection with PNG-1 variant comprising the steps of: i) fixing said cell according to claim 1 to a solid support; ii) contacting said cell with a biological sample from a human suspected of being infected; and iii) detecting the presence or absence of a complex formed between protein of said cell and antibodies specific therefor present in said sample. 4. The bioassay according to claim 3 further comprising permeabilizing said fixed cell prior to contacting said cell with a biological sample. 5. A bioassay for the diagnosis of infection with PNG-1 variant comprising the steps of: i) preparing a lysate from said cell according to claim 1; ii) contacting said lysate with a biological sample from a human suspected of being infected, under conditions such that a complex is formed between protein of said lysate and antibodies specific therefor present in said sample and iii) detecting the presence or absence of said complex." The patent is, thus, on the infected cell-line, preparations of pure virus made from the cell-line, and various bioassays (tests) for detecting infection with this virus using the cell line. No claim is made on any human genetic material. Making people "the property of the U.S. Government" is obviously outrageous. Patenting human genetic information raises troubling issues. Neither happened in this case. From cscpo@polsci.umass.edu Tue Oct 24 21:47:36 1995 by rfd.oit.umass.edu (PMDF V5.0-4 #6523) Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 23:47:11 -0400 From: "colin s. cavell" Subject: RETHINKING MARXISM announces International Conference To: psrt-l@mizzou1 Rethinking MARXISM announces an International Conference .... POLITICS AND LANGUAGES OF CONTEMPORARY MARXISM December 5--8 (Thursday--Sunday), 1996 University of Massachusetts at Amherst Call for Papers and Session Proposals PURPOSE: The editors of Rethinking MARXISM announce the third in the series of international conferences. The first two conferences, attended by over one thousand persons each, brought together under a common tent many different voices of the Left from around the world. "Marxism Now: Traditions and Difference," held in 1989, created a forum where new, heterogeneous directions in Marxism and the Left could be debated after the end of orthodox uniformity. 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Preregistration On Site regular/low-income regular/low-income Full conference $50/$30 $60/$40 two days $40/$25 $45/$30 one day $25/$15 $30/$15 SUBMISSION PROPOSALS: Send submission proposals to: Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. The deadline for submission proposals is August 15, 1996. ************************* Stephen Cullenberg tel: (909) 787-5037 x1573 Department of Economics fax: (909) 787-5685 University of California scullen@ucrac1.ucr.edu Riverside, CA 92521 From kjkhoo@pop.jaring.my Wed Oct 25 01:12:40 1995 Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 15:13:10 +0800 To: WORLD SYSTEMS NETWORK From: kjkhoo@pop.jaring.my (KHOO Khay Jin) Subject: Re: Patenting of person (?) First, let me say that I do not know enough about the HGDP to either defend nor attack it. But I reiterate my earlier point that it is better to have a HGDP which is prepared to be open about what it intends than a whole host of corporations and scientists working for corporations who are in all likelihood at this very moment bio-prospecting in various parts of the world. The latter's activities, because not publicized, are not held up to scrutiny. We are not going to be able to put a moratorium on work in this area (remember how when some scientists wanted to put a moratorium on genetic engineering back in the 1970s, the result was that the work went on anyway, especially in the labs of the military) - better therefore to have it out in the open where it can be monitored. Pomeranz's reply to RAFI is most welcomed and extremely clear, but in all likelihood RAFI will choose to misunderstand or ignore it. It has become much of a pattern among certain types of NGOs to distort important issues. At best, they choose to simplify what are complex matters requiring solution under present circumstances - not some abstract, ideal world. Patents, and patenting of genetic material in particular, is one such issue. RAFI would rather be self-righteous than be thoughtful about the matter - maybe because thoughtfulness does not win funding for their organization? Allow me to expand slightly. Ideally, there should be no patents and the fruits of scientific effort should be the common possession and heritage of all humanity. The fact is we live in a world of markets and corporations, and patents can be as much defensive acts against such markets and corporations, allowing the party holding a patent to determine, to some degree, its use and the price for such use. I can well understand why the PNG IMR would choose to go ahead with the