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15976 [lbo-talk] Poll: They really don't want us there -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Fouad Ajami No, not him, please!

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Date:	Mon Aug 28 11:31:40 PDT 2006

15977 [lbo-talk] MR & Maoism -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > It wouldn't make any difference in the larger scheme of things if all > leftists in the USA ditched any residual commitment to something like > socialism and became rightists, except that, in that case, there would > be a glut of former leftists larger than the Right's demand for them. Man, I'ver never been very giddy about the state of the US left, but your pessimism about it, which is no doubt related to your embrace of Irani ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 28 05:38:54 PDT 2006

15978 [lbo-talk] MR & Maoism -- rank: 1000

On Aug 28, 2006, at 12:06 AM, tfast wrote: > What is more interesng is if you think or have any grounds to think/ > argue if MHL/PB positio is wrong. Perhaps you are unqualified to > comment so then we are back to what is the correct position of the > left on this question. Correct for whom and who cares. Really > Doug this is bottom feeding. You know, maybe you have a point and I should really shave my head and become a spokesman for the right. Pays a lot better than this shi ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 27 21:20:12 PDT 2006

15979 [lbo-talk] MR & Maoism -- rank: 1000

So I was catching up on my Workers Vanguards last night - always a salutary experience - and came across this in the course of an excellent article on China. WV criticizes Paul Burkett & Marty Hart- Landsberg's work on China, which is hostile to China's rapid economic growth, preferring instead a more localist/green model. The Sparts, by contrast, take a more traditionally orthodox Marxist position, which holds that you can't have socialism without the (centralizing) development of the ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 27 17:42:39 PDT 2006

15980 [lbo-talk] Poll: They really don't want us there -- rank: 1000

On Aug 27, 2006, at 6:00 PM, Michael Pollak quoted: > > http://abuaardvark.typepad.com/abuaardvark/2006/08/ > what_the_iraqi_.html Where we read: > But at the same time, significantly more Iraqis support democratic > values, including the separation of religion and politics. > > In 2004, 27 percent of the 2,325 Iraqi adults surveyed strongly > agreed that Iraq would be a better place if religion and politics > were separated. In 2006, 41 percent of 2,701 adults surveye ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 27 17:18:24 PDT 2006

15981 [lbo-talk] Womyn's Fest tells transgender women to ban themselves -- rank: 1000

On Aug 26, 2006, at 5:13 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Japan's ruling class and their engineers > will no doubt come up with new hi-tech toilets that automatically > soap, wipe, and dry the seat after each user. Saw one of those in Amsterdam - in a "coffee shop" of all places - a few years ago. Press a button, and the flexible seat makes a full orbit through the cleaning device. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 26 14:21:26 PDT 2006

15982 [lbo-talk] Hitch on ObL as liberation theologist -- rank: 1000

By the way, Bruce Lawrence wrote this response to Hitchens' attack on him in Free Inquiry. Doug ---- Response to Hitchens' lampoon of MESSAGES TO THE WORLD: THE STATEMENTS OF OSAMA BIN LADEN (Verso, 2006) Max Weber, perhaps the foremost student of comparative religions, once described himself as "religiously amusical". He admitted a fascination with the social processes that informed religious institutions and regimes but he didn't get what it was all about, this God talk, as wel ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 26 10:32:59 PDT 2006

15983 [lbo-talk] Hitch on ObL as liberation theologist -- rank: 1000

The other day, Dennis Perrin reported that Christopher Hitchens has been on right-wing radio claiming that the antiwar left loves Osama, and views him as a liberation theologist. I wrote to Hitch asking him to name some names and quote some quotes, conceding that with an 8- month-old infant, I may be a little behind on the news. Here's his response (needless to say, this is a nonsensical characterization of Bruce Lawrence, whom I interviewed at <http:// www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 26 09:34:42 PDT 2006

15984 [lbo-talk] RE:P MEMRI: Anti-Semitism Documentation -- rank: 1000

It's just Carrol, playing feelgood games in his sandbox, while accusing everyone else of playing feelgood games in their sandboxes. - Doug On Aug 26, 2006, at 2:51 AM, Michael Givel wrote: > I have no clue what this sickening gibberish is about. Where > exactly do you connect condemning anti-Semitism (which I noticed > you did not do in this little e-mail blast below) in Muslim > countries with supporting an invasion of the anti-Holocaust exhibit > in Iran (!) and murdering 100 ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 26 09:08:21 PDT 2006

15985 [lbo-talk] Tony Cliff on the Muslim Brotherhood -- rank: 1000

On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:45 PM, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: > MPug wrote: >> >> http://pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk/isj68/marshall.htm >> Issue 68 of INTERNATIONAL SOCIALISM JOURNAL Published Autumn 1995 >> Copyright (c) International Socialism >> The children of Stalinism >> PHIL MARSHALL > > Thanks for the reference, I had not read that. Goes to show that > you can have people express different views about the same topic in > the sam ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 25 13:06:59 PDT 2006

15986 [lbo-talk] Womyn's Fest tells transgender women to ban themselves -- rank: 1000

On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:19 PM, info at pulpculture.org wrote: > http://www.questioningtransgender.org > > That's their little piece of propaganda bullshit. Wow: > there are two socially created classes of human, male and female, > and that there are social, economic, and power differentials > between these two classes that amount to the oppression and > domination of one over the other, we must stand opposed to trans > politics. That's not a "socially created" exp ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 25 12:30:40 PDT 2006

15987 [lbo-talk] Womyn's Fest tells transgender women to ban themselves -- rank: 1000

On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:19 PM, info at pulpculture.org quoted: > A way has still never been made societally and culturally -- after > thousands > and thousands of years -- for us, as women, to buy, with dollars, > any bodily > presentation which makes our lives tolerable and our passage in > this world more > comfortable. In fact, our bodies ensure our rough and difficult > passage in > this world, and there is no remedy for this, or has not been, > outside of > fe ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 25 12:26:34 PDT 2006

15988 [lbo-talk] RE:P MEMRI: Anti-Semitism Documentation Project -- rank: 1000

On Aug 25, 2006, at 3:07 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > Nope, as I've told you before, esp. in that region of the world, no > STATE or sub-state actor) should have those satanic weapons. > But, in your view, once the genie is out of the bottle, everyone > should have nukes. That for example, India and Pakistan almost came to > nuclear war over Kashmir, so what? They didn't though. I don't think MAD is totally wrong. The US would never ever give up nuclear weapons. Neither would ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 25 12:20:53 PDT 2006

15989 [lbo-talk] RE:P MEMRI: Anti-Semitism Documentation Project -- rank: 1000

On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:48 PM, Michael Pugliese wrote: > The get the bomb however in 5-10 yrs. or sooner, a regional arms > race would ensue, as the other regional powers hardly trust the > regime. But, what are concerns about non-proliferation? Just cover for > liberal-neo-con imperialism. So it is ok that Israel has several hundred nukes, or do they get a free pass? Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 25 11:54:04 PDT 2006

15990 [lbo-talk] more Harman -- rank: 1000

You gotta wonder how much Iran's lust for The Bomb is for domestic consumption, as a distraction from the regime's economic problems. The Islamists have long relied on anti-imperialism to consolidate their rule: <http://www.marxisme.dk/arkiv/harman/1994/prophet/ch08.htm> It was because they depended on balancing between the major social classes to advance their own control over the state and a section of capital that the Khomeini group had to hit first at the left organisation and th ...

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