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23116 [lbo-talk] Naomi Wolf v Harold Bloom -- rank: 1000

The NY Mag article is out: <http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/features/n_9932/index.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 10:00:23 PST 2004

23117 [lbo-talk] the other L word -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> What kind of politics is this, that depends not on organization and >> institution-building but on momentary coalitions of the variously >> disaffected? > >Chomsky seems to be arguing that "The current incumbents may do >severe, perhaps irreparable, damage if given another hold on power - >a very slim hold, but one they will use to achieve very ugly and >dangerous ends. In a very powerful state, smal ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 09:51:01 PST 2004

23118 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph/Fashion Advice -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > > >> > 4) (Since we recently had a thread on fashion) >> Didn't anyone ever tell Ralph >> > not to wear a button-own oxford shirt with a suit? >> LOL? Seems just another >> > aspect of his willful disregard of reality. >> > >What's wrong with that? It's pretty common in the >circles where I work . . . . Wonder if he was wearing one of the 1200 pairs of white socks he bought shortly after gradua ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 09:45:03 PST 2004

23119 [lbo-talk] DSA Youth -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I think it vital that the present administration be turned out this fall Does that mean you're voting for a Dem? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 09:40:52 PST 2004

23120 [lbo-talk] Nader/Greens in 2000 & 2004 -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >>(Howie Hawkins, "'Strategic Voting' Is Strategic Suicide," >>_Synthesis/Regeneration_ 32, Fall 2003, >><http://www.greens.org/s-r/32/32-18.html>) ***** > >I often disagree with Yoshie on many things, but this post from her >just contains a bunch of political gems. By the way, Howie Hawkins says: >The Green Party's political independence is not only about policy >planks in the platform, but even more fundamentally about political ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 09:31:40 PST 2004

23121 [lbo-talk] Nader/Greens in 2000 & 2004 -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: > If people really believe that a third party like the Greens is >needed, they have to stick to their guns... Ralph didn't stick to his - he rejected the Greens for a party of one (himself). How's that fit into your calculations? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 09:30:08 PST 2004

23122 [lbo-talk] the other L word -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >In a word, I would say yes, that's exactly what he is doing. Though >I would imagine Nader's contempt for the LI derives from the >Chomsky-Vidal side rather than the nativist right. There's more than a touch of the nativist about Vidal. He fetishizes pre-Civil War America, when only white men could vote, as some kind of republican ideal, and has professed a lot of sympathy for Western European anti-immigrant feeling. And Nader has a xenophobic streak, e.g. his hyster ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 09:21:00 PST 2004

23123 [lbo-talk] the other L word -- rank: 1000

By the way, Nader (Princeton '55, Harvard Law '58) running against "the liberal intelligentsia" and his supporters on the Yale faculty using "the other L word" as an epithet remind me of Bush 41 running against Dukakis as a card-carrying member of the ACLU. Is this what Moyniahan once called "boob bait for the bubbas"? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 07:45:44 PST 2004

23124 [lbo-talk] the other L word -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Looking forward to future brie and chardonnay house warmings. You're invited, of course. I'm nothing if not expansive and catholic (lower-case c, of course). And should Ralph throw the election to W, I'm hoping the invitations to the special satellite Green Party at the Inauguaral Ball will include you, so you can report back to us on the food & drink. Will it be Lone Star beer and ribs, or will the WH make special accomodation to the vegans? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 23 07:40:05 PST 2004

23125 [lbo-talk] re: Ted Glick: Eight Questions for Ralph Nader -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Nation liberals like Henwood Can you write me a grant recommendation? I'd like a nice loft in Tribeca too - could you see if Alan Sagner could fund one? I'm sure being married to another Nation liberal couldn't hurt my chances, could it? Even better, Soros. I even ran him on my radio show - from a CFR session, no less. Yeah fuck Sagner, Soros could buy him 40 times over. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 22 21:12:33 PST 2004

23126 [lbo-talk] sexual harrassment -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >however, wasn't the original remark commented on 'you're only here >because of affirmative action?'and unrelated to gender? RIght. It was an instance of pervasive racial taunting of a dark-skinned Dominican at Harvard Law School. I was shocked that Harvard students didn't even pretend to be tolerant and inclusive, but instead were overtly and frequently racist. I'd thought they would have paid more tribute to virtue. I brought up the anecdote because it showed tha ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 22 18:31:20 PST 2004

23127 [lbo-talk] DSA Youth -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Chuck0 wrote: > >> Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> > This afternoon I did a workshop on the state of the global justice >> > movement at a Democratic Socialists of America youth conference. We >> > chatted about agendas and organization, or the lack of both. Several >> > points came up that deserve wider circulation: > >I've read some YDS discussions on mailing lists. Here is what I imagine > ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 22 17:30:44 PST 2004

23128 [lbo-talk] Fwd: (50 Years) Endorse Demands for IMF/WB 60th Anniv.! Call to Action! -- rank: 1000

The campaign is heating up! This is the call to action for the international days of action against the IMF & World Bank and the April 2004 mobilization in Washington, DC. Please join the endorsers of the demands by going to <http://www.50years.org/cms/action/apr2004/desc> International Days of Action Against the IMF & the World Bank: April 16 - 25, 2004 Call to Action for Mobilization April 21 - 25 in Washington, DC 2004 is: * the 60th anniversary of the founding of the World Ba ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 22 16:41:54 PST 2004

23129 [lbo-talk] Bush -- rank: 1000

Gary? wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" >> Last night, in a debate with Gideon Rose of the Council on Foreign >> Relations, Tariq Ali said the defeat of Bush "would be viewed >> globally as a victory." Does this make Tariq a liberal now? >> >wouldn't it be better if Bush won ? A 'Democrat' elected and the ouster of >Bush may be viewed as a victory in the short term but as we know there is >very little difference in the two regimes. The US pub ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 22 16:37:59 PST 2004

23130 [lbo-talk] Sifry on Nader -- rank: 1000

<http://www.iraqwarreader.com/archives/000142.html> Nader Runs...From Reality [by Micah Sifry] Watching Ralph Nader announce his unsurprising decision to run for president as an independent, I didn't hear anything new. There was no sign from him that he understands that there might be some differences in the political context of 2004, compared to 2000. All of his arguments were the same: the need to address the "democracy gap"; how Washington is "corporate-occupied territory ...

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