patent for the cell-line. The alternative they might otherwise have faced is some company utilising it - once it became public domain - in some diagnostic test, and by clever patenting of the latter, exclude the PNG IMR from using it for the same purpose. Now that the PNG IMR is a party to the patent they and the people of PNG can derive some benefit for their efforts, and they can choose to license it for free, or at nominal cost, to other poor countries. (Nevertheless, some of the inputs required to develop or run the diagnostic test are probably under patent rights of some corporations.) If, instead, there had been no patent, and if some company were to utilize the cell-line in a diagnostic kit, and to patent such use, everyone would likely have had to pay considerably more for it. Even now, we are not altogether out of the woods: the possibility that HTLV-1 may well provide the means for an AIDS vaccine is, I believe, being investigated - and we know how lucrative that can be for some corporation! If the RAFI wants to be truly useful, they should pursue a battle against the patent laws of the US, and against patent lawyers working on behalf of large corporations. If I'm correct, patents are only recognized in the US if filed in the US, whereas patents filed in the US by US corporations or citizens are supposed to be recognized worldwide. Everyone knows how exorbitant the process of filing a US patent can be. This militates against those who would wish to file a primarily defensive patent. In conclusion, it might be pointed out to RAFI that twenty-odd years ago, when the technique of monoclonal anti-bodies was developed, the scientists involved decided not to patent it in the believe that it should be public domain. Their intentions were honourable, but the technique has been the basis for the development of all sorts of reagents that are now under patent rights of corporations. Might it not have been better if they had decided to patent the technique, claim royalties on it, and contributed those royalties to some sort of medical fund for assistance to poor countries? We live in difficult times and while morality might well dictate one course of action, realism dictates that we consider these issues in all their ramifications, sometimes at the cost of compromising one's moral stance! Railing against the HGDP cannot substitute for some hard effort towards drafting some kind of "bill of rights" to be adopted worldwide, by all parties, that will protect the rights of indigenes and countries of origin of biological materials. At present, too much is left up to the conscience of individuals, groups and corporations. We could do worse than start with the kind of agreement now adopted by the NIH and NCI - they are far from perfect, but they at least begin to recognize the issues of equity. Khoo Khay Jin Kuching, Sarawak Malaysia From OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu Wed Oct 25 11:49:05 1995 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 11:54:18 -0600, MDT Subject: More on gene patenting Forwarded by: Jack Owens , who protests that he really knows nothing about this subject but finds the debate interesting from a world systems perspective :-) ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 10:34:46 -0700 Reply-to: H-NET List for World History From: Ken Pomeranz Subject: More on gene patenting From: Mike Lieber, University of Illinois, Chicago (mdlieber@uic.edu) (Cross-post from ACADEMY) Many of the principals involved in the current flap about patenting DNA have now weighed in on various nets. I have also communicated with Ed Hammond at RAFI and have obtained an online copy of the patent, which I'll be happy to send to anyone that wants it. I would like to do two things. First, I'll present the facts of this case as I understand them. Second, I will present my own analysis of what the original post by RAFI was about and what this all has to do with the Human Genome Diversity Project. Rafi's statement that the US government had patented a human being was absurd on its face. That was an attention grabber. The statement that the NIH pat- ent included "unmodified DNA" is also false. All of the DNA material that constituted items in the patent were cloned DNA strands, most of them from the virus, HTLV-1. This is a virus that is responsible for lymphomas and leuke- mia, and the Melanesian variant is used for comparison with the Japanese vari- ant of the virus. The main subject of the patent is a line of human T-cells, a white cell to which the virus attaches itself. In order to reproduce the virus, the T-cell has to be cloned. A good deal of the other cloned DNA included in the patent is part of materials used to recognize the presence of the virus, several diagnostic kits for lab use. I'm trying to keep this sim- ple, but if anyone wants more detailed information, I can provide it. My file on