Fwd: November paper

[Jeffery J. Smith]

Cuba's changing. Shall we be part of the change? Send all us Spanish speaking geoists.

Begin forwarded message:

From: Charles McKelvey <ce...@presby.edu>

Date: September 24, 2014 3:37:46 PM PDT

To: "Jeffery J. Smith" <j...@geonomics.org>

Subject: Re: November paper

Reply-To: ce...@presby.edu

Dear Mr. Smith,

    Thank you for your inquiry.  Your perspective on Martí and on
socialism appears to be different in important respects from that of
the Latin American Left, which is integrally tied to the Latin
American popular movements and revolutions from the 19th to the 21st
centuries.  Nevertheless, the Organizing Committee is interested in
dialogue with scholars and activists from the North, and I am sure
that the Committee would view favorably a proposal for a panel from
the Forum on Geonomics on Martí, geonomics, or other relevant theme.

     Please send a panel proposal, and I will present it to the
Committee.  The proposal should have the name and institutional
affiliation of each panelist.  An abstract of 250 to 450 words should
be included.  It could be a single abstract for the panel, or an
abstract for the presentation of each panelist.

     If you encounter difficulties in organizing a panel, and
alternative plan would be to send an abstract of a paper proposal for
one or two participants, and the paper(s) would be included in other
panels.

     Best wishes,

    Charles McKelvey
    Professor Emeritus
    Presbyterian College
    Clinton, South Carolina

    Section on Political Science from the South
    Division of Philosophy and History
    University of Havana
    Havana, Cuba

    Global Learning, LLC
    http://www.globallearning-cuba.com


See the blog at the Global Learning Website, “The View from the South:
Commentaries on world events from the Third World perspective.”  Find
it at http://www.globallearning-cuba.com/blog-the-view-from-the-south.html.



On 9/18/14, Jeffery J. Smith <j...@geonomics.org> wrote:

Hola, companero;

Is anyone signed up yet to cover Jose Marti? If not, and if that slice of

history would be of interest, I could regale people with summarizing his

views, which align closely with today's third-way political economics of

geoism or geonomics.

In the past, similar ideas went by Georgism (Marti endorsed that American

thinker, as did Madero) and physiocracy which had influence throughout Latin

America -- Argentina's first president Rivadavia was a physiocrat. Some

older variants -- the insights of Spinoza and Mencius -- did not much bear

on the Latin intellectual lineage.

Geoism, while focused on environment and natural feedback loops in

ecosystems as models for fair economies, is also like a new socialism, in

that it requires cooperation and calls for distributive justice -- that is,

a social dividend from all the various rents to be recovered by government.

Utilizing these fiscal tools, Cuba could avoid many of the pitfalls that the

Soviet republics stumbled into (or were led into).

Because such policies can appeal across the spectrum -- you have people like

Friedman endorsing both a land tax and a basic income -- geonomic policy

could be gradually won in the North, too.

Once fully implemented -- zero corporate welfare + a rent dividend for all

-- then look for the transformation of all societies.

Let me know if such a paper would be of interest. Thanks. I could present it

in either idioma. Sincerely,

SMITH, Jeffery J.

Outreach/Website, CommonGroundOrWa.org

President, Forum on Geonomics

Editor, www.progress.org

Share Earth's worth to prosper and conserve.

SMITH, Jeffery J.

Outreach/Website, CommonGroundOrWa.org

President, Forum on Geonomics

Editor, www.progress.org

Share Earth's worth to prosper and conserve.

[Bill Batt]

Jeff: I have worked a bit with Ed Dodson to get some good articles with a Georgist bent on this site:  http://www.cooperativeindividualism.org/georgists_cuba.html.   I've got a list of lots more that I have hard copies of. Right now, I'm not at my desk, but I should be able to pass them along later, and perhaps Ed can put them up -- on the site that he has started or perhaps on another site.   B. 

 

 

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