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25816 [lbo-talk] Bring Them Home Now: Leaflets & Website (from Stan Goff) -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >As >Carrol Cox likes to say, to speak of a left (or at least >of an organized left) in the US is a bit ludicrous. >Such a thing hasn't existed here for quite some time. So what are the following, chopped liver? The antiwar movement, the global justice movement, the antisweatshop movement, the living wage movement, thousands and thousands of anarchists and greens....

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 15:33:46 PDT 2003

25817 [lbo-talk] Stalin Again (Was Re: OFFLIST: ) -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: his eleventh post of the day. Stop.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 13:17:43 PDT 2003

25818 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>First time I saw "Triumph of the Will" was with my colleagues in >>Yale's Party of the Right. They loved it! >> >>Doug > >Do tell... <http://eserver.org/bs/36/henwood.html> [...] On one of my first evenings with my POR comrades, I watched as they paged through the freshman face book, The Old Campus, commenting on the anatomy of the women. Not their anatomy in the Heffnerian sense, but in the Nazi biologist's sense: what the shape ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 11:58:40 PDT 2003

25819 [lbo-talk] pix -- rank: 1000

For the ghoulish: Uday: <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030724/168/4s2om.html> Qusay: <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/030724/168/4s32j.html&e=8&ncid=1479>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 10:43:59 PDT 2003

25820 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >I think that should be "momentary" and not "monetary" aberrations... Must have been my unconscious speaking. >If you want to get really terrified, look at pictures from India of >RSS and BJP rallies, and then watch "Triumph of the Will"... First time I saw "Triumph of the Will" was with my colleagues in Yale's Party of the Right. They loved it! Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 10:29:24 PDT 2003

25821 [lbo-talk] Re:Chomsky on ending occupation -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: Nine posts on Wednesday, three times the quota.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 10:10:10 PDT 2003

25822 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Say, rather, that the Bolshevik system of rule seems to generate an >absurdly high probability that a murderous paranoid psychopath will >gain absolute power and wreak fearful slaughter. Pol Pot... Kim Il >Sung... Mao... Stalin... Ceausescu. That a series of American presidents have directed the deaths of millions is what? A systemic problem? Or just monetary aberrations in an otherwise hunky-dory system? >I can't think of a system of rule that on average gave ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 09:53:53 PDT 2003

25823 [lbo-talk] Brad "Vyshinsky" DeLong -- rank: 1000

Jim Farmelant wrote: >Why not call it Proyect's Law No, I think that's when you start slurring people like Robert Brenner, James O'Connor, or David Harvey, to show how you're still down with Marx and the Authentic Revolutionary Subject. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jul 24 08:14:28 PDT 2003

25824 [lbo-talk] Iraqi Self-Governance (was something else) -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: Ten posts today, and it's not even noon in the eastern U.S. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 08:07:02 PDT 2003

25825 [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: Nine posts yesterday, three times the limit. We know what you think of Stalin; please keep down the frequency and vary the content. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 08:05:59 PDT 2003

25826 OFFLIST: Re: [lbo-talk] Re: Law Student With a History of Taking Left Turns -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >Actually, he's saying that we cannot apply the terms "insane" or >"lunatic" to Joseph Stalin. And in this context, and accompanied by >Chris's insistence that Stalin's actions were perfectly "rational," >there's little else it can be but a defense of Stalin. So are you arguing that several decades of Soviet history, which involved scores of millions of people, can be explained by the psychopathology of one man? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:22:19 PDT 2003

25827 [lbo-talk] Dick Morris -- rank: 1000

joand315 wrote: >The FBI office in Minnesota attempted to get a FISA warrant, but >they were rebuffed. A crucial mistake, because Zacarias Moussaoui's >possessions contained evidence that would have exposed key elements >of the September 11 plot. Ah, the Mpls FBI story. So it was the stupidity of FBI HQ, not the sluttish liberalism of the law, that was the prob. By the way, Dick Morris is a repulsive creep. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 24 06:15:50 PDT 2003

25828 [lbo-talk] Brad "Vyshinsky" DeLong -- rank: 1000

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > I think Brad has finally lost it. What's that law that says when Hitler or the Nazis are invoked, argument has become desperate and further discussion is doomed? Is there a Stalin corollary? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 23 21:10:23 PDT 2003

25829 [lbo-talk] Dick Morris -- rank: 1000

Dick Morris just said on the Daily Show that the FBI had Moussaoui's computer a month before 9/11, which contained plans for the Pentagon attack, but those dreadful pre-Patriot laws prevented them from looking at it. Does anyone know what he's talking about? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 23 21:08:34 PDT 2003

25830 [lbo-talk] Bring Them Home Now: Leaflets & Website -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Are you really saying that we didn't stop this war because we lack 'moral >authority'? We lack actual authority, which means that various >wonderful plans >we might imagine to encourage democratic flowering in our own country and even >in neighboring countries are dead letters. If anything, there's too much >utopian imagining about how the U.S. could 'help' people in other >countries and >not enough discussion of how to put in place a gover ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jul 23 05:31:01 PDT 2003