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14296 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000
Chuck wrote: >Doug: When your essay on activistism first came out, I thought it >contained some good criticisms about the climate of >anti-intellectualism found in some activist circles. However, since >that time your article has been adopted by those who wish to >marginalize all forms of militant dissent. I've frequently read crap >from members of the leftover left who cite your article in order to >bash people involved in direct action activism. I happen to know >that m ...
Document Size: 5407
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 08:37:20 PST 2006
14297 [lbo-talk] correction of the week -- rank: 1000
[the pic is at <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/12/magazine/312bwarner.html>] New York Times - March 15, 2006 Editors' Note The cover photograph in The Times Magazine on Sunday rendered colors incorrectly for the jacket, shirt and tie worn by Mark Warner, the former Virginia governor who is a possible candidate for the presidency. The jacket was charcoal, not maroon; the shirt was light blue, not pink; the tie was dark blue with stripes, not maroon. The Times's policy rules out alteration o ...
Document Size: 5391
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 08:33:36 PST 2006
14298 [lbo-talk] GOP class war -- rank: 1000
New York Post - March 15, 2006 N.Y. GOP CLASS WAR [by Frederick U. Dicker] ALBANY - CLASS warfare is erupting in the New York GOP with a fury unseen since a proudly pushy, middle-class suburban, conservative Italo-American took on a polished political icon of the rich liberal Manhattan Republican establishment more than a quarter century ago. Al D'Amato's paradigm-shattering struggle against Sen. Jacob K. Javits set the direction for the state GOP for decades. In this year's replay, the same Roc ...
Document Size: 10378
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 08:24:19 PST 2006
14299 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000
Chuck wrote: >Engel makes some obvious points about the tameness of upper middle >class activists, but I'm annoyed by his outdated calls for more >authoritarian leadership. Why is leadership always "authoritarian"? How can you have sustainable activity without it? Why can't you have a democratically accountable authority? Doug
Document Size: 5058
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 08:11:27 PST 2006
14300 [lbo-talk] Kos likes Warner...and Feingold -- rank: 1000
<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> As part of his publicity tour to promote his new book (with co-author Jerome Armstrong), "Crashing the Gate," Markos Moulitsas Zuniga chatted with the fabulous Deborah Solomon for her "Questions for" feature in your upcoming Sunday New York Times Magazine. Here's what the Kos has to say about the 2008 nomination contest: NYT: "Whom would you like to see run in 2008?" Kos: "I like Mark Warner. I like ...
Document Size: 5239
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 08:00:52 PST 2006
14301 [lbo-talk] WSJ on the impeachment agenda -- rank: 1000
[This is from the editpage that paid for a full-time reporter, Micah Morrison, to hang around Arkansas, investigating Whitewater, Troopergate, and the rest - looking for evidence to impeach the previous president. Where are those left-wing newspapers, anyway?] Wall Street Journal - March 15, 2006 The Impeachment Agenda Russ Feingold reveals what many Democrats really want. Republicans are denouncing Senator Russ Feingold's proposal to "censure" President Bush for his warrantless wireta ...
Document Size: 9599
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 07:52:44 PST 2006
14302 [lbo-talk] great article on mrzine on local organizing -- rank: 1000
MICHAEL YATES wrote: >There is a very fine article on local organizing by Michael Engel on >mrzine, at <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/engel140306.html> It is >on local organizing and it is sharply critical of the mindset of >most "progressive" organizations. It describes the kind of behavior >I observed so many times at the Socialist Scholars Conference and >elsewhere. I'd love to get others' take on it. That's a good piece; it has a lot in common with our ...
Document Size: 5744
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 07:09:22 PST 2006
14303 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000
Marvin Gandall wrote: >There's lots of literature, of >course, on why there was no lasting socialist movement in America. I don't >think you really have to look that far; America's constantly expanding >economy, built on the continent's great wealth, produced a more powerful >capitalist class able to provide more consistent upward mobility to >successive generations of immigrants, as well as shelter from the two wars >which ravaged Europe and served to raise the political co ...
Document Size: 5587
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Mar 15 06:39:38 PST 2006
14304 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >Yes, the lack of direct bank >ownership of equities in the 20th century made US corporate structures >different from much of the world, but one of the results was precisely the >mega-corporate structures where firms didn't even need much capital from the >markets since they could raise it internally-- a point I believe a certain >Doug Henwood has emphasized in questioning the centrality others have given >to the role of Wall Street. The fundraising role ...
Document Size: 5680
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 19:55:09 PST 2006
14305 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: > US capital is considered historically far more centralized; to this >day, Italian and German manufacturers maintain a far stronger middle-size >manufacturing sector compared to the more centralized sectors in the United >States It all depends on perspective: ownership in the US is much more dispersed than in bank-centered systems like Germany. This one's pretty hard to generalize about. Doug
Document Size: 5028
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 16:05:19 PST 2006
14306 [lbo-talk] A highly critical take on Fitch -- rank: 1000
Marvin Gandall wrote: >(1) I think the differences between US and other union movements can be >exaggerated. By their very nature, they all have to deliver bread and >butter, and have seen politics as a means of doing this. There was more >political militancy in periods of sharp class polarization, but this was >also true of the US pre WWI. I don't see much difference today between US >labour's support of the DP versus European support for its Labour and >Socialist parties, ...
Document Size: 6884
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 15:15:02 PST 2006
14307 [lbo-talk] HUAC comes to Pacifica Radio Again -- rank: 1000
Sorry for so much inside-WBAI material, but I need an outlet. Here's a possible cause of program director Bernard White's screaming fit - health nut Gary Null's coming back for a few shows: <http://garynull.com/media/listenlive.html> >Pursuant to a settlement of his union grievance with WBAI >Management, Gary will broadcast a total of five live shows on WBAI >for consecutive Thursdays at 12:00 noon commencing March 16, 2006. Null and White despise each other, and White eventually ...
Document Size: 5337
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 14:26:24 PST 2006
14308 [lbo-talk] BoJ to tighten -- rank: 1000
[bounced because quoted text pushed it over the length limit - prepended comment: talk about finding the glass half full! - the BoJ is ending its extraordinary regime of hyperloose money because the Japanese economy is finally recovering after nearly 15 years of stagnation!!] Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2006 14:01:51 -0800 From: joanna <123hop at comcast.net> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: BOJ to tighten... <http://www.wsws.org/articles/2006/mar2006/boj-m14.shtml>http://www.wsws.org/art ...
Document Size: 11284
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 14:22:43 PST 2006
14309 [lbo-talk] warner as 2008 dem candidate -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >He struck me more as the personification of Babbitry. That must be it - the Dems must fear a Babbitry gap. Too many weenies, not enough former exterminators. Doug
Document Size: 4782
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 14:02:18 PST 2006
14310 [lbo-talk] Fight the taboo on the use of the word "racist" -- rank: 1000
jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >So why is there a reticence to use the word racist? Hang around WBAI for a little bit - no reticence there! Mention failed fundraisers, declining listenership, and dismal morale and guess what - you're a racist who can't stand black leadership at the station. Doug
Document Size: 5173
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Mar 14 13:13:30 PST 2006
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