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26911 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >Who says either of these things? Chomsky says producing and acquiring >theory "can be hard work." The fact that the smart ideas are simple doesn't >mean they are easy to come by or absorb. Likewise, having simple theories >doesn't mean explanations of reality will be simple. Simplicity and clear >explanation are not necessarily coterminous. Take Herman and Chomsky's >theory of the commercial media, for instance. The theory is simple a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 13:41:24 PST 2003

26912 [lbo-talk] Perlstein on the "Wal-Mart voters" -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Tuesday, December 2, 2003, at 09:38 PM, Chuck0 wrote: > >> I don't see any patriotic shit on cars or trucks and Bush/Cheney >>bumperstickers are a rare sight. > >Now that you mention it, I haven't seen very many flags on cars >recently here in the Philly area. A few months ago, you could see >them quite frequently (at least in the 'burbs). Could this be a >"leading political indicator"? The stimuli - 9/11 and the runup to the ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 13:25:34 PST 2003

26913 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >A social science that can aspire to interesting smart ideas like that would >not have much to apologize for. "There are interesting, simple ideas. >They're often hard to come up with, and they're often extremely hard to >work out ... what actually happened, say, in the modern industrial >economy and how it developed the way it is. That can take a lot of work." Why should an explanation of a long complex evolution that takes a lot of work emerge a ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 12:49:44 PST 2003

26914 [lbo-talk] Perlstein on the "Wal-Mart voters" -- rank: 1000

JW Mason wrote: >Shane Taylor wrote: > >> Doug Henwood wrote: >> > I keep hoping people will adopt my slogan, but they don't: >> > protect the worker, not the job. >> >> I like it. What could it mean in practice? > >What it means in practice is that the state makes no effort to protect, >subsidize or otherwise prop up declining industries. Instead it focuses on >providing income support, training and other assistance to displaced workers ...

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26915 [lbo-talk] Perlstein on the "Wal-Mart voters" -- rank: 1000

mike larkin wrote: >I'm not sure how effective that would be. In corporate America, >where I toil, cubicle people view unproductive fellow workers as a >big problem, and constantly say unions would make that problem >worse. Whatever you think of that attitude, it's widespread, and >needs to be engaged. Your slogan would probably be interpreted as >coddling slackers. Then I guess we should just give up. Workers of the world, divide!

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26916 [lbo-talk] Bush popularity surging? -- rank: 1000

Bush Popularity Surges on Several Levels after Thanksgiving http://www.appcpenn.org/naes/2003_03_Bush-surge-after-thanksgiving_pr.pdf

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 10:11:32 PST 2003

26917 [lbo-talk] KPRF -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Why, is the KPRF such an atavistic force? etc. One more and it's the approval queue for you. Doug

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26918 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson -PSU wrote: >I don't think he's arguing that the categories are immediately transparent >at all. I think he's arguing that you can explain what they confuse and >obscure with simple, ordinary language. > >In my view, Marx's expose of where profit comes from via the explanation of >the working day is, in fact, probably the best illustration of Chomsky's >point you could come up with. Somebody intoxicated on Big Theory would >ramble all over the place about ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 10:00:07 PST 2003

26919 [lbo-talk] Perlstein on the "Wal-Mart voters" -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >Granted, Kansas City has gotten more liberal than it was 15 years >ago, but this is still Republican country. Really? Tom Frank is writing a book about Kansas, his home state, and says it's gotten more conservative. How's KC gotten more liberal? Doug

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 09:47:16 PST 2003

26920 [lbo-talk] Perlstein on the "Wal-Mart voters" -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >What is to be done, anyway? I don't mean the Kucinich-like shtick about >ending NAFTA. Bob Pollin recently had an excellent point on NOW: this is >the reality, we have to deal. But how? Industrial policy? Beefed up >unemployment insurance? What? I keep hoping people will adopt my slogan, but they don't: protect the worker, not the job. Doug

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26921 [lbo-talk] KPRF -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 06:31:29 -0500, Chris Doss <itschris13 at hotmail.com> wrote: > >>Pugliese to AIDS patient: "Stop being such a whiner. You're just >>'nostalgic' for that time when you didn't have wasting disease. >>Onward ever onward!" >> >>Pugliese to legless landmine victim: "Quit your wussy pining for >>the time when you could walk and dance, you loser!" >> >>Disgusting. And, by, the w ...

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Date:	Wed Dec 3 09:36:35 PST 2003

26922 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

dave dorkin wrote: >Why dont you ask him directly if you dont follow it? I'm supposed to interview him sometime in January, and I most certainly will ask him. Doug

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26923 [lbo-talk] US Productivity Achieves Trans-warp Speed -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >The reported numbers are quite remarkable. To be >clear, I don't assume statiticians are fudging the >numbers but this super-productivity seems >counter-intuitive. It's not counter-intuitive - there's no doubt that production is rising much faster than employment. But the numbers are outlandishly high - so high that they're hard to believe. Almost 16% gain in durable manufacturing? Infuckingcredible, really. Profits are up, but not *that* much. Where are all th ...

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26924 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >CHOMSKY: That's my assumption. Either there's something there that's so >deep that it's a kind of qualitative change in human intelligence, or >there isn't a lot there. And it's not just literary theory. If somebody >came along with a theory of history, it would be the same. "Theory" would >be a sort of truism. Maybe "smart ideas." Somebody could have smart ideas >and say, Why don't you look at class struggle? It's interesting. Or, Wh ...

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26925 [lbo-talk] The postmodern prince -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook quoted Noam Chomsky touting: >monosyllables ...itself a five-syllable word. Doug

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