this is pretty large. Why NIH decided to go ahead with this patent after wavering on it and deciding not to continue with two other patents (one of which was for the same materi- als from a Solomon Islander) is an interesting question. Johnathan Friedlan- der, whom RAFI implied had misled the Solomon Island ambassador to the UN about NIH's intentions on patenting, has statedthat NIH wanted to discontinue the patent application process. People at the Institute for Medical Research in Port Moresby insisted that NIH proceed with the patent on the Hagahai material, feeling that this was their best chance of assuring that needed research on the virus would actually get done. It was Carol Jenkins, the anthropologist working with the Hagahai, that negotiated the agreement with NIH giving half of any royalties the patent might bring to the Hagahai people. This patent is the result of work done by the IMR with the cooperation of NIH. It had nothing to do with the Human Genome Diversity Project from the outset and still has nothing to do with the HGDP. NIH and IMR are governmetal enti- ties. The HGDP is not a governmental entity, nor is it supported by or behol- den to any government. The HGDP has nothing to do with patents, and has no plans for patenting anything they find, mostly because nothing that HGDP works with has anything of commercial value worth patenting (unless you think that start and stop messages on genes is worth big bucks). These are the bare facts of the matter, and unless you're into patent law and diagnostic tests using DNA markers for detecting the presence of a virus, they're pretty boring. More interesting are the ethical considerations of patenting any form of DNA, but those considerations have gotten lost in lies, half-truths, innuendo, and hype. Aside from the obvious falsehoods, the RAFI press release is most notable for its several cute tricks. Aside from a partial quote of Ron Brown, the only other people quoted in the release are RAFI personnel. The cell line that was actually patented is mentioned only in passing, but the reader is never told what sort of cell line it is. The name of Carlton Gadjusek and the fact that he is a Nobel laureate is listed as "heading the team" that worked on the patent, although his name is not listed in the patent. As one reads the rest of the release, it is clear that Gadjusek's name is not used gratuitously--one is supposed to conclude from this that US government conspiracies include and involve the most distinguished of the scientific establishment. This is a ploy with its own barnacled lineage, used during the McCarthy witch hunt days which, I regret to say, I am old enough to remember vividly. Johnathan Fried- lander's name is used in the same way. The first mention of Friedlander in the release is in connection with a letter that he sent to the UN ambassador from the Solomon Islands in 1993 (actually 1994) stating that NIH had no intentions of pursuing the "patents." Now, RAFI does not come out and accuse Friedlander of deliberately misleading the ambassador. This is because RAFI already knew that Friedlander conveyed to the ambassador what people at NIH had told him. But the reader is invited to conclude that Friedlander lied, since the details of that incident at that time are left out. Having set up Friedlander as a co-conspirator with the likes of Gadjusek, the RAFI release uses Friedlander later on as a member of the HGDP planning group. Labelling the HGDP as the "Vampire Project," the release is able to connect the patent case with HGDP through Friedlander. This is another McCarthyite tactic, a particular favorite of people like Roy Cohn. The real and obvious target of the press release is the Human Genome Diversity Project, for which the personnel of the NIH patent "group" are portrayed as pimps. If the NIH patent can be depicted as patenting of human genes, then RAFI can claim that as clear precedent for what is surely to follow if the HGDP goes forward. This is why the cell line that actually was patented is downplayed and the allegation of "unmodified DNA" made. There has been a good deal of opposition to the HGDP since its plans were announced. Some of that opposition is based on misunderstanding of the goals and procedures of the project, owing partly to the political naivete of the project staff in publicizing it. Much of the opposition, however, has to do with larger concerns of indigenous peoples and many organizations that are linked with them in complex ways. They are sick of being targets of projects, pawns in political maneuvering, objects of study, and providers of resources that make governments and corporations rich (and give assistant professors tenure). Set in that context, the HGDP is just one more contribution to a "better" world by people who get nothing tangible in return. They have seen it all before and are ready to believe anything