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26956 [lbo-talk] Re: Bolshevik-Bashing -- The Point -- rank: 1000

Jacob Conrad wrote: >Given my pragmatic bent, only a social-democratic point of >view makes much sense to me, although the more left-wing, though still >democratic left tradition represented by New Politics exerts a >considerable emotional appeal. Any socialism worth having, however, >will not only preserve but extend the liberal tradition, which, to the >vastly imperfect extent that it is expressed in law and social practice >in the US and elsewhere, remains a precious and ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 1 06:24:17 PST 2003

26957 [lbo-talk] Bolshevik-Bashing -- The Point -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >This is why I consider Michael Pugliese an internet troll, not deserving >of even minimal courtesy. It's why (in a post which was accidentally on >list instead of off list) I recommended to the moderator of the Chomsky >list that he kick Pugliese off it. And MP had the nerve to write me >plaintively, Did you really say this Carrol. Damn right I did. > >I knew perfectly well what Klo's last name was. But the personal >identity was quite incidental to the ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 1 06:19:23 PST 2003

26958 [lbo-talk] neolojism -- rank: 1000

Savage Love - by Dan Savage Trying to Make 'Santorum' Stick http://villagevoice.com/alertrd.php3?article=46521

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 31 18:46:19 PDT 2003

26959 [lbo-talk] Chomsky: The U.N. Learns to Behave -- rank: 1000

Shane Taylor wrote: >Carrol's rejoinder that what an anti-war movement says or does is >irrelevant because it won't change policy comes to mind here. But that's >a cop-out. Whether or not an anti-war movement gets any traction with US >public opinion is *inseparable* from what it says and does. He and >Yoshie are in fact calling to abandon Iraqis to social disintegration, >and will rightly received as doing so. Such a position from the anti-war >movement would further ma ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 31 13:36:21 PDT 2003

26960 [lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >It's not as if Iraqis didn't know how to get electricity and water running: That's when Iraq had a strong and functional state. Ugly, but it did keep the electricity flowing. The U.S. destroyed that, nothing works, and people are at each other's throats. The conditions are completely different. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 31 13:17:50 PDT 2003

26961 [lbo-talk] 2/3 of voters can't name a Dem candidate -- rank: 1000

AP via San Francisco Chronicle - August 31, 2003 Lieberman, Gephardt, Dean top national poll, but few voters paying attention Most voters haven't started paying attention to the Democratic presidential race, says a poll released on Labor Day weekend -- the campaign's traditional starting point. Two-thirds of voters -- including two-thirds of Democrats -- were unable to name any of the Democratic candidates for president, said the CBS News poll out Sunday. Joe Lieberman, Dick Gephardt and Howard ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 31 11:32:58 PDT 2003

26962 [lbo-talk] Iraqi public opinion -- rank: 1000

Maria Gilmore wrote: >Something I think I heard Christian Parenti say on Doug's show yesterday >was, a big reason Iraqis are not eager to take up arms as a people against >their occupation would be the simple fact that one way or another their >society has been at war for over 20 years now. They've had enough of it. >That also helps explain the pleas to Americans to take the oil, just get the >power back on and clean water flowing and some semblence of order and >then...lea ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 31 10:21:18 PDT 2003

26963 [lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >At 10:39 AM -0400 8/30/03, Doug Henwood wrote: >>Still, it's something constructive to ask for. I'm open to better >>suggestions. > >Abolish the UN Security Council -- Let Democracy Prevail through the >General Assembly. Which will get the electricity and water running in Iraq, right? Doug

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Date:	Sun Aug 31 08:08:09 PDT 2003

26964 [lbo-talk] depression: what's it good for? -- rank: 1000

The Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago and Feel Tank Chicago 2004 Conference CALL FOR PAPERS DEPRESSION: WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR? March 12-13, 2004 at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Depressed? Anxious? Confused? This conference starts with the premise that these questions are not merely the province of talk shows and late-night TV commercials. It asks, instead, how we might use the experience of depression as the very index of our current political climate an ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 31 07:53:13 PDT 2003

26965 [lbo-talk] Re: Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

Paul wrote: >Of course isn't the real issue WHICH U.N.? Of course. The call of the Iraqi Communist Workers Party for a US-less UN to take over implicitly addresses that. It's also nearly impossible to imagine the US ever going along with something like that (not that "US out!" is a much less impossible call). Still, it's something constructive to ask for. I'm open to better suggestions. Doug

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Date:	Sat Aug 30 07:39:45 PDT 2003

26966 [lbo-talk] Baghdad: 35 Murders A Day -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >This seems to support the position of those of us who say it is the >U.S.'s presence , not its absence or departure, that makes "chaos" ( uh oh, >better call James Bond ) in Iraq. The U.S. destroyed a state that permeated every aspect of Iraqi life. It was hard for institutions to exist outside the Ba'athist structure. As Boris Kagarlitsky once said of the USSR, people related politically to the state and not to each other. Having destroyed that - what's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Aug 29 14:50:04 PDT 2003

26967 [lbo-talk] Re: uniforms -- rank: 1000

Jon Johanning wrote: >On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 09:55 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > >>Is not it special that attacking commercial culture and its >>idols provokes so much controversy on lbo, while the informative >>postings about economic and political development outside the US (such >>as those by Ulhas Joglekar) go virtually unnoticed? > >Just because a posting doesn't elicit comments doesn't mean it's >unnoticed. I for one find the posts by Mr./ ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 29 14:00:43 PDT 2003

26968 [lbo-talk] be a music critic! accumulate money, fame, and sexual partners!! -- rank: 1000

The Chicago Reader is looking for a music columnist. Responsibilities include a weekly column focusing on (but not limited to) local music and music business stories, plus weekly short show previews, regular long-form think pieces, and occasional in-depth features. Must be a careful and resourceful reporter as well as a stylish writer. Funny's good too. Competitive pay, great benefits. Please send, via snail mail, your five best clips, resume, and substantive cover letter to: Music Writer Search ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 29 12:26:29 PDT 2003

26969 [lbo-talk] car bomb -- rank: 1000

Iraq Mosque Bomb Kills 75, Including Shi'ite Leader By Michael Georgy NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A car bombing killed 75 Iraqis, including a top Shi'ite Muslim leader, on Friday in an apparent assassination that dealt a grave blow to the U.S. occupation and left carnage at the holiest shrine of Shi'ism. The blast tore through worshippers as they streamed away from Friday prayers in the Imam Ali mosque in the holy city of Najaf. It was by far the worst such atrocity in Iraq (news - web sites) since ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 29 09:50:34 PDT 2003

26970 [lbo-talk] African Amer. Politics: Mediocre, Dem Obsessed and Consumerist? (was Pollit on Dean) -- rank: 1000

Dwayne Monroe wrote: >he 'gansta rap', bling-bling consumerism we all love >to hate is simply an offshoot of the genteel >pro-capitalism of an earlier time. A lot of it also sounds really good (and looks good in videos too). All the moral condemnations of the genre usually forget that. Doug

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Date:	Fri Aug 29 09:38:44 PDT 2003