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24601 [lbo-talk] cultural notes: a night out with Peaches -- rank: 1000

New York Times - October 19, 2003 Peaches: Tough Girl Tender By DAVE ITZKOFF IN just a single performance on a recent Saturday night, the provocative rocker Peaches assumed multiple personas: a tied-up bondage victim, a brutal police officer and (with the help of a wig) a blond bombshell. Afterward, in the basement of the East Village nightclub Plaid, she played her most surprising role yet: den mother. Advertisement On a narrow staircase outside her dressing room, Peaches (whose real name is Me ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 20:33:58 PDT 2003

24602 [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy' -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: 6 posts today, twice the daily quota. You emitted 37 posts in the last week, an average of 6.2 per day. I've complained about this several times to no avail. Could you explain why you should be exempt from the list guidelines? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 19:57:56 PDT 2003

24603 [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy' -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >To present a critique of democracy is not necessarily to be >proposing fascism, indeed part of his critique of Democracy is that >it can result in the election of a 'Fuhrerprinzip' like Jurg Haider. >Obviously Treanor is interested in the development of more effective >systems of governance of the kinds I assume we would all support in >a general sense. Chomsky and others also critique Democracy - does >that make them implicitly supportive of fascism? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 14:32:52 PDT 2003

24604 [lbo-talk] 'Democrazy' -- rank: 1000

What's the antonym of democracy that Treanor implicitly seems to prefer? The Fuhrerprinzip? Dictatorship of the proletariat? Each against all?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 14:11:39 PDT 2003

24605 [lbo-talk] Popular Culture: NYRB Review -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox quoted: >Eminem had the native guile (and the sense of >timing) to present himself as the nation's subconscious. Artist: Eminem Album: The Eminem Show * Title: Without Me Two trailer park girls go round the outside; round the outside, round the outside *scratches* Two trailer park girls go round the outside; round the outside, round the outside *scratches* Guess who's back Back again Shady's back Tell a friend Guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's back, guess who's bac ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 13:33:39 PDT 2003

24606 [lbo-talk] a conspiracy of badness -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >In England, workers would bad together >to jointly buy copies of Capital. Bad workers! Just like in that Althusser quote that gave the name to Bad Subjects: >"[T]he 'bad subjects'...on occasion provoke the intervention of one >of the detachments of the (repressive) State apparatus. But the vast >majority of (good) subjects work all right 'all by themselves', i.e. >by ideology... " >--Louis Althusser, "Ideology and Ideological State App ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 13:25:27 PDT 2003

24607 [lbo-talk] literacy -- rank: 1000

Miles Jackson wrote: >Interesting sociological question: why is this not widely known >in our society? Why is the opposing position--educational >standards and abilities are decreasing over time--so popular, even >though data clearly contradict the claim? Bill Resnick, who does (or at least used to do) a show on KBOO in Portland, told me a few years ago that he was working on a book for Verso whose argument was that things are actually a lot better than leftist usually say. Two exam ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 13:20:31 PDT 2003

24608 [lbo-talk] the neo-neocons -- rank: 1000

New York Times - October 19, 2003 PERSPECTIVE | CHANGING MINDS What It Takes to Be a Neo-Neoconservative By JAMES ATLAS A war against an enemy whose threat to us remains a matter of debate. The need to commit troops indefinitely. Growing doubts at home. As the American involvement in Iraq has become a commitment of unknown duration, comparisons to the Vietnam War are more and more common. Whether or not the comparison proves valid, there is another historical parallel to the Vietnam War, one tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:57:59 PDT 2003

24609 [lbo-talk] Moore/Clark: The Bigger ? -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > ... you can't plausibly make the argument that there's no significant >difference between the two >> parties when the right-wing party is in power - it's too obviously >> untrue. >> >> Doug > >So, channeling the ghost of Brad DeLong: why would you want to make the >argument, since it's a lie? I don't make the argument anymore. I'd say the Dems may be less bad, but they're still not good enough, by a long shot. I'd also argue th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:49:24 PDT 2003

24610 [lbo-talk] Moore/Clark: The Bigger ? -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >I'm cogitating Doug's point about people only wanting to get rid of >Republicans. Isn't it also true that when Demos have the White House, all >they want to do is keep them there, no matter how awful? Not in the same way. When a Dem is in power, radicals of all stripes are more susceptible to the argument that things are structurally fucked up. Adolph Reed once told me that Clinton was the best organizing tool the Labor Party ever had. And, as I've said before (a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:35:42 PDT 2003

24611 [lbo-talk] Re: Sounds like Faulkner -- rank: 1000

Michael Simkin wrote: >Sometime in 1930's Mozafer Sherif conducted following experiment. First he >asked the subjects to rank ten different authors. Than he gave them what he >told were excerpts from those authors and asked to rank those excerpts. In >reality all of the excerpts were from one author, Stevenson. You know the >rest. This all seems like an idiotic exercise. What's the point of "ranking" authors in the first place? But the sort of stuff you doesn't prove mu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:32:04 PDT 2003

24612 [lbo-talk] literacy -- rank: 1000

After we were on a panel together at CUNY a couple of weeks ago, Giovanni Arrighi told me that U.S. workers were more literate a century ago than today. I found that very hard to believe, but I didn't have the facts to make the argument. Does anyone here know about this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:13:48 PDT 2003

24613 [lbo-talk] Osama bin Laden on Bush -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >the homeland of people who prefer death to honey. That's a pretty catchy turn of phrase. Did the Bearded One coin it himself, or was it already in circulation? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:12:30 PDT 2003

24614 [lbo-talk] Prescott Bush, banker to Nazis -- rank: 1000

[though this is an AP story, it's fun to give the Fox News URL] <http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,100474,00.html> Documents: Bush's Grandfather Directed Bank Tied to Man Who Funded Hitler Friday, October 17, 2003 WASHINGTON - President Bush's grandfather was a director of a bank seized by the federal government because of its ties to a German industrialist who helped bankroll Adolf Hitler's rise to power, government documents show. Prescott Bush was one of seven directo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 11:05:23 PDT 2003

24615 [lbo-talk] Henwood: Collapse in Cancun -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >But Doug, what do you think of Walden's argument that the >alternative is not between WTO and bilateral arrangements (which he >knows very well will indeed lead to a competitive 'race to the >bottom' to meet US demands), but between WTO and some sort of >revamped South-South united front? I'm all for a South-South united front (though as we've already seen, the U.S. picked off 3 or 4 of the weaker members of the G20+). Still, there will still be Nort ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 19 10:45:42 PDT 2003