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32641 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

George Thomas wrote: >As for Mike Davis, he also wrote "Burning Our Illusions Tonight," >"Magical Urbanism," "Prisoners of the American Dream," "99 Surefire >Ways to Stay Unemployed." I'm impressed, I wonder at his popularity >with the lunatic fringe. The NY Times doesn't yet have a review of >this latest work, but does review another work, "Ecology of Fear; >Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster." >http://search3.ny ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:55:57 PST 2001

32642 SJ Gould on genome -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> [Gould is too discreet to say it this way, but quite a blow to >> conventional bourgeois thought.] > >Hmm. I'm not entirely clear about how any defense of the extraction of >surplus value could be countered by the decoding of the genome. That's bourgeois practice, not bourgeois thought. Unidirectional, mechanistic thinking has nothing to do with the bourgeois mind? The old model, with genes as blu ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 09:09:56 PST 2001

32643 science crisis? -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 19, 2001 U.S. Is Urged to Invest in Science Education or Risk Losing Its Global Edge By LILA GUTERMAN San Francisco The president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opened the group's annual meeting with a dire warning: If the United States does not quickly invest more resources and entice more students into science and engineering, it could lose the lead in areas that have spurred innovation, sustained national securit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:47:36 PST 2001

32644 States -- rank: 1000

Daniel Davies wrote: >--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: >> Vietnam is an >> impoverished wreck. > >It really, honestly, isn't. Even the really poor >parts in the central highlands are not all that bad by >the standards of SE Asia. I've been all over the >country, helping Tess research "Vietnam By Rail". and >I just don't recognise this description. Hmm, my friend who spent several years there as a Dow Jones/AP reporter said so. G ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:42:54 PST 2001

32645 RR, the greatest -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/releases/pr010219.asp> February 19, 2001 Reagan, Kennedy and Lincoln Receive the Most Votes for "Greatest U.S. President" Lincoln would win out over Washington if either could come back as president by Wendy W. Simmons GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Presidents Day -- Monday, February 19 -- gives Americans an opportunity to celebrate the February birthdays of George Washington, America's first president, and Abraham Lincoln, as well as all past Un ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:35:08 PST 2001

32646 Is society making you sick? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.msnbc.com/news/532083.asp> Newsweek - February 26, 2001 MY TURN Is Our Society Making You Sick? Americas health lags behind that of more egalitarian nations. Economic equality is the medicine we need By Stephen Bezruchka, M.D Americans are obsessed with health. Just look at todays magazines, TV shows, Web sites, self-help books--and where we put our dollars. As a country, we make up about 4 percent of the worlds total population, yet we expend almost half of all the money spent ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:29:24 PST 2001

32647 marxism on wgn-fm -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >I mean, at a certain point, the numbers game gets ridiculous. The >body count of Stalinsim was unspeakable, and condemns it foreover. >But Stalinism is gone. The body count of capitalism is higher and, >since capitalism is still here, growing. If Stalinism was >unacceptable because of its victims, why is capitalism acceptable >despite its dead? That is a rhetorical question. In standard ideology, capitalism's deaths are aberrations or excesses, departure ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:20:11 PST 2001

32648 SJ Gould on genome -- rank: 1000

[Gould is too discreet to say it this way, but quite a blow to conventional bourgeois thought.] New York Times - February 19, 2001 Humbled by the Genome's Mysteries By STEPHEN JAY GOULD Two groups of researchers released the formal report of data for the human genome last Monday - on the birthday of Charles Darwin, who jump-started our biological understanding of life's nature and evolution when he published "The Origin of Species" in 1859. On Tuesday, and for only the second time in 3 ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 19 08:10:14 PST 2001

32649 preaching, waiting -- rank: 1000

An excerpt from Adolph Reed's intro to Race, Monthly Review Press's abridged version of Oliver Cromwell Cox's Caste, Class, and Race, reprinted in the Feburary MR: "I suspect that the limitation of his strategic vision was reinforced by the combination of his teleological faith in capitalism's inevitable replacement by socialism and an apocalyptic ntion of revolution as the mechanism of millennial change. If the script is already written and a quantum leap is the sole necessary and sufficie ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 16:43:01 PST 2001

32650 Anti-Semitism of Certain Famous Economists -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > The Winter 2001 issue of the History of Political >Economy (HOPE) has an article bearing the subject >heading as its title by Melvin W. Reder. He alleges >anti-Semitism on the parts of Keynes, Schumpeter, >and Hayek. He also claims that there was a decline >in anti-Semitism after 1950. > His claims have triggered a major protest on the >Hayek list where it is argued that Reder's argument is >based on flimsy arguments and th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 15:14:40 PST 2001

32651 Volatitily as social flaring -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > If you are implying that the only use of such analysis is to >make money, well, I am not going to do that, although there are >plenty of people who are using such approaches to try to do so. >But, frankly, I thought it would be preferable to make an ironic >wisecrack rather than go through all this stuff again. What I said was that I understand pursuing this sort of analysis if your goal was to beat the market and make money. What I didn't und ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 13:22:45 PST 2001

32652 delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >That's about it. Your post reveals the voluntarism of much political >thought that can't learn from Lenin. You are demanding that we claim >prophetic rather than analytic power. Those conditions are not only >unspecified, they are in material reality _at this time_ unspecifiable. >The analogue for claiming otherwise are those ads for Free Psychic >Readings in the back of _TV Guide_. I think Marxists should exercise a >minimal honesty in their claims of wha ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 13:25:46 PST 2001

32653 Sheeple (Wolves & Shepards) Redux -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Wow. I met Reno, she interviewed me for her TV show even. I had no >> idea she was so important, and in such distinguished company. > >Janet "the butcher of Waco" Reno had a TV show? And she interviewed you?? Oh that Reno. I thought they were referring to the comedian! I must stop confusing the two. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 13:23:33 PST 2001

32654 Sheeple (Wolves & Shepards) Redux -- rank: 1000

kelley quoted: >* Shepherds: cops, sheriffs, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and >Cryptography, narcs, informants, gun grabbers, Bull Dyke Reno Wow. I met Reno, she interviewed me for her TV show even. I had no idea she was so important, and in such distinguished company. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 18 12:58:17 PST 2001

32655 delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> >> >I think that, _morally speaking_, we in the belly of the beast _owe_ >> >it to the rest of the world to build socialism here first of all & >> >help others make a transition to socialism. >> >> I dig absolutely, as someone once said, but how do you propose to go >> about this? > >I think this question should never be asked, even privately i ...

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