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31216 Off List Re: Marxism At Yale -- rank: 1000

Peter Kosenko wrote: >Since we have no >preconception of the "value" of the other, we must >perforce grant them the humanity we grant >ourselves. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you? Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 20 06:19:01 PST 2001

31217 al Jazeera -- rank: 1000

<http://www.odaction.org/challenge/70/jazira.html> Challenge No. 70 - November 9, 2001 Al-Jazeera: The Thousand and One Bin Ladens Samya Nasser After the disasters of September 11, much of the world made its first acquaintance with the Arabic satellite TV channel Al-Jazeera. While US forces headed toward Afghanistan, that country's government expelled all foreign journalists except Al-Jazeera's. The station has since held the monopoly in broadcasting the American bombardment. In addition, ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 16:15:04 PST 2001

31218 Maoist Eberts -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >The Stooges were in Ann Arbor?? Yup, that's where the Fun House was. According to the engrossing Please Kill Me, the oral history of punk, the IRS rang up the Fun House one day. A Stooge answered, and the revenooer informed him that they hadn't filed any taxes. The Stooge replied, "Oh, we don't file taxes, we're heroin addicts." Supposedly, the IRS never called back. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 13:33:27 PST 2001

31219 FW: Afghan Workers' Solidarity Campaign -- rank: 1000

Liza Featherstone wrote: >Hey-- > >I just got this rather surprising communication. Does anyone know anything >at all about this, and about any of the groups to which it refers? There are >a number of reasons to be skeptical, clearly, but I'd love to know more. > >Liza > >---------- > >Afghan Workers Solidarity Campaign launched I asked Tariq Ali about this. His response: >The Afghan group is a teeny-tiny trot group of exiles who the LPP have >stumbled on.. ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 13:29:02 PST 2001

31220 Maoist Eberts -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >But my fav MIM review is for "Batman Returns": So, Dennis, do you ever see the MIMsters in Ann Arbor? I hear they have a house there, which may be the funnest place in town since the Stooges were there. Years ago, they wrote an attack on me, but wouldn't send me a copy unless I paid $10. Hey, the only place I pay to be abused is right here! Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 13:01:22 PST 2001

31221 privatization rush slows -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 19, 2001 National Rush to Privatize Public Works Loses Steam as Citizens Question Safety By YOCHI DREAZEN and ANDREW CAFFREY Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL NEW ORLEANS -- For the past three years, New Orleans has been lurching toward hiring private contractors to upgrade and operate its municipal water and sewer system. The plan was to open bids after Christmas and award a 20-year, $1 billion contract by February. Until Sept. 11. Since then, one mayoral ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 12:13:16 PST 2001

31222 Maoist Eberts -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Wanted to show that I too could go Pugliese: > ><http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/movies/>http://www.etext.org/Politics/MIM/movies/ Wow. They've even got links so you can buy the video from Amazon, and MIM gets a commish. No flies on these Maoists! Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 11:54:58 PST 2001

31223 Political Education Re: Osama, September 11, London, Illuminati -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Doug says he is concerned that anti-Americanism is the >anti-imperialism of fools, just as anti-Semitism is the socialism of >fools. The problem that Doug raises is a real one, but the cultural >solution that Doug seems to prefer -- a renewed appreciation of >"American culture," especially American pop & sub cultures -- won't >do. What we need here is patient political education, with emphasis >on the complex history of capitalism and ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 11:15:25 PST 2001

31224 I Don't Get It -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Am I allowed to think that *both* the Soviet intervention in >Afghanistan in the late 1970s and 1980s *and* the American >intervention in Afghanistan in the late 1970s and 1980s were bad >things? Sure, and most socialist grouplets in the U.S. would agree with you! Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 09:57:47 PST 2001

31225 I Don't Get It -- rank: 1000

Ken Hanly wrote: >You mean the CPUSA did not support the Soviet intervention? Well of course, but they don't count. They were on the payroll. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 10:49:31 PST 2001

31226 I Don't Get It -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Are the "foreign" Taliban in Kunduz really threatening to massacre >the entire population of Kunduz rather than surrender? Where'd you hear that? A scan of the wires reveals them shooting Afghan fighters who want to surrender, but no threat of a civilian massacre. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 10:42:23 PST 2001

31227 Marxism At Yale -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >What is one to make of this? That the only Marxist hired by a major US economics department in the last 20 years is no Marxist at all? Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 10:04:10 PST 2001

31228 I Don't Get It -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I'm curious about how American leftists reacted to the Vietnamese >intervention in Cambodia, the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, >etc. at the time when they happened. Dunno about VN in Cambodia, but the only left group in the U.S. to support the Soviet intervention (or invasion, depending on your proclivities) was the Spartacist League. Everyone else was critical. The Sparts have reprinted some of their commentaries from then in an I-told-you-so manner. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 08:21:16 PST 2001

31229 cultural imperialism -- rank: 1000

Chris Doss wrote: >If it's any consolation, one of the results on the pop culture level of >growth of anti-Western and nationalist sentiment in Russia is that Things >Western Are Not Cool. The airwaves are clogged with pop and rock bands from >the FSU, many of whom are damn good. But by playing rock, aren't they basically reproducing Western pop culture in spite of their intentions? Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 08:06:18 PST 2001

31230 Moments of silence -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >We've just kept quiet for one hour: one minute for the Americans killed in >NY, DC, and Pennsylvania, 59 minutes for their victims throughout the world. You mean the folks in the WTC killed all those people elsewhere? You learn something new every day. Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 19 05:44:14 PST 2001