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22111 [lbo-talk] Lenin & Oligopoly -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: > "Corporate capital" connects with popular consciousness But runs the risk of promoting populist ideas that non-corporate (i.e., small) capital is ok, when in many ways it's worse. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 09:16:24 PST 2004

22112 [lbo-talk] Was: Principled Discoursing More like off My Head -- rank: 1000

Hari Kumar wrote: >I think it relates to an earlier strand here that discussed how >members of the left behave pretty brutally to each other on this >peer group e-list & others. Too true, and I'm trying to do my bit to stop it. Younger radicals under anarcho-green influences are less guilty of it, but among those in the Old and New Left traditions, it's often quite brutal. Nastiness is too often confused with principle and rigor. It's self-destructive and alienates onlookers in drov ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 07:06:38 PST 2004

22113 [lbo-talk] 1979 (THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Then, why do you say that Nader "seems seriously nuts, in both the >political and psychopathological senses," on account of his having >given up on the Democratic Party in 1979? There was a series of stories in that piece, not just one. Talking in code and turning on his once and future associate Joan Claybrook are two other examples. As was his prediction about Reagan leading to mass mobilization - he's apparently of the worse the better school. Doug

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 06:47:22 PST 2004

22114 [lbo-talk] JFK II's romantic history -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - March 3, 2004 JOHN KERRY'S N.Y. TIMES LINK JOHN Kerry's ex-girlfriend Emma Gilbey is now married to Bill Keller, the executive editor of the New York Times - and some wags are wondering whether Gilbey's romantic past will influence her husband's coverage of the candidate. Kerry dated Gilbey, a British gin heiress, in the late 1980s before she dumped him for Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour. This was prior to Kerry marrying ketchup heiress Teresa Heinz and Gilbey gett ...

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 06:40:53 PST 2004

22115 [lbo-talk] summing it up -- rank: 1000

[from today's NYT] >``Bush has got to go,'' Martine Campbell, 32, a home health care >aide and single mother of two teenage girls, said this morning in >the Parkchester section of the Bronx. ``I don't care how, I don't >care why, but he has got to go.'' > >Ms. Campbell, who voted for Mr. Kerry, also said of the president: >``That man don't care about nothing except oil and money. He don't >care about people, he care about business people. He's in love with >money.''

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Date:	Wed Mar 3 06:29:35 PST 2004

22116 [lbo-talk] Bernanke on the Great Depression -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >It does not seem so odd. He has worked on the subject of years. No that part's not odd. But a longish lecture on the Depression right now by a Fed official does excite curiosity. > Also, he seems to >be suggesting -- based on a very quick skim -- the Fed could >possibly unleash a >crisis if it tries to break the bubble. Exactly. It looks like he's criticizing the Fed for busting the stock market in 1929, and again for defending the dollar in 1931 - so it ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 21:29:42 PST 2004

22117 [lbo-talk] RE: DeLong flap -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Seriously, Doug I am all for good food, fast cars and fine linen but lets >not get ahead of ourselves. Well yeah, I know that. I know at least 2 billion live on less than $2/day, which has been challenged, but is bad enough. But when I'm imagining a better world, I'm imagining mixing people up, which capitalism has given some of us a partial taste of. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 17:25:45 PST 2004

22118 [lbo-talk] Bernanke on the Great Depression -- rank: 1000

[odd choice of topic for a Fed governor] From: Federal Reserve Board Notification <FRBoard-WebAnnouncements at FRB.GOV> Subject: FR Board: Speech by Governor Bernanke The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System has released the following speech: Money, Gold, and the Great Depression http://www.federalreserve.gov/boarddocs/speeches/2004/200403022/

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 16:44:15 PST 2004

22119 [lbo-talk] can religion solve our problems? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/focus/sr040302.asp> Can Religion Solve Most of Today's Problems? Sixty percent of Americans say that religion can answer all of today's problems, while 26% of respondents in the 2003 aggregate say religion is old-fashioned and out-of-date.

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 14:50:03 PST 2004

22120 [lbo-talk] Naive Qs -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >...from this morning's WSJ: > >[1] In a contrast of Bush-1 and Bush-2, it's said that according to the >BLS, "1.4 million civilian jobs have been created in the past year ... >[in] 1990 and 1991, civilian jobs declined by 1.4 million" (p. A18). Is >that so? Dunno where the 1.4m figure comes from. According to the BLS's survey of households, employment has risen by 1.1m over the last year. According to the survey of employers (the "establi ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 14:46:40 PST 2004

22121 [lbo-talk] Correction -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And I would still like Doug to explain why "traitor" is a perfectly >decorous charge against fellow leftists while calling the one who used >that language a "piece of shit" is appalling. "Traitor" is not an acceptable choice of words either. Sorry if I failed to be evenhanded in my moderation. Like I've said before, people can disagree all they like, but impugning the motives or character or material composition of interlocutors is wrong. ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 14:26:55 PST 2004

22122 [lbo-talk] Re: Ok, I Need Some Education -- rank: 1000

BklynMagus wrote: >Eventually the free market will have losers and the winners who are >left will tend to monopoly. Tend towards concentration, yes. Competition usually leads to consolidation (mergers, takeovers, failures, etc.). But never monopoly - there's always some upstart or technological change to topple any would-be or near-monopolist. Even Microsoft will fall someday. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 14:23:27 PST 2004

22123 [lbo-talk] Labor Party (USA) -- rank: 1000

robert mast wrote: >Some on this list may have thoughts, references, or experience they >might share either on or off line. I know that some were close to >the LP, at least in spirit. The idea of a labor party today - in >the midst of poor role models abroad, corrupted business >unionists, scorn for third parties, or whatever other negatives that >can quite easily be dredged up - may pre-empt some of your creative >ideas. It's possible your mind may focus on American exc ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 13:52:23 PST 2004

22124 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Christian Parenti on PBS TONIGHT -- rank: 1000

Dear EmailNation Subscriber, Watch Nation writer Christian Parenti on PBS's NewsHour with Jim Lehrer TONIGHT, Tuesday, talking about his recent reporting trip to Iraq and subsequent Nation cover-story. The show airs at 7:00pm EST. Check local listings for confirmation. (And many apologies for the late notice but they frequently book these shows at the last-minute.) You can also read Parenti's article online: http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20040223&s=parenti Best Regards, Peter Rothberg ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 13:44:49 PST 2004

22125 [lbo-talk] Cardoso defends self -- rank: 1000

<http://www.asanet.org/sectionpolitic/newslet/interview.html> GLOBALIZATION AND DEMOCRACY: AN INTERVIEW WITH FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO BY HEINZ R. SONNTAG [Newsletter Editors' Note: We are fortunate to have for the website the full text of a dialogue between two prominent Latin American political sociologists. Heinz R. Sonntag interviews Fernando Henrique Cardoso, who served two terms as Brazil's president until 2002, after also having served as Senator, Foreign Minister and Finance Mini ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 12:35:09 PST 2004