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1516 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > And one more thing - there is no such a thing as "potential radicals." > People become radicalized through participating in action, not > through holding radical ideas. Two things. Preexisting radicals often go to work for foundations or foundation-funded groups just to pay the rent. That deradicalizes them. And people who might be radicalized by more bottom-up activity aren't, because they're shunted into the crap that foundation ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 10:34:40 PDT 2011

1517 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > I think it is a left wing canard By the way, the critique I'm offering is actually quite rare on the left, since no one wants to bite the philanthropic hand. You won't find many articles like this one: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Foundations.html Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 09:59:55 PDT 2011

1518 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "But the liberal foundations are great at buying off actual and > potential radicals. " > > [WS:] I think it is a left wing canard designed to cover up inability > of many lefties to sell their ideas to broader audiences or perhaps > their inability to speak any other language than their own. No. This country is full of various pressure groups and community organizations dependent on foundation funding. The groups ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 09:58:27 PDT 2011

1519 [lbo-talk] Comments on WSJ article "The Price of Taxing the Rich" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 12:31 PM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > Those are all good answers, but for a slightly different argument. What I thought was novel about the argument in the article, was that it attacks the issue of taxing the rich from another position. It somewhat sidesteps or anticipates our usual counterarguments and argues that the volatility of a tax base that relies on the income of the wealthy is problematic, not so much that taxing the wealthy in and of itself stifles the economy (thoug ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 09:46:40 PDT 2011

1520 [lbo-talk] "purity," "authentic," "genuineness" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:28:49 -0500 > "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > >> I love her singing also -- but the hairs rise on the back of my neck >> every time I hear such words as "pure" outside the chemistry lab or >> in reference to the bacteria count of food supplies. I don't claim >> that is the only legitimate context for the word, but whenever it is >> applied outsid ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 08:42:43 PDT 2011

1521 [lbo-talk] Comments on WSJ article "The Price of Taxing the Rich" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Bryan Atinsky quoted some apologist for plutocrats: > New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Illinois states that are the most heavily reliant on the taxes of the wealthy are now among those with the biggest budget holes. Among them, yes, but Nevada is the biggest, and Texas and Louisiana (states not known for soaking the fat boys) are in worse shape than New York.

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 08:41:16 PDT 2011

1522 [lbo-talk] conservative states: poorer, less educated, more religious -- rank: 1000

Richard Florida is pretty problematic, but this isn't without interest. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/03/the-conservative-states-of-america/71827/ "Conservativism [sic], more and more, is the ideology of the economically left behind. The current economic crisis only appears to have deepened conservatism's hold on America's states."

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 08:32:51 PDT 2011

1523 [lbo-talk] what money will buy you -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Right wing/fascist funding sources do not waste their money in such a > way. Instead, they fund their intellectual Sturmabteilung to wage a > Kulturkampf to sway public opinion in the favor of right wing/fascist > causes - an example of which is the Craigs list posting in question. > And they are far more effective than the liberal foundations even > though they are not as well endowed as liberal - leaning foundations. But the lib ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 29 06:26:41 PDT 2011

1524 [lbo-talk] Rolling Stone: Kill Team -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 12:43 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> I see no reason to waste time studying alleged "facts" >> >> This deserves a bumper sticker. > > > When we all joined the list, did we skim past some fine print giving you the > right to our utterances here? You could make a bundle on T-shirts. Nope. I'm not that kind of guy.

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1525 [lbo-talk] suggestion for radio henwood -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 4:34 PM, Ira Glazer wrote: > continuing with the series of cynics of cyber-utopianism ...Evgeny Morozov, > author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet > Freedom<http://www.amazon.com/Net-Delusion-Dark-Internet-Freedom/dp/1586488740/> Yes, several other people have suggested him. I'll look into it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 13:44:10 PDT 2011

1526 [lbo-talk] Salute to Motörhead -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:43 PM, Joel Schalit wrote: > Oh my god, that's so ridiculous. You dissing Lemmy, man?

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1527 [lbo-talk] Chavez jumps the shark -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:32 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > I think he fears the same "conspiracy" will be used against him. But > paranoia has a limit... everyone and his mother can see that people in > Siria want an end to the near 50 years old "state of emergency" for > instance. Not Yoshie Furuhashi, who's posted about a dozen videos of pro-Assad demonstrations to MRZine: http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2011/syria270311.html Her headnote: > Bashar al-Assad, unlik ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 10:39:50 PDT 2011

1528 [lbo-talk] jam on Wisconsin: A whiff of the '60s -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Joshua Morey wrote: > FWIW - I think Abe Sauer at the Awl has been contributing some brilliant > journalism on WI. Couldn't agree more. I interviewed him last week: http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S110309 Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 10:37:20 PDT 2011

1529 [lbo-talk] Rolling Stone: Kill Team -- rank: 1000

On Mar 28, 2011, at 12:23 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I see no reason to waste time studying alleged "facts" This deserves a bumper sticker.

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Date:	Mon Mar 28 09:30:24 PDT 2011

1530 [lbo-talk] Chavez jumps the shark -- rank: 1000

[from Lou Proyect's Marxmail] http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/venezuelas-chavez-offers-supports-to-syrian-leader-amid-protests-blames-us-forunrest/2011/03/26/AFFCkteB_story.html or http://liten.be//bZFNt AP - March 26, 2011 Venezuela's Chavez Offers Support to Syrian Leader Amid Protests, Blames U.S. for Unrest" Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez expressed support for Syria's president on Saturday, calling him a "humanist" and a "brother" facing a wave of violent prote ...

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