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23221 [lbo-talk] Advertisings effects (was Death of Dean) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >Once again, I'd like to see some research. But if >businessmen do it, it must make sense . . . a touching >faith for a bunch of Marxists. What Marxists ever doubted the power of capital, at least in some phase of its history? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 17:16:25 PST 2004

23222 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Newly added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: February 12, 2004 Keith Bradsher, author of High and Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV, on the ravages of that vehicle and the mindset of its buyers * Michael Mann, author of Incoherent Empire, on the Bush administration's lust for domination it joins -------- January 22, 2004 MARATHON SPECIAL Noam Chomsky on Bush, empire, and the facts * Barbara Ehrenreich on Global Woman * Naomi Klein on market fundamen ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 15:06:33 PST 2004

23223 [lbo-talk] Yellow Dog Democrats and Iraqi Guerrillas -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: 8 posts Thursday. 6 posts Friday. 5 posts today. A downtrend, at least; by Monday, the trendline could cross the maximum of 3. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 14:43:29 PST 2004

23224 [lbo-talk] the much despised Tariq Ali on war's aftermath -- rank: 1000

by whom is Tariq Ali despised? not me, not at all

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 12:57:15 PST 2004

23225 [lbo-talk] Advertisings effects (was Death of Dean) -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >But I once again note that the assumption that most >people are pliable fools What is it with this binarist maximalism lately? People can be influenced by advertising and not be pliable fools. We're influenced by all kinds of things - why not ads, which are ubiquitous and often very cleverly done? Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 12:54:12 PST 2004

23226 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Steve Dudley Did he used to work at Harper's? Very smart & cool person, if he's the one I'm thinking of. Must check out his book. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 11:59:44 PST 2004

23227 [lbo-talk] Advertisings effects (was Death of Dean) -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >Odd that you should choose the auto industry. You must have missed >out on the SUV craze. A demand created almost wholly from the >desires of the auto industry. Speaking of which, later this afternoon I'll be posting the radio show that includes my interview with Keith Bradsher, author of High And Mighty: The Dangerous Rise of the SUV. He talks a lot about how Detroit marketers played to the personality types of the likely buyers. (Show also includes Michael Mann o ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 11:50:14 PST 2004

23228 [lbo-talk] "A Nasty, Brutish & Long War" (Iraqi communists on "resistance") -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Christian Parenti puts it this way: Christian's going to be on my radio show this coming Thursday to talk about this article and his January in Iraq. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 11:45:41 PST 2004

23229 [lbo-talk] RE: Presidential prayer team -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Martin writes: >"Come off it. Beliefs are unavoidable, and unsubstantiated ones at >that. I believe in the power of evil and the evil of power and my >beliefs are often challenged." > >They might be unavoidable, but what would be the point of worship or >exaltation?...as Wallace Stevens would have us do... <http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/2/western.php> From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism --------------------------------------- ...

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23230 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >I prefer to simply support the Iraqi communists, on the basis that I think >their approach seems most likely IMO to deliver genuine revolutionary change >to Iraq . But if we _do_ look at Iraq "in particular" --- and US-led >imperialism in Iraq "in particular" --- an unpalatable thought might then >surface: "is imperialism is all bad?", when it brings new/enhanced >connections with the outside world and investment, and the alternat ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 09:49:33 PST 2004

23231 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Yes, and therefore could be trusted to make their own political >decisions. I can't help but feel every so often that the White Man's >Burden is figuring heavily in this debate. > >"We" just can't leave those poor Iraqis to fight out their own destiny. >They aren't civilized. They aren't "ready." (Western interference has of >course been the main reason for that "unreadiness.") Since you're a retired English prof, and presumab ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 09:48:09 PST 2004

23232 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, what do you think of the armed struggles of Palestinians, >Colombians, and Filipinos today? Palestinians targeting the IDF or Pal collaborators - that's fine with me. Targeting civilians, as in bombing busses and cafes, is not. I don't know enough about FARC to judge, but I don't think they represent the Colombian masses. Filipinos, sorry, don't know enough to answer. > What will be John Kerry's policy toward them? Opposed, no doubt. > And Kerry's polic ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 09:46:16 PST 2004

23233 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >--are they not receiving enough popular support to sustain a pretty >impressive anti-occupation force w/o being turned in to the occupation >authority? Dunno about that - the capitalist hyena press, or at least the NYT branch of that beast, reports that the occupation forces have been fairly successful at arresting leaders of the resistance. And it's not likely that they could have captured Saddam himself without some help from the locals. Doug

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 09:36:38 PST 2004

23234 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >Chiefly because Doug has asked people to refrain >from desist from discussing the elections, I will not say much on this, save >that it's further indication that these people are too far out of touch with >the problems of their OWN people in THIS country -- something which is a >prerequisite for effective international solidarity, of the kind that takes >people as they are and does not romanticize struggle either here or anywhere >else. Clarification: I th ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 09:30:42 PST 2004

23235 [lbo-talk] Iraqi communists on "resistance" -- rank: 1000

John Lacny wrote: >All of them are sidestepping an important issue, which is that >the armed actions in Iraq appear to be drawing very little popular support, >and it's not unreasonable to wonder why that is so. Contrary to Steve's >snide cracks, there are plenty of us here who have supported and continue to >support resistance movements among "nonwhite" peoples that include an armed >component, even considering that individual violent operations occasionally >prod ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 14 09:26:32 PST 2004