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24541 [lbo-talk] one view of the Greens -- rank: 1000

Workers Vanguard - October 24, 2003 [...] As for the Green Party's call for "the creation and spread of local currencies and barter" and "consumer items that would contribute toward economic autonomy for individuals," these eccentric reactionary positions are pitched to layers of the petty bourgeoisie concerned with ecology and small-scale production. This anti-industrial stance is fundamentally anti-working class, dreaming of a long-gone pre-industrial age, and America of sm ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 26 21:10:24 PST 2003

24542 [lbo-talk] re: anti war protest #s... -- rank: 1000

Stephen E Philion wrote: >I think Chuck is seriously mistaken in his >claim that only 10k showed up. A rare instance of Chuck0 & the cops seeing eye to eye? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 26 10:42:10 PST 2003

24543 [lbo-talk] They Have Come for Khordorkovsky -- rank: 1000

Peter Lavelle wrote: >The more I think about the focus on Khordorkovsky, the more it makes >perfect sense. The security forces are going after the hardest (and >richest) to topple. Why? Because they're a rival power center (rivals, that is, to Putin)? Some intra-class conflict? Does the fact that most are Jewish (that's what the -sky ending to a name implies, right?) matter? Doug

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Date:	Sun Oct 26 10:41:30 PST 2003

24544 [lbo-talk] D.C. Rally: Poor Turnout? -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >The problem at this point IMO is how to turn huge >nascent disapproval of the Iraq enterprise into >blazing hatred for anyone who supports it now. >Beyond demos is the way to think. Yeah, I think the message is too complicated for a mass demo approach, which needs simple slogans. Even the organizers can't agree on what strategy to advocate - US out, UN in? Just US out? And what about the Bush scheming beyond Iraq? Does that belong on the agenda too? I'd say so, ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 26 10:10:34 PST 2003

24545 [lbo-talk] [ANSWER]: 8 PM C-SPAN REBROADCAST of OCT. 25 RALLY in DC -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >>The march and rally today in Washington DC - estimated by march >>organizers to number 100,000 - will be rebroadcast this evening at >>8:00 p.m. on C-Span 1. > >That's funny. The cops estimated the event at between 10 and 20,000. >Normally, ANSWER's estimate is 3 times the number that actually show >up, so is this a sign of their desperation? Well, according to Andy Kopkind's classic formula: attendance = average(2*cop estimate,.5*organizers' estimat ...

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Date:	Sun Oct 26 09:56:40 PST 2003

24546 [lbo-talk] demographics of American Jews -- rank: 1000

<http://www.counterpunch.org/brenner10242003.html> The Demographics of American Jews "My People are American. My Time is Today." By LENNI BRENNER A friend once got a bit of a reputation by pointing out that "you don't need the weatherman to know which way the wind is blowing." [sic - ed.] But you do need a demographer to know which way the Jews are going. Some readers will recall the journalistic hockey brawl in the NY Times over the National Jewish Population Survey 20 ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 25 14:57:11 PDT 2003

24547 [lbo-talk] employers aren't racist, they just care if your parents were poor -- rank: 1000

[This is a beaut. Further evidence of Jim O'Connor's dictum that economics is a criminal enterprise.] Business Week - November 3, 2003 ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT By Robert J. Barro What's In A Name For Black Job Seekers? In some respects, economic conditions for black Americans have improved substantially relative to those for whites over the past four decades. Recent studies by University of Texas economist Finis Welch show that the ratio of black to white wages for the average employed male rose from ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 25 13:48:17 PDT 2003

24548 [lbo-talk] politics -- rank: 1000

The talk about whether politics is more boring than sports came up here at the same time this exchange appeared on the Cult Stud list. Doug ---- Foucault and his Interlocutors Edited by Arnold I. Davidson. It's from the chapter with Chomsky, "Human Nature: Justice versus Power. Elizabeth Perea Institute of Communications Research University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign -----Original Message----- From: Mimi Nguyen Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 1:22 PM To: CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted t ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 25 13:22:11 PDT 2003

24549 [lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes -- rank: 1000

Curtiss Leung wrote: >No. That's the marketing department's responsibility, and >more and more companies are thinking of oursourcing their >ideological apparatus to Indian firms. Upper management >is only concerned with the big picture, M->C->M'. They just care about the M->M' part. The dirty C work is left to underlings or subcontractors. Doug

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Date:	Sat Oct 25 12:52:41 PDT 2003

24550 [lbo-talk] Re: Film Notes -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >I can't formulate a charitable non-trivial interpretation of what you wrote >or what Chomsky said. Perhaps you can help. Does sports actually dull the >collective mind? Controversial, but possible. Is sports produced, >marketed, and televised _because_ it serves (or is believed to serve) this >function? That seems implausible. Sports are popular in place with far more developed politics than the U.S. - e.g. soccer in Latin America & Western Europe. No? ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 25 12:51:12 PDT 2003

24551 [lbo-talk] Dean: transformative -- rank: 1000

Google reveals that this is controversial. What's your source Michael? Doug Michael Perelman wrote: >yes. > >On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 03:13:24PM -0700, R wrote: >> anyone know if Dean is a member of the Dean family of Dean-Witter? >> > >-- >Michael Perelman >Economics Department >California State University >Chico, CA 95929 > >Tel. 530-898-5321 >E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu >___________________________________ >http://mailman.lbo-talk. ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 25 12:49:53 PDT 2003

24552 [lbo-talk] Great Moments in Liberal Hypocrisy -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >It would have been fine for the students, etc. to wear >gay rights shirts or such during the speech, but I >think college graduates at commencement are obligated >to show respect for, and listen to, the speakers they'vevehosen. Why? If I think someone's a reactionary pig - e.g., Santorum (and let's not forget Dan Savage's campaign to associate that word with certain unpleasant byproducts of anal sex) - and don't like it that my college is honoring him, why shouldn ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 24 13:06:01 PDT 2003

24553 [lbo-talk] Doug's Book! -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >I got my copy from Amazon (purchased through the LBO site, of >course) yesterday! > >It looks fantastic...more soon. Ah, excellent news. I think they started shipping on Tuesday. It's also been spotted in several bookstores. Order your copy today! <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D1565847709/leftbusinessobseA/>. Doug

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24554 [lbo-talk] RE: Film Notes -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Here is Chomsky on Sport:- > >Now there are other media too whose basic social role is quite >different: it's diversion. There's the real mass media-the kinds >that are aimed at, you know, Joe Six Pack -- that kind. I don't care at all about sports of any kind, but that's just me. But denouncing sports as a distraction, esp in the context of patronizing references to Joe Six Pack (and what's wrong with beer? like Tom T. Hall, I like beer), looks like another ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 24 11:29:29 PDT 2003

24555 [lbo-talk] Stop the FTAA, On to Miami! -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >http://www.cpusa.org/ > >fight for peace, equality, democracy and socialism So Charles, will you vote for Democrats, the way the CP wants us to? Of course they don't put it that way - just vote against Bush & the GOP. But that's what they mean. You with them? Doug

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