about the newest program to which they are asked to contribute. That NIH is a US government agency while HGDP is an international organization is a distinction that makes more differ- ence to us institutional types than to the organizations of indigenous peo- ples. What difference does it make which agency is peddling which program? And I must admit that a government that could devise and conduct and cover up the Tuskeegee Project is capable of anything. I suspect that the intended audience for RAFI's press release was not us academic or scientific types but rather the many groups of activists involved with indigenous people's politi- cal movements and intellectual property rights. While undertsandable as a PR strategy, RAFI's tactics have a very unfortunate side effect. RAFI and other politically active groups struggling for the rights of indige- nous peoples in a world of power politics are not the only people who are con- cerned with issues of patenting of human genetic material, corporate exploita- tion of the resources of indigenous peoples, and the many ethical issues in the study of the human genome. These groups have natural allies in the world's universities, in the scientific community, and even within govern- ments, US and others. [The major opposition to the NIH patent came from inside NIH, and the people opposed to patenting were successful in getting two out of three proposed patents dropped.] The RAFI press release is nearly per- fectly designed to alienate natural allies from one another--activist groups who are prepared to take RAFI's charicature as fact and academicians who are turned off by the transparent dishonesty and witch hunt tactics of the release. In one sense, the release is part of a common sort of struggle that characterizes almost every issue involving public policy ranging from corpo- rate exploitation to public aid to teen pregnancy: that of WHO OWNS THE PROBLEM. This kind of struggle almost always creates a polemical frame for considering any issue. Academicians and scientists outside the academy are at a particular disadvan- tage in this context. In an issue that involves complex connections between problems at several levels of organizational context, we function best in a non-polemical framework where we can make the complexity clear. It takes time and patience, clearly a disadvantage for those who want to make a decision yesterday. A polemic commonly has a binary organization that collapses dif- ferent levels of complexity down to two opposed charicatures. To argue in that context is to accept the frame. We don't do are jobs very well in that kind of context. The patenting of human genetic material is a serious issue that requires more than governmental agency policies, which can change with different administra- tions. National and international law are ambiguous on this issue, and it is a decision of law, not of policy that is required. There are now private cor- porations working on patents of human genetic materials--the HGDP is not one of them; Human Genome Sciences, Inc. is. They will continue to do so unless prohibited by law or by another group like HGDP making the same information public property before HGSI can get their patents. Should there be such a law prohibiting any and all patents on human genetic material? On some kinds of genetic material? What? Does the HGDP deserve our support? Is the issue of patents such as the NIH patent one of patenting genes or patenting intellec- tual property? If the latter, then what constitutes intellectual property? Is the position of the Department of Commerce that the source of the subject of the patent is irrelevant to the patent process a legal position that Ameri- can citizens consider conscionable? Why was there such strong opposition inside NIH to the HTLV-1 patents? These are questions of moral, ethical, and practical import for public policy. They need to be discussed to the point of clarifying the issues involved and the ramifications of any decisions on these issues. But the decisions still have to be made. I feel very uncomfortable leaving these kinds of decisions to the likes of RAFI or Ron Brown. Finally, a local note to this long post. What sorts of allies can political activists expect from the academy, and what do they (we) have to offer? As a faculty member of the University of Illinois at Chicago, I can suggest at least the following. What we have to offer is the capability of producing and communicating information quickly, the prestige and support of our institutions and our networks of contacts. My insttution offers even more. UIC, through its Great Cities program and through the Neighborhoods Initiative, has committed itself to precisely the kinds of collaborations that generate resources for community organizations and knowledge for the university. It is an experiment, long overdue, but one that has begun to show