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19951 [lbo-talk] India: Marx invoked to break Lefts FDI barrier -- rank: 1000

Randy Steindorf wrote: >See also Harry Shutt, The Trouble with Capitalism, chapter on Coping >with the Capital Glut: "the inevitable consequence of maintaining a >high return on the capital stock as a whole is that yet more >investible funds will be generated for which outlets must be >found...Hence the effort now needed to sustain the market value of >capital resembles the futile labor of Sisyphus..." Hmm, capitalism has travelled a lot more ground over the centurie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 1 13:27:50 PDT 2005

19952 [lbo-talk] Keven "Dow 36, 000" Hassett does a post-mortem on Soc Sec "reform" -- rank: 1000

How President Bush's Social Security Reform Died By Kevin Hassett Aug. 1 (Bloomberg) -- Social Security reform is dead. How it died tells us a lot about both U.S. political parties. For a while, Social Security reform was like Westley, the hero of ``The Princess Bride.'' After his friends discovered him in a torture chamber, apparently dead, they took him to a miracle maker named Max to see if he could be revived. After inspecting Westley, Max had good news. ``There's different kinds of dead,'' ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 1 12:30:25 PDT 2005

19953 [lbo-talk] the flavor of WBAI -- rank: 1000

[this is from the incredibly depressing WBAI listener bulletin board] <http://www.listenerforums.net/cgi-bin/issues_config.pl?noframes;read=39090> Stop white women's attacks on WBAI management Posted By: Kotub (4.236.114.27) Date: Monday, 1 August 2005, at 2:39 a.m. In Response To: Open Letter to WBAI Producers re Hufschmid Premium (Steffie) "Steffie," you are a privileged white woman. You have no right to lecture Black managers about their premium choices. If you don't like the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 1 08:28:37 PDT 2005

19954 [lbo-talk] WBAI scores with holocaust denalist's premium -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Chuck0 carried that individualist streak to its >logical extreme, and he differs from right-libertarians only nominally. >And the first principle of his position is anti-socialism, to which all >other elements of it must be subordinate. Put otherwise, he is a common >garden-variety anti-red. Not serious. Please. There's lots I disagree with Chuck0 about, but he's not that. Or are you such an ultra-leftist that you can't tell the difference? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Aug 1 08:07:09 PDT 2005

19955 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Autoplectic wrote: >The horrors of the 20th century are enough to disabuse more than a few >humans on this planet of thinking in terms of the 'ultimate destiny of >mankind'; it is hubris and megalomania on steroids Yeah, but that's just the sort of thing I was talking about - fear of thinking big ideas. I don't think people with utopian longings should be blamed for Auschwitz or Hiroshima. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 20:42:27 PDT 2005

19956 [lbo-talk] the new york review of me -- rank: 1000

New York Press - April 13, 2005 MATT TAIBBI NEWS & COLUMNS I had two surprises last week. The first came via an email from my publisher, Colin Robinson at the New Press in New York. Quietly, as though it was no big deal, Colin informed me that he had spotted my new book, Spanking the Donkey, on the bookshelves at a Barnes & Noble in downtown Manhattan. I called him up. "What the fuck?" I said. "I thought it was coming out in May!" Colin is a classically hyper-polite B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 16:52:42 PDT 2005

19957 [lbo-talk] Salazar regrets calling Dobson antichrist -- rank: 1000

Rocky Mountain News - April 28, 2005 Salazar regrets 'Antichrist' barb Senator says he meant only to accuse Dobson of being 'self-serving' By M.E. Sprengelmeyer, Rocky Mountain News WASHINGTON - Sen. Ken Salazar said Wednesday he regrets referring to Focus on the Family and its founder James Dobson as "the Antichrist" - a term among the worst slurs in Christianity. Salazar issued a statement Wednesday evening, backing down from a remark he made Tuesday night during an audio interview ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 16:29:39 PDT 2005

19958 [lbo-talk] definitions -- rank: 1000

Speaking of hip-hop, could some younger and/or hipper listmembers define two terms for me: "crunk" and "twurkin'"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 14:54:38 PDT 2005

19959 [lbo-talk] Re: How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >There's an old story about a Communist recruiting pitch, delivered >before a meeting in the 1930s. The speaker says something like: > >"Our Italian comrades languish in Mussolini's dungeons! Our German >comrades are working their lives out from dawn to dusk at >Buchenwald, under the unrelenting gaze of brutal Nazi kapos! Our >South African comrades are being stangled to death with chicken wire >in their cells! Brothers and Sisters, join the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 12:17:30 PDT 2005

19960 [lbo-talk] WRL seeks magazine editor -- rank: 1000

Job Opening Editor of the Nonviolent Activist Eighty-two-year-old peace organization seeks half-time Editor to produce (in consultation with Publications Committee) the Nonviolent Activist magazine, plan articles, contact potential authors and solicit articles, edit copy, write news briefs as needed, coordinate magazine production, oversee magazine's budget, work with database manager on subscription system and share general office duties with other staff. Requirements include editorial experien ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 12:14:55 PDT 2005

19961 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > > >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Now many of >> us are backward looking, > >There you go again. > >Many of us are X? (How many? Describe some specific and important >currents on the left -- naming core individuals -- who areX?_ > >Therefor many of us are _not_ X. > >Don't you get tired of empty tautologies? Don't you get tired of the same stupid wind-up lecture? Did you ever read anything by Vandana Shiva or any of the gang ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 30 12:13:35 PDT 2005

19962 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >I note for example, that at times when a list member like Dennis >Redmond would mention video game culture in an attempt to describe >an element of the contemporary moment, this was often ignored or >dismissed as being unrelated to *revolution* or, in less ethereal >responses, the basic ground work of fighting injustice. I gotta confess, I just don't get the video game thing. It seems weird and alien to me. Not because of the technology, but because of the so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 10:25:45 PDT 2005

19963 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >It is about fear, as in the panicky response to 9/11. You can make the case >that all great progressive change as well as reaction has been the result of >fear - in such cases, the fear of suffering and death from hunger or war or >both. But the left used to be about hope, optimism, the future. Now many of us are backward looking, romanticizing peasant agriculture or the horny-handed working class of old, quaking with terror over the risks of biotech, secretly ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 09:40:12 PDT 2005

19964 [lbo-talk] Apple Computer, 1984 revisited -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >[Steve Jobs' Ministry of Truth] But let's focus on the positive! Sounds like OS 10.4 is really hot. I can't wait to get my copy. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 30 09:25:18 PDT 2005

19965 [lbo-talk] How Americans would respond (Was Reply to MG) -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >That is unsettling - and it's a point you and others have made before, which >I kind of thought was half tongue in cheek, because I truly can't see that >happening up here and regard the more liberal and urbanized Northern and >upper coastal states as largely sharing the same political culture as us. >That view was reinforced for me after the last election when those >Jesusland/United States of Canada maps started circulating on the Net. Is >the percep ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 29 16:37:33 PDT 2005