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11056 [lbo-talk] progress -- rank: 1000

Lou Proyect, who reads this list's archives (as I read his), thought the recent discussion of "barbarism" and "progress" was missing this perspective, from Engels' Origins of the Family: <quote> >With this as its basic constitution, civilization achieved things of which gentile society was not even remotely capable. But it achieved them by setting in motion the lowest instincts and passions in man and developing them at the expense of all his other abilities. Fr ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 11:57:35 PST 2007

11057 [lbo-talk] barbaric -- rank: 1000

On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Chris Doss wrote: >> In what developed capitalist country is the > population terrorized? > > All of them. > > Have you ever witnessed an eviction? A deportation? > Been to a prison? > > -- > > Silly hyperbole. No wonder the left is so > self-marginalized. > "Terrorized" is too strong a word, but American society is filled with anxiety and fear - fear of homelessness and failure, fear of the terrorists, fear of al ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 09:41:33 PST 2007

11058 [lbo-talk] Obama & Israel -- rank: 1000

<http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2007/03/obama_israel_an.html> Obama, Israel, and the Jewish Vote All Democratic eyes are on Selma right now, but something interesting happened Friday as well... Seeking to assure supporters of Israel that he is as ardent a backer of the Jewish state as are rivals such as Sens. Hillary Clinton, D- NY, and John Edwards, D-NC, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, delivered a very pro-Israel address to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee of Chic ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 09:36:22 PST 2007

11059 [lbo-talk] fuzzy math -- rank: 1000

[from The Note] ABC News' Jake Tapper on "who won the showdown in Selma?" LINK On his "Political Punch" blog, Tapper writes that Sen. Obama "credited the 'Bloody Sunday' civil rights marchers of 1965 with the fact that his parents a black African father, and white Kansas mother were empowered to fall in love and get married."LINK "Um," writes Tapper, "Obama was born in 1961; the Selma march was four years later."

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 07:22:28 PST 2007

11060 [lbo-talk] celebrity mix n match -- rank: 1000

[celebrity: the other universal equivalent] New York Post [Page Six] - March 5, 2007 Pig Heaven BILL Clinton created a scene at the Spotted Pig restaurant in the West Village on Thursday. Diners were excited when they saw Bono enter the eatery, but were even more jazzed when they saw that his date was Clinton. The two were joined in the backroom by Clinton's pal Ron Burkle and Jay-Z. At the end of the dinner, it took Clinton 45 minutes to get out of the restaurant because so many people wan ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 5 06:39:39 PST 2007

11061 [lbo-talk] Bono's Red campaign a flop -- rank: 1000

[but this hasn't stopped Graydon Carter from asking Bono to guest edit an ish of Vanity Fair] <http://adage.com/article?article_id=115287> Costly Red Campaign Reaps Meager $18 Million Bono & Co. Spend up to $100 Million on Marketing, Incur Watchdogs' Wrath By Mya Frazier COLUMBUS, Ohio (AdAge.com) -- It's been a year since the first Red T- shirts hit Gap shelves in London, and a parade of celebrity-splashed events has The collective marketing outlay by Gap, Apple and Motorola for the ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 5 06:24:12 PST 2007

11062 [lbo-talk] Obama and Israel -- rank: 1000

On Mar 4, 2007, at 6:02 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I'm afraid Obama has an uncanny ability to say what people want to > hear I think it also works the other way around - people hear from Obama what they want to hear. Doug

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Date:	Sun Mar 4 17:39:44 PST 2007

11063 [lbo-talk] property rights in Denmark -- rank: 1000

<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6416421.stm> Extra police calm Danish rioting Unrest has continued in the Danish capital, Copenhagen, for a third night but a heavy police presence has prevented any serious violence. Fires were lit at a number of locations but protests in the Noerrebro and Christiania districts were dispersed. About 50 arrests were made overnight, bringing to more than 600 those held since the unrest began on Thursday. The riots started after an anti-terror squad raid ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 4 07:13:01 PST 2007

11064 [lbo-talk] barbaric (was Marxism and religion) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2007, at 6:09 PM, joanna wrote: > I was talking about shopping. SHOPPING. According to the BLS's American TIme Use Survey <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/ pub/news.release/atus.txt>, we USers spend .80 hours a day shopping (which includes things like haircuts and pedicures too) - .63 for me, .96 for women. But on any day, only 46% of us - 40% of men and 51% of women - shop. But that's only about 15% of the time that people spend on "leisure and sports." Half of that is watchi ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 15:25:37 PST 2007

11065 [lbo-talk] the latest in the long, sad decline of the Village Voice -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/news/village-voice/breaking-david-blum-out-at- voice-241229.php> Breaking: David Blum Out At Voice Editor David Blum has left the Village Voice, the staff has just been informed. A meeting took place at 5:15 p.m. today at which staff were told that Blum was "no longer the editor of the paper" because he'd "made comments that were unacceptable," presumably, staff assumed, at the story meeting on Wednesday when the subject of race came up. Accordin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 3 07:38:51 PST 2007

11066 [lbo-talk] Demand for yellow ribbons collapses -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2007, at 10:16 AM, Carl Remick wrote: > Perhaps the day is foreseeable when Americans will > sport little magnetic dildos on their cars. > There's an ideal for a new hybrid vehicle - the Priapus. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 07:23:30 PST 2007

11067 [lbo-talk] barbaric (was Marxism and religion) -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:37 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Yoshie raises a good question when she says: > > "What if capitalism creates objective conditions -- socialized forces > of production -- of its transcendence but, by doing so, destroys > subjective conditions -- thinking human beings capable of collective > action -- for it?" > > Certainly it has preoccupied me. I wrote a book about it: 'The > "Death of the > Subject" Explained'. > (excerp ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 3 07:22:32 PST 2007

11068 [lbo-talk] Pakistani feminism -- rank: 1000

KARACHI A group of non-government organisations in Pakistan has threatened to launch an aggressive campaign for the protection of the rights of women in Sindh province. A representative of the NGOs said here yesterday that the women would beat up men found occupying seats that are reserved for women on public transport. Representatives of 19 NGOs have announced their amalgamation into one supreme body, called United for Gender Justice (UGJ). In a joint statement, the group said that it was ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 15:35:39 PST 2007

11069 [lbo-talk] Ann Coulter - is she for real? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0307/ Ann_Coulter_Still_Managing_to_Shock.html> March 02, 2007 Ann Coulter, Still Managing to Shock So, can Ann Coulter still shock? She's trying. Speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference just now, she essentially called John Edwards a "faggot." As in: "You have to go into rehab if you use the word 'faggot,'" so I m kind of at an impasse -- I can t really talk about Edwards." A subtle jab. posted by Ben Smit ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 14:30:58 PST 2007

11070 [lbo-talk] making friends in Iraq -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> Eat pork or die << >> Liberators make friends in Iraq US marine corps are introducing sensitivity training to their soldiers in Iraq. They're staring to wonder if such things as the troops' slogan t shirts might not be such a good thing. Our favourite tees include: * "Eat Pork Or Die" (in English and Arabic) * "Shrine Busters" (which show burning minarets, some with unit logos.) * "Napalm. Sticks Like Crazy." * "The road to ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 2 14:02:19 PST 2007