results as both university personnel and local activist organizations learn to be partners. We are not the only university so involved. As university personnel learn what these sorts of partnerships mean and how they work, we become a more experienced, hence useful resource. This the time for partnering, not for alienating. Mike Lieber From ROZOV@nw.cnit.nsk.su Fri Oct 27 10:07:31 1995 27 Oct 95 22:06:07 NSK-6 From: "Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov" Organization: Center of New Informational Tech. To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:05:49 -0700 (NSK) Subject: w-empires & semipheriphery Sorry for my late feedback to responces on collapse of communism by Prof.Chase- Dunn and Prof.Wally. Dear Chris, I never told that USSR escaped inter-state system or was fully isolated from capitalist world-economy. Chinese, Japanese or Spanish Empires were never fully isolated from world-economy, but for centuries they had THEIR OWN LOGICS OF FUNCTIONING AND DEVELOPMENT, thus they were autonomous world-systems (namely world-empires) and only during XVIII-XX they were involved as PARTS of capitalist w- economy (not at once but in some asynchronical steps). Without fixation of such critical points we will lose much of real historical picture. Raising of tariffs cannot be sufficient criteria for identification USSR as an ordinary semipheripheral zones of world capitalism. The very logic of political strategy of world-empires is different from logic of semiperiphery. The last tries to win in market games, to grasp some production monopoly, to get maximum of market territory, to deposite capital for further profitable investments, to enter into core and to reach hegemony MAINLY by economic means (surely never excluding political and military means). On the contrary, world-empire tries to win political- military game, to grasp monopoly of political power over maximum of territory, to deposite capital not for further investments but only in prevailing in future war in order to grasp all other capital deposites by coercion, not to enter into the core but to destroy the core absolutely, MAINLY by military and political means (surely not excluding some economic competition). Please correct me if I made mistakes in sketching the main differences between semipheriphery of world-economy and autonomous world-empires. Now it seems rather clear that by each of given criteria USSR behaved as world-empire, not as a semipheripheral zone. Dear Prof. Wally. I never argued against world-system interptretations as a whole or world-wide influence of Condratieffs. Comparing behavior of world-empires and semipheropheral zones includes main WS-approach concepts, surely all w-empires as far as they are economically connected with world-economy are influenced by phases of Kondratieffs. I also did not try to reduce all events of USSR and its collapse ONLY to endogenous factors. It's also true that the core of world-economy tries to consider ALL OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD as its periphery and constructs the economic connections just in this mode. This fact is reflected in the cited writings of Wallerstein, Moulder, etc. At the same time every world-empire consideres ALL OTHER PARTS OF THE WORLD (including world-economies) as its yet not conquered provinces or as competitive world-empires. Any talks about "intense commodifying" in USSR are ridiculuous. As far as I know commodity is a good produced for selling in a market, but almost all goods were only redistributed in Russia for decades. Maybe somebody can tell that the arms production in Ural organized by Peter the great, or construction the Great Chinese wall were also "intense commodifying"? According to Wallerstein the main economic logic of world- empire is extracting and redistributing tribute. Namely this tribute grasped by elite of world-empire then goes to world- markets and only their becomes a real commodity. What Russian commodities in Europe do you remember in Europe in XVIII-XX? Wood, furs, oil, coal, gas - it all was tribute but in no way real capitalist commodity production. It is a typical export of periphery and it is very typical for all world-empires to grab it own population for changing these peripheral export goods for prestige goods for the elite of empire (say, mandarins, dvoriane or nomenclatura). Is there now intense commodifying in China and South-Eastern Asia? Surely! And all of you can feel it in any American and European store. I will not give much for any "20 (or even 200!) years of theoretical and empirical work" if it does not allow us to make clear conceptual differentiation between world-empires and semipheripheral zones, between Stalin's industrialization and recent Chinese raise of export commodity production. My very best wishes to Baltomore and Santa Cruz. Maybe anybody else also makes some contribution? Nikolai