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1216 [lbo-talk] TS Eliot & antisemitism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 5, 2011, at 9:44 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: >> From an obit in today's times. Maybe everyone else knew this story, but I > didn't: > > http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/03/books/emanuel-litvinoff-poet-dies-at-96.html > > As usual with Margalit Fox obits, the last lines are the kicker, so if you get bored, skip to the end section. Heh. Reminds me of when Don Henley jumped onstage with Mojo Nixon to join a performance of "Don Henley Must Die." Doug

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Date:	Wed Oct 5 06:56:26 PDT 2011

1217 [lbo-talk] WSJ Blog: Bernanke shows sympathy for OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:34 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > > http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/10/04/bernanke-signals-some-sympathy-for-wall-street-protesters/ Hilarious. No wonder Rick Perry hates him. Doug

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1218 [lbo-talk] "so nice" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 9:19 PM, // ravi wrote: > The trifling level of self-promotion you do on FB is downright unAmerican :-) I'm taking that as a challenge, comrade. Doug

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1219 [lbo-talk] "so nice" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 8:42 PM, // ravi wrote: > Have you tried emailing general at occupywallst.org? Or do you feel that might be self-promotion? In which case, one of us can do it! :-) I'm not shy about self-promotion. You've seen me on Facebook, haven't you? Doug

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1220 [lbo-talk] CUNY Grad Center: Corey Robin, Christopher Hayes -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 8:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Conservatism within capitalism has always been an ersatz product, since one of capitalism's main feature is endless change, and the main premise of 'classical' conservatism (Bolingbroke through John Adams) was that change as such was an evil, only to be accepted when it was the lesser evil in a given context. When conservatism embraced capitalism, it became incoherent. That's one reason I have never joined in the respect some leftists seem to re ...

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1221 [lbo-talk] "so nice" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:10 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > doug, julio, seth, max, michael, etc - you should be doing teach-ins > like madrick did. I'd love to. I'd also like to hear what they think. I don't know how to go about it. Doug

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1222 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Has the Left given up on Economics? « The Disorder Of Things -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 7:15 AM, Charles Turner wrote: > Courtesy Kpunk: > > <http://thedisorderofthings.com/2011/10/03/has-the-left-given-up-on-economics/> Hey I'm mentioned nicely! Yay!

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1223 [lbo-talk] "A tea party with brains" -- rank: 1000

> it has begun to attract more attention than its limited numbers In the early days, OWSers were complaining about a media blackout. There's been anything since. The Post front-paged the Brooklyn Bridge events with the "wood" (jargon for the big headline on the front of a tabloid) "@!*% HITS THE SPAN."

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1224 [lbo-talk] "A tea party with brains" -- rank: 1000

On Oct 4, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Occupy Wall Street is a tea party with brains While waiting for my car to get fixed this morning, I had breakfast at a restaurant in the so-hip Meatpacking District in Manhattan. Nearby, two hipster business guys, amidst talk of pageviews and typical stuff like that, started talking about OWS. I couldn't hear what they said about it, but I was struck that they were talking about it at all. Doug

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1225 [lbo-talk] meanwhile on the right... -- rank: 1000

...Occupy Capitol Hill? From Politico's Huddle: > DRIVING THE DOWN-TICKET CONVERSATION: UNSAFE FOR ANY FROSH -- 'The ... House freshmen who helped the GOP seize the majority by capitalizing on a deep reservoir of anti-establishment resentment are discovering that anger hasn't gone away - and it could even threaten their fledgling careers. Some tea party darlings from 2010 are fearful of tea party challengers in 2012, facing charges they've turned their backs on the movement's small-government ...

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1226 [lbo-talk] David Graeber interview on OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2011, at 4:12 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Their rhetoric of demands, while still not up to your high standards, seems to be improving. It's still a laundry list, but it no longer sounds hippie-ish: > > http://nycga.cc/2011/09/30/declaration-of-the-occupation-of-new-york-city/ that's some good shit, man

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1227 [lbo-talk] David Graeber interview on OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > I think Graeber would say democracy. And argue that they are prefiguring political society, not economic. What a bourgeois distinction.

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1228 [lbo-talk] David Graeber interview on OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > By the way, I think OWS presents as much of a challenge to, or at > least complication of, recent anarchistic ways of doing things as it > confirms them. How's that?

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1229 [lbo-talk] David Graeber interview on OWS -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Impatient much? As you've astutely pointed out many times, the last 30 > years have been a time of extreme depoliticization and demobilization > in the US. Do you really expect that to be overcome in a couple of > weeks, especially since the huge majority of the actors have lived > their entire lives under said conditions? I'm not expecting it to leap fully formed from Zuccotti Park, or even the head of David Graeber. But I wish peopl ...

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1230 [lbo-talk] The Conservative Mind -- rank: 1000

On Oct 3, 2011, at 12:42 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > Conservative thought is always parasitic and mimetic, always reacting to left movements which are always original and liberatory? A rather rigid and self-regarding dualism, wouldn't you say? And one that is not convincing to me especially when Robin himself cites Edmund Burke as both the father of the conservative movement and a foundational theorist of Romanticism. Burke can lead to Hayek and the Hegelian Dialetic. The lineage of left and ...

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