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17641 [lbo-talk] Anti-communism -- rank: 1000

Lewis Higgins wrote: >Supporters of Nazi Germany could make many of the same >claims: unemployment was virtually non-existent, >subsidized health care, free passes, etc. In the >regions of the former East Germany, many workers are >nostalgic for the Nazi era, not the imposed system of >the USSR. However, the choice is probably a national >chauvinistic one rather than ideological, since they >were both police states. And that, surely, is the >issue. Man, what a tired de ...

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Date:	Tue May 24 13:25:07 PDT 2005

17642 [lbo-talk] Re: Moyers: Take Public Broadcasting Back -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >Let's face it: Bill Moyers is a pleasant but addle-brained ex-Baptist >preacher with no real grasp of how institutionally vicious this capitalist >society is. Carl > >------- > >True. So how did he become such a threat that Senator Lott and the >Bush administration pressured CPB to get rid of him? Anything slightly to the left is treated as the equivalent of Bolshie. We watched O'Reilly last night after a bit of a hiatus - he was raving about the NYT ...

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Date:	Tue May 24 12:23:16 PDT 2005

17643 [lbo-talk] organizing SBUX -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Did you invite Rev. Billy >on your show Nope. I'm not a fan. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 24 12:13:08 PDT 2005

17644 [lbo-talk] lbo-talk RSS feed? -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >And, if I may potentially add another teaspoon of sugar to that coffee -- a >podcast of Doug's **Behind the News** radio show (a subscription I'd >happily pay >for) would be a brilliant addition to the LBO empire and another way >to get the >word out. I don't have the time or technical chops to get on top of that, but I'd love to do it. Any ideas? Doug

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Date:	Tue May 24 11:58:01 PDT 2005

17645 [lbo-talk] Vegetarians become part of the problem.... -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >On 05/21/05 12:11, Leigh Meyers wrote: >> Economist.com >> Monocropping? What's that? >> >> I'll have another soy latte' please. >> > > >oh yeah, the vegetarians... come the marxist revolution they should keep >the firing line busy. > >what was it doug said about an "inclusive left" in a recent post? yeah. Leigh M isn't a Marxist revolutionary, if that's what you mean. He's got it out for the sex workers, too. I'm an en ...

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Date:	Tue May 24 07:11:09 PDT 2005

17646 [lbo-talk] Nostalgia, was anti-communism -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield wrote: >OECD statistics are that annual hours worked per American employee >have fallen from 2,033 hrs in 1960 to 1,817 hrs in 2003. >http://www.ggdc.net/dseries/Data/hours/OECDH05I.xls But a much larger share of the pop is working - about 63% today, vs. 56% in 1960. The BLS's aggregate hours series begins in 1964. Taking aggregate hours and dividing it by pop, there's been an increase of about 29% in hours worked per capita since 1964 - and that's only private-sector ...

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Date:	Tue May 24 06:42:11 PDT 2005

17647 [lbo-talk] organizing SBUX -- rank: 1000

New York Magazine - May 30, 2005 Baristas of the World, Unite! You have nothing to lose but your company-mandated cheerfulness. By Anya Kamenetz Nothing seems amiss at Starbucks Coffee Store No. 7356, on the southwest corner of Madison Avenue and 36th Street. It has a nice view of a nineteenth-century Gothic Revival church. The familiar aroma of dark-roasted Sumatra curls through the air. Most of the staffers are no older than teenagers, but none betrays the slightest hint of sullenness-or simme ...

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Date:	Tue May 24 06:07:23 PDT 2005

17648 [lbo-talk] Kansas, the red state (wasThe STFU left) -- rank: 1000

jthorn65 at sbcglobal.net wrote: >By the way Doug. Kansas City is in Missouri not Kansas. I know that the bigger KC is in Missouri. But Chuck is in Kansas, and that's where Tom Frank grew up too. Doug

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Date:	Tue May 24 05:37:17 PDT 2005

17649 [lbo-talk] Gloom amd Doom and . . . .? -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >No movement, state, party, or organization that is >not committed to liberal democracy deserves or stands >a chance in the modern world. I don't know that that's true about Latin America - there's intense cynicism about "liberal democracy" as just a cover for capitalism. I think people might sacrifice considerable political freedom for a better material life. I think a lot of Americans would sacrifice a lot of freedom to be "safer" should ...

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Date:	Mon May 23 18:39:35 PDT 2005

17650 [lbo-talk] The STFU left -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: 5 posts today, 4 yesterday, 7 the day before. I'm glad you're back, and you're welcome forever, but the limit is 3. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 23 18:32:35 PDT 2005

17651 [lbo-talk] The STFU left -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Most Americans hate Bush and the neocons. No, a lot do, not most. A lot of people like them too. You keep saying you don't see signs of pro-Bush feelings in Kansas, but he carried the state by a huge margin, no? And isn't KC a semi-blue enclave in Kansas? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 23 18:30:58 PDT 2005

17652 [lbo-talk] The STFU left -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >He sends quite a bit of anti-c stuff to me offlist , too. He's a real >redbaiter. Opinions about Michael Pug are by now well known. Let's have a moratorium. Doug

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Date:	Mon May 23 18:27:33 PDT 2005

17653 [lbo-talk] Expediency -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >But in the case >of Galloway, at least, the facts should be so clear that we needn't even >look to precedent. His politics are transparently contemptible Why? Because Marty Peretz wouldn't publish him? Doug

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Date:	Mon May 23 18:05:47 PDT 2005

17654 [lbo-talk] The STFU left (Carrol's queries) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Tom Ward. A mutual friend of Doug and I. Very smart, wickedly funny >anarchist way into the Situationist International...and alcohol alas. >A former writer for the Village Voice on music and politics.Got into a >tangle with another, famous music critic for the VV leading to his >firing. >Struggling in SF with odd jobs and cockroach ridden hotels full of >ex-cons who open beer bottles with large knives. I haven't seen Tom Ward in more than 10 years. I ...

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Date:	Sun May 22 11:55:59 PDT 2005

17655 [lbo-talk] Re: The STFU left -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >artificial unity and closure on questions See this is my problem. There are enougn problems today that I don't see any reason to bring up the Rosenbergs or the 1930s show trials or any of that. It's like picking at a scab - it may feel perversely good for a moment, but it's not healthy. Doug

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