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26851 [lbo-talk] "master's tools" (was po-mo prince) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >For we have, built into all of us, old blueprints of expectation >and response, old structures of oppression, and these must be altered at >the same time as we alter the living conditions which are a result of those >structures. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's >house. So in this context, the master's tools are the internalized structures of repression, which of course couldn't be expected to contribute much to liberation ( ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 10:30:12 PST 2003

26852 [lbo-talk] "master's tools" (was po-mo prince) -- rank: 1000

kelley at pulpculture.org wrote: >what a bunch of lame lazy asses. as usual, y'all sit around bitching >about the quote. type in audre lord master's tools Which I did, and paged through 3 screens of google hits and didn't get a context. Lots of misquotes though. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 10:13:19 PST 2003

26853 [lbo-talk] Billy Kristol: Dean could beat Bush -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - December 9, 2003 How Dean Could Win . . . By William Kristol Going into the final day of the college football regular season, Oklahoma was undefeated and ranked No. 1. The Sooners had the best defense in the nation, had outscored their opponents by an average of 35 points and had a nine-game winning streak against ranked teams. "OU: Among best ever?" USA Today asked (rhetorically) on Friday. Kansas State, by contrast, had three losses, and had never won a Big 12 champ ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 08:23:46 PST 2003

26854 [lbo-talk] The Twilight of Equality Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: His fourth post of the day - and it's early morning Pacific time. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 06:32:23 PST 2003

26855 [lbo-talk] Re: The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >Last post. His fifth today. It'd be nice if self-control would kick in at three. Doug

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 06:31:45 PST 2003

26856 [lbo-talk] RCP->LM->GM... -- rank: 1000

[any comments, James Heartfield?] Guardian (London) - December 9, 2003 Invasion of the entryists How did a cultish political network become the public face of the scientific establishment? George Monbiot One of strangest aspects of modern politics is the dominance of former left-wingers who have swung to the right. The "neo-cons" pretty well run the White House and the Pentagon, the Labour party and key departments of the British government. But there is a group which has travelled eve ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 9 06:25:21 PST 2003

26857 [lbo-talk] posting limits -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Occasionally going over-limit is one thing. Repeatedly posting _two or >three times_ the limit is another. It is rude and overbearing. Yup. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 20:01:09 PST 2003

26858 [lbo-talk] please, ralph, NOOO!!! -- rank: 1000

Lance Murdoch wrote: >It's quite amusing to see Mr. DeLong, Mr. Henwood and so forth ignoring >this entire half of the electorate who are mostly working class (if they >can manage to find work), and who are left-leaning, but toinstead over the >fact that there are some people out there advocating the repeal of >Taft-Hartley, single payer health care and so forth, in a grassroots >organization, and that 1-2% of the eligible population might vote for them >instead of the Democ ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 17:00:27 PST 2003

26859 [lbo-talk] The Dean Connection (was US, Israel, & New York Times) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The New York Times really wants Dean to win Evidently you missed today's front-page profile of Lieberman, a love letter written by the incomparable Janny Scott (an actual instance of someone being named after a brokerage firm, Janney Montgomery Scott): <http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/08/politics/campaigns/08LIEB.html> >A Centrist, Lieberman Fights for Votes in an Extremist Era >By JANNY SCOTT > >It is a quiet Sunday morning in early fall on Franklin ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 16:52:28 PST 2003

26860 [lbo-talk] counter-stereotypes [was: Beaten Black Man's Death a Homicide (Cincinnati)] -- rank: 1000

Eubulides wrote: >You, of course, want to be identified with the group that doesn't want to >be identified with any other group. A finer case of Veblen's snob effect >has not been seen on this list........... Or as Paul Fussell dubbed it in his amusing book Class, this is Class X, which is the hipster/intellectual fantasy of belonging to no class at all. Fussell bought the fantasy, though. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 16:34:22 PST 2003

26861 [lbo-talk] 'China's Wall Street' to be completed by 2008 -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: > 'China's Wall Street' to be completed by 2008 By the way, this sort of thing makes me think that China's heading for a fall. It may emerge on the other side of it as an economic superpower, but right now it all sounds too bullish to be true. Doug

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 16:29:33 PST 2003

26862 [lbo-talk] 'China's Wall Street' to be completed by 2008 -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Hey Doug, might want to plan on a change of residential venues soon >(I know I am). I'm sure their champagne is just as good. NYC is a >dying imperial city anyway - the demise of the WTC was just the >first toll of the bell - and NY will eventually join the most recent >mausoleum of empire, London. I haven't been to London in about 10 years, though I'm going at the end of January. But I remember it from several visits as a pretty great city. So If that's NYC's ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 16:28:35 PST 2003

26863 [lbo-talk] Hersh on U.S. tactics -- rank: 1000

<http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031215fa_fact> MOVING TARGETS by SEYMOUR M. HERSH Will the counter-insurgency plan in Iraq repeat the mistakes of Vietnam? Issue of 2003-12-15 Posted 2003-12-08 The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq. In interviews over the past month, American officials and former officials said that the main target was a hard-core group of Baathists who are believed to be behind much of the underground ins ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 16:19:05 PST 2003

26864 [lbo-talk] Re: US, Israel, & New York Times (was Re: Israel Disease Spreds) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >That said, in the minds of a number of LBO-talkers, affection for >Negri's "Empire" dovetails affection for Democrats. Yeah, I was really blown away the other night when Howard Dean inserted this great bit from p. 58 into his stump speech: "Perhaps the incommunicability of struggles, the lack of well-structured, communicated tunnels, is in fact a strength rather than a weakness - a strength because all of the movements are immediately subversive in t ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 15:47:37 PST 2003

26865 [lbo-talk] Re: the postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Brian Charles Dauth wrote: >But capitalism is the economic system that individualism calls into >existence. The "rich individuality" of Marx was simply the best idea that >he could come up with having not studied Buddhist thought in any depth. I'm also with KM on the "progressive" and "civilizing" aspects of capital. It's given us mass literacy, complex global linkages, a world literature, and many other good things that could be the basis for an even bett ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 8 15:41:03 PST 2003