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106 [lbo-talk] hi from RM -- rank: 1000

On Sep 22, 2013, at 11:03 PM, Gar Lipow <gar.lipow at gmail.com> wrote: > Good critique - one quibble, caveat? I think you are right about > decadence, but Adam Smith long ago said "Great nations have a lot of ruin > in them." If I remember the context correctly, I think that means a great > nation or empire can make self-destructive short sighted decisions for a > long time before it actually loses power. I think of that quote often. Yes.

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Date:	Mon Sep 23 08:35:16 PDT 2013

107 [lbo-talk] hi from RM -- rank: 1000

Hello from the Rethinking Marxism conference, which I'm about to leave. Two things: 1) I wrote a little critique of American decadence: http://lbo-news.com/2013/09/20/on-panitch-gindin-and-american-decline/. 2) I ran into Carrol Cox and his wife Janice last night at the RM cash bar (which was rather underattended - don't Marxists drink like Marx anymore?). What a pleasant surprise. It's striking what an amiable guy Carrol is in person, in contrast to his occasionally curmudgeonly demeanor online ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 22 07:15:52 PDT 2013

108 [lbo-talk] so what's the deal with Summer's withdrawing? -- rank: 1000

On Sep 15, 2013, at 10:31 PM, "JOANNA A." <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > I thought he served the ruling class well, what was the objection. Stocks are rallying on his withdrawal. The thinking is that he'd be tighter than Yellen, whom Wall Street prefers.

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Date:	Mon Sep 16 06:32:34 PDT 2013

109 [lbo-talk] so what's the deal with Summer's withdrawing? -- rank: 1000

he knew he couldn't get confirmed and he fell on his sword to keep from embarrassing BHO

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Date:	Sun Sep 15 18:03:48 PDT 2013

110 [lbo-talk] Suspicious silence -- rank: 1000

On Sep 8, 2013, at 12:44 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote: > In re the regime's chemical attacks: this is incontrovertible. We have > massive medical, video, eyewitness and intelligence confirmation. Whaddya mean "we"? The CIA is now "us"? Doug

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111 [lbo-talk] Suspicious silence -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2013, at 2:50 PM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > The poor pipeline: it just wants to transport oil, but it's accused of > being responsible for every war in the last decade. It could use a > rebranding strategy. > > Vulgar economism is vulgar. You say that as if there's something entirely wrong with vulgar! But yeah on the pipeline. Amazing how that thing keeps popping up everywhere. If only there were elaborate theories about solar panels. Doug

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112 [lbo-talk] Suspicious silence -- rank: 1000

On Sep 5, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Max Sawicky <sawicky at verizon.net> wrote: > I haven't any solutions, but isn't it obvious that Assad gets replaced by > an alternate but also sorry state of affairs? Sectarian revenge killings, > Islamic oppression of women etc., Al Queda wannabees running around? Pretty much what's happened in Libya, right? I was persuaded by Gilbert Achcar's argument that a little NATO bombing might be to the good in Libya, but I don't think things turned out so wel ...

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113 [lbo-talk] life in neoliberal Berkeley -- rank: 1000

this one's for Chuck: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/progressive-incoherence-in-radical-berkeley

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Date:	Wed Sep 4 09:02:58 PDT 2013

114 [lbo-talk] Art and the CIA -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2013, at 3:09 PM, "Chuck Grimes" <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > But there was a problem which > I don't think the CIA quite grasp. It's easier to `see' in music like jazz. These CIA guys were fairly high-domed, pitching to elite opinion. Thus, art.

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Date:	Tue Oct 29 12:49:36 PDT 2013

115 [lbo-talk] Crisis or New Normal -- rank: 1000

On Oct 24, 2013, at 10:20 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > Populist movements... ...are a floating signifier. They can mean any damn thing, as can "The People."

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116 [lbo-talk] Crisis or New Normal -- rank: 1000

On Oct 21, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Carrol opined: "The problem is not the Republicans, or even the vicious > policies of the > Obama Administration, but capitalism.: > > [WS:] That is some winning strategy, indeed. The enemy is not a real > person or group of people but an abstraction. Let's fight abstractions, > the Satan or wind mills if you will, not real people with real power. Slavoj Zizke doesn't always make a lot of pra ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 21 14:17:06 PDT 2013

117 [lbo-talk] glyphosate -- rank: 1000

On Oct 17, 2013, at 1:17 PM, John Palmer <john at sonoracohousing.com> wrote: > leaky gut good lord

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118 [lbo-talk] Looking for a sailing poem -- rank: 1000

Set keel to breakers, forth on the godly sea.

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Date:	Tue Oct 15 22:34:36 PDT 2013

119 [lbo-talk] Doug, on Salon -- rank: 1000

On Oct 11, 2013, at 1:31 PM, "Jordan Hayes" <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > Doug is too busy on Facebook to post a link to his interview by Josh Eidelson: Ha, yes. Thanks.

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Date:	Fri Oct 11 10:43:46 PDT 2013

120 [lbo-talk] Cogent commenter on NYT article -- rank: 1000

On Oct 10, 2013, at 11:15 AM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: >> I know why the paywalls are in place. However, that does not mean >> uncritical acceptance of the logic behind them (pardon the unintended >> pun) - which is the neoliberal logic of selective privatization. > > Ah, it's neoliberal that a newspaper should charge for access to their information. Also, more of the paper is accessible for free now than it was in the days when you could on ...

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