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32536 Real Despair -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The level of Depair I'm assuming this is a typo for Despair, but I'm curious about the Capital - is this some Miltonic evocation, as in "Hail divinest Melancholy"? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 14:22:34 PST 2001

32537 Rightward ho! -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: On the Bush tax cut, does it really matter ? The rich are >already so rich and what is there to cut in social programs ? There >isn't much federal money left for the working class , is there ? Be even less if there were a tax cut. Still, you could imagine cuts in Food Stamps, Medicaid, and public housing. > Welfare is abolished as we knew it. HUD is reinvented into >oblivion. etc. What do we care about the federal government ( sorry >) ? Have the righ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 13:50:47 PST 2001

32538 SC -- rank: 1000

[silver linings dep't...] Gallup Poll News Service POLITICS & ELECTIONS NewsAlert __________________________________________________________________ Here is your requested Supreme Court update from the Gallup Poll News Service. 1/3/01 - Opinion of U.S. Supreme Court Has Become More Politicized Link to story: http://www.gallup.alerts.com/alerts/ClickThrough?Address=dhenwood@panix.com&SiteName=galluppoll&CriteriaID=1231&Destination=http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010103b.asp

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 13:39:00 PST 2001

32539 Rightward ho! -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: > >>I know folks on LBO love wallowing in the hopelessness of it all, as Carroll >>describes it, but there are going to be five hundred separate political >>fights over the next four years. > > >specifically, that would be the hopelessness of working within the >democratic party. i for, one, do not think anything is hopeless and >do not wallow in it and i resent that you'd suggest that i or anyone >else here, but carrol, does. name one person ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 10:56:42 PST 2001

32540 Fed cuts rates -- rank: 1000

[this is pretty aggressive stuff - they must be a bit scared] January 3, 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fed Cuts Interest Rates by Half Point In Unexpected Midsession Decision A WSJ.COM News Roundup WASHINGTON -- Faced with a cooling economy, the Federal Reserve unexpectedly cut interest rates Wednesday. The central bank's move, slashing its key federal-funds target by one-half a percentage point, came four weeks before Fed policy makers were set to ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 10:52:08 PST 2001

32541 DLC on Bush -- rank: 1000

[From the DLC's daily commentary; today's topic is Bush's cabinet choices.] The two likely exceptions from the conventional nature of this group are proposed Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, and proposed Education Secretary Rod Paige. Thompson has a genuinely impressive record in pioneering the right kind of work-based welfare reform in Wisconsin, albeit with much unacknowledged help and prodding from Wisconsin Democrats. And Paige has been a respected front-line education r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 10:40:48 PST 2001

32542 Rightward ho! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >But the whole "the Dems will just cave" will be a self-fulfilling prophecy >if folks assume it is true. Though I'm not one for "wallowing in hopelessness," as you put it, this "self-fulfilling prophecy" is a suspicion based on a long history. From today's FT: >For all the talk of bipartisanship, it is still a concept that seems >to depend mainly on the eyes of the beholder. "Bipartisanship is >when a Republican president sel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 10:34:43 PST 2001

32543 bush vs. unions -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2001 22:03:01 -0600 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: "t. c. frank" <t-frank-3 at alumni.uchicago.edu> Subject: bush vs. unions Hey folks: I heard a curious rumor today: That Bush has forbade any union workers from working on his inauguration ceremonies in any way. People building the platforms, musicians, etc. Could this possibly be true? And how about our new Sec'y of Labor? An honest-to-god Gannettoid! Tom Frank

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 3 06:50:45 PST 2001

32544 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >There are crucial questions here and Doug's frivolity on this thread >seems designed to block articulation of those questions. Missed you so much Carrol! How's the wrist? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 20:00:00 PST 2001

32545 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >To repeat, our argument should be racism is *not* in the interest of >white workers, sexism is *not* in the interest of male workers, and >so on. Well maybe it is. Why are you so sure? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 15:27:55 PST 2001

32546 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Still, it is _not_ true that whites, as a "class," extract surplus >from blacks & other peoples of color, thus unlike the relation >between capital & labor, in which capital, as a class, extract >surplus from labor. > >Still, it is _not_ true that men, as a "class," extract surplus from >women, thus unlike the relation between capital & labor, in which >capital, as a class, extract surplus from labor. Most men every ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 14:15:53 PST 2001

32547 Marcos as brand -- rank: 1000

Rebel Marcos Is Very Marketable by JULIE WATSON Associated Press Writer MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Anti-capitalist rebel Subcomandante Marcos, who wooed the world with his poetic Internet communiques, is on his way to becoming the most marketable masked man on the planet. Advertisers have usurped his image to sell furniture, appliances -- even courses in public relations. A Marcos imitator smoking a pipe sells furniture and appliances on TV commercials for the Mexican retail chain Viana, negotiating un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 14:17:03 PST 2001

32548 BK on Identity -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Leo asks: > >>For class to be different than race, gender, sexual >>orienation, and other forms of social identity, it must be unique and >>distinctive in these qualities. But is it so? > >I take violent exception to Todd Gitlin & the like. > >_Nonetheless_, class is _different_ from such categories as race, >gender, sexual orientation, etc., _even though_ _all_ of them are >_relational_ categories. Class refers to the relat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 13:20:35 PST 2001

32549 W, clarified -- rank: 1000

[This quote from Spriggs clarifies the Bush remark. What a low cynical creep he is.] Institute for Public Accuracy 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045 (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa at accuracy.org ___________________________________________________ Wednesday, February 28, 2001 WILLIAM SPRIGGS Director of the National Urban League Institute for Opportunity and Equality, Spriggs said today: "President Bush misspoke when he said that he was offering tax relief ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 12:27:26 PST 2001

32550 march of the red oranges -- rank: 1000

[All you veterans of the War of the Oranges, run out & buy your copies today!] Marxism, Queer Theory, Gender, published in January 2001, is the second volume of Transformation: Marxist Boundary Work in Theory, Economics, Politics and Culture, edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh, Teresa L. Ebert, and Donald Morton. (ISBN 0-9674545-0-6) Contents: Donald Morton, "Pataphysics of the Closet"; Dana L. Cloud, "Queer Theory and 'Family Values': Capitalism's Utopias of Self-Invention"; Bo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 28 12:13:24 PST 2001