File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-04-18.201, message 72


Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:36:01 -0400 (EDT)
From: Paul Zarembka <zarembka-AT-acsu.buffalo.edu>
Subject: M-I: Re: Please stop referring to Buffalo.


<From: Andrew Wayne Austin <aaustin-AT-utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
<Hey Paul,
<What's with the jingoism? Do you really feel that chauvinistic about
<Buffalo? Or are you just pulling our buffalo wings? 

What city do you live in or were acculturated in, Andy?  Would you want
reference to two individuals there by that city name, rather than their
human names?  It's really fetishizing/commoditizing people.

See Michael Hoover's post (thanks, Michael) on how bankers think about
Buffalo.

Paul

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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Michael Hoover wrote:

> excerpts from "The Politics of Dependency in Deindustrializing
> America: The Case of Buffalo, New York" in *The Capitalist City*,
> Michael Peter Smith & Joe R. Feagin, eds., Blackwell, 1987 (113-137)
> 
> "Buffalo and the Western New York region are caught up in a downward
> spiral of deindustrializaton - neither 'restructured' to compete as
> a prominent participant in the new round of technologically driven
> advances in information and communication, nor 'restructured' to 
> compete as a leader in the sectoral shift of the United States into
> service production." (113)
> 
> "...one Buffalo banker described the once powerful region as 'No
> more than a Third World country - to be used or ignored as the
> conditions of risk and profit dictate'." (114)
...



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