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2461 [lbo-talk] Transition to capitalism in Cuba -- rank: 1000

On Apr 19, 2011, at 2:07 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > Paul Cockshott wrote: > >> To my eye it looks suspiciously like what was being heard about Gorbachovs >> programme in say 1988 or 1987. > > Paul, > > I agree with Juan Carlos Monedero that a more appropriate analogy is > NEP. But isn't that the same analogy people made during perestroika? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 19 11:15:39 PDT 2011

2462 [lbo-talk] 2011 Wisconsin protests -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2011, at 4:10 PM, c b wrote: > Wait u r gonna tell me that it's too low brow, right ? They have > inaccuracies, right ? Their standards of fact checking are too low; > anybody can put anything they want on there. Wiki's owners are > billionaires , uhuuh. Lord have mercy, as they say. No, I'm going to say: anyone can look them up. We're looking for original or out of the way contributions around here. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 13:29:22 PDT 2011

2463 [lbo-talk] 2011 Wisconsin protests -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:21 PM, c b wrote: > Full at: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Wisconsin_protests Really, Charles, why do you keep posting Wikipedia articles all over the damned Internet? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 18 12:26:13 PDT 2011

2464 [lbo-talk] Doug - any word from WFP? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:45 AM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:36:49 -0400 > Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Chris Maisano wrote: >> >>> I remember Doug saying a while back that he was going to contact New York >>> Working Families Party head Dan Cantor about the party's bargain with Gov. Cuomo >>> and whether or not it can be counted on to do anything worthwhile anymore >>> ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 21:54:43 PDT 2011

2465 [lbo-talk] Doug - any word from WFP? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:15 AM, Chris Maisano wrote: > I remember Doug saying a while back that he was going to contact New York > Working Families Party head Dan Cantor about the party's bargain with Gov. Cuomo > and whether or not it can be counted on to do anything worthwhile anymore (all > indications thus far seem to point toward "no," unfortunately). As far as I can > tell, I haven't seen an update about this. I've just been thinking a lot about > the WFP and fusi ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 21:36:49 PDT 2011

2466 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000

BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: April 16, 2011 Joel Schalit, author of this piece, on Israeli identity and the problems with saying that the country may be turning fascist Michael Heaney, co-author of this paper, on how Obama demobilized the antiwar movement Roger Lowenstein, author of The End of Wall Stree ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 13:54:01 PDT 2011

2467 [lbo-talk] inside job/economists -- rank: 1000

On Apr 17, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > Truth be told, you could probably shoot about 90% of the academic > economists without causing any harm to society. As I recall, > when I proposed that on the Marxmail list, some people actually > objected. I can't understand why. It'd be an inappropriate punishment. They should be put to work at some sort of community service, repairing their damage to society. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 17 05:15:55 PDT 2011

2468 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 16, 2011, at 1:21 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:34:00 -0700 > martin schiller <mschiller at pobox.com> wrote: > >> No. Just responding to Michael's challenge that the thread had reached it's lowest point. > > Oh, I never said *that*. There's always lower to > go -- abyss beneath abyss, to an infinitude of > bathos. Lead the way, man!

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Date:	Sat Apr 16 10:33:54 PDT 2011

2469 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2011, at 4:54 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > Incidentally, this postulated male fear of female sexuality > seems a little broad-brush and cartoonish. It's not necessarily universal - but is very prominent among Trad Vals guys. > What's with all > those chaps out there who, if net.p0rn is to be believed, > enjoy seeing their wives bed down with other guys? Fantasy & reality are very different things. Besides, we have no idea how many men even enjoy the fantasy, do we? Bu ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 15 14:00:11 PDT 2011

2470 [lbo-talk] The Music of Theodor Adorno... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > On Apr 15, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I tried reading his essay on Schubert and couldn't make head nor tail of it. > > I've read A's stuff on popular music ("Jazz") a few times, the modern music stuff once, and the other essays not-at-all. And for all of Jameson's talking about Adorno and music, J's complete lack of analytical examples suggests to me he's not very comfortable with music. > > I' ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 15 11:46:07 PDT 2011

2471 [lbo-talk] The Music of Theodor Adorno... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > Did you read any of his essays on music? (I know they've only been collected in English in the last 7 years or so...) I tried reading his essay on Schubert and couldn't make head nor tail of it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Apr 15 10:17:57 PDT 2011

2472 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 10:10 PM, Matthias Wasser wrote: > "Her sexuality determines her long term goals. As a very physiological > consciousness, she knows she can bear and nurture children. She has a > central role in the very perpetuation of the species...The Women s Movement > tragically reduces female sexuality to the terms of male sexuality. When > this happens, she reduces herself to the male level of recreational sex. > Paradoxically, when that happens the woman loses ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 20:15:29 PDT 2011

2473 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 8:59 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > uhm, gushers! referring to your starring role in an article Liza wrote about female ejaculation. heh. Heh heh. If you only knew what the Nerve eds suppressed!

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 18:13:35 PDT 2011

2474 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 7:44 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > seriously. i was gonna say that the multiple orgasms are way better without that. I mean, if it's just to get your rocks off, typically, one's enough with a device. But when you're with someone else, *that's* when multiple orgasms are bes Gosh, I never thought of that!

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 17:51:26 PDT 2011

2475 [lbo-talk] the decline of men -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:30 PM, // ravi wrote: > On Apr 14, 2011, at 6:10 PM, John Wesley <godisamethodist at yahoo.com> wrote: > >> I believe that it does. >> >> Woman enjoy almost complete empowerment in all aspects of contemporary, while at >> the same time still preserving their age old place on the pedastal . >> > > Time for a Dear John note! :-) Seriously man, just because some people are taking a different position or framework than you doesn't ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 14 15:35:30 PDT 2011