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46 Forces of Production -- rank: 1000

I thought it worth a check in A Dictionary of Marxist Thought, second edition 1991 ed Tom Bottomore "The productive forces were conceived by Marx as including means of production and labour power." "Relations of production are constituted by the economic ownership of productive forces; under capitalism the most fundamental of these relations is the bourgeoisie's ownership of means of production while the proletariat owns only its labour power." I thought that Doug's stimulati ...

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Date:	Thu Jan 9 23:28:50 PST 2003

47 goodnews in today's Guardian -- rank: 1000

And even better in yesterday's Telegraph was a report from a highly placed Downing Street source that the British government was asking the US to put off an invasion till the autumn to allow time for the weapons inspectors to do their work. The Telegraph is a particularly interesting source. Although it is the old imperialist Conservative voice, it also has close links with the British military, who are dovish about any actual possible war. By lunchtime yesterday the BBC was carrying a report qu ...

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48 More on Hardt & Negri from Brennan -- rank: 1000

At 09/01/03 11:10 -0500, you wrote: >Thomas Seay wrote: > >>Now what do you think that this means? I have never >>read any such thing from Michael Hardt or Antonio >>Negri. It certainly cant mean that Hardt and Negri >>dont support strikes, etc or that Hardt and Negri dont >>support workers struggles against capital, Because >>that isn't true. So what does it mean? > >Yeah, I'm wondering just what's so evil about Empire. You can find it >wro ...

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49 Marx After Marxism -- rank: 1000

At 08/01/03 21:45 -0500, you wrote: >http://pulpculture.org/MarxAfterMarxism.html > >After more months than I care to actually look up and document, I finally >got 'round to putting Justin's paper, Marx After Marxism, up at >Pulpculture.org. It is difficult to do justice to this paper, which I have at this moment in time only been able to read for its main themes. But it seems to me to miss one of the concepts that resurfaces from time to time in the writings of Marx and Engels - ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 8 23:06:26 PST 2003

50 And the Poll SAYS! US biggest threat to peace -- rank: 1000

And now North Korea 23.6 % Iraq 18.2 % The United States 58.2 % out of 11218 I noted that CNN wisely excluded The United States from the pick list, in their latest poll. But even that, rather arkwardly, gave the wrong answer, and out of 124 thousand votes. Jan 6th Is North Korea a bigger threat than Iraq? Yes 64% No 36% http://www.cnn.com/POLL/results/320051.html Chris Burford London At 08/01/03 14:27 -0500, you wrote: >heh. this just came across D ...

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51 recipients of dividends -- rank: 1000

At 06/01/03 21:18 -0800, you wrote: >[New York Times] >January 7, 2003 >The Politics of Portfolios >By RICHARD W. STEVENSON CNN:- >Americans with higher incomes would benefit more from a cut in the tax on >dividend income because they invest more in stocks and bonds. > >Figures from the Internal Revenue Service illustrate that point. >About 15 million tax returns with an adjusted gross income of less than >$50,000 reported dividend income last year, totaling $26.9 b ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 6 23:25:05 PST 2003

52 privatizing Medicare -- rank: 1000

At 03/01/03 13:52 -0800, you wrote: > >---------- >gang, > >looks like they are going to get Medicare first. Privatizing Medicare is >much more likely with the Libermans running the Democrat party. >marta The UK Conservative government's attempts to introduce market principles were delayed by detailed discussion stimulated by left wing health care workers, about what a market actually means. Who has information? How efficient is it? A market in baked beans is not the same a ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 4 03:23:33 PST 2003

53 NYT and Washington Post -- rank: 1000

At 03/01/03 16:43 -0500, you wrote: >Chris Burford wrote: > >>The International Herald Tribune, which I get in London, announces that >>it is no longer going to be published by a syndicate of these two papers, >>but is being wholly taken over by the NYT. >> >>Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What changes should I be wary of? > >There's going to be much less content from the WP and other sources, and >more "repurposed" material from the N ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 4 00:03:16 PST 2003

54 NYT and Washington Post -- rank: 1000

The International Herald Tribune, which I get in London, announces that it is no longer going to be published by a syndicate of these two papers, but is being wholly taken over by the NYT. Is this a good thing or a bad thing? What changes should I be wary of? Chris Burford

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Date:	Fri Jan 3 13:17:48 PST 2003

55 Blair poor, IDS worse -- rank: 1000

More evidence of how Blair's centrism leaves him vulnerable to disillusion, but weakens the Conservative Party even more. Including suggestions that Conservative weakness has more profound reasons than personality ones. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;$sessionid$SDEFFNHRB2ON5QFIQMFCFF4AVCBQYIV0?xml=/news/2003/02/28/ngov28.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/02/28/ixportal.html

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 18:52:40 PST 2003

56 Blair suffers...IDS in peril -- rank: 1000

>Wed Feb 26 2003 - 20:36:04 EST > > >Not so. In fact one of the bye products of Blair's centrist politics is > >that the Conservative Party has virtually no where to go. Tonight Duncan > >Smith was warned by senior party leaders essentially that he is on > >probation. > >What about Kenneth "The Course Of War Had Been Decided Some Time Ago In >Washington" Clarke? What are his chances of replacing Smith? > >Carl Ian Duncan Smith (nothing as co ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 27 00:08:39 PST 2003

57 Blair suffers huge rebellion -- rank: 1000

>BTW - does anyone have any clue why Mr. Cool Britania has transformed >himself into the mouthpiece of Bush administration, siding with the >Conservatives against his own party? > >Wojtek Not so. In fact one of the bye products of Blair's centrist politics is that the Conservative Party has virtually no where to go. Tonight Duncan Smith was warned by senior party leaders essentially that he is on probation. Blair's systematic centrism within UK politics has allowed the centre of g ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 26 16:15:47 PST 2003

58 Urgent for UK MP's debate - Newsweek bombshell on Iraqi defector -- rank: 1000

Can anyone forward this item spotted by Seth, urgently to UK MP's for the important debate in the House of Commons today. It is just the sort of issue of concealing or manipulating the evidence that has blown up in the face of the British government before. Also it echoes recent murder trials in the UK where it emerges the prosecution have concealed important information of use to the defence. The core of the war campaign is that the Iraqi's must be lying about still having WMD. Have the US and ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 25 00:02:12 PST 2003

59 BAFTA anti war ovation -- rank: 1000

Saul Zaentz got a standing ovation after denouncing his evil absolutist government at the Bafta awards in London. [These London awards have been brought forward in the calendar to be ahead of the Oscars, and got good attendance from international films. Possibly also significant of a growing cultural gap, the most awards went not to Chicago and Gangs of New York as gig commerically attractive productions but to Hours

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 23:35:53 PST 2003

60 Rove and Wolfowitz's role -- rank: 1000

>Two men driving Bush into war > >Ed Vulliamy in New York profiles the religious figures behind a 'Texanised >presidency' who believe war will mean America is respected in the Islamic world Ed Vulliamy is an excellent investigative journalist on the Guardian and Observer newsgroup. I am copying the URL of this Observer article to LBO-talk because although a lot will be known in the US, it is possible that with US newsmedia, this information may not be brought together in quite this w ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 23 00:25:27 PST 2003