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15826 [lbo-talk] that Holocaust conference -- rank: 1000

Iran hosts Holocaust doubters at conference by Farhad Pouladi TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has defied an international outcry as it held a conference that questioned the truth of the Holocaust and was attended by number of controversial Western "revisionist" historians. Iran says the conference is aimed at providing a forum for historians to air any view about the Holocaust but Western countries have countered the event smacks of denial of the mass slaughter of six million Jews in World Wa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 11 06:10:08 PST 2006

15827 [lbo-talk] Behind the assassins, the grim truth of Putin's Russia -- rank: 1000

On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:22 AM, Michael Givel wrote: > Behind the assassins, the grim truth of Putin's Russia Would you please answer my question? Why are you so obsessed with Putin's alleged crimes? It's weird. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 11 05:42:36 PST 2006

15828 [lbo-talk] The Best American Poetry 2004 -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 8:57 PM, mike larkin wrote: > On a whim, I picked up this volume (edited by Lyn Hejinian, series > editor David Lehman). For the life of me, I can't make heads or > tails of a single poem. When did American poetry become so obtuse? Well, Ashbery won the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1956, so it's been at least 50 years! Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 18:14:14 PST 2006

15829 [lbo-talk] Amazon & Norman -- rank: 1000

Niels Hooper, Norman Finkelstein's editor at UC Press, writes about the disappearance of Beyond Chutzpah from Amazon.com: > Our sales director is looking into it asap tomorrow morning when > amazon are in the office. She'll have word for Norman soon after > that. I'll be out of phone and email touch for ten days so I'll be > curious to find out when I'm back.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 10 12:53:52 PST 2006

15830 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 3:35 PM, Nicholas Ruiz III wrote: > Another example of the unfettered state of Capital: pick an equity > ticker; > short one thousand shares. Let's say it goes down one dollar on no > news or > incident (this happens everyday). Cover (buy back) your shares. > You just > increased your monetary Capital by $1K. And someone else lost $1K. Perhaps not literally a literal someone, but a conceptual someone. The size of the proverbial pie hasn't changed, ju ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 12:52:04 PST 2006

15831 [lbo-talk] Orwell's Obscurity -- rank: 1000

On Dec 8, 2006, at 6:45 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Where has Ian gone[?] Parenthood, I think. Swallows up a lot of us! Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 12:12:43 PST 2006

15832 [lbo-talk] Amazon has removed Beyond Chutzpah from its web site -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 9:44 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > <http://www.normanfinkelstein.com/article.php?pg=11&ar=738> > Amazon has removed Beyond Chutzpah from its web site > > Finkelstein comments: > > I have received many emails wondering why Amazon no longer lists my > book Beyond Chutzpah: On the misuse of anti-Semitism and the abuse of > history (University of California Press: 2005). I do not have a ready > answer. Experts I've consulted tell me it's unlik ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 12:08:01 PST 2006

15833 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Yes, quite significant ways of deriving profits are occurring away > from the point of production, Where do they come from? Thin air? How can the system as a whole conjure value merely out of exchanging virtual titles to wealth? The profits of financiers come ultimately from interest and fees paid by business and consumer debtors, even if there are countless steps between producers & reciipents. Many of the examples you cite are of ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 11:51:35 PST 2006

15834 [lbo-talk] primitive accumulation--public debt -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 11:47 AM, abu hartal wrote: > Doug, > Marx describes the whole system of public debt as primitive > accumulation. > Abu Hartal >> From Marx, chap 31 Capital vol I: > > The public debt becomes one of the most powerful levers of > primitive accumulation. As with the stroke of an enchanter's wand, > it endows barren money with the power of breeding and thus turns it > into capital, without the necessity of its exposing itself to the > trouble ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 10 11:00:41 PST 2006

15835 [lbo-talk] vcf's, and the 140th reiteration of a plea -- rank: 1000

Patrick's posts are stripped by mailman's archiving function and all their valuable content dumped into the bit bucket. It seems to be related to his attached vcf. Please please please - plain text, and no attachments. Please please please. HTML coding can double the size of a message and can produce bizarre results in some mailreaders. Please, no attachments and no HTML. Please.

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 10:55:22 PST 2006

15836 [lbo-talk] why the water will soon be around our ankles -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > Sean's Explanation:> If it's like most of the buildings I work in, the > windows are sealed In this case, they're not. They're old-fashioned wood-framed windows. Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 10:49:44 PST 2006

15837 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation - Harvey on Marx -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 4:12 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > fire-sale privatisations and commodification-of-everything I'm not sure how a fire-sale privatization is primitive accumulation - seems like an old story in capitalism. Morgan screwed a lot of small capitalists when putting together his trusts - was that p.a. too? Commodification is a lot more like the p.a. of Kapital, but how does that fit into the structure of accumulation today? How does it stack up against trillions of dollars worth ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 09:05:19 PST 2006

15838 [lbo-talk] primitive accumulation -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 11:26 AM, abu hartal wrote: > To honor its debts the US government will probably have to make > its taxes more regressive (and consequently push wage below value > of labor power) and slash social security and all kinds of benefits > for the most vulnerable. This kind of state led transfer of wealth > is indeed a form of primitive accumulation, no? No. It's ugly and unkind, but "primitive" refers to originary acts of appropriation, like fencing off ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 08:40:08 PST 2006

15839 [lbo-talk] why the water will soon be around our ankles -- rank: 1000

On Dec 10, 2006, at 6:51 AM, Colin Brace wrote: > Why don't they just open a window? Because the air doesn't circulate to one part of the office, and fans, apparently, are too retro.

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Date:	Sun Dec 10 08:32:44 PST 2006

15840 [lbo-talk] Primitive accumulation and Bitch: puppet master to the socks! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 9, 2006, at 3:35 PM, bitch wrote: > At 01:14 PM 12/9/2006, James Heartfield wrote: > >> The concept he critiqued was that of "original accumulation". >> Under that term a rag bag of ideas were put together to explain >> (or more properly to explain away) the existence of the original >> fund of capital, from which all subsequent accumulation starts. >> Marx says it is capitalism's dirty secret that the original >> accumulation fund is no ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 9 19:42:28 PST 2006