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24526 [lbo-talk] Unabomber on Freud etc. -- rank: 1000

The Unabomber seems to share an evaluation of Freud's merits with Carrol Cox! <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tjkbookreport1.html>. More docs at <http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tjknew1.html>. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 19:14:57 PST 2003

24527 RES: [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood book tour hits DC -- rank: 1000

Alexandre Fenelon wrote: >-Any plans for a Portuguese translation???? The New Press is trying - I'm not sure how - to sell foreign rights. There was supposed to be a Brazilian edition of Wall Street, but I never heard anything more about it after the initial proposal. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 15:08:47 PST 2003

24528 [lbo-talk] Mugabe is their darling -- rank: 1000

Grant Lee wrote: >Joseph Wanzala quoted: > >> Breaking up big farms for smallholders spells economic disaster; everybody >> knows that. > >Everyone, that is, except a large proportion of western environmental >activists and a large proportion of ultra-left, so-called "Marxists", that >is. But peasants look so cute in their rustic dress, don't you think? Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 14:39:42 PST 2003

24529 [lbo-talk] Re: Film notes -- rank: 1000

jeffrey fisher wrote: >quite. this brings us back to the diffficulty of getting people to, >uh, sign up for all that thankless, arduous work, that is so often >pursued so joylessly . . . not even just angrily, but without any >sense of joy. It takes a special kind of personality for that - people who take some kind of pleasure in their very lack of pleasure, in their endless sacrifice on behalf of The Movement. I suppose we need people like that, but I wouldn't want to be one, nor wo ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 14:14:54 PST 2003

24530 [lbo-talk] Re: Film notes -- rank: 1000

joanna bujes wrote: >I have personally never witnessed nor been part of "fun" politics. I >have met a few people who do a lot of political work. They don't >look like their having fun; they look like they're doing the most >thankless and arduous job ever devised. Another chestnut from Foucault comes to mind: "Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable." Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 13:55:14 PST 2003

24531 [lbo-talk] one view of the Greens -- rank: 1000

Thomas Seay wrote: >Brian, you have obviously NOT been reading your Worker >Vanguard or any of the other IMPORTANT newspapers put >out by the ADVANCED elements in the Working class. Workers Vanguard is a good paper. I read the latest issue last night and, as always, thoroughly enjoyed it. The enjoyment is a mix of appreciation for the real info and analysis, mixed with some laughs at their attacks on the ISO and the "Death Agony of Capitalism" Trot boilerplate. But no other pa ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 13:32:59 PST 2003

24532 [lbo-talk] one view of the Greens -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> > >> >How so? It certainly wouldn't work as a substitute for widely-used >> >currencies, that's obvious. But as for developing a smaller, more >> >contained economy to keep trade in the neighborhood, it doesn't >> >strike me as a bad or nostalgic idea. (Hard to see "nostalgia" in >> >the scheme, since I can't recall any time when local currencies &g ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 13:28:04 PST 2003

24533 [lbo-talk] one view of the Greens -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >How so? It certainly wouldn't work as a substitute for widely-used >currencies, that's obvious. But as for developing a smaller, more >contained economy to keep trade in the neighborhood, it doesn't >strike me as a bad or nostalgic idea. (Hard to see "nostalgia" in >the scheme, since I can't recall any time when local currencies >actually existed.) What's the argument against it? What would it accomplish? Local currencies could only be used on a v ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 11:01:08 PST 2003

24534 [lbo-talk] Mann+Wally+Todd -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: > "For many years Israel has also been the largest recepient of >military aid. >It leads the 2003 appropriations with $2.2 billion. Egypt comes second with >$1.3 billion, though some of it is now on hold for human rights violations[!]. >[Guess who] Jordan comes next, with almost $200 million [most useful for >repressing their own population under the U.S.- Hashimite >dictatorship - that's >what it is!], and then Colombia [no doubt Israel will s ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 10:13:06 PST 2003

24535 [lbo-talk] one view of the Greens -- rank: 1000

Alan Jacobson wrote: >The Workers Vampire - for entertainment purposes only. They're completely right about all that local currency idiocy. Nostalgic claptrap for petit bourgeois romantics. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 09:34:01 PST 2003

24536 [lbo-talk] Congressional cretins strike again -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - October 27, 2003 Congress Asks NIH to Justify More Than 160 Research Projects By JEFFREY BRAINARD Washington Congress this month asked the National Institutes of Health to justify its support of more than 160 academic studies that involve sexual behavior, HIV transmission, or alcohol and drug use, after several lawmakers criticized some research projects in those areas as an apparent waste of taxpayer money. Such requests are not unprecedented, but the ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 07:04:02 PST 2003

24537 [lbo-talk] SMcL on BHL -- rank: 1000

[BHL was registered under a phony name at his hotel in NYC when I called for the interview. "Security concerns."] Chronicle of Higher Education - October 24, 2003 An Intellectual Superstar in France Gains an Audience in the U.S. By SCOTT McLEMEE COGITO ERGO ZOOM: In the late 1990s, the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu published a scathing critique of public intellectuals who not only spoke in sound bites, but thought in them as well. It was such a noxious development that it could on ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 06:58:36 PST 2003

24538 [lbo-talk] re: anti war protest #s... -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >What hasn't been discussed here is that demos like this set up the >anti-war movement up for unfavorable comparisons with past demos. It >doesn't take much for a jouranlist to look around and say, "Hey, >this is a lot less than last January. This must mean that the >movement is dying out." Yup, that's a really important point. If a major point of demos is to affect public opinion, it really helps when they're on a trajectory of growth. That's one of the re ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 06:54:00 PST 2003

24539 [lbo-talk] D.C. Rally: Poor Turnout? -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Yikes! Doug and Liza, please don't give up your journalist careers! >The left needs all the good writers it can find right now. There are >plenty of good organizers out there, but what they need is more >money and resources. Yup, there are plenty of good organizers. I could never be one of them. I can't even organize my own life. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 06:54:49 PST 2003

24540 [lbo-talk] employers aren't racist, they just care if your parents were poor -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Barro reports that paper is if its conclusions were to the contrary. > >It is journalism, not economics that is a truly criminal enterprise. But Barro is a prestige economist, not a journalist! Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 27 06:46:19 PST 2003