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17926 [lbo-talk] The state -- rank: 1000

Mike Ballard wrote: >A classless society would not have a State, but would have all the >self-governing structure it needed--perhaps an 'administration of >things' by an 'association of producers'. Having just watched the aut-op-sy list (autonomists, libertarian communists, etc.) just fall apart because of weenie-wagging and flaming, I'm more skeptical than ever that this would work. If a small group of people who fall under the same political taxonomy can't keep a listserv going, they' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 31 07:29:23 PST 2005

17927 [lbo-talk] Hitler's mind -- rank: 1000

New York Times - March 31, 2005 An Early Wartime Profile Depicts a Tormented Hitler By BENEDICT CAREY He was a feminine boy, averse to manual work, who was "annoyingly subservient" to superior officers as a young soldier and had nightmares that were "very suggestive of homosexual panic." The mass killings that he later perpetrated stemmed in part from a desperate loathing of his own submissive weakness, and the humiliations of being beaten by a sadistic father. What is believ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Mar 31 07:19:43 PST 2005

17928 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

Chuck Grimes wrote: >China gains power, wealth and influence by subjugating its own masses, >just as the US power elite do over people like me. As they used to call the column in the late Guardian weekly, "That's Capitalism!" Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 30 18:42:03 PST 2005

17929 [lbo-talk] FBI headaches -- rank: 1000

tully wrote: >You may want to consider not keeping logs, putting the <meta >name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> tags in to stop search >engine spider indexing, and to make the list and its archives >private. Uh, no. The list archives are useful public information, averaging almost 7500 hits a day. They often score quite high in google searches. If you're worried about getting in trouble with your boss or a relative, use an address that disguises your ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Mar 30 17:09:56 PST 2005

17930 [lbo-talk] FBI headaches -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >Plenty! But lbo-talk isn't the kind of list where we're likely to get >an FBI subpoena ... uh right? :-) I suppose some wreckless sort could post something that might excite the interest of the gumshoes, but I certainly hope not. First, because I don't want to deal with cops, and second, because those sorts of provocations are stupid and wrong. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 15:58:53 PST 2005

17931 [lbo-talk] democracy in Egypt -- rank: 1000

[someone asked me about this offlist, so I thought I'd post the piece here] Financial Times - March 30, 2005 Democracy still a dream for Egypt's beleaguered Islamist movement By William Wallis For Mahmoud Abd el-Salam and Hossny Hassan thisdoes not feel like springtimefor democracy in the Arab world. The two men - one a vet, the other an agricultural engineer - sympathise with Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and have been active promoting its values in the Giza governorate of Cairo. They are recoveri ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 15:22:23 PST 2005

17932 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Or to put it another way, do you contend either that Prebisch-Singer >were wrong, or that their findings for the period before 1950 have not >in fact been even more true in the last half century? To put what another way? Declining commodity prices could be caused by tecnical progress, not imperialism. Of course the reason declining commodity prices are important to some countries is that they've never really industrialized. That failure to industrialize is, among other ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 15:13:42 PST 2005

17933 [lbo-talk] social index -- rank: 1000

The topic of social investing came up here recently. The leading vendor of socially screened stock indexes, KLD, doesn't reveal the composition of its indexes, but here are the top 10 components of its headline index <http://www.kld.com/benchmarks/topten.html>: 1. Microsoft Corporation 2. Johnson & Johnson 3. American International Group, Inc. 4. Intel Corporation 5. Procter & Gamble Company 6. J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. 7. Cisco Systems, Inc. 8. Coca-Cola Company 9. Dell ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 14:12:54 PST 2005

17934 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

B. wrote: >It's getting a bit dated already, but what about >Juliette Majot's statement in "Brave New World Bank" [ >Juliette Majot "Brave New World Bank," Global >Exchanges, Winter, 1994] that during the 1980s and up >until 1990 "debt service remittances ... from poor >countries to rich countries totaled $1345 billion, >while at the same time *total* resource flows from >rich to poor countries totaled $927 billion." True, >that only takes ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 12:12:06 PST 2005

17935 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >I recollect a conversation with the late excellent David Gordon, in >which he said that if you ran current (this was some twenty years ago - >but it would be even more true today) center-periphery trade balances >with the relative prices of 1900 for the primary trade categories, the >difference in favor of the periphery would account for the entire growth >in the center. But does that turn on the power relations of imperialism, or the declining importance of p ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 11:48:17 PST 2005

17936 [lbo-talk] Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >But your opponents here argue that all this is mere history. >There once was history (perhaps), but that's all over now. >The timeless truth of _today's_ terms of trade between center and >periphery is...well, self-evident - aren't markets efficient? That's not my argument, if you're referring to me. Could you specify the contribution of the periphery to the center's prosperity today instead of treating it as self-evident? Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 11:26:16 PST 2005

17937 [lbo-talk] Ms. brouhaha -- rank: 1000

New York Observer - April 4, 2005 Les Ms.-erables Bust Cover by Sheelah Kolhatkar When the spring 2005 issue of Ms. magazine-the old feminist glossy that you almost forgot still existed-arrives on newsstands this week, readers might notice something a little odd. In the "Letter from the Editor" column, Ms. editor in chief Elaine Lafferty, 47, reveals that she's leaving the magazine after a two-year tenure. "In the last two years, I believe Ms. has been lively, provocative, thought ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 11:23:15 PST 2005

17938 [lbo-talk] Pathological Fear of Dependency, was Re: New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >>Also -- usually (as in this thread) hierarchy is automatically equated >>with hierarchies of _power_. And unequal distributions of power can and >>usually (not always) do constitute a threat to the well being of those >>'lower' in the hierarchy. I'm not sure that all these equations hold. >>This seems to be part of what Travis has in mind: >> >>T Fast wrote: >>>And the consequences for the individuals participating in these very ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 11:01:23 PST 2005

17939 [lbo-talk] New Imperialism? -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >No empirical evidence? The very countries we are sitting in once >belonged to others--you may have heard of them. They would be >included included in the definition of th south. 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'm not so sure. My sense is that the world's poor regions are mostly outside ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 10:50:57 PST 2005

17940 Language, was Re: [lbo-talk] stats (beheadings) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The U.S. in its 55 year war on the Mideast has finally succeeded in >unleashing a pack of fucking religious fanatics and murderers on the >world, and every day that the u.s. stays in the Mideast increases the >power and numbers of thos fucking thugs. We've got to push the u.s. out >to leave room for the mass of mideast people to handle these thugs. They >may or may not be able to do so in this generation, but those thugs will >always remain dominant while ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 30 10:26:56 PST 2005