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26701 [lbo-talk] Dissident Marxism: Past Voices for Present Times -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Michael Pugliese wrote: > >>http://www.dkrenton.co.uk/dissident.html > >"Dissident Marxism argues that the roots of today's anti-capitalist >movement can be found in the life and work of an earlier generation >of socialist revolutionaries, including such inspiring figures as >the Soviet poet Mayakovsky, the Marxist philosopher Karl Korsch, >Communist historians Edward Thompson and Dona Torr, the Egyptian >surrealist Georges Henein, American Ne ...

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26702 [lbo-talk] Recent Growth & Bush's Economic Policy -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >Why on earth not? As long as the dollar plays the role of world money, you'd >expect demand for dollars to expand roughly in line with world trade. So >yes, the US can run big current-account deficits forever, just the way >gold-exporting countries could under the gold standard. In fact, it has >to -- this is what's called Triffin's dilemma, I think. According to the IMF's summary <http://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/center/mm/eng/mm_sc_03.htm> Triffin's dile ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 11:14:50 PST 2003

26703 [lbo-talk] Atheism -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook quoted: > >SPEAKING TO POWER: A NOW with Bill Moyers Special Edition >>Friday, December 26 at 9PM on PBS >>(Check local listings at http://www.pbs.org/now/sched.html) >> >>============================================================= >>SPEAKING TO POWER - a NOW with Bill Moyers special edition >> >>* From one of America's most historic churches a resounding voice >>speaks to power. NOW profiles a unique Christian vision. & ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 10:48:32 PST 2003

26704 [lbo-talk] Recent Growth & Bush's Economic Policy -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >(Surely it's profitability rather than demand that matters most to >capitalism.) That's one bit of orthodox theory that never changes. Back in the 80s, there was a lot of talk about how Japanese capital was sacrificing profit to gain market share. By some estimates, the rate of return on new investment in Japan in the late 1980s was negative, and Japan lost money on a lot of its foreign investments. For a while it looked like it was working, but the old verities fin ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 10:47:08 PST 2003

26705 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 1000

Brian Siano wrote: >I have a question. Why is it that every major cultural event, or >fad, or persona must be examined for political significance.... and >almost always found to indicate a resurgence of conservative, >tribal, or otherwise regressive beliefs? (Except Madonna and _Queer >Eye_. They're _transgressive!_) Queer Eye isn't so much transgressive as it is a marker of social evolution. Madonna is a field of study unto Herself. But it's not true that all cultural events are ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 09:15:09 PST 2003

26706 [lbo-talk] Tolkien and the new medievalism -- rank: 1000

From: "Anamik Saha" <anamik.saha at opendemocracy.net> To: "CULTSTUD-L: A listserv devoted to Cultural Studies" <cultstud-l at lists.acomp.usf.edu> X-URL: <http://www.cas.usf.edu/communication/rodman/cultstud/> In light of the discussion on the discussion of Lord of the Rings I thought some of you might find this article we just published interesting, on Tolkien and the 'new medievalism': http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/article-1-67-1653.jsp

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 08:35:21 PST 2003

26707 [lbo-talk] Recent Growth & Bush's Economic Policy -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >It would appear then that growth or slowdown in the US economy is >largely driven by factors internal to the US economy. That far from >the US imperialism requiring the rest of the world for extended >reproduction of capital in the US (as assumed by the traditional >theory of imperialism), it is the capitalism in rest of world (or at >least very large part of it) that requires the capital accumulation >in the US for its own growth. Would that be accur ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 08:27:50 PST 2003

26708 [lbo-talk] Re: we are (I am?) the world. -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >"...Americans could now get all the information they need on the Net. >They don't have to depend on the US media..." > >how many americans? and does that figure come from a poll, wishful >thinking, or both? > >just because many people I know are online doesn't mean "Americans" are >all online... > >do the word "parochial" ring a bell? According to the Census Bureau, about 50% of American households had computers in ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 08:08:39 PST 2003

26709 [lbo-talk] Green Nazism -- rank: 1000

Michael Simkin wrote: >How did it happen that this louse came to lay its nits here? >Everyone who has a cat knows that lice don't cling to clean hair. > >Similarly hear, at LBO, there were numerous messages defaming the war on >terrorism, sympathizing with enemies of free world, and slandering Israel. > >This is not acceptable. > >Similar to a lousy cat, LBO Talk needs to be washed. Who the fuck are you anyway? You submit these juvenile "tests," then you soun ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 07:52:12 PST 2003

26710 [lbo-talk] US GDP Achieves 8.2 Percent In Q3 -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe quoted: >GDP Roars Ahead at 8.2 Percent in Q3 This is old news. This is the third take on 3rd quarter GDP, and the headline number is unrevised from last month's take. The pattern is an "advance" estimate at the end of the month following the end of the quarter (i.e., the first estimate of Q3 is released at the end of October), a "preliminary" reading a month later, and a "final" one another month later. This is the "final," which will be ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 07:32:41 PST 2003

26711 [lbo-talk] Recent Growth & Bush's Economic Policy -- rank: 1000

Samuel Waite wrote: >I've been meaning to ask this question for a while. I hope to have >it answered by someone who knows more about economics than I do. > >Progressive critics of the Bush tax cuts said that because they were >geared primarily towards wealthier Americans, they wouldn't generate >enough consumer demand to stimulate growth. And certainly, the >first two apparently didn't. > >But last quarter (as I'm sure everyone knows by now), the economy >grew 8.2 ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 23 07:23:05 PST 2003

26712 [lbo-talk] so there -- rank: 1000

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 22, 2003 Contact: Dean for America Press Office: (802) 651-3257 Statement from Dean for America Communications Director Tricia Enright "While it's flattering that the Clark campaign has spent the past two days doing nothing but trying to prove that Governor Dean offered General Clark a Vice-Presidential slot, saying something 100 times doesn't make it true and this isn't." -- 30 --

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Date:	Mon Dec 22 17:15:21 PST 2003

26713 [lbo-talk] Nader: outbreak of sanity? -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - December 19, 2003 CAMPAIGN JOURNAL By ALBERT R. HUNT For all the gloominess Democrats may harbor about Howard Dean's chances in the general election, here's a bit of good news: Ralph Nader, whose third-party candidacy cost Al Gore the presidency in 2000, seems unlikely to mount a run against the former Vermont governor. Mr. Nader says he will decide in the next few weeks whether to run. But in the meantime, his praise of Mr. Dean undercuts any rationale for another independ ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 22 15:55:02 PST 2003

26714 [lbo-talk] me in London, Jan 28 -- rank: 1000

Todd Archer wrote: >Crap! Wrong London; got my hopes up for a second. When the Devil >are you heading up here for a change? Find a sponsor, and I'm there. The New Press is too cheap to buy a ticket. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 22 15:45:40 PST 2003

26715 [lbo-talk] They simply 'failed'/censorship -- rank: 1000

Joseph Wanzala wrote: >Why do you always censor this issue? Because it's tedious and unproductive, always devolving into a "Yes it is!" "No it isn't!" shouting match. It's gone on long enough. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 22 15:42:12 PST 2003