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10036 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 4:57 PM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > Let's get real: Bush does not care one whit for the condition of > gays or > women. I bet he & a lot of his constituency wouldn't mind if we could import a little Sharia-style law into the U.S. It's a lot like the Old Testament, and those fundies love their Old Testament. Doug

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10037 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

The new billionaires - not the last word in the distribution of economic power, but a marker of where the action is for sure - are from Asia and Russia. <http://www.forbes.com/2007/03/06/billionaires-new- richest_07billionaires_cz_lk_af_0308billieintro.html> It has been a busy year for Forbes' team of fortune hunters. Strong equity markets combined with rising real estate values and commodity prices pushed up fortunes from Mumbai to Madrid. Forbes pinned down a record 946 billionaires ...

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Date:	Tue Oct 9 13:51:19 PDT 2007

10038 [lbo-talk] policing degenerate art -- rank: 1000

Four Swedish Nazis defend decency: <http://gawker.com/news/the-new-pornography/the-andres-serrano- exhibition-destruction-video-308816.php>.

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10039 [lbo-talk] Snoop Dogg on Bill O'Reilly -- rank: 1000

Recorded from Dutch TV, so the "fuck you's" are intact: <http://youtube.com/watch?v=MWDVpSUXHeM&mode=related&search=>

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Date:	Tue Oct 9 13:14:43 PDT 2007

10040 [lbo-talk] Fwd: De jure discrimination and the capitalist system -- rank: 1000

Last Sunday MRZine editor Yoshie Furuhashi posted an article titled Freedom, Equality, Property, and Bentham on her Critical Montages blog that has led to a heated debate on Doug Henwood s LBO-Talk mailing list. Basically Furuhashi argues that the abolition of de jure discrimination brings the spirit of capitalism closer to the pure spirit of Freedom, Equality, Property, and Bentham that Karl Marx referred to in Chapter six of Volume One of Capital: "This sphere that we are desert ...

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10041 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:45 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote: > her persistent > unsubstantiated remarks about Doug and other Western "liberals" on > this list > as somehow helping to facilitate US aggression against Iran which has > provoked these exchanges. To what end, I haven't the slightest idea. Carrol will no doubt dismiss this as ad hominem, but the hell with that anyway. I've known Yoshie for over ten years, and the one constant I've found throughout all those years as sh ...

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10042 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:33 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > That's a slightly different argument. Yoshie is attacking > misperceptions of > Iran that are marshalled to provide a vaguely liberal patina to the > ongoing > imperialist assault on Iran - the detailed analyses that Yoshie > provides, > with extensive evidence, actually provide us with some excellent > ammunition > against the liberal apologists. No they don't actually. They're so one-sided and apologetic that they'r ...

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10043 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > This exchange, to be generous to her, has been going on for > months and it would have taken on a very different tone if Yoshie > weren't so often playing more radical than thou. It has been going on a long time. Too long. Getting close to a time for a moratorium, in fact.

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10044 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 12:24 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Clearly, which is why we always learn important lessons the hard > way, and I > think Yoshie is trying to shove a few of those hard lessons down our > gullets. And just what are these hard lessons? If it's that feminism, the civil rights movement, and The Gay International have scored only partial victories that have left capitalism in place, I'd say, yeah, sure, I sorta knew that already and didn't need 50 gigabytes of alleged p ...

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10045 [lbo-talk] Arianna the robber baron -- rank: 1000

[The woman known in London in the 1970s as the most upwardly mobile Greek since Icarus continues her skyward trek...] <http://poynter.org/forum/view_post.asp?id=12885> Is Huffington a "liberal den mother" or a robber baron? Romenesko Letters While Huffington Post bloggers type away for no pay, Arianna Huffington "gets to hang out and be photographed with her celebrity friends at swell parties and mansions," writes Gary Dretzka. "She should share the goodie bags ...

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10046 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:15 AM, Julio Huato wrote: > Perhaps Yoshie is bending > the stick a bit too far in one direction, but that's because she may > feel that little heed is paid to the priorities of the national > struggle and too much emphasis is placed on the flaws of the > actually-existing leadership in Iran's national struggle. I'm going to say for the 56th and last time: I probably never would have posted anything about the horrors of Iranian domestic policy had Yoshie no ...

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10047 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:10 AM, bhandari at berkeley.edu wrote: > But isn't > anyone a bit sickened by the subtext here--that those morally > compromised > homosexuals are doing the Empire's work? Yup.

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10048 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Counterfactual, though? Such a grubby word, such a grubby idea: > almost > always used for reactionary, dystopian purposes - it would almost > always > have been worse had things been otherwise. Yeah, I know you've got an English litterateur's sense of language, but that doesn't make it a bad or useless word. Sometimes concepts from social science and even, gasp, econometrics can help one think clearly. And there's nothing gru ...

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10049 [lbo-talk] new spirit of capitalism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 11:16 AM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Oh, come on. Aside from the fact that bulk of global investment > remains in > the region where white meets bread, the global appropriation of > labour - > wherever the labour actually takes place, is overwhelmingly to the > benefit > of a small Anglo-Saxon elite in the United States. This isn't an > uncomplicated issue, but the basic contours of the system are those > of a > global racial hierarchy. This is all c ...

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10050 [lbo-talk] Rudy: scarily insane -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2007, at 10:30 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Do You think the votes of the subscribers to lbo could conceivably > affect the outcome of the election? Obviously not, and as Andy F says, he was making a joke, but if it really is a Hillary-Rudy matchup, then the usual formulas may not apply. Rudy could put a lot of supposedly "blue" states in play. He could carry New York; probably not, but could. Ditto California. More so NJ and Conn.

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