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11926 [lbo-talk] Servility -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > The "war on crimes" is the > smartest move that the US ruling class made in response to the long > sixties. It was also a war that had enormous popular support. Speaking against the war on crime was a sure way for a politician to lose an election. That's a little less true now than it was 30 or 40 years ago, but it's still very risky to talk about easing off despite the fall in the crime rate. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 11 17:51:14 PST 2007

11927 [lbo-talk] Noam on Intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Arash wrote: > For example, here there s no > problem with a university professor and a garage mechanic talking > together > informally as complete equals. A professor, such as Chomsky, might say that; I wonder if the mechanic would agree. Doug

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11928 [lbo-talk] The Myth of Old Money Liberalism -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 12:33 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > I then present evidence to refute the thesis from a study > of the politics of the Forbes 400 richest Americans I'm looking forward to reading this paper, which has been on my to do list for a long time, but the Forbes 400 isn't what most people think of as old money. It's big money. Old money is smaller, the progeny of what would have been the Forbes 400 eighty or a hundred years ago. Their political vehicle was the old, pre-Reag ...

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11929 [lbo-talk] Noam on intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 11:58 AM, B. wrote: > This Bakunin passage may shed a little light on what > Doug called Chomsky's "anti-intellectualism": He said to me, in practically these exact words, in either 2000 or 2001, that he liked American anti-intellectualism. And he didn't object when I just quoted that back at him. Doug

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11930 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk Digest, Vol 46, Issue 1 -- rank: 1000

On Feb 11, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > If you're rich and want to work, why bother to work for money? The upper class used to think that way, or so it seems to me - rich men might work in publishing, or write poetry, and women had their charity projects. That doesn't look to be true anymore; like I said the other day, socialites now want to give the impression of working, to the point where even the largely useless Tinsley Mortimer has a handbag line. My working theory o ...

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11931 [lbo-talk] Noam on intellectuals -- rank: 1000

I asked Noam Chomsky to elaborate on his embrace of American anti- intellectualism, and if he considered himself an intellectual. Here's his answer: > In standard usage, "intellectual" means someone who has sufficient > privilege, resources, opportunities, etc., so as to be able to > reach some kind of audience on matters of general human interest. > Has nothing particular to do with insight, knowledge, > intelligence,.... By "anti-intellectualism" I meant th ...

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11932 [lbo-talk] hard work -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:37 PM, Michael McIntyre wrote: > Yes, but why do they? The returns to the "hard work" of the rich > can be broken down (analytically, if not empirically) into: > *interest: what the rich could earn from their accumulated capital > as rentiers > *rent: what the rich earn due to ability to exploit deviations from > the mythical market > *pure profit: the residual - a sort of entrepreneurial wage > Inherited fortunes are nice, but they're smal ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 10 19:35:16 PST 2007

11933 [lbo-talk] Once Again: SEIU'S Stern, "Partnerships" & Healthcare -- rank: 1000

UNITY & INDEPENDENCE c/o The Organizer Newspaper P.O. Box 40009, San Francisco, CA 94140. Tel. (415) 626-1175; fax: (415) 626-1217. email: The Organizer <ilcinfo at earthlink.net> ------------------------------------------------ [Note: The following articles are reprinted from the January-February 2007 issue of UNITY & INDEPENDENCE, a regular supplement to The Organizer newspaper.] Andy Stern Rams Ahead with Corporate Partnerships in Healthcare Industry By ALAN BENJAMIN A few wee ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 10 19:30:56 PST 2007

11934 [lbo-talk] Stern in WSJ -- rank: 1000

[Sorry, missed this. Gotta love this, when asked if unions will ever organize Wal-Mart: "The group SEIU's part of, Wal-Mart Watch, has not been trying to organize them but change their business model." Oh, and it shouldn't be about individual grievances, but industry needs. Stern seems to think that U.S. capital needs the help of organized labor to be more competitive, but that's demented. Who's convinced him of this?] Wall Street Journal - January 22, 2007 Are Unions Relevant? S ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 10 19:22:12 PST 2007

11935 [lbo-talk] Save planet, win $25 mil -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2007, at 4:30 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote: >> Gore and Branson said that although scientists are working on >> technologies to capture carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases at >> power plants and other industrial sources, no one has developed a >> strategy to remove gases already released into the atmosphere. > > Easy, plant lots of trees. Gimme my $5 million deposit you wankers. Actually it may not be so simple. <http://www.llnl.gov/tid/lof/documents/ ...

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11936 [lbo-talk] Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Alas, this is an op-ed. The New York Times ran an op-ed by Iran's UN > ambassador (see below), too, but the front page is where it's at when > it comes to war-making. The ruling class of America must think that > the Americans don't read papers beyond the front page (especially > headlines and first paragraphs). Newspapers are produced by lots of different people, and opinion about Iran in the higher circles of the US is d ...

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11937 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > That -- servility -- is the main obstacle to building any Left here, > not Protestantism or anti-intellectualism. So is that the First Mover? Or is there something that causes servility? Doug

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11938 [lbo-talk] Deadliest Bomb in Iraq Is Made by Iran, U.S. Says -- rank: 1000

On Feb 10, 2007, at 11:08 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > If the > ruling class were really alarmed by the White House's adventurism and > determined to put a stop to it, the New York Times would not be > helping the White House make a case for a war on Iran That's why they also have the Washington Post. --- <http://www.cfr.org/publication/12580/> Washington Post - February 8, 2007 The Iran Option That Isn't on the Table Vali R. Nasr, Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East Studies ...

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11939 [lbo-talk] Sam Smith on Doug Henwood -- rank: 1000

On Feb 9, 2007, at 8:48 PM, bitch at pulpculture.org wrote: > Chomsky is a classic > anti-intellectual As I've said before, he once told me that he likes American anti- intellectualism, in practically those exact words. I lacked the nerve to ask him what he thought he was. Doug

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11940 [lbo-talk] Methodism and Radicalism -- rank: 1000

yes who was it who said that English socialism had more to do with Methodism than Marx?

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