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25936 [lbo-talk] more Olaechea -- rank: 1000

[For an example of Adolfo's "tireless efforts on behalf of ordinary people everywhere, see his "THE NATURE OF THE TWO-LINE STRUGGLE WITHIN THE STALIN SOCIETY" <http://www.etext.org/Politics/Committee.Sol.Peru/English/rim-fraud.html>.] Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 16:53:40 -0400 From: Louis R Godena <louisgodena at IDS.NET> Dear Friends & Comrades; As I reported earlier, our dear comrade Adolfo Olaechea, co-moderator of Marxism-International and General Secretary of Justic ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 6 09:52:43 PDT 2003

25937 [lbo-talk] Adolfo arrested! -- rank: 1000

[Adolfo Olaechea is an upper-class Peruvian with a price on his head who'd been living in London and prosyletizing on behalf of Sendero Luminoso and the memory of Stalin for years. He was a bit of a celebrity during the early years of net Marxism, e.g. the Spoons Marxism lists, famous for concepts like the "iron broom."] From: <mailto:louisgodena at ids.net>Louis R Godena Sent: Saturday, July 05, 2003 9:41 AM Subject: [Marxism-and-Revolution] Olaechea Arrested Adolfo Olaechea, Ge ...

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Date:	Sun Jul 6 09:37:47 PDT 2003

25938 [lbo-talk] gay Republicans -- rank: 1000

<http://www.washblade.com/2003/7-4/news/national/birchdeny.cfm> Birch denies speech outed anti-gay congressman 'Duke' Cunningham denies meeting Birch or questioning whether he is gay By LOU CHIBBARO JR. It began as a remarkable vignette about a virulently anti-gay congressman who reached out in private to gay activists with questions about how people know if they are gay. But last month, retold before an audience of nearly 200 at a Gay Pride town hall meeting, a remembered encounter from e ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 4 14:00:51 PDT 2003

25939 [lbo-talk] happy 4th -- rank: 1000

Bush celebrating threateningly with the military and the flag: <http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/030704/161/4l8wb.html>.

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Date:	Fri Jul 4 13:35:55 PDT 2003

25940 [lbo-talk] Buddhist funeral for Pol Pot's wife -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >A very wordy way of saying, "fascist fucks." Not really, because fascists are still capitalists, and fundamentalism is a product of modernism. KR & SL wanted to go back to some ur-system, before the whole modernist-fundie divide opened up thanks to capitalism. Doug

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25941 [lbo-talk] Buddhist funeral for Pol Pot's wife -- rank: 1000

Ulhas Joglekar quoted: >Buddhist funeral for Pol Pot's wife "Prior to becoming a revolutionary, Pol Pot was a professor at a French lycee in Phnom Penh, known for his subtle readings of Rimbaud and Mallarme. Abimael Guzman, "presidente Gonzalo," the leader of the Senderistas, is a philosophy professor whose preferred authors are Hegel and Heidegger and whose doctoral thesis was on Kant's theory of space." A good excuse to recycle an old favorite. From Slavoj Zizek, Tarryin ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 4 11:33:54 PDT 2003

25942 [lbo-talk] Re: offshoring vs technical visas -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >By-the-by, isn't it the case that the major differentiation that has >occurred in the US over the 1980s and 1990s is the massive opening >up of the wage premium between college graduates and the rest? That's one part of it, for sure. To lapse into jargon, if you sort the U.S. pop into demographic cells - by race, age, education, experience, occupation, etc. - not only has between-cell inequality increased, so has it within cells. Dispersion, as the economi ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 4 11:24:17 PDT 2003

25943 [lbo-talk] U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony by Immanuel Wallerstein -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Isn't it pretty orthodox to say that capitalism requires its crises _in >order to_ reproduce itself? Liquidating some capitals so that the >remaining ones may again begin the expansionary part of the cycle, and >so on. It's being argued that in this cycle there have not been _enough_ >bankruptcies; Brenner's argued that less efficient plant being kept in >production underlies current economic problems. A crisis of insufficient >crisis. But this is normal co ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 4 11:04:51 PDT 2003

25944 [lbo-talk] wacko weather -- rank: 1000

[cue to James Heartfield to tell us this is all a fantasy] Independent (London) - July 3, 2003 Extreme weather prompts unprecedented global warming alert [no byline given] In an astonishing announcement on global warming and extreme weather, the World Meteorological Organisation signalled last night that the world's weather is going haywire. In a startling report, the WMO, which normally produces detailed scientific reports and staid statistics at the year's end, highlighted record extremes in w ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 4 09:32:09 PDT 2003

25945 [lbo-talk] Re: offshoring vs technical visas -- rank: 1000

Tom Roche wrote: >4 One may reasonably conclude that engineering labor imported into the > US reduces compensation to engineers in the US. It's raised the income of the immigrant engineers, hasn't it? Why are Americans more entitled to those incomes than, say, Indians? Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 3 16:48:35 PDT 2003

25946 [lbo-talk] U.S. Weakness and the Struggle for Hegemony by Immanuel Wallerstein -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Agree that we have used the word at times to excess, but the fact >remains that half or more of the people of the world have less property >than your cat and less assurance that they will get fed to satisfaction >or get medical treatment if they're ill. If you look at the world from >their perspective - and that is what Monthly Review is about - the >crisis is real enough. Maybe this is just nitpicking, but when something is ubiquitous and long-lived it seems ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 3 16:44:01 PDT 2003

25947 [lbo-talk] Howard Dean: "Now That We're There We Can't Leave" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Jeffrey Fisher wrote: >> >> i agree a legitimate *iraqi* government (gov't by and for iraqis) > > established through elections is something to push for, > >How are you going to exert any power in this direction. Seriously, you >simply reduce yourself to a chatterer on the sidelines by when you take >_any_ postion as to what the U.S. is going to do there, because no one >is going to pay any attention to you. And people pay more attention t ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 3 12:33:52 PDT 2003

25948 [lbo-talk] 'Bring them on' -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Last night I was hanging around one of our activist spaces and was >surprised to find out that all of the activists I talked to had >heard this quote already. I mentioned to several people that Bush >was sounding like John Wayne. Another activist suggested that Bush >had been watching too many re-runs of the "A Team." The best >analysis was from one activist who asserted that Bush had gotten >this language from "The Rock," of pro wrestling ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 3 10:03:31 PDT 2003

25949 [lbo-talk] Another Comparison of U.S. to Fascism -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >So Doug, if reality was determined by everyone you know, bell hooks >would be President. I think I'd prefer Al Sharpton myself. I've got issues with symbolic lower-casing of proper names. I was happy when Jill Johnston gave it up. "Fascism" is a dicey classification. I think the Nazis gave it a bad name, if you know what I mean - by being so violently exterminationist they obscured other fascist regimes' affinities to what you call rapacious capitalist imperia ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 2 16:21:29 PDT 2003

25950 [lbo-talk] Another Comparison of U.S. to Fascism -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >But even if the word fascism is used, the issue is how it is used. If >the claim is that there are echoes and elements of fascism in the Bush >II administration's rhetoric and actions, then this is defensible. If >the allegation is that the Bush II administration is a fascist regime, >this is easily refuted. Chip, no one I know is saying the Bush admin is fascist. That's absurd, since, among other things, none of us is in jail. But...there are rather frighteni ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 2 12:58:54 PDT 2003