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556 Fwd: Re: Kagarlitsky on Chechnya -- rank: 1000

At 12:41 03/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >At 09:39 AM 2/3/00 -0500, you wrote: >>From: "GBK" <goboka at online.ru> >>To: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >>Subject: Re: Kagarlitsky on Chechnya >>Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 10:21:24 +0300 >> >>I never said that it was so secret. On the contrary - half of Moscow new >>that all long before my article. The only problem was that no-one dared to >>publish it. >> > ...

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557 quote from Marx? -- rank: 1000

At 20:48 09/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >Dace wrote: > >>There's a very good definition of evil, put forth by a political scientist >>named C. Fred Alford, that starts with this principle. What makes people >>evil is that, in order to contain their anguish, they're willing to expell >>it onto others. Evil is powered by dread, and what distinguishes it from >>mental illness (where the two categories don't overlap) is the absence of >>empathy. > >Of co ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 9 23:45:01 PST 2000

558 quote from Marx? -- rank: 1000

At 13:34 09/02/00 -0600, you wrote: > >-----Original Message----- >From: Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> >Subject: quote from Marx? > > > >>"The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." > > >If Marx actually said that, he was revealing a great deal of insight into >mental illness. When disturbed individuals intentionally hurt themselves >(known as "scarification") it's because, unlike mental anguish, pain in ...

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559 quote from Marx? -- rank: 1000

There is an internet database with 43,000 quotes organized by author and subject matter. The blurb claims it is a compilation of ... "Great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be!" Examples from Marx include:- "The only antidote to mental suffering is physical pain." ?? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 15:48:06 PST 2000

560 The Psychoses -- rank: 1000

At 14:10 07/02/00 -0600, you wrote: > > >>Just a note on this: nobody has "psychoses" anymore. It's not in the >>DSM-IV; it's considered an obsolete term by most practicing clinicians >>nowadays (kinda like "melancholy" or "hysteria"). If a clinician >>wants to get reimbursed by HMOs for their work, they do not diagnose >>a person with a "psychotic condition". --Whether this is a good thing >>or a bad thing depe ...

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561 Kagarlitsky on Chechnya -- rank: 1000

At 14:03 02/02/00 -0500, you wrote: >Impressive, as most conspiracy theories. There is only one question - if >the plot to start a "small war" in Chechnya was sooooo secret as he claims, >how the hell did he find about all its details? > > >wojtek Conspiracy is certainly involved but, fortunately, the owner of "the" Marxism List, circulated an article as long ago as 15th November explaining that the local difficulties in Chechnya are all a conspiracy co-ord ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 2 16:33:32 PST 2000

562 Good Health to Hastert! -- rank: 1000

I note that Hastert, only known once to lose his temper about attempts to restrict tobacco capital, is appropriately enough the recipient of a lot of care for his own health. How appropriate that if you get near to tobacco capital you should balance it by getting close to health care capital. The recipe for a healthy life. When are radicals going to look behind the personalities in these primaries and really discuss how to promote the push for campaign finance reform? Or is that not marxist enou ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 16:27:14 PST 2000

563 Stiglitz on world gov't; Koch-Weser in the lead -- rank: 1000

At 06:04 02/02/00 +1100, you wrote: >>The difficulty so far of finding a successor to outgoing IMF Managing Director >>Michel Camdessus reflects the contradictions in the debate >>surrounding the Fund, >>Stiglitz says. What is needed is someone with qualities that are generally >>difficult to combine: financial competence and a sharp sense of the need to >>respect democratic and human exigencies. > >And I need a publican who extends credit indefinitely ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 1 16:16:19 PST 2000

564 Nato under pressure for cancer in Balkans -- rank: 1000

What is the imperialist world coming to? Soon soldiers will be suing their governments for taking part in risky imperialist operations. Victims who are citizens of the invaded countries may have to wait longer for the establishment of the International Court of Justice. See below from the Guardian site. Chris Burford London _______________ Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor Sunday December 31, 2000 Nato chiefs were last night facing Europe-wide calls for an investigation into the safety of d ...

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565 Fed: Infantile Proyectism -- rank: 1000

At 22:09 29/12/00 -0800, you quoted: > > By providing a left cover for imperialist adventures, they > >play the same role as the CP did at the outset of WWII and the Second > >International did in 1914. > > > >Louis Proyect > >Marxism mailing list: http://www.marxmail.org/ This also is surely inaccurate: member parties of the Communist International would have opposed the war against Germany in 1939. The different international balance of forces of 1941 is a b ...

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566 New Marxist Millenium -- rank: 1000

This CNN story is part of a genre that increasingly treats Cuba and Castro as harmless. As to Castro's view of the world, that is rather too serious a question to address directly. Chris Burford London By Douglas Herbert, CNN.com Europe writer LONDON, England (CNN) -- Last New Year's Eve, George Ward and his friends, stricken with the flu, sniffled on the sidelines while much of the planet rang in the new millennium with abandon. This year, the UK-based travel writer is getting a second chance t ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 30 12:04:09 PST 2000

567 Brand-Added Value -- rank: 1000

At 20:52 26/12/00 -0800, you wrote: >James Heartfield wrote: > > > > The economic theories of where additional value comes from reflect the > > competing claims on the surplus, so landlords see land as productive of > > new value, industrialists industry and merchants' trade. In a sense > > additional value is a no-brainer: all societies above the level of Colin > > Turnbull's benighted Ik people produce more than they consume. In > > Britain in 1999 ...

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568 Soviet anthem restored? -- rank: 1000

Has anyone got details on the decision to restore the old Soviet anthem as the Russian anthem. When did Alexandrov write it? Chris Burford London

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 06:16:32 PST 2000

569 California's tobacco laws reduce cancer -- rank: 1000

Hardly revolutionary, but an example of social production controlled by social foresight. Anyway anything that reduces Jesse Helms' power base in tobacco capital, should be a good thing. --------------------- Lung cancer falls as California's tobacco laws bite Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Saturday December 9, 2000 California, the state with perhaps the toughest anti-smoking laws in the world, is celebrating a huge drop in the number of lung cancer deaths and planning fresh measures to curb the ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 9 12:32:22 PST 2000

570 Red Oskar is back -- rank: 1000

At 08:39 21/08/00 -0700, you wrote: >'Red Oskar' lashes out at New Labour's platitudes and broken promises >http://www.independent.co.uk/news/UK/Politics/2000-08/oskar210800.shtml >By Paul Waugh, Deputy Political Editor > >21 August 2000 > >Oskar Lafontaine, the former German finance minister dubbed "the most >dangerous man in Europe" by The Sun newspaper, has launched a scathing >attack on Tony Blair and New Labour. Presumably following the proverb: you beat ...

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