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14356 [lbo-talk] Another sign that Bush is hurting -- rank: 1000

Chuck wrote: >An activist friend relayed at a meeting this morning that the ladies >at a hair salon here in Kansas City were engaging in some open >Bush-bashing during her last visit. She said that the usual coterie >of Bush supporters were more tight-lipped than usual. How many of them were driven by hatred of them A-rabs taking over our ports? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 19:50:01 PST 2006

14357 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >If you simply conclude that the out-group >submitted, you're denying its agency, which is >sort of akin to denying its humanity. Guess they wouldn't like this bit from Adorno's Minima Moralia, which I haven't posted in a while. Doug ---- 32 Savages are not more noble. - There is to be found in African students of political economy, Siamese at Oxford, and more generally in diligent art-historians and musicologists of petty-bourgeois origins, a ready inclination to c ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 14:01:15 PST 2006

14358 [lbo-talk] REAL divestiture, or just an Enron style bookkeeping fraud? -- rank: 1000

Marta Russell wrote: >CONGRESS MUST ENFORCE DIVESTITURE OF ALL FOREIGN GOVERNMENT CONTROL >AND OWNERSHIP OVER OUR PORTS Why? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 13:24:24 PST 2006

14359 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >On Hofstadter, the whole idea of saying, for example, that there's a >'paranoid style' in 'American politics' would elicit the response >that this is an attempt at identifying 'national character,' which >is essentialist, and effaces out-groups (who are often assumed a >priori to take an oppositional stance) and generally a no-no. Except that he doesn't define a unitary national character - he describes a significant tendency in American politics over the lo ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 13:20:40 PST 2006

14360 Read the whole Bible before you criticize Genesis! (was Re: [lbo-talk] Solidarity for Sale: UNITE'S Garment Gulag) -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Michael Hirsch: > >> The discussion here has been about what is alleged to >> be in Fitch's book, not about his articles, "specious" >> or otherwise > >Incorrect. I have formed my impressions of Fitch based on his articles, >including the one where he claimed that home care workers aren't real >workers. When I voiced doubts about the need to take him seriously based on >those, I was told, "read the book." That doesn ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 12:52:24 PST 2006

14361 [lbo-talk] Of Farmers & Flying -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Is it fascism yet? Oh please. You're still on the loose, aren't you? There have been many worse times in US history. Lincoln suspended habeas corpus. The Palmer raids were horrendous. The McCarthy era - which was much broader than old Joe himself - was horrendous. In many ways things were worse in 2002 and 2003 than they are today. Calling it fascism is a perverse form of self-aggrandizement. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 12:38:25 PST 2006

14362 [lbo-talk] SD paper won't run abortion editorials -- rank: 1000

<http://susiebright.blogs.com/susie_brights_journal_/2006/03/south_dakota_pa.html> MARCH 10, 2006 South Dakota Paper Bans Abortion Opinion The daily paper of record in South Dakota refuses to run editorials on the abortion ban, because they think everyone will get too upset: The the biggest abortion rights story in 33 years is taking place in its own backyard, but South Dakota's largest newspaper will not editorialize on the controversial statewide abortion ban just recently approved by it ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 07:26:59 PST 2006

14363 [lbo-talk] NATION review of Fitch -- rank: 1000

info at pulpculture.org wrote: >> L'il Kim > > >Her name is Kim Philips-Fein. Use it. She's a good friend of mine. I don't agree with this review, but she's a very smart and wonderful person, and as much as I like Kimberly Jones, I don't like her nickname used this way. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 11 05:03:57 PST 2006

14364 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >>Is it a Cox-like shyness about generalizing about patterns >>of thought, because everything is so incommensurate? > > >From my experience as a history grad student, it's more an >apolitical disinclination to speculate about what causes major >changes. I think the last big debate over a question like that >among historians was maybe the Brenner (from Robert Brenner) debate >about the transiton from feudalism to capitalism. Yeah, well Brenn ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 10 21:28:37 PST 2006

14365 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >As for Hofstadter, I think it's safe to say that almost no graduate >seminars assign him anymore. And I suspect if you tried out his >argument (about the masses and rightwing paranoia) with a room full >of assistant profs, the first thing they'd say is that you can't >talk about "the masses" because it assumes Americans were all alike. >Which, again, has some truth to it, but it's a lens that places >pretty firm limits (probably intentionally) ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 10 20:45:40 PST 2006

14366 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>What do you mean by that? Isn't political history pretty important? > > >Classical political history, also legal and military history, is >associated with positivist notions of proof and is now more often >called the "great men" school of history. It was blown out of the >water beginning with the French Annales school in the 30s. Now I'm confused. I thought the criticism of Hofstadter was that he blamed the masses ...

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14367 [lbo-talk] Health Care: How Labor Shot Itself in the Foot -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: ><http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/ssr01/ssr01an.html>http://www.ciaonet.org/conf/ssr01/ssr01an.html > >by Marie Gottschalk you need a password to get in there

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Date:	Fri Mar 10 16:25:03 PST 2006

14368 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >When I was in college, late 80s, early 90s, my lefty professors were >pretty condescending towards Hofstadter as a consensus historian and >proto-neocon. But I remember liking his psychological angle (I also >liked Christopher Lasch.) Besides, I never got the extreme hostility >to the "consensus" approach. There are obviously things that hold >most Americans together. I like the psycho-angle myself, of course. And Americans believe, or say they bel ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 10 16:11:00 PST 2006

14369 Read the whole Bible before you criticize Genesis! (was Re: [lbo-talk] Solidarity for Sale: UNITE'S Garment Gulag) -- rank: 1000

Dennis Claxton wrote: >Doug wrote: > >>Yeah, that too. Thanks for clarifying my severe lack of clarity. It's >>been a rough week. > > >How is the little one by the way? ; ) Splendid, actually. A thriving, sweet-tempered delight. It's been too much work this week - and not enough infant, in fact. Doug

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14370 [lbo-talk] Hofstadter -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >In any case, I gather there are relatively few historians under 60 >who have strong opinions about Hofstadter since political history >almost doesn't exist anymore, so he's just not in their sub-field. What do you mean by that? Isn't political history pretty important? Doug

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