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17911 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >Both these elements - a desperate impulse to escape from intolerable >conditions, coupled with hope the future will be better - are present in >every movement for social change, including those which arose during the >Depression. But the movements that arose in the 60s were the product of "good" times - that just weren't good enough. The best situation for the ruling class is when the masses are moderately nervous - when unemployment is high enough to ...

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Date:	Sun May 1 11:43:32 PDT 2005

17912 [lbo-talk] LBO - a culture? Then critique ... -- rank: 1000

martin wrote: >have you got your new OS yet, Doug? Not yet. Been reading some of the reports on the geek sites and I'm thinking I might wait a bit until they get the kinks ironed out. Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 11:41:02 PDT 2005

17913 [lbo-talk] Is The Bush Admin Social Security Plan Doomed? -- rank: 1000

snitsnat wrote: >what an excellent way to get rid of it altogether. stigmatize it. In >5-10 years, bye-bye to it all. Which is what they want, innit? Yes, of course that's what they want - or, more precisely, they want it to be a minimal welfare program for the very poor. But their strategy for getting there seems really fucked. Who in Congress can afford to vote for something like that? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 10:03:50 PDT 2005

17914 [lbo-talk] Is The Bush Admin Social Security Plan Doomed? -- rank: 1000

Leigh Meyers wrote: >Bush proposes different Social Security system for rich, poor. The politics of this are very weird. Americans aren't fond of "welfare" programs, but that's what Bush is proposing to turn SS into - cutting benefits for middle & upper income people without cutting their taxes. That seems doomed from the start, no? And more broadly damaging politically, I'd think. Am I missing something? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 09:30:18 PDT 2005

17915 [lbo-talk] alt-porn -- rank: 1000

New York Times - May 1, 2005 Wearing Nothing but Attitude By ROBERT LANHAM IN a cramped apartment in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, members of a tiny film crew were busy transforming a cluttered living room into a makeshift set. All the furniture had been pushed against the walls, and the shades had been opened. Dirty dishes were piled in the kitchen sink. A thin, fit guy with tattoos who called himself Tommy Pistol was sitting naked behind a computer, videotaping himself with a hand-held camera and wa ...

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Date:	Sun May 1 09:16:06 PDT 2005

17916 [lbo-talk] anniversary -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Hurray ! Hurray ! >For the very First of May ! In the U.S., celebrated jointly as Law Day and Loyalty Day. Bush didn't issue proclamations on either this year (at least according to what's on the WH website), but he did in previous years. Shut up & obey! Doug ---- For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary April 30, 2004 Loyalty Day, 2004 By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation As Americans, we work to preserve the freedom declared ...

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Date:	Sun May 1 09:09:57 PDT 2005

17917 [lbo-talk] capitalism is boring........ -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >I need! I need! I need! How solipsistic can you get? In this case, the need is for intellectually stimulating work. What's wrong with that? Don't we want that for everyone? Doug

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Date:	Sun May 1 08:43:01 PDT 2005

17918 [lbo-talk] Wall Street -- rank: 1000

Ok, Verso's granted me the rights to Wall Street. Watch this space for further imminent announcements. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 17:40:36 PST 2005

17919 Fwd: [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: March 31, 2005 Carlos Mejia, who deserted from his unit in Iraq, on war, resistance, and his year in jail * Nicola Kraus & Emma McLaughlin, authors of Citizen Girl and The Nanny Diaries, on gender, work, and the satiric novel it joins -------- March 24, 2005 Simon Head, author of an excellent roundup-on Wal-Mart in the New York Review of Books (which prompted a two-page rebuttal ad from Wal-Mart!) and of T ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 17:37:50 PST 2005

17920 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CVS is knocking out small drugstore owners. Which could increase competition, not decrease it. The small drugstore owner can be a local monopoly, with limited selection and high prices; the chains compete with each other, have larger selections and lower prices. I just don't buy it that there's a trend towards increasing monopolization. The auto sector in the US in the 1950s was dominated by the big three; now there are something like ten major players, and the big three ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 15:45:31 PST 2005

17921 [lbo-talk] The state -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >But they've grown up in a capitalist society that systematically >facilitates weenie-wagging and flaming, so this is a predictable >outcome. (Again, the obstacle is not human nature, it's the >constellation of social relations we're in now.) But we've all grown up in a capitalist society, and bear its psychic scars. Doesn't that contaminate any anticapitalist project? If a group highly disposed towards nonhierarchical, self-governing politics can't organize a l ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 09:43:21 PST 2005

17922 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? Imperialism has been monopoly -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Hey, yea, imperialism is _monopoly_ in this way too. The analogy to >Microsoft's monopoly strategy is apt. Except that Microsoft is a once in a generation monopoly. There's nothing else like it. Cf. the airlines. Doug

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 09:28:20 PST 2005

17923 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > > >Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >>I think this is fundamentally untrue. Of course, European plundered the >>New >>World, Africa and to lesser degree Asia, but I do not think that plunder >>alone was the source of North's wealth. > >-Did I say "plunder alone"? I said "greased." I know this is all very >-controversial, a ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 09:19:30 PST 2005

17924 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Doug: >> >There's no question in my mind that the North's rise to wealth was >greased >> >by theft of resources and people from the South (though when I say things >> >like that, Bob Brenner often writes me offlist to disagree). But today, > > >I think this is fundamentally untrue. Of course, European plundered the New >World, Africa and to lesser degree Asia, but I do not think that plunder >alone was the source of No ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 07:37:59 PST 2005

17925 [lbo-talk] and they even make a Mac version! -- rank: 1000

At 1:34 AM -0800 3/31/05, VersionTracker wrote: >America's Army: Special Forces 2.3 (Freeware - 03/30/2005) >virtual Army missions game >http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/20273

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Date:	Thu Mar 31 07:31:25 PST 2005