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256 Arguments for ground war -- HUH? -- rank: 1000

At 01/11/01 08:14 -0600, Carrol wrote: >I'm confused. Are some people on this list pretending that they are >working in the Pentagon and exchanging inter-office memos? Of what >concern to us are arguments for or against a ground war? We are >concerned with developing the opposition to any war at all of any kind. Although the literal words of the last sentence would mean this, I cannot believe that Carrol is really in all circumstances a pacifist or an anarchist. I presume he must mea ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu Nov 1 14:51:08 PST 2001

257 _Dialectical Investigations_ question -- rank: 1000

At 31/05/01 15:14 -0700, you wrote: > "a 'good times Marxism' denuded of its working >class How can capitalism be denuded of its working class? Only by ceasing to be capital - the private ownership of the social means of production. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu May 31 17:31:15 PDT 2001

258 US alternative to Kyoto -- rank: 1000

At 25/05/01 00:54 -0400, you wrote: >U.S. to present EU with Kyoto alternative > >http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/index-e.htm > >Kazuo Nagata and Makiko Tatebayashi Yomiuri Shimbun Correspondents > >The United States is expected to present its alternatives to the 1997 Kyoto >Protocol to cut greenhouse gas emissions at a June 14 summit between the >United States and the European Union in Goteborg, Sweden, U.S. government >and European diplomatic sources said Wednesday. > ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sat May 26 05:25:59 PDT 2001

259 logic and the subconscious -- rank: 1000

At 25/05/01 03:08 +0000, you wrote: >I am not sure what all this has to do with Occam's razor. The injunction >not multiply entities unnecessarily, or, translated into our terms, to >choose the simpler of otherwise explanatorily equal theories, is just good >scientific practice. It's obviously not an injunction not to avoid >explantorily necessary or useful entities and causes. This hasn't anything >to do with analytical philosophy or logical positivism. It's just what >good ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu May 24 23:29:51 PDT 2001

260 On the re-translation into German of Gramsci -- rank: 1000

At 24/05/01 16:07 -0300, you wrote: Very interesting example of drift of meaning expressed in the problems of bridging translations. Gramsci took civil society to be an arena of struggle with important possibilities. Whereas as Robert Magellan argues here, the term was mainly negative for Marx. What I would appreciate is also a brief comment on how Marx contrasting the buerger and the citoyen, to understand better whether he saw a positive role in what might more loosely be called civil society. ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu May 24 23:38:13 PDT 2001

261 logic and the subconscious -- rank: 1000

At 24/05/01 10:22 -0500, you wrote: >Justin Schwartz wrote: > > > > [clip]. So what's your point, Chris? --jks > > > > >[clip > > > > > >As for imagining that we can be conscious of everything all the time, > >How silly. Probably almost all mental processes are _non_-conscious -- >which has nothing whatever to do with the Freudian concept of The >Unconscious. > >Carrol > >P.S. Justin, someone whose knowledge of Russell was l ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu May 24 16:33:10 PDT 2001

262 logic and the subconscious -- rank: 1000

At 23/05/01 16:19 -0700, you wrote: >At 03:17 PM 05/23/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >>- no subconscious is needed (remember >>Ockkam's razor?) > >Ockkam's razor is a move in a logic game; whether it has any application >to reality remains a matter of interpretation. William of Occam, who lived around 1300 to 1349, lived at a time when the rising material wealth of developing methods of pre-capitalist production in Europe were bringing democratic currents into being. His si ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed May 23 23:54:01 PDT 2001

263 Bankers and the United State of Europe -- rank: 1000

At 19/05/01 18:47 -0700, you wrote: >So do we trust these bankers? Only to the extent that we can rely on them fairly consciously to pursue their class interest! Their class interest is that of finance capitalism, not of industrial capitalism or even medium capitalism. They are not opposed to some degree of monopoly and some degree of state regulation of capitalism so long as it is in their interests. It is the smaller and medium capitalists who have been backing Hague's Little England type o ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Sun May 20 16:12:57 PDT 2001

264 OECD & Tax Havens -- rank: 1000

At 12/05/01 13:54 -0400, you wrote: >Max Sawicky wrote: > >>The statement was utter demagogy. The OECD initiative >>is not about harmonization but about curbing tax evasion. > >Amity Schlaes had yet another of her mad columns in the Financial Times >arguing that tax havens are necessary to keep the tax maximizers at bay. >She says it's no accident that the thing was led by the French. Of course, >these clowns can't say that they & their friends would lose a ...

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Date:	Sun May 13 23:30:41 PDT 2001

265 Tomothy McVeigh on Iraq -- rank: 1000

At 12/05/01 10:52 +0800, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: >>Is the quote below, alleged to be from a short essay by him in 1996, genuine? >> >>>Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the >>>bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of >>>acts morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City. >> >> >>Did he have any political motivation, however twisted, or is this a >>retrospe ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri May 11 23:43:24 PDT 2001

266 Tomothy McVeigh on Iraq -- rank: 1000

Is the quote below, alleged to be from a short essay by him in 1996, genuine? >Whether you wish to admit it or not, when you approve, morally, of the >bombing of foreign targets by the U.S. military, you are approving of acts >morally equivalent to the bombing in Oklahoma City. Did he have any political motivation, however twisted, or is this a retrospective rationalisation? To the extent there is any truth in the proposition, it is an argument for making the US responsible to some sort ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri May 11 14:55:06 PDT 2001

267 May gas cost more -- rank: 1000

London From this side of the Atlantic, I am encouraged to learn of the rising petrol (gas) prices in the USA. This is more than mere schadenfreude. The very low price of gas in the US compared to Europe is one of the single most important advantages the US economy, and the entire population of the USA have, compared to the rest of the world. It places you almost literally on a different planet, economically and politically, from the rest of the world. If the price of gas rose to comparable level ...

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Thu May 10 22:43:43 PDT 2001

268 Happy Birthday! -- rank: 1000

to a trenchant analyst and critic of the workings of the global system of capitalist production, which cannot but be haunted by his living spectre. Trier early hours of 5th May 1818.

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Fri May 4 23:33:55 PDT 2001

269 Underemployment? -- rank: 1000

At 17:06 21/03/01 -0800, you wrote: >Can someone clue me in to where to look to see recent Underemployment >rates. In 1995 (according to EPI) they hovered at 10.1 percent but >what has happened since then? >-- >Marta On a world scale it was reported as of the order of 30% about 5 years ago. Chris Burford London

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Mar 21 22:46:55 PST 2001

270 tactful monopoly capitalism -- rank: 1000

>Derek Bonham, chairman of IMPERIAL TOBACCO, will step down from the >board of GLAXOSMITHKLINE, the world's third-largest drug company, after >pressure from executives at the company. They sensed a conflict of >interest between his role at a cigarette company and his non-executive >directorship at a firm that makes anti-smoking aids and drugs.

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Author:	Chris Burford
Date:	Wed Mar 21 22:49:48 PST 2001