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406 Functionalism in Marxism Again -- rank: 1000

At 18:14 29/03/01 -0500, Yoshie wrote: > until capitalism is abolished, any reform the working class win will > inevitably have contradictory consequences, which are "functional" to > capitalism. Indeed, how could it be otherwise? Marx's warm support of the victory of the 8 Hours Act was in the context of a clear analysis of the class forces that had allowed it to pass, as well as those that had fought for it. >The first step toward a practical opposition to the Right in a ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 1 01:03:43 PST 2001

407 Croatian generals sacked -- rank: 1000

From the Guardian, Saturday September 30, 2000 The president of Croatia, Stipe Mesic, yesterday sacked seven army generals for complaining that the government was insulting the memory of the country's war for independence by prosecuting alleged war criminals for atrocities committed against Serbs. ... The seven Croatian generals who were sacked yesterday - Ante Gotovina, Kresimir Cosic, Damir Krsticevic, Ivan Kapular, Milenko Filipovic, Davor Domazet-Lose and Mirko Norac - were among 12 active a ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 30 09:36:43 PDT 2000

408 Monbiot: Keynes alternative to the IMF/WB -- rank: 1000

If there are no comments on Monbiot's characterisation of Keynes's position I assume it is not demonstrably false. Assuming it is true, it is a piece of utopianism that is arguably socialist in nature. For debtor nations to have to pay interest on their balance of payments deficit, only requires the existence of a global capitalist financial network. A global financial institution which charges "interest" on the credit of creditor trading nations, means such an institution is levying a ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 27 16:14:44 PDT 2000

409 German fuel policy -- rank: 1000

At 10:28 27/09/00 +0200, Anita wrote: >yesterday the truckdrivers protested in berlin and the berliners reacted by >taking public transport and leaving their cars at home. the Tagesspitzel >commentary was that the feared traffic chaos was more effective in getting >people to use the public transport than the European Auto-free day last >friday. i was a bit worried about getting stuck in traffic coming home >from Tegel yesterday, but made it back in record time. > >Anita ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 27 16:00:35 PDT 2000

410 Monbiot: Keynes alternative to the IMF/WB -- rank: 1000

From George Monbiot's spirited article in Thursday's Guardian. Do those knowledgeable in Keynes, accept this characterisation that Keynes's model proposed an international financial insitutution that would have placed interest charges on *both* creditors and debtors? Would that be qualitatively different in its workings? And would this idealist reform, actually represent a major step towards socialism - presumably not Keynes's intention? Chris Burford London >To me, the abiding mystery surrou ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 25 17:07:02 PDT 2000

411 Tudjman's complicity in ethnic cleansing verified (reformatted) -- rank: 1000

I'll repost this with the report stripped of line-end markers. Although the first version looked fine when I sent it out on Eudora, I see the format is not very reader-friendly on the Web version of LBO talk. (Even though I took the report of the web) Hope this is better. Chris Burford ________________________________________________________ Although this comes from the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl5?home_index.html with the excellent Guardian journalist Mar ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 24 02:46:31 PDT 2000

412 Tudjman's complicity in ethnic cleansing verified -- rank: 1000

Although this comes from the Institute of War and Peace Reporting, http://www.iwpr.net/index.pl5?home_index.html with the excellent Guardian journalist Martin Woollacott on its panel of Trustees, but also with sponsorship from the British Foreign Office, it is detailed confirmation of the dirty activities of one of the West's allies, Tudjman of Croatia, at the height of the Bosnian war. Chris Burford London Bosnian Trade Off Secret tape recordings provide indisputable evidence of the former Cro ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 23 10:19:10 PDT 2000

413 [Fwd: [CrashList] Why `alternatives' are not alternative] -- rank: 1000

At 23:07 19/09/00 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Chris Burford wrote: > > > > > Presumably nitrogen also has risks as a store of energy. > >Actually, a liberal amount of nitrogen deployed (to the >exclusion of oxygen) would make me more comfortable around a >quantity of H. Or did you mean *nitrates*? I was brainstorming about alternative carriers of energy to carbon (other than hydrogen) that would not much change the composition of the atmosphere. (The pr ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 23:28:39 PDT 2000

