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1861 [lbo-talk] guess the bourgeoisie doesn't hate him after all -- rank: 1000

POLITICO Breaking News ------------------------------------------------- In a pre-dawn Web video sent to supporters, President Barack Obama's 2012 Campaign Manager Jim Messina has announced that Obama for America and the Democratic National Committee raised a combined $86 million for the first quarter - shattering previous fundraising records by incumbents, dwarfing the totals of the GOP field, and besting the campaign's own $80 million target. For more information... http://www.politico.com

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 13 04:38:48 PDT 2011

1862 [lbo-talk] Wikipedia -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:06 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Wikipedia is utterly undependable on the subject of the left. But the article on "cool" is actually pretty good. And if you want a list of all the subgenres of metal. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 21:10:25 PDT 2011

1863 [lbo-talk] Engelhardt on Obama -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The President of the United States is a friend of capital, regardless of who he/she is. Not really very intersting. You know that. I know that. Most of the people reading this know that. But all the potential allies for people like us - the near-left that you often identify as the best targets for recruitment - don't know that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 18:12:06 PDT 2011

1864 [lbo-talk] Weisbrot: Why the Euro is Not Worth Saving -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:05 PM, // ravi wrote: > On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> But I'm talking general tendencies. Of course, nothing in social life is as fixed as Avogadro's number. >> > > Since naked links are all the rage: http://l.ravi.be/odNN8O :-) Ha. Funny.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 09:26:18 PDT 2011

1865 [lbo-talk] Weisbrot: Why the Euro is Not Worth Saving -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Yann Morvan wrote: > I've asked Doug what he thinks of Yanis' proposal but I'm an lbo newb (after 11 years of lurking) so I can only hope:) Sorry, missed it. I like Yanis' proposal. No criticism, really. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 09:24:20 PDT 2011

1866 [lbo-talk] Weisbrot: Why the Euro is Not Worth Saving -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > It is a jumbled mess, but I think the main point might be worth > thinking about: why, despite Europe's more vibrant oppositional > institutions, is it right now more austere and disciplining than the > U.S.? In this instance, there seems to be no connection between robust > social pressure and increasing social democracy. One reason is that the austerity is being directed by supra-national authorities - the EU, ECB - and the bond m ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 08:55:43 PDT 2011

1867 [lbo-talk] Weisbrot: Why the Euro is Not Worth Saving -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Maybe it's the unsubtlety of email, but I read statements such as > "crises are not good for the left, since they make people more > defensive, insular, competitive, and focused on survival" as fairly > mechanistic in that they seem to treat all crises the same and don't > seem to allow for any possible escape from the crises' effects. Don't > get me wrong: Empirically speaking, I mostly agree with you that > crises ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jul 12 08:49:42 PDT 2011

1868 [lbo-talk] Weisbrot: Why the Euro is Not Worth Saving -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:24 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > I agree, and it's why, though I'm sympathetic their anticatastrophism, > I can't sign on to Doug's and Carrol's mechanistic, deterministic > views on crisis, communism, and social change. I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jul 12 05:56:07 PDT 2011

1869 [lbo-talk] Bad Times and the Left -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2011, at 10:06 PM, ken hanly wrote: > I do think that there is a relationship between social democracy as it is > now at least and revolutionary movements. It is an inverse relationship. I think you're wrong. I think social democracy is a concession forced from capitalists when the threat of expropriation looms. No socialist threat, no social democracy. That's why soc dem suffered from the end of the USSR. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 11 19:24:52 PDT 2011

1870 [lbo-talk] "The not-so-secret secret" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2011, at 7:32 PM, SA wrote: > On 7/11/2011 7:03 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, SA wrote: >> >>> http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=607 >> I agreed with that when I read it, but then I thought - when is Ross Asshat ever right? > > Doesn't his headshot remind you of the columnists in the Onion? Ha - I never see that, because I read him on newsprint. What an ass. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 18:00:26 PDT 2011

1871 [lbo-talk] "The not-so-secret secret" -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, SA wrote: > http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=607 I agreed with that when I read it, but then I thought - when is Ross Asshat ever right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 11 16:03:31 PDT 2011

1872 [lbo-talk] Bad Times and the Left -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2011, at 4:58 PM, ken hanly wrote: > If there were more leftists who rejected capitalism > bad times would be the best of times because they show that capitalism is a > failure and that socialism is necessary as a solution not attempts to save > capitalism. Oh, ok, we'll get right on that. You think there's no relationship between the health of social democracy and the power of revolutionary movements? How can you have the moderate alternative without the threat of much wo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 11 15:58:25 PDT 2011

1873 [lbo-talk] Tea Party conservatives are all poor and ignorant -- rank: 1000

Who said they were poor and ignorant? I thought it was well-established that they're better off and better educated than average.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 11 15:54:57 PDT 2011

1874 [lbo-talk] Bad Times and the Left -- rank: 1000

On Jul 11, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > We disagree on many things but not on this. We agree on many things too, and even when we disagree, it's worth hearing what you have to say. I just wish you weren't such a sourpuss. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 11 08:49:33 PDT 2011

1875 [lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why." -- rank: 1000

On Jul 10, 2011, at 10:59 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I was hanging out with a friend from Paris. He mentioned that the hard right in France is growing stronger and more numerous, and that it is now 25% of the electorate. And I said, why, why is there no reciprocal consolidation and growth on the left. His reply was interesting and I think very close to the mark. He said that what everyone is being told is that there's not enough to go around, that we live in a world of increasing scar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 11 08:13:54 PDT 2011