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23536 [lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background? -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >So I don't know what it means to say that leftist professors are >"privileged wealthy elitists" since most professors come from this >kind of background. Yes, and I'd just been thinking I should have sent a postscript to my earlier post on this. Since most academics - like most professionals - come from relatively well-off backgrounds (given the low level of intergenerational mobility), the proper point of comparison for left academics should be other acad ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 13:55:42 PST 2004

23537 [lbo-talk] Yasir... Yushchenko... Both start with "Y" -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >I really, really think that >the extent to which this is a "the West" versus Russia >matter is quite overhyped. But doesn't Washington like this line because they can use it to harass Putin? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 13:47:23 PST 2004

23538 [lbo-talk] Crunch time for US capitalism? -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >I think Marxists and Austrians also equally fail to take into >adequate account the effect the advent of the universal franchise has had >since Marx and the classicial economists produced their great works. Both >camps see capitalist crises resulting in an inevitable wave of personal and >corporate bankruptcies and mass unemployment - a necessary cleansing and >revitalization of the system for the right, the necessary precondition to >its overthrow for ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 12:13:57 PST 2004

23539 [lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background? -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >Anyone know some good sources on class backround of profs, especially >left leaning profs? On the Marc Cooper discussion blog, he and others >are trying to claim that professors who are left leaning are mostly >priveleged wealthy elitists with no working class background to speak of. THe only person I can think of who resembles that stupid caricature is Sam Bowles. The other radical academics I've known through URPE and the Marxist Literary Group seem to be ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 12:11:46 PST 2004

23540 [lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background? -- rank: 1000

People like Marc, I guess, who want to shed their past affliations, and adopt that right-populist line about the elitist pointy-heads. So they're down with the people, even if they're moving right. Doug Luke Weiger wrote: >The real question: who cares? > >-- Luke > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Stephen E Philion" <philion at hawaii.edu> >To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> >Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2004 1:49 PM >Subject: [lbo-talk] stats on p ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 12:07:55 PST 2004

23541 [lbo-talk] Publishing on the Left -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It would be interesting to hear from you, Doug, John Mage, Dave >Finkel, etc. about who reads the publications they edit and what >sort of feedback they get from their audiences. >-- As far as I can tell, the kinds of people who read LBO have a lot in common with the Nation's audience, though probably more intellectual and more left. There are some exceptions, for sure - I get mail from subscribers who are self-educated workers without high-priced educations ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 12:03:49 PST 2004

23542 [lbo-talk] Pipes gives in -- rank: 1000

[from Juan Cole] Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Schanzer settled a libel suit out of court with University of Oregon instructor Douglas Card <http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/12/02/c1.cr.cardsuit.1202.html>. They had accused Card of being anti-semitic (i.e. a racist) and of being a leftwing extremist. Pipes has a history of levelling wild charges against academics, and of being unreliable (he said in 2002 that Saddam was 2-5 years away from having an atomic bomb). He appears to have becom ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 10:34:20 PST 2004

23543 [lbo-talk] Crunch time for US capitalism? -- rank: 1000

Marvin Gandall wrote: >There's no assurance all these broken eggs would result in a >satisfying omelette, either; there is no longer even a coherent left or >self-conscious working class as there was in the 30s. But the hope of many crisis fans is that the collapse will finally bring about that class-conscious left. That's delusional, I think, but it's a common belief. There are also some weird affinities between crisis Marxists and libertarians/Austrians. Both camps think that state ba ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 10:32:14 PST 2004

23544 [lbo-talk] three complaints = $1.2m fine -- rank: 1000

<http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2004_11_15.html#008481> BUZZMACHINE EXCLUSIVE! The shocking truth about the FCC: Censorship by the tyranny of the few : With not much original reporting, I discovered that the latest big fine by the FCC against a TV network -- a record $1.2 million against Fox for its "sexually suggestive" Married by America -- was brought about by a mere three people who actually composed letters of complaint. Yes, just three people. I filed a Freedom of Info ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 10:28:03 PST 2004

23545 [lbo-talk] Crunch time for US capitalism? -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >[I'd love to see some comment on this. --CGE] > > Crunch time for US capitalism? > December 04, 2004 > By Patrick Bond > >If you are like many aggrieved people I know, the prospect of the US >economic empire stumbling, tripping, and maybe even crashing is welcome >indeed. This POV ignores the collateral damage that a U.S. crash would cause throughout Asia, Latin America, and to a lesser extent, Europe. Whole economies are sustained by U.S. dema ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 5 09:40:10 PST 2004

23546 [lbo-talk] Ohio papers find nothing on election fraud -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - December 3, 2004 Ohio Papers Getting Nowhere on Vote Fraud Allegations NEW YORK Those who believe that something's rotten in the state of Ohio, that it mishandled the Nov. 2 election, shouldn't hold their breath waiting for a revelation from the state's major papers that might call into question President Bush (news - web sites)'s victory. While most of the top dailies there say they are following, if not probing, each accusation, many coming from liberal blogs, none of ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 4 12:13:45 PST 2004

23547 [lbo-talk] Kerik: a critique -- rank: 1000

Newsday - December 3, 2004 Kerik nomination is a ticking time bomb Ellis Henican Campaign bodyguard to Rudy Giuliani. Errand boy for the Saudi royal family. Energetic exploiter of Sept. 11th tragedy. Tough-talking publicity-hound vowing to bring law and order to Iraq - then hightailing it out of there after a disastrous 14 weeks, leaving the place far less safe than he found it. Oh, the bullet points on Bernie Kerik's real-life resume just go on and on. But is this really the guy we want standin ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 4 12:02:04 PST 2004

23548 [lbo-talk] 'Master/slave' Most Politically Incorrect Phrase -- rank: 1000

Samuel Waite wrote: >"first year student" rather than freshman It's been that at the University of Virginia forever, and that's hardly a hotbed of PC-ness. The reason is that's the term that dead white male slaveowner, Thomas Jefferson (UVa's founder) used. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 4 11:57:45 PST 2004

23549 [lbo-talk] Walmart, China and American De-industrialization -- rank: 1000

Eugene Vilensky wrote: >Sigh. Where is bottom? Dunno, but this is starting to sound like Japan ca. 1988: the almighty industrial, and increasingly financial, power flattening half the landscape and buying up the rest. Senior government officials lecturing the U.S. on the need to get its house in order. A few years later, and the bubble burst. China's not going to go away (neither has Japan), but... Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 4 11:55:10 PST 2004

23550 [lbo-talk] Bush plans to cut Medicare and Medicaid -- rank: 1000

John Lacny quoted the WSJ: >"Show me the money," says Alec Vachon, a Republican consultant. "Where is >there any kind of substantial Medicare savings that can make a serious >impact on the deficit? Ten billion dollars, what does that buy you? That's >lunch at La Colline," a restaurant on Capitol Hill. That'd be one nice lunch, but he's right - there's just not enough to cut in Medicare to make much of a dent in the deficit. They're dreaming if they think otherwise ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 4 10:20:04 PST 2004