414 ***** war in the English countryside -- rank: 1000

At 06:45 27/07/99 +0000, I wrote: >from the Guardian site http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/ Tuesday July >27, 1999 > > > >The Lord confronts the brothers Brigham by John Vidal > > > >5.09am > > >Rosy-fingered dawn in the east, deep peace on the Norfolk land, three crows >heading west in a lazy flap and a meticulously planned Greenpeace raid on >the third of Britain's seven GM farm trial sites is about to go horribly >wrong. Amazingly Lord Melc ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 20 23:42:24 PDT 2000

415 [Fwd: [CrashList] Why `alternatives' are not alternative] -- rank: 1000

At 22:06 18/09/00 -0700, you wrote: > Having had a couple of >batteries blow up in my face, I have decided that hydrogen and >electricity are bad for my health. > >So, explain to me why these electrolytic cells splitting water are not >little battery bombs. > >Chuck Grimes Well they are. Carbon based fossil fuels are little batteries of energy, and oil is the most transportable, but there are risks of explosion and fire. And controlling compact sources of energy has inhe ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 23:16:12 PDT 2000

416 Law & Medicine & Intellectuals (was Re: geels) -- rank: 1000

At 14:28 18/09/00 -0400, you wrote: >for your consideration, some vignettes from conversations with my oldest >daughter who is a psychiatrist with her own practice. she presents papers >at meetings, so she must be into it big time. >"It's ALL cognitive." Sounds like private psychotherapy is shifting from psychodynamic to cognitive in the USA at least if your daughter's perceptions are correct, and presumably she is networking as well as giving papers at meetings. Chris Bur ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 18 14:01:48 PDT 2000

417 Revolutionising the means of production -- rank: 1000

Was "Re: Icecap at North Pole Has Turned to Water" Because of travelling I missed responding a month ago to Kenneth McKendrick's post on LBO-talk (below). I accept his references that Marx (and Zizek) assert capitalism's continual tendency to revolutionize the means of production *within the existing capitalist property relationship". My point about the North Pole turning to water, was that this will require production controlled by social foresight (Marx's phrase to the First Int ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 17 23:10:08 PDT 2000

418 Law & Medicine & Intellectuals (was Re: geels) -- rank: 1000

At 07:49 17/09/00 -0400, Jim F wrote: >On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 00:05:27 EDT JKSCHW at aol.com writes: > > In a message dated 9/16/00 2:16:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > > dhenwood at panix.com writes: > > > > << Ever seen an analytically oriented shrink? Ineffective is not a > > word > > I'd use to describe the experience. >> > >I suppose one can cite the case of Woody Allen as a testimonial to >the effectivenss of psychoanalysis. ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 17 13:56:12 PDT 2000

419 Financing the US deficit -- rank: 1000

From the International Herald Tribune Sat 16 Sept by Floyd Norris, New York Times Service: >>> "Euro Zone's Major Flaw" Mr Duisenberg never expected anything like the current situation, in which the United States can run an unprecedented current-account deficit - now at 4.3 percent of gross domestic product, or more than $1 billion a day, while the dollar rises. "In the long run, such a deficit is unsustainable ..." But for now, he added, "the American have n ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 10:08:36 PDT 2000

420 Serbian elections -- rank: 1000

While such reports favour the interventionist agenda of western imperialism, are there any comments on the accuracy of these alleged failures of bourgeois democratic practice in Serbia? Or is some element of class dictatorship justified on the grounds of the more socialist and anti-imperialist nature of the Yugoslav Serbian state? Chris Burford London ___________ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE SERBIA: ELECTIONS NOT FREE AND FAIR (New York, September 15, 2000)—The September 24 elections in Yugoslavia and ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 16 04:02:29 PDT 2000