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21031 [lbo-talk] Looking for a way out -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >makes me very happy that Bush won the >election. No DP president would pull out like this. He needs constant war. He's not going to pull out anytime soon. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 21:13:27 PST 2004

21032 [lbo-talk] Interview with Michael Hardt -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay quoted Michael Hardt: >not about >our guilt but >about >our joy. That's really nice. There are a lot of reasons why I like Hardt, but this is close to the top of the list. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 14:50:50 PST 2004

21033 [lbo-talk] more on Fallujah -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >What are you even thinking of? What "insurgency" has ever existed that >"needed to be defeated" via war? Let's hear your list. Hail the Red Army in Afghanistan!, to quote one of Workers Vanguard's classic headlines. The USSR conducted the war brutally, but they were more right than the side the US was supporting. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 14:46:42 PST 2004

21034 [lbo-talk] Excessive Lawsuits, Gay Rights, Tort Reform, -- rank: 1000

<james at communistbanker.com> wrote: >It's not possible to disentangle unnecessary tests due to >litigation and unnecessary tests due to other political >pressures to test for everything (it's being widely >promoted by the UK health lobby for reasons unconnected to >the law). But if doctors' professionalism means that they >continue to do the right thing, that does not excuse a culture >of litigation that encourages bad practices. You've been asserting something that ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 14:43:42 PST 2004

21035 [lbo-talk] more on Fallujah -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >Sad but true but I was thinking of Fallujah's significance as the >"city of mosques." The report I just read says that of six minarets, only one is still standing.

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 13:24:51 PST 2004

21036 [lbo-talk] Re: Political Cartography -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >I'll get the book, of course, but can we get a hint as to what you're >pointing to here? What did the women say? Let's just say that the class consciousness of American workers - even the more "activist" ones - is rather underdeveloped. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 13:04:21 PST 2004

21037 [lbo-talk] Callinicos on Derrida -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to Ian M. Nicely avoids all the usual vulgar Marxist stuff.] <http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=9101> Obituary: The Infinite Search Feature Article by Alex Callinicos, November 2004 There is much to celebrate in the work of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida, says Alex Callinicos. The death last month of Jacques Derrida at the age of 74 removed the last of that succession of great French intellectuals whose writings decisively shaped avant-garde thinki ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 12:57:04 PST 2004

21038 [lbo-talk] Re: Political Cartography -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: > I think at some point Americans will look around them and ask, is >that all there is? You must immediately get a copy of Liza Featherstone's Selling Women Short, and read some of the quotes from the workers she interviewed. You may reconsider. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 12:42:31 PST 2004

21039 [lbo-talk] more on Fallujah -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >We don't really see it yet because we're both too close and too far >away but the destruction of Fallujah by the United States military >is an event of immense historical significance. The full flowering >of this karma will take years and ... ...there's still Ramadi & Mosul to wreck.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 12:28:13 PST 2004

21040 [lbo-talk] more on Fallujah -- rank: 1000

A friend just sent a report from a friend who's just been in Fallujah. Horrible stuff. Aside from the usual killing, the Marines made a point of wrecking every house they searched, blowing holes in every bare wall they could find, and leaving bloody footprints on the floor of a mosque (where shoes aren't allowed) and shitting there. It's not enough to kill people in great quantities, they want to humiliate the survivors too. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 11:48:46 PST 2004

21041 [lbo-talk] When to Talk About Socialism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >That is why I never have and never will discuss socialism on this list. Except that it's different from a welfare state. Check, comrade. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 22 10:39:07 PST 2004

21042 [lbo-talk] Excessive Lawsuits, Gay Rights, Tort Reform, -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Probably you'd have a hard time persuading the jury >that this was due care, though. You might, though the "dart board" method is a common metaphor for random stock selection, and large randomly selected portfolios (which come close to replicating "the market" as a whole) generally do better than managed ones. I'm sure you could get a professor finance as an expert witness who could defend the practice rigorously. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 10:35:14 PST 2004

21043 [lbo-talk] Excessive Lawsuits, Gay Rights, Tort Reform, -- rank: 1000

<james at communistbanker.com> wrote: >In the UK I used to argue against the left's defence of the >welfare state. They were right to the extent that more is better >than less, but support of the welfare state encouraged >conservatism (the welfare state was never that great - it was >barely a start), and it was often a parochial defence of OUR >welfare state against outsiders. Justin's and Doug's tactical >approach of defending the status quo against tort reform makes ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 07:39:33 PST 2004

21044 [lbo-talk] Excessive Lawsuits, Gay Rights, Tort Reform, -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > But >suppose you cam show she that he didn't do any >research, picked stocks by throwing darts at the WSJ If s/he threw enough darts, the strategy would probably produce better returns than the research, assuming research doesn't mean access to inside information. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 07:36:30 PST 2004

21045 [lbo-talk] Political Cartography: The Welfare State -- rank: 1000

Bill Bartlett wrote: >Only people who have never lived at the pointy end of the welfare state You haven't had a job in what, 30 years? That doesn't sound too pointy to me. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 22 07:34:11 PST 2004