S. Rozov Professor of Philosophy PhD., Dr.Sc. Moderator of the mailing list PHILOFHI (PHILosophy OF HIstory and theoretical history) Dept. of Philosophy Tel.: (3832) 397488 Novosibirsk State University Fax.: (3832) 355237 630090, Novosibirsk E-mail: rozov@nw.cnit.nsk.su Pirogova 2 rozov@adm.nsu.nsk.su From martin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu Fri Oct 27 11:50:49 1995 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 12:50:53 -0500 To: WSN@csf.colorado.edu From: martin@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (William G. Martin) Subject: Headship opening To world-systems folk: Please note the following opening for a Head of the Department of Sociology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. It is of particular interest due to the Department's targeting of transnational stuides as a key area for resources and hiring. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: Head, Department of Sociology. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Applications and nominations are invited for the position of Head of the Department of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. The Head administers a department with established undergraduate and graduate programs and an active research program; baccalaureate, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees awarded. Candidates should have qualifications appropriate to appointment with tenure, including national and international reputation for scholarly productivity in research, and demonstrated teaching competence. Candidates also should have a record of administrative effectiveness or demonstrate high promise of leadership and administrative competence. Salary negotiable. Official Starting Date: August 21, 1996. To assure full consideration, nominations and applications should be submitted by January 1, 1996. Applications and nominations should be sent to: Professor Fritz Drasgow, Search Committee Chair, c/o Paula Hays, LAS Dean's Office, 194 Lincoln Hall MC-448, 702 South Wright Street, Urbana, IL 61801, Telephone: 217/333-1350. The University of Illinois is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. William G. Martin Associate Professor Sociology Department University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 326 Lincoln Hall 702 South Wright Street Urbana IL 61801 United States Office Telephone: U.S. + 217 333 8052/1950 Office Fax: U.S. + 217 333 5225 From agfrank@epas.utoronto.ca Fri Oct 27 15:33:00 1995 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:32:56 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Gunder Frank" To: Nikolai Sergeevich Rozov Subject: Re: w-empires & semipheriphery In-Reply-To: <542BEF3994@nw.cnit.nsk.su> Nikolai, like Wallerstein, is totally WRONG, not because I say so but because the evidence is overwhelemingly against him/them, in saying that Russia and Chia were only fitfully integrated in ws since XVIII century. They were organically connnected nd funcining parts of the ws LONG before that. One way that russia was, was that precisely it was an exporer of raw material/commodities.And it still is! today, and was during Soviet time too! just remmembmer that over 90 percent of soviet exports were oil/gas and gold. today ther are massive contraband commodites exports. also what was the urge behind Stalin's collectivizatin dirve after 1928? 1. to get food to the citiies to support industrializatin and/but 2. to get wheat to EXPORT to earn foreign exhange! China was integrated into Ws since at last the middle of 1st millennium BC and Chris's work on demographic/urban growth cycles in East and West Asia supports my/Gills contention on this and Chris recognizes that, and Russia has been in since time immemorial, vide the move of its cycles in tandem with those in Eurasia below the motains crissing Asia from East to west, as "hown" in my Bronze Age paper, ie for th secod and third millennia BC! I fear that Nikolai, along with Wallerstein and lots of w-s people is just totaly out of the real ballpark, not to mention left field. Sorry to be so blunt, but i am in a hrry, since i am finally truig to advance again on my 1400-1800 world econ/syst paper [begun in march94] in which I try to show precisely that, that these reguions,like others were fully integrated fuctioning parts of the world eco. Indeeed, China was its CENTER! cheers gunder From OWENJACK@FS.isu.edu Fri Oct 27 17:35:40 1995 From: "J B Owens" Organization: Idaho State University To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 17:40:58 -0600, MDT Subject: AHA/Econ Hist Assoc roundtable ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- The Economic History Association will present a Roundtable, "The Future of Economic History," at the upcoming AHA meeting in Atlanta on Friday, January 5 at 4:45 p.m. The five speakers will offer 5-10 minutes of thoughts on the