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18586 [lbo-talk] work for an asshole, no attachments please -- rank: 1000

[an update reports that "discrete" is a (sic)] <http://www.gawker.com/news/media/youre-not-good-enough-to-fetch-eric-altermans-dry-cleaning-114525.php> You're Not Good Enough to Fetch Eric Alterman's Dry Cleaning It's a tough time to be an aspiring public intellectual. You've got the master's, you've got the recognized byline, and you discover those things qualify you for what exactly? To be lefty pundit Eric Alterman's researcher/secretary. According to an email forwarded to us ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 27 09:53:47 PDT 2005

18587 [lbo-talk] Petit bourgeois class category (Teamsters quit AFL-CIO) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >There are many small businesses, many, many. Their owners are not an >inconsiderable number. The category petit bourgeoisie is not "extinct". Not at all. Something like 7-8 million Americans are self-employed. There are over 17 million business establishments with no employees. There are 6 million establishments with fewer than 20 employees. The p.b. is besieged and declining, but far from gone. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 08:08:23 PDT 2005

18588 [lbo-talk] Republicans see opportunity in split -- rank: 1000

[Nathan, better have a chat with Edsall, Ackerman, and unnamed Republican operatives. And this confirms my remark the other day about the impact on the AFL-CIO's GOTV operations.] Washington Post - July 27, 2005 Republicans See Opportunity in Labor Rift Jesse Jackson Appeals for Unity as Democrats Worry About Election Consequences By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer CHICAGO, July 26 -- The political consequences of the split within the AFL-CIO began to reverberate nationwide Tuesday ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 27 07:48:51 PDT 2005

18589 [lbo-talk] Americans Remain More Optimistic and Satisfied with Lifethan Europeans -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >>From: mike larkin <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com> >> >>With a few exceptions, Americans are generally happier >>with their lives and more optimistic about their >>future than are Europeans, according to a new Harris >>Poll. > >Ah, the woe of being among the loser "few exceptions" in a land of >beaming optimists! To quote myself, from the afterword to the paperback of After the New Economy: "Americans always pro ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 06:53:44 PDT 2005

18590 [lbo-talk] Teamsters quit AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

Ted Winslow wrote: >Moreover, Marx's taxonomy is based on a particular theory of the >development of human subjectivity. In that theory, domination >within relations of production is positively developmental of >rational self-consciousness, of what A.N. Whitehead calls "noble >discontent." This is discontent rooted in self-conscious awareness >of the "good" and of the means required to make our actual lives >better by making them approximate more to the ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 27 06:35:15 PDT 2005

18591 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO CALLS FOR END TO OCCUPATION OF IRAQ -- rank: 1000

From: "U.S. Labor Against the War" <uslaw at igc.org> Date: 07/26/2005 10:37PM Subject: FLASH!!!: AFL-CIO CALLS FOR END TO OCCUPATION OF IRAQ For immediate release : July 27, 2005, 5:15 p.m. CDT Please distribute widely! AFL-CIO Calls for Rapid Return of U.S. Troops Chicago: In a major change of course, the AFL-CIO Convention delegates voted this afternoon in favor of a resolution calling for a "rapid" return of all U.S. troops from Iraq. Eighteen AFL-CIO state federati ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 21:04:21 PDT 2005

18592 [lbo-talk] Teamsters quit AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >Here's another bourgeois source, with plenty of >numbers, in case you had any doubts in your mind. I'll >let you draw your own conclusions this time, though: >http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/WorldCom-ExEmployees-Suffer30sep02.htm >Note that this article well predates the recent >passage of new bankruptcy laws in the United States >which further favor the capitalist class. Hmm, so all those displaced and screwed Worldcom workers have become proletari ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 19:32:11 PDT 2005

18593 [lbo-talk] Teamsters quit AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

amadeus amadeus wrote: >It's a little more than amusing to watch Mr. Henwood >flit and float between objective and subjective, from >bourgeois labor stats to the imagined subjectivities >of "the human psyche" to defend his dear "middle >class". What kind of idiot are you? The middle class isn't dear to me - I'm trying to analyze life as it is here in the USA. All the objective Marxist taxonomy you want to throw at the problem doesn't amount to shit as long as p ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 19:20:46 PDT 2005

18594 [lbo-talk] Asiazilla in the chips -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Dennis Redmond: > >Andrew Orlowski has the latest on China's rapid advance in CPU tech: > >http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/china_cpu/ > >============== > > >Wow, wow and again.... > >Yes. Wow. And to think the yahoos are out baying over a mere oil company! Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 19:19:10 PDT 2005

18595 [lbo-talk] more on The Split -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >To get back to the point, though, Nathan is right -- as he usually is when >it comes to discussions of labor on this list. No one has yet explained to >me the mechanics of how some unions leaving the AFL-CIO is going to impact >electoral politics negatively from the point of view of Democrats. All of >the mobilization that the AFL-CIO and local labor councils do is done >through the affiliated unions anyway -- and in many places, I would add, the >bulk of ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 19:15:01 PDT 2005

18596 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I do not particularly care what motivates people - be it imaginary heavenly >creatures or anger over the course of events or policies that I strongly >oppose as well. All I care about is people's deeds. So if someobody >decides to blow up innocent people selected at random - I care very little >whether his motives are justified or not - all I care that this guy be >stopped in the most effective way possible. Blowing his brains our before >he blow ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:49:44 PDT 2005

18597 [lbo-talk] Teamsters quit AFL-CIO -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Like your mentor, Freud, you are a >mechanical materialist at base. Wow, you don't really know Freud very well, do you? And that's a pretty funny remark coming after your rigid "America is divided into two classes" routine. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:48:23 PDT 2005

18598 [lbo-talk] Re: self-hating jews dept -- rank: 1000

Seth Kulick wrote: > > From: frank scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> >> >"Weren't many religious Jews opposed to the foundation >> >of Israel, arguing that it preempted the Messiah?" >> > >> indeed...the state of israel is seen as a sin against "g'd" by some, >> especially the neturei karta... >> >> they're the the wonderful folks who would often be photographed with >> arafat...the sight of these ort ...

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18599 [lbo-talk] Shot dead in London -- rank: 1000

ravi wrote: >On 07/26/05 16:00, www.leninology. blogspot.com wrote: >> >> More importantly, if you are going to take issue in such a pedantic way >> with the use of the term 'execution', it would be a good idea to propose >> something better. You opt for obtuseness whereas Orwell, since you cite >> him, would have insisted on clarity. True, this Brazilian electrician >> was not executed, since that involves a legal penalty. But it is >> desce ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:04:04 PDT 2005

18600 [lbo-talk] court upholds CDA -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE National Coalition for Sexual Freedom Contact: Susan Wright, NCSF Spokesperson (917) 848-6544 Communications Decency Act (CDA) Lawsuit July 26, 2005 - New York, NY - A three judge panel has made a decision in the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom and acclaimed photographer Barbara Nitke's challenge against the Communications Decency Act (CDA) which criminalizes free speech on the Internet. According to the court, the plaintiffs presented "insufficient evidence" ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 26 14:02:55 PDT 2005