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32011 Fwd: AUT: [Fwd: LL:URL: GLobalisation Conference Registration] -- rank: 1000

GLOBALISATION CONFERENCE <LIVE & ONLINE> Online Conference 13 July - 10 August Live Conference 26-29 July For further information and registration details http://arts.adelaide.edu.au/ARCHSS **Only registered participants will be given access to the online conference site Online participants will include: -- slavoj zizek -- -- michael hardt & antonio negri -- -- jk gibson-graham -- -- irene watson -- -- patricia monture-angus -- -- stelarc -- Visiting Speakers will include (their pa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 27 06:13:55 PDT 2001

32012 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >up, always said that the USA is just a successful Nazism, mellowed by victory. Right. That's why you're allowed to say this, instead of being confined to a Texas Auschwitz. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 27 05:57:29 PDT 2001

32013 NBER on "recession" -- rank: 1000

Better late than never.... >The NBER's Recession Dating Procedure in the Light of Current Developments > >Robert E. Hall >National Bureau of Economic Research > >June 18, 2001 >This report is also available as a PDF file. > >This memo will appear on the NBER's website, NBER.org, during the >period of uncertainty about the state of the economy. The purpose of >the memo is to explain the Bureau's procedures for dating >recessions, not to indicate whether or not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 27 05:56:29 PDT 2001

32014 RM tapes available -- rank: 1000

Videotapes of the plenaries at the Rethinking Marxism 2000 conference are now available (including me with Angela Davis). For info, check any of the sources below. Well, it's supposed to be on the website, but I don't see it yet. Doug ---- (800) 897-0089 <http://www.mediaed.org> 26 Center St. Northampton MA 01060 Fax:(413) 586-8398 Email: mediaed at mediaed.org

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 26 13:56:53 PDT 2001

32015 Eugenics, Racism and Fascism, Socialism, Communism, Etc. -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >As bad as that is, and as deserving of criticism as it is, it does not >begin to compare with what happened under Communist regimes, much less >under fascism. There is a need for perspective here. Stalinist USSR and >Stalinist satellite regimes in Eastern Europe were marked by anti-Semitic >purges, and such treatment of national minorities as epitomized by the >deaths of millions of Ukrainians. Maoist China has not a much better record >with respe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 26 08:15:58 PDT 2001

32016 BBC News EUROPE Body bags stockpiled for Genoa summit -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >All your talk about Zizek and Foucault aren't going to help >you understand the working class young person who gets fucked by >Greenpeace as a >door-to-door canvasser. Actually many of the people who talk about Z & F - e.g., on this list - have no problem with a little "violence." Z himself partly explains his interest in Lenin by saying that in politics sometimes you have to shoot people. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 07:35:44 PDT 2001

32017 Rob Schaap on Foucault -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: In part , it has to do with Foucault fans calling Marxists Marxoids. Not all Marxists are Marxoids, you know. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 26 08:11:24 PDT 2001

32018 Fwd: Make Two Phone Calls To Protect Your Rights! -- rank: 1000

>X-From_: notice-return-1337157A13676B0626071420C272 at GetActiveHub.com >Tue Jun 26 19:17:39 2001 >Reply-To: notice-reply-1337157A13676B0626071420C272 at GetActiveHub.com >From: nwu at nwu.org >To: dhenwood at panix.com >Subject: Make Two Phone Calls To Protect Your Rights! >Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 23:17:33 GMT > >Dear Doug Henwood, > >URGENT-FREELANCERS, MAKE A PHONE CALL TO PROTECT YOUR >RIGHTS! > >In the wake of the Supreme Court victory for freelance ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 26 16:27:35 PDT 2001

32019 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >The reason fascism ties to eugenics and other nasty doctrines is that the >elite usually needs to justify its own hierarchy. Nationalism, racism and >purity are often useful for that purpose, as well as creating scapegoats to >divide the working class. But you're letting soc dem off too lightly here. Historically it's depended on a confined national economy, and maintaining that can get ugly. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 25 15:57:26 PDT 2001

32020 good news! -- rank: 1000

In their 2001 annual report, the Trustees of the U.S. Social Security System forecast that the average wage, which is around $34,000, will grow to $761,919 in 2075. Just think of all that money! Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 25 13:53:47 PDT 2001

32021 Tokyo election results -- rank: 1000

How traders think: Rick Santelli, one of CNBC's talking heads from Chicago, said this morning that "the yen had elections overnight" - i.e., Japan held elections yesterday, when it was nighttime in the U.S. midwest. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 25 13:06:56 PDT 2001

32022 Labels -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Sure. Who wants the hoi poloi to read someone who pours scorn on >those who would set the state free? In the FSU and the ex-bloc, >"Marxist" education was based on indigestible boring texts, and not >on Marx. I once had a smart Ukrainian emigre student, an engineer, >who was absolutely astounded when he came to read Marx after growing >up with a M-L education in the former USSR. "No wonder they don't >teach this!" he said. "Th ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 25 13:09:15 PDT 2001

32023 breakthrough! -- rank: 1000

Closeups of the products of bourgeois economics: <http://www.farmphoto.com/search.asp?SearchString=manure&submit1=Search%21&ft=on>.

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Date:	Mon Jun 25 12:26:13 PDT 2001

32024 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And those kinds of socialists are the fascist-minded ones. Swedish social democrats and Fabians? A quick web search turns up: * Sweden and other Scandinavian countries sterilized 60,000 in pursuit of eugenic policies * In a 1907 Fabian pamphlet, Sidney Webb deplored the falling British birthrate at a time "when children are being freely born to the Irish Roman Catholics and to the Polish, Russian and German Jews, on the one hand, and to the thriftless and irresponsi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 25 11:17:43 PDT 2001

32025 China Fascism weeds out the "unfit" from higher education -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >Which doesn't make eugenics any less fascist -- it merely points up the more >totalitarian aspects of Margaret Sanger and other birth control advocates, >rather than any sort of progressive character of sterilization, no? Maybe I'm quibbling over mere words, but if socialists and corporate liberals once supported eugenics - and probably many secretly do now, but they're too embarrassed to admit it - then why label it fascist? There's a certain kind of leftist who dis ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 25 08:33:34 PDT 2001