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32131 Fwd: Re: Heidegger -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than the list] >X-From_: LeoCasey at aol.com Wed Jun 6 12:19:19 2001 >From: LeoCasey at aol.com >Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 12:18:39 EDT >Subject: Re: Heidegger >To: lbo-talk-digest <owner-lbo-talk-digest at lists.panix.com> >Mime-Version: 1.0 > >As a political theorist/philosopher by training, I know Schmitt a whole >better than Heidegger, and I would cede to Justin's opinion on Heidegger's >thought as better informed than my own. I once wrot ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 6 11:40:14 PDT 2001

32132 Heidegger -- rank: 1000

[posted from non-sub'd address] From: "McNally, David J. (LNG-MBC)" <David.J.McNally at lexisnexis.com> To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: RE: Heidegger Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:20:19 -0400 If this is true - that most published translations of Heidegger are not good - perhaps it would be an interesting project to create a new version using the open source software collaborative approach - eventually creating an excellent, fr ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 6 06:55:54 PDT 2001

32133 BdL on BE -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: > > . . . In practice, when the relatively >> poor start to get more money, the better-off, who have more >> power than they do, can be expected simply charge them and >> each other more until the wage change is absorbed by inflation. >> And this is what we seem to observe. It seems like a cruel >> joke, in fact, but "only the poor will suffer, and they're >> used to it." > >Max Sawicky: >> Is this state ...

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32134 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >One thing I also had in mind with my original post is >how fantasy acts not only to mobilize politics, but >also to organize and sustain relations of exploitation >and oppression. To the extent that it does, there's >no unsuccessful politics without a good fantasy. You're absolutely right. I'm trying to be more positive in my old age. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 6 06:29:20 PDT 2001

32135 Oil Import inquiry -- rank: 1000

Kevin Robert Dean wrote: >Where can I find stats of where the US imports its oil from? I tried doing >a search on the web but came up lost. <http://www.eia.doe.gov/index.html>

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 13:33:15 PDT 2001

32136 BdL on BE -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong writes (in his review of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed), apparently forgetting that Ehrenreich's field work was entirely carried out under a Democratic presidency, and that the Dems failed to pass a minwage increase when they controlled Congress: At 7:07 PM +0000 6/5/01, delong at econ.berkeley.edu wrote: >Why, then, did I look at this book after I finished it like I might >look at a dangerous insect? Because of its politics--or, rather, its >antipolitics. In this bo ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 12:19:39 PDT 2001

32137 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > >LABOR STANDARDS, in the U.S. and everywhere else. > >Oh yes, we're real good on labor standards here in the U.S. A model >for the world, in fact, just like our political democracy. Doug > > >Sounds defeatist to me. 'We' are better than many, but even >so, there is no reason to refrain from agitation that tries to >improve. I agree, but I think lots of U.S. union people like to talk about labor standards abroad to distract attention from thei ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 11:28:17 PDT 2001

32138 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >LABOR STANDARDS, in the U.S. and everywhere else. Oh yes, we're real good on labor standards here in the U.S. A model for the world, in fact, just like our political democracy. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 10:17:00 PDT 2001

32139 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >On the politics part, Teixeira's polling analysis says otherwise. Poll numbers are exceedingly mixed. Electorally, though, name an explicitly protectionist candidate who's done well. Even the AFL-CIO is becoming internationalist in some way or other. >As to the economics, you have plenty of company in your belief, >Brad, uh, Doug. Where was the keyboard you're typing on made? Mine says "Designed by Apple in California. Made in Malaysia." The AT&T phone ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 09:50:38 PDT 2001

32140 Empire, nationalism, etc. -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: What about the struggle continues, victory is certain ? The >revolution is not over yet. Amandla. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

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32141 Al Sharpton -- rank: 1000

This was forwarded to me from another list. Anyone know anything about this? Sharpton was on Geraldo Rivera's CNBC show last night, announcing his likely presidential candidacy in 2004. The guy sure can talk a good game... Doug ---- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 19:50:11 -0400 From: Louis R Godena <louisgodena at IDS.NET> Subject: Re: Endorsing the Loathesome Al Sharpton (fwd from moderator) From Gangbox, the construction news service, and its moderator Gregory Butler. Sister Pam: Before you ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 08:49:27 PDT 2001

32142 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >According to the documentary _America: Love It or Leave It_, 125,000 >Americans went to Canada -- as draft resisters, deserters, or >political exiles (self-imposed or otherwise) -- during the Vietnam >War, so back then to become a Canadian (resident or citizen) could >mean to become un-American ideologically. Yeah, but let's not concede too much to the dominant ideology - there are lots of Americans who aren't bigoted imperialists, even if the government a ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 08:44:05 PDT 2001

32143 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >While underdeveloped nations still have something to gain from >protectionism, America, Europe, & Japan don't. I suspect only large "underdeveloped" countries could gain from protectionism now (abstracting from all the external political pressures - meaning from Washington and the IMF - that would make them very hard to sustain). That would mean China, India, maybe Brazil. But smaller than that, how can they do it? The internal market would be too sma ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 5 08:36:44 PDT 2001

32144 fantasy and political organization -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What you call protectionism is self-defense. >"Internationalism" is the fantasy. That >everyone else is dreaming is your dream. >Hope they're sweet. There's no successful politics without a good fantasy, whether you're talking Bolshevism or Reaganism. So calling something a "fantasy" isn't terribly helpful. We need fantasies that are rooted enough in the real world to have some possibility of success and just otherworldly enough to inspire peo ...

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32145 Rumsfeld's Ominous Noises on China -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >Anybody besides me noticed Rumsfeld's increasing hostility to >China? > >What the hell is he up to? Why? > >I thought our corporations wanted to do business with China. >It doesn't seem to be urged by our military. > >So, why Rumsfeld's hostility? It doesn't seem to me to serve >any US purpose. Is there some deeper purpose I'm missing? Seems to me to be one of those rare fissures in the ruling class, with the hardline right into bashing China w ...

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