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26491 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Fussing about borderline cases is fine for academics struggling for >tenure and journalists writing feature articles on "life in America" or >something like that. For them "classes" are merely little plastic boxes >in which one piles different colors of stones. Utterly static. And just who are you, but some retired English professor in the midwest who files cranky posts to listservs? Just what are you in the midst of that you can patronize every ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 19:35:09 PST 2003

26492 horse semen -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >#2 Where do you get enough horse semen to do something >like that? Isn't it expensive? From a horse farm. The full account is at <http://www.exile.ru/113/lead.php>. It's so wonderful I have to go read it again. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 19:31:56 PST 2003

26493 Turkey and Saudi Arabia are both saying that no troops without UN authorization -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >the >whole Bush house of cards seems to be collapsing Hmmm, is it time for an "incident"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 14:52:54 PST 2003

26494 Boring Lefties -- rank: 1000

loupaulsen at attbi.com wrote: >Yeah, Doug, I saw "Falling Down" too, but you know what? We've got cubicles >in my office, mostly occupied by women I might add, and even the men are >hipper than this, and this is not some particularly trendy hangout I assure >you. And what is this 'spare tire' business? A little 'fat-baiting' here? I know there's nothing subtle about Matt's style. This is a guy who pied NYT bureau chief Michael Wines in the face with a concoction whose p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 14:35:33 PST 2003

26495 Boring Lefties -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hey, I still live in Columbus, Ohio, and I'm proud of what my >comrades and I have made of it, though it remains a work in >progress. :-> The left has to get somewhere in places like >Columbus, Ohio, or else we'll get nowhere in the USA. I just recorded an interview with Susie Bright, who'd come to NYC from Columbus, where she had a fine old time. She said one of the women who hosted her grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere in Ohio, and discovered o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 14:30:51 PST 2003

26496 Boring Lefties -- rank: 1000

Dennis Perrin wrote: >rom a NYPress review of my old comrade Norman Solomon's new book: > >"There's a reason why the left, or what America calls the left, has >an image problem, and it's not all due to right-wing propaganda. It >has an esthetic that turns off ordinary Americans. The Left won't be >caught dead eating at Jack in the Box. It doesn't know how to make >dick jokes and it doesn't know what the blue line is for. It writes >long pseudo-literary articles about ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 12:11:38 PST 2003

26497 CD claims -- rank: 1000

In a rare bit of service journalism: if you bought a CD from a U.S. retailer between 1995 and 2000, you're eligible for a piece of the settlement in a price-fixing case. You could get $5-20, all for filling out a web form that takes about 2 minutes. Visit <http://www.musiccdsettlement.com>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 10:50:01 PST 2003

26498 Isms and other matters, was Re: Vanishing Marxism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I had written his far when I checked my e-mail again and read >intervention of Yoshie, Doug's response, and her response to that. >Yoshie has put it nicely. I will only add that Doug's focus on those >aspects of capitalism which change between the early editions and the >evening news is merely the flip side of the dogmatism that consults >_Capital_ to determine what to have for breakfast. Both dogmatisms are >incompatible with serious political thought. It ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 10:33:49 PST 2003

26499 Fwd: [RTSNYC] Virtual March on Washington -- rank: 1000

[not sure about this, but...] From: "ricardo dominguez" <rdom at thing.net> To: <RTSNYC at mediajumpstart.net> Organization: The Thing Subject: [RTSNYC] Virtual March on Washington Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 13:19:16 -0500 PS. as a side note - the first Virtual March actually occured in 1996 as a Virtual Marcha for the Zapatistas out of ACT LAB in Austin Texas...but it is nice to see it jump around again. ciao, ricardo <<>>> Join me in a Virtual March on Washingt ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 10:29:32 PST 2003

26500 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Recognizing the essence of capitalism has one virtue among others: >e.g., you'll see the material ground of the necessity of solidarity >between "skilled" and "unskilled workers," both of whom suffer from >exploitation by capital. Yes, of course. You know that, I know that. It's not as easy to convince the workers involved of that. > Other theories might (see Steve McGraw's opinions about >"intellectuals" and longshoremen ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 10:14:00 PST 2003

26501 T-shirt -- rank: 1000

The designer of the now-venerable LBO logo (born: mid-1986), Marcie Klein, designed and produced a campaign-logo-style "BUSHIT" t-shirt, which she's selling cheap. The thing sold like hotcakes at the Feb 15 march in NYC. The image is at <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Marcies_T-shirt.gif>. For order info, write <marcieklein at att.net>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 08:53:27 PST 2003

26502 Vanishing Marxism on LBO-talk -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The essence of capitalism hasn't changed since Marx's days, has it? >It's the same old exploitation through the extraction of surplus >value. Well, yes, up to a point, but just exactly how much analytical or political use is a statement like that? Financial markets are much bigger and more complex, governments are bigger, the joint-stock company has largely replaced the proprietorships and partnerships of the 19th century, and consumption is much more important ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 08:40:48 PST 2003

26503 "US is abandoning plans to introduce democracy in Iraq" -- rank: 1000

Reed Tryte wrote: >The Kurdish leaders are enraged by an American plan to >occupy Iraq but largely retain the government in >Baghdad. The only changes would be the replacement of >President Saddam and his lieutenants with senior US >military officers. Which is pretty much what the U.S. did in Germany & Japan in 1945, right? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 06:16:59 PST 2003

26504 Le Monde: odd things about Osama tape -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Journalists from al-Jazeera are perplexed by the statement from al-Qaida So are we to conclude that al-jazeera is now being run from Langley? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 06:14:09 PST 2003

26505 Nigeria oil union set for total strike -- rank: 1000

JBrown72073 at cs.com wrote: >Why are consumer prices on gasoline higher in Europe than the U.S.? Taxation? Yup. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 18 06:12:32 PST 2003