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> Charles (Wal*Mart shopper who loves all the bargains from China)

I would have believed that "globalization" be a fair play, if low-paid
workers, not merely low-priced goods, could move here and there globally as
the goods.

Hongguang Bi


----- Original Message -----
From: "charles moyer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: Pound's politics


> "Cutting axe-handle
> Cutting an axe-handle,
> The model is not far off." -THE BOOK OF POEMS
>
> "A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men." - Tom
Paine,
> THE AMERICAN CRISIS
>
> Need a dissertation on Chung Yung?
>
> Charles (Wal*Mart shopper who loves all the bargains from China)
>
> ----------
> >From: Peter Bi <[log in to unmask]>
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >Subject: Re: Pound's politics
> >Date: Sat, Jan 24, 2004, 2:18 PM
> >
>
> > Confucius.
> >
> > And charles moyer wrote:
> >> Does the right direction ever change? Now we have 3 cents between us.
> >
> > It is changing, and now even China  may head at a different direction.
Who
> > knows. But at least, the ideology worked well for a quite long time in
> > ancient China.
> >
> > The point is that while people were testing or arguing what would be a
> > better solution to the problems, Pound (might believe he) found a
convinced
> > solution.
> >
> > Note that in history, China never had the "money" problem or usury, yet
the
> > economics was the surprisingly strong. For Pound, Confucian ideology
gets
> > rid of usury at the first place.
> >
> > Let me know.
> >
> > Hongguang Bi
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:23 AM
> > Subject: Re: Pound's politics
> >
> >
> >> which right iz you talkin' bout?
> >>
> >> jb..
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> They hang the man and flog the woman
> >> That steal the goose from off the common,
> >> But let the greater villain loose
> >> That steals the common from the goose.
> >>
> >> ".....at a time when I am speaking to you about the paradox of
desire --
> > in
> >> the
> >> sense that different goods obscure it -- you can hear outside the awful
> >> language
> >> of power.  There's no point in asking whether they are sincere or
> >> hypocritical,
> >> whether they want peace of whether they calculate the risks.  The
> > dominating
> >> impression as such a moment is that something that may pass for a
> > prescribed
> >> good; information addresses and captures impotent crowds to whom it is
> > poured
> >>
> >> forth like a liquor that leaves them dazed as they move toward the
> > slaughter
> >> house.
> >> One might even ask if one would allow the cataclysm to occur without
first
> >> giving
> >> free reign to this hubbub of voices...."

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