tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1265490345170904056..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Regeneration or Pie in the Sky?Philhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-39804807660220854912010-06-08T10:30:17.339+01:002010-06-08T10:30:17.339+01:00The Rowner Regeneration not needed,
COMMONHOLD ins...The Rowner Regeneration not needed,<br />COMMONHOLD instead of LEASEHOLD <br />LIKE all of EUROPE inc SCOTLAND<br />have COMMONHOLD!paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10689625622799607053noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-21819580425469781812010-03-13T09:41:28.610+00:002010-03-13T09:41:28.610+00:00The Rowner Regeneration is run by the 9 ELITE ,plu...The Rowner Regeneration is run by the 9 ELITE ,plus TESCO a MARXIST <br />Regeneration!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-39161915443106273812009-12-12T09:48:50.174+00:002009-12-12T09:48:50.174+00:00Phil,
I agree that the regeneration model relies ...Phil,<br /><br />I agree that the regeneration model relies on Retail. But, remember that for a long time now the development path of Capital has been for a diminishing manufacturing sector and rising service sector, just as in the past it was for a smaller agricultural sector, and larger industrial sector. We have to be careful not to fetishise manufacturing or we become modern Physiocrats.<br /><br />And, in that context, I don't agree that service sector jobs are all "unproductive". The basic Marxist criteria is does Capital exchange with Revenue or with Capital. Revenue that exchanges with revenue, and Capital that exchanges with Capital is not productive of Surplus Value, only when Capital exchanges with Revenue is Surplus Value produced.<br /><br />So if I take my wages and pay you as a worker to provide me with your labour power that is an exchange of revenue and no Surplus Value is produced. If I take the same wages and pay a Capitalist to provide me with the product of your Labour Power, and he pays you only the value of your Labour-Power, then you produce a Surplus Value. If a Capitalist buys from another Capitalist, for example, a retailer, buying from a manufacturer, then no Surplus Value is produced. In fact, I've written a number of blogs on the fact that using marx's analysis consistently as set out in the Grundrisse, its impossible for Surplus Value to be produced in Department I and III, and profits arise here only because Capital shares out the total amount of profit created. This is not an argument, however, most Marxist economists make. but, as I think I've demonstrated if you do not draw that conclusion you inevitably end up with a Marginalist theory of Value.<br /><br />But, that's a bit of a diversion. The fact is that what Capital is interested in is not potential profits but actual profits and that requires realisation, which requires aggregate demand. In times of long term decline its not keen for that aggregate demand to come from essentially using its stored Surplus Value to finance revue spending - Keynesianism - but in long-wave booms, it is happy to do that during crises - like now - because it can afford to lend that SV to maintain economic activity, in the expectation of renewed growth, which will pay back what it has lent with interest.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-80056145533426457152009-12-12T09:25:59.836+00:002009-12-12T09:25:59.836+00:00I agree with you on the state being Stoke's bi...I agree with you on the state being Stoke's biggest employer, Boffy. The fancy new developments for the college and Staffs Uni on Leek Road will create some decent jobs, and of course are helping keeping Stoke's construction industry going. But it still seems to me that the regeneration strategy pursued here (and elsewhere) is over reliant on consumption and these jobs are - for the main part - low waged and, from the standpoint of capital, 'unproductive'.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-73303854735211385372009-12-12T09:22:11.197+00:002009-12-12T09:22:11.197+00:00Re: the EDL's visit to Stoke, this is one part...Re: the EDL's visit to Stoke, this is one particular party of tourists we'd rather not have come to see the sights. There is an emergency NorSCARF meeting on Monday night to discuss the mobilisation against it. All being well I should be going.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-500161495008228802009-12-12T09:20:21.618+00:002009-12-12T09:20:21.618+00:00Re: the towns of Stoke, perhaps the council ought ...Re: the towns of Stoke, perhaps the council ought to think modelling regeneration on the Crystal Maze. Longton could be medieval, Stoke industrial and Burslem Aztec. Just a thought.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-90156958522424799622009-12-11T18:23:01.917+00:002009-12-11T18:23:01.917+00:00Higher status jobs will rely on a world class educ...Higher status jobs will rely on a world class education system, even then in this system it will be a small elite. <br /><br />No I think the future for most workers in Britain will be serving bargain buckets and burgers.<br /><br />Global warming can't come quick enough if.SamGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-89173594879163826962009-12-11T17:41:09.338+00:002009-12-11T17:41:09.338+00:00The neo-Nazi EDL ahve just announced in the last f...The neo-Nazi EDL ahve just announced in the last five minutes they will be boosting BNP vote in Stoke by marching in the city. Other places soon to be announced are Newcastle, Preston, Southampton, Edinburgh, Cardiff, and Liverpool in the next seven months, which will take them onto late summer, after the elections.The Informernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-85264773361983112552009-12-11T15:44:35.137+00:002009-12-11T15:44:35.137+00:00Brother S pinched my first comment, and he could h...Brother S pinched my first comment, and he could have added lots of villages. I'm no fan of huge retail developments in Town Centres - partly because I hate Cities - and certainly not as a means of development - though their function during the Long Wave downturn of the 80's and 90's should not be ignored in creating employment, even low paid employment.<br /><br />I heard an interesting fact the other day from the head of Hyundai in Britain. In response to the point that the scrappage scheme had benefitted foreign workers - Hyundai has sold more cars under it than anyone else - he replied that, in fact Hyundai employ more people in car showrooms than they do in making the cars!<br /><br />I think some of the comments are too pessimistic. The major single employer in Stoke as elsewhere is the State, and many of those jobs in the NHS, The civil service etc. can hardly be described as Minimum Wage. Other developments related to that for example the Science Park and so on, do play into the idea of the creation of higher status, higher paid jobs. Clearly the current recession makes that look doubtful, but as I have written elsewhere I do not see this recession as typicaal of the overall economic conjuncture, which on the contrary is one of rapid economic global growth, and in which some of those types of high-tec jobs are ones that Britain will have to develop.Boffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08157650969929097569noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-31572414953267972082009-12-11T10:12:49.937+00:002009-12-11T10:12:49.937+00:00Phil (first comment), I think it is five other tow...Phil (first comment), I think it is five other towns unless you believe Arnold Bennett.Brother Snoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-62106515860238930382009-12-10T19:14:09.945+00:002009-12-10T19:14:09.945+00:00I keep hearing about this high skilled economy and...I keep hearing about this high skilled economy and everytime I switch on the news it's KFC have created another 9000 jobs or a new shopping mall is opening!<br /><br />What a depressing future!SamGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-50739404278104107832009-12-10T18:40:48.256+00:002009-12-10T18:40:48.256+00:00The existing shopping centre's turnover of out...The existing shopping centre's turnover of outlets is so high that it beggar's belief that retail is still regarded by local government as the key to regenerating the area.Andrew Conroyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07333229456109435713noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-30639475390322819372009-12-10T17:53:53.081+00:002009-12-10T17:53:53.081+00:00"Stoke-on-Trent city centre"? Where'..."Stoke-on-Trent city centre"? Where's that then?<br /><br />The fact that Stoke-on-Trent is made up of Stoke and four other towns strikes me as one of the really distinctive aspects of the place, and you'd think developers would want to build on that - not just build over it.Philhttp://gapingsilence.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com