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26686 [lbo-talk] Old Left v WSF etc -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >A chat-shop/think tank kind of thing for the global "Left" at large >isn't a bad thing, although, given it's open-ness and hostility to >"Old Left" concepts (and I would really like to know what they mean >by that. Real Stalinist and Kimist-types? Or just any group that's >not as fixated on "non-hierarchy" as the organizers like), I'd >imagine one would find lots of petit bourgeois nonsense (like the >kind of "small is ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 10:16:41 PST 2003

26687 [lbo-talk] Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at pro.SoftHome.net wrote: >Just curious. What accounts for the influence of types like Vandana Shiva? She says things that alienated but prosperous Westerners want to hear - the simple folk really are happier as simple folk and should stay that way. Even though she's a globe-trotter with an advanced degree. James Heartfield had a wonderful story about an appearance by Rigoberta Menchu in a posh leftish London neighborhood - Hampstead, was it? As long as she played the happy peasant, t ...

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26688 [lbo-talk] Old Left v WSF etc -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >While the writer makes a good point about "vanguardist sects" not >helping, I fail to see how any group of people so fetishistically >opposed to hierarchy are going to dirty their hands in official >politics. Guess it's just going to have to be marching apart for >now . . . . The Social Forums seem more like chatshops than instruments of political action. The nonhierarchical pluralism is welcome in a conference, but I'm not sure you can affect the ou ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 09:17:40 PST 2003

26689 [lbo-talk] More Iraqi debt restructuring, query about Doug's trip -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >Doug, you said you'd be at the University of Delaware campus; is that the >Richmond Hill campus or the Kensington campus? They have two, and one's >decidedly more convenient than the other ... Dunno my London neighborhoods, but here's the address: >University of Delaware London Centre >49 Doughty St >7.00pm, Wednesday 28 January 2004 >Admission free

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 09:14:45 PST 2003

26690 [lbo-talk] Run, Ralph, Run! -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Run, Ralph, Run! People are coming after you with improvised explosive devices! Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 09:13:04 PST 2003

26691 [lbo-talk] The Dean Deception -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >If I recall, Pollitt's article included a _lot_ of caveats, doubts, >and realistic appraisals of Dean. Man, don't they teach the meaning >of _context_ in colleges these days? The ISO isn't real hip to context. Or even accurate paraphrase, if they disagree with your position. It's that higher truth thing, you know? They've got it and you don't so just shut up and listen. Doug

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 09:04:29 PST 2003

26692 [lbo-talk] The Dean Deception -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >http://www.isreview.org/issues/32/dean.shtml > >International Socialist Review Issue 32, November–December 2003 > >The Dean Deception Gosh, golly gee, gadzooks, the ISO has now weighed in, so it must be true: Dean's no leftist! I know I've been resisting this harsh truth. I'd still nursed the hope that he stayed up after bedtime furtively reading Hilferding and Debord with a flashlight under the covers. I now understand that I must report to the nearest offi ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 09:03:17 PST 2003

26693 [lbo-talk] anti-Xmas -- rank: 1000

New York Post [Page Six] - December 25, 2003 STARS' LUMPS OF YULETIDE COAL TIRED of heartwarming tales of Christmas cheer? Read on: from Webster Hall curator Baird Jones come stories of holiday horror and gift-giving gone awry that prove, as Jim Carrey told World Entertainment News Network, "If you dig deep enough, everyone has a reason to be miserable at Christmas." Among the warm and fuzzy yuletide memories Jones collected: * Filmmaker John Waters' favorite Christmas memory is of the ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 08:37:00 PST 2003

26694 [lbo-talk] Old Left v WSF etc -- rank: 1000

[This is about half of an essay that defends the World Social Forum process against a critique coming from some old-style leftists (including RUPE <http://www.rupe-india.org/35/contents.html>). The full text is in the nettime archive <http://amsterdam.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0312/msg00066.html>.] From: Aditya Nigam <aditya AT sarai.net> Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:02:15 +0000 First, while it rightly seeks to make a distinction between what it calls the militant tradi ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 25 08:28:14 PST 2003

26695 [lbo-talk] Green Party on Nader -- rank: 1000

Stannard67 at aol.com wrote: >Can anyone tell me why Camejo is not the obvious choice? Wasn't he born in Venezuela, and is therefore ineligible to be president? Or doesn't that matter, since the whole point of the run would be symbolism rather than victory? Doug

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26696 [lbo-talk] Green Party on Nader -- rank: 1000

[Ralph is "mulling over an independent run"? How, as a write-in candidate?] GREEN PARTY OF THE UNITED STATES <http://www.gp.org/>http://www.gp.org For Immediate Release Tuesday, December 23, 2003 Contacts: Nancy Allen, Media Coordinator, 207-326-4576, <http://us.f129.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=nallen@acadia.net&YY=44614&order=down&sort=date&pos=0>nallen at acadia.net Scott McLarty, Media Coordinator, 202-518-5624, <http://us.f129.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compo ...

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26697 [lbo-talk] Recent Growth & Bush's Economic Policy -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: > > since 1997 or so, it's hurt US profitability, especially in exporting and >>import-competing sectors, though things are changing. > >Then why does the US capitalism allow this to happen, if it's hurting US >profitability for 6 years? Not six years. Profits declined from 1997 to 2001, but there has been a pretty vigorous recovery since. Geek that I am, I'm eagerly looking forward to the release of the third quarter flow of funds stats in early Janu ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 24 06:16:35 PST 2003

26698 [lbo-talk] Nader declines Green Party backing -- rank: 1000

[via David McReynolds] -----Original Message----- From: joel kovel Sent: Dec 23, 2003 8:08 PM To: GreenAllianceUSA at yahoogroups.com, mitch cohen , David McReynolds , deedee halleck , larry shoup , Matt Gonzalez , Walt Sheasby , John Clark , Ed Herman , Molly Kovel Subject: Re: [GreenAllianceUSA] Nader Declines Green Party backing. Please distribute I have a somewhat different view of these events than most people on this list, and most greens. In my opinion, the third Nader campaign would have ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 21:24:46 PST 2003

26699 [lbo-talk] Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Even in Germany, which is about ten times more advanced than >the U.S. as far as activism goes, most anti-glob types are more >likely to be influenced by left-liberal writers like Naomi Klein, >Susan George, etc. Is that the scope of the activist left? Are there other strains, more in tune with classical or even kinky Marxism? Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 14:09:04 PST 2003

26700 [lbo-talk] Roach's Macroeconomics -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >So Doug ought to check his Keynesian proclivities. It's not going >to be the New Deal for the US this time, but instead the highway to >fascist hell. Huh? You sound like Pat Robertson talking about other people's sexual "proclivities." Exactly what Keynesian proclivities do I have? Did you ever read my critique of Keynes in Wall Street? And exactly how are Keynes and fascism opposites (as any reader of the suppressed preface to the German edition of the Gen ...

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