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22126 [lbo-talk] RE: DeLong flap -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >No please, Not Doug, he will have all of us eating cosmopolitian cheese >puffs! (which taste just like american cheese puffs only made in _________). I suppose that was a joke of sorts, but cheese puffs aren't terribly cosmopolitan. But one of the nice things about cuisine today is exactly how cosmpolitan it is - I can walk down Grand Street and choose among Indian, Italian, Argentine, French bistro, Polish crepes, and nouvelle Austrian. And then there's all the lovely hybri ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 11:40:19 PST 2004

22127 [lbo-talk] Sweezy, Stalin, etc. -- rank: 1000

Tahir Wood wrote: >What might be just a tad more interesting is a debate about (a) >Sweezy's brand of marxism, which seems to fall somewhere between >Keynes and Lenin's 'Imperialism, the highest stage ...' (and quite >far away from Marx), and (b) the nature of Soviet-style socialism as >defined successively by Lenin and Stalin. I can't think of two more >important topics for a leftist list I agree. Why don't you start it off by expanding on these thoughts? Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 11:33:44 PST 2004

22128 [lbo-talk] issues in politics -- rank: 1000

Washington Square News - March 2, 2004 <http://www.nyunews.com/news/campus/6929.html> Times panel: Major issues ignored in '04 by Ryan Hagen Staff Writer On the eve of today's Super Tuesday primaries, members of the New York Times editorial board said last night that presidential candidates are ducking key issues to win swing votes. The six-person panel fielded questions from the 400-plus audience in the Kimmel Center auditorium on issues from Haiti to higher education, but was not asked a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 09:19:14 PST 2004

22129 [lbo-talk] RE: DeLong flap -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Ulhas: >> Where is the stagnation? > >In unused productive capacity; in Japan; in decade-by-decade growth rate >declines; in jobless recoveries; etc.; etc. Read the book again. I think stagnation is a misleading word. Growth may be slow in some regions - though not China or India, which account for a third of the world population - but under the surface, there's been the proverbial constant revolution of social and economic relations. Regions, indu ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 09:03:14 PST 2004

22130 [lbo-talk] Principled Discoursin' -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >i've met carrol in the flesh So have I - twice, and he seemed like a very agreeable fellow on both occasions. But in cyberspace, he has few rivals in prickishness. I wonder if it has anything to do with that recent study showing that people are more likely to lie in person than via email. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 09:05:46 PST 2004

22131 [lbo-talk] Bush: planning ahead -- rank: 1000

Bush Seeks to Use $1M in Transition Funds By ALAN FRAM WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is making an unprecedented request to use up to $1 million budgeted for a possible presidential transition to train top officials who would join his administration if he should win a second term. The proposal, which will require Congress' approval, is the first time a president has sought to use public transition funds to prepare officials to enter a re-elected administration, White House officials and others ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 07:28:45 PST 2004

22132 [lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Jimmy Carter = Afghanistan + Paul Volcker Yup, I know that. I don't know how many times I have to repeat this, but I don't think Carter or any other prominent Democrat is "good." Somewhat less bad on some important issues, that's all. You seem incapable of either understanding or recognizing that. To develop your formula: Ronald Reagan = Jimmy Carter + (civilian fiscal austerity + union-busting + the contras + a culture of vicious stupidity). Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 06:57:04 PST 2004

22133 [lbo-talk] cultural note -- rank: 1000

Today is Lou Reed's 62nd birthday. Please celebrate appropriately.

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 06:47:28 PST 2004

22134 [lbo-talk] scab pride -- rank: 1000

<http://www.mises.org/fullstory.asp?control=1461> Proud to be a Replacement Worker by Ryan Ford I've been working at Ralphs on Beverly and Doheny for nearly 3 months. This was my first job. The lucrative pay and high demand for workers drew me to it. I simply walked in and filled out application, and was given the hours I'd work. I started as a bagger. "Bread and eggs should be on the top. You know, just use common sense." Those two sentences were my training. I showed up wanting ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 06:42:32 PST 2004

22135 [lbo-talk] Principled Discoursin' -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >John's letter to Counterpunch makes him fair game for anyone who >believes in the continuing struggle against u.s. crimes across the >globe. And my focus here is not on either his arguments or my arguments >but on whether he considers those who oppose support of the DP traitors. >If he does, then he is a piece of shit. If he doesn't, and either I have >misunderstood his letter to Counterpunch or he retracts it, then I owe >him an apology. > >I stoppe ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 2 06:40:12 PST 2004

22136 [lbo-talk] Fwd: California Grocery Workers Settle Contract, Save Health Care -- rank: 1000

[hey, the California grocery workers won, sez the AFL-CIO!] Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 00:49:15 GMT From: "Working Families e-Activist Network" <peoplepower at aflcio.org> Subject: California Grocery Workers Settle Contract, Save Health Care Dear Working Families e-Activist: California grocery workers saved affordable health care benefits and beat back employer demands to freeze pension funds after holding strong on the picket line for five months. Over the weekend, some 59,000 membe ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 16:51:16 PST 2004

22137 [lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >http://www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040308&s=chait030804 > >THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER >Make You Ralph >by Jonathan Chait Interesting stuff. He seems seriously nuts, in both the political and psychopathological senses: >The Jimmy Carter presidency only saw a heightening of Nader's >schismatic tendencies. "I want access. I want to be able to see >[Carter] and talk to him. I expected to be consulted," he told The >New York Times ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 15:22:23 PST 2004

22138 [lbo-talk] : BDL on Sweezy) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Lots of folks were soft of >Stalin and nonetheless did good work. Don't forget Keynes's creepy intro to the German edition of The General Theory <http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/foregt.html>: >The theory of aggregated production, which is the point of the >following book, nevertheless can be much easier adapted to the >conditions of a totalitarian state [eines totalen Staates] than the >theory of production and distribution of a given pr ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 15:03:28 PST 2004

22139 [lbo-talk] building a New Economy visual archive -- rank: 1000

[bounced for some mysterious reason] Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 21:17:14 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org From: Thomas Frank <wedelbe at gsbalum.uchicago.edu> Subject: building a New Economy visual archive I'm trying to get copies of certain TV commercials that ran a lot during the bubble years, especially on CNBC. One is a commercial for the Datek brokerage called "The Wall" in which a jacquerie of small investors breaks down the door of the stock exchange (I used to have a copy, ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 13:29:45 PST 2004

22140 [lbo-talk] Haiti Coup and Left KneeJerks -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >a government democratically elected by the vast majority of the >impoverished people of Haiti So the CFR was wrong when it claimed a 5% turnout? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 1 12:28:11 PST 2004