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24121 [lbo-talk] All-air, All-the-time (was: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >When you speak about a division of labor, I understand you to be >advocating a much broader understanding of how a social movement >grows/might grow. Obviously, people who want to _base_ _a_ left >social movement on party-building understand the need for a division >of labor. So, it's not that they reject a DoL. It's that they are >marking a distinction between those who plant seeds and cultivate >the sprouts as their vision of party buildin ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:26:05 PST 2004

24122 [lbo-talk] RE: Zizek -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >Dwayne writes: >"The original form of the Foreign Policy article >appeared in an earlier edition of Lacanian Ink -- > >http://www.lacan.com/iraq.htm > > >I believe it's a much sharper presentation." > >Yup, you're right. THanks, Don't forget the role of editors, who often make things much worse in their aversion to complexity or novelty. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:19:52 PST 2004

24123 [lbo-talk] RE: jobs for medievalists -- rank: 1000

Tom wrote: >Can someone point me to state by state union density >figures on the web? And this: <ftp://ftp.bls.gov/pub/news.release/union2.txt>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:14:52 PST 2004

24124 [lbo-talk] RE: jobs for medievalists -- rank: 1000

Tom wrote: >Can someone point me to state by state union density >figures on the web? Google this: <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=hirsch+union+density>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:13:09 PST 2004

24125 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: >You might as well say that the government, beinga >legal fiction, can't receive taxes. It's mainly a conduit. Government employees get salaries, beneficiaries get checks, contractors get paid. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:09:29 PST 2004

24126 [lbo-talk] strong jobs report -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Friday, April 2, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> 308,000 jobs added in March, best in four years. Very broad gains - and >> not at temp firms. > >What do you think of the argument of this fellow at Wells Fargo: > >http://www.drsohn.com/04pres/sohn/2004/MarEmployment.pdf > >He says almost all the increase is accounted for by an increase in >part-time jobs. Although oddly that doesn't stop the rest of his report >from being strong and ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 12:04:13 PST 2004

24127 [lbo-talk] Ralph's letter to disgruntled conservatives... -- rank: 1000

... in which he takes a whack at reckless spending, cites the Texas GOP approvingly, and, yes, anguishes about porn on TV: <http://www.votenader.com/why_ralph/?cid=14>

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 11:50:00 PST 2004

24128 [lbo-talk] Ralph scrambles for autographs -- rank: 1000

[Hmm, coupla interesting things here: 1) Ralph's hostility to parties - he's a self-defined party of one, and 2) his 21/37 favorable/unfavorable rating, a contrast with his 24/24 in 2000 [which surprised me - I'd have though he had higher ratings back then.] Washington Post - April 3, 2004 Nader Scrambles to Collect Thousands of Signatures By Brian Faler Special to The Washington Post Ralph Nader would like your autograph. In fact, he needs it. The longtime consumer advocate, who is running for ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 3 11:47:45 PST 2004

24129 Fwd: [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

Just added to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 1, 2004 Carlos Mejia, who left his national guard unit in Iraq to protest the war, and who faces desertion charges, talks about the war and his prospects * In a return engagement, Robert Fatton, author of Haiti's Predatory Republic, talking about the social structure of Haiti and the forces behind Aristide's rise, fall, rise, and fall it joins: -------- March 25, 2004 DH on outsourcing - as big a deal as ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:18:41 PST 2004

24130 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: It just seems that the business press might be covering up rather than >uncovering and reporting collusion among monopoly corporations , especially >since much of the business press is owned by monopoly corporations. Do you read the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, or the Financial Times? They're frequently bracingly honest. (I'm deliberately excluding The Economist and Forbes, which are more blatantly ideological.) They're written for people who want to kno ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 14:26:16 PST 2004

24131 [lbo-talk] how DMN ID'd Republican Nader contribs -- rank: 1000

Editor & Publisher - April 1, 2004 How 'DMN' Traced GOP Funds to Nader NEW YORK Last Friday, The Dallas Morning News published an article, still provoking commentary elsewhere, that seemed to show that some Republican contributors were also giving money to third party candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sit es), perhaps to boost him at the expense of John Kerry (news - web sites), although the donors denied this motivation. How did the paper put this money trail together? A newspaper does not ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 14:01:15 PST 2004

24132 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >I don't understand. How is a hike a a long-established fixed cost? I didn't say hike. I was wondering who paid corporate taxes in general - that corporations, being legal fictions, can't pay taxes, and that some real humans ultimately bear the cost, be they customers, shareholders, or workers. Like I also said, I found the CBO's half capital/half labor compromise intuitively appealing. Given the ambiguity, though, I'd rather rely on taxing rich people, who can't play ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:55:03 PST 2004

24133 [lbo-talk] Policing Pregnancy: the Unborn Victims of Violence Act -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: Six posts Wednesday. Five posts Thursday. Six so far today. The limit is three. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:44:56 PST 2004

24134 [lbo-talk] Paul Felton: Open Letter to Progressive Democrats -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >You have presented no evidence that Kerry's imperialism will be less >aggressive than Bush's -- you merely offer your wishful thinking. Hmm, well I just happened to be reading Robert Fatton's book on Haiti and interviewing the author. Fatton - who reads like a Marxist, and certainly quotes lots of them (from Karl himself through Gramsci and Ellen Wood) - say that Carter's "human rights" campaign forced Duvalier into liberalization measures that were rever ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:38:03 PST 2004

24135 [lbo-talk] Kerry's Tax Cut Makes Me Wanna Ralph -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Doesn't that suggest that corps. cannot pass on tax hikes? Not if it's a long-established fixed cost that affects all pretty much equally. They're having difficulty passing along freshly rising costs.

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 13:29:18 PST 2004