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2266 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: > On Wed, December 7, 2011 10:53 am, Doug Henwood wrote: >> But in most senses, the >> factory is an authoritarian regime. They don't even pretend to embrace >> free expression. > > Of course they don't. But they have to put up with > a lot of it. Or did, back in the day, when people had > unions. I'm sure it's much worse now. But it's worse > in Academe too -- just part of the general race to > the botto ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 08:48:31 PST 2011

2267 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2011, at 9:54 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > In other news, Doug's Facebook page shows Thomas > Friedman receiving an honorary doctorate from Rensselaer. I'm reminded of something Christopher Hitchens once said before he went bad. Rejecting the facile Stalin = Hitler comparison, Hitch said, "With Stalin, one gets the feeling he was betraying something. Not Hitler." Same with giving TF an honorary degree. But not a NYT column. Also, re: your disclosure that factory workers a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 07:53:36 PST 2011

2268 [lbo-talk] cultural notes -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen] TOP TUNE: "Kid Rock anthem to be Romney's campaign theme song," by Detroit News' David Shepardson: "Romney, a Detroit native who ... was the son of former Michigan Gov. George Romney, is using Kid Rock's 'Born Free.' ... Ryan Williams, a Romney campaign spokesman, confirmed ... Kid Rock ... was born in Romeo [Mich.] and has been a supporter of the Republican party and George W. Bush." Music video http://youtu. be/bu3rsha1ZtI --LYRICS: "Fast, on a rough ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 7 06:43:44 PST 2011

2269 [lbo-talk] The New Anarchists -- rank: 1000

On Dec 7, 2011, at 6:40 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > That won't work I don't think. At least not for my mailer. The threads > are recognized by a bit of info in the full headers of your email "in > reply to" if I recall correctly. Yup. E.g.: > In-Reply-To: <5D6C8FC2-6689-45BB-9426-5E436A1B6289 at gmail.com>

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2270 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:06 PM, Jordan Carroll wrote: > And I would say that leftist engagement also has a strong correlation with > departments that engage in "pomo newspeak." The student movement here is > led primarily by students and professors in history, sociology, English, > and comp lit. Absolutely. I haven't posted this in a few years, but there's this wonderful bit from a dumbass pomo-bashing column by the egregious Eric Alterman in The Nation, which didn't cause him ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 14:52:03 PST 2011

2271 [lbo-talk] Posh as Fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 4:08 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > This just in: another example of the Uni as fearless > bastion of free inquiry -- Who claimed that? But how would the average university compare to, say, a tire factory? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 14:47:32 PST 2011

2272 [lbo-talk] Boots Riley on Occupy vs Decolonize -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:47 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > saw this on FB. Boots kicks ass! I was gonna post this but you beat me to it. It's terrific. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 14:42:50 PST 2011

2273 [lbo-talk] Posh as Fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:42 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > "The right hates academia because it's their political enemy" Really? Nothing makes me more certain of the victory of our ideas than our success in the universities Adolf Hitler, in Victor Farias, Heidegger and Nazism, p 79 > > Teachers tend to be just a little to the right of society, and so do intellectuals. > I analysed the voting intentions of British teachers I'm talking USA. You're talking Germany in the 30s and ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 12:47:47 PST 2011

2274 [lbo-talk] postmodern as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Jordan Carroll wrote: > While universities are flawed institutions and there are indeed limits to > free inquiry, it's hard to imagine anywhere else in America where people > get paid to teach Marx. And, right now, I'm sitting in a rather sleepy ag > school which is host to a tent city and an administrative building > occupation organized by anti-capitalist activists. That probably wouldn't > last long in a factory, prison or office building. No shit ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 12:19:22 PST 2011

2275 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:25 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "The right hates academia because it's their political enemy" > > [WS:] So there are no liberals outside academia? What kind of question is that? Of course there are. This is odd coming from someone who's always railing against the yahoos.

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 11:30:26 PST 2011

2276 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 2:03 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 13:36:53 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > >> But really. Why do you think Marx wrote all those damn books, few of them very easy reads? > > And if the Left doesn't care about ideas -- why do we read 'em? A lot of people don't, actually. I wish more did. One of the inspiring thing about the Occupy movement is that people do seem to be reading and talking.

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 11:18:20 PST 2011

2277 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Michael J. Smith wrote: >> Sometimes I think that the right takes ideas more seriously than the left. > > They certainly think they do, anyway. And then, aren't Lefties > supposed to be ... materialists, or something? When ideology grips the minds of the masses it becomes a material force, as Some Guy said. But really. Why do you think Marx wrote all those damn books, few of them very easy reads? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 10:36:53 PST 2011

2278 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 11:03 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 10:36:07 -0500 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> One of the reasons the right hates higher ed is that... >> academia is one of the few >> places in the USA where people can think critically and get paid for >> it. Thus the canon wars and all that. But also: make it more >> expensive and foreground the economic payoff lest people take all >> those impractical ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 08:24:24 PST 2011

2279 [lbo-talk] posh as fuck -- rank: 1000

On Dec 6, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Yes, shockingly, there are a range of people doing a range of things at > Universities... as with every other institution. Could you please name an > institution that is not engaged in capitalist gatekeeping? Real estate? > Family? Religion? Local, state and federal government - legislative and > bureaucratic? Work? Print, broadcast or internet media? High-Pop-Folk > culture? The law? Social Services? It seems to me that if th ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 6 07:36:07 PST 2011

2280 [lbo-talk] Boots Riley on Occupy vs Decolonize -- rank: 1000

Boots Riley For some reason, this letter that I thought was just sent to my message box has been posted publicly by folks, so I thought that I should post it, and my response, publicly. It is from Darshan Elena Campos re: name change of Decolonize Oakland. My response will follow below it. .............................. Dear Boots, When I first heard your music, almost two decades ago, I swooned at the political insight, at the beats, at beauty of seeing Black people using the mic to check white ...

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