nature, problems, and future prospects of the field, followed by open discussion. I am advertizing this as widely as possible in order to draw in a wide range of scholars -- especially social and cultural historians who have pulled back from economic issues (in large part, I suspect, because of the heavily econometric methods now practiced by many economic historians). What I hope emerges from the discussion is a better sense of how the field can be reshaped to once again include the questions of politics, culture and ideology that drive so much historical work at the moment. In other words, this session is aimed at not only economic historians, but at all the others who may have given up in frustration upon hitting yet another general equilibrium model. Can we find ways to talk about the economy, economic change, ideologies that draw us together rather than dividing along methodological lines? If you are at the AHA, please come by for discussion and light refreshments. The five speakers are historians with a diverse range of interests and approaches. I am sure that their names will be familiar to many of you: John H. Coatsworth (Harvard University, AHA Pres.) Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Brown University) Michael A. Bernstein (UC, San Diego) Robert S. Duplessis (Swarthmore) T. J. A. LeGoff (York University) Convener: Judith A. Miller (Emory) Please repost this message on any discussion groups you think might be appropriate. The Economic History Association is working on a wide range of initiatives to draw more historians back to the field and wishes to publicize these efforts as broadly as possible. If you have any questions, contact me via email (histjam@emory.edu) or via phone, 404-727-6564. Thank you very much. Judith A. Miller Emory University Forwarded by: J. B. "Jack" Owens, Professor of History Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID 83209 USA e-mail: owenjack@isu.edu www: http://isuux.isu.edu/~owenjack From chriscd@jhu.edu Mon Oct 30 13:14:06 1995 From: chriscd@jhu.edu id <01HX20FQJSPC8Y77G5@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:07:17 -0400 (EDT) id <01HX20FA91SG8Y7JH8@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Mon, 30 Oct 1995 15:06:19 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 13:54:34 -0500 Subject: gunder on asia-based world economy Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English Andre Gunder Frank's new essay, "The Asian Based World Economy:1400-1800" is now available for comment and critique on the World Systems Archive. the address is csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/papers/frank_ag the web address is http:csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/wsarch.html chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu From agfrank@epas.utoronto.ca Mon Oct 30 14:13:10 1995 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 16:12:44 -0500 (EST) From: "A. Gunder Frank" To: chriscd@jhu.edu Subject: Re: gunder on asia-based world economy In-Reply-To: <53674.chriscd@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> Correction from AGF: NO the essay is NOT there, in fact its not even written yet. I sent Chris only 2 pp from the introduction of a paper so far over 40 pp long. gunder frank On Mon, 30 Oct 1995 chriscd@jhu.edu wrote: > Andre Gunder Frank's new essay, "The Asian Based World Economy:1400-1800" > is now available for comment and critique on the World Systems Archive. > > the address is csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/papers/frank_ag > the web address is http:csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/wsarch.html > > > chris > Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn > Department of Sociology > Johns Hopkins University > Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA > tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu > From chriscd@jhu.edu Tue Oct 31 13:40:02 1995 by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HX3FUMCG8W8X46MV@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:39:30 -0400 (EDT) by jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu (PMDF V4.3-9 #5488) id <01HX3FUKACQO8Y7ZG3@jhmail.hcf.jhu.edu>; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:39:16 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 15:27:44 -0600 (CST) From: chris chase-dunn Subject: syllabus:women at the margins Sender: chriscd@jhu.edu To: wsn@csf.colorado.edu Reply-to: chriscd@jhu.edu X-NUPop-Charset: English A few months back Candice Bradley asked for suggestions on WSN for her seminar on "Women at the Margins." The syllabus is now available from the World-Systems Archive. csf.colorado.edu/wsystems/syllabi or http://csf.colorado.edu/wsarch.html chris Prof. Chris Chase-Dunn Department of Sociology Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD. 21218 USA tel 410 516 7633 fax 410 516 7590 email chriscd@jhu.edu