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32656 Tasteless site -- rank: 1000

All you folks exchanging flames, flirts, critiques, and other personal matters under this subject heading, could you please carry it on elsewhere? It's not of the most compelling general interest. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 12:17:57 PST 2001

32657 Catherine, can't you read? was Re: No Sex Please - We'rePost-Human! -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >That would explain the strange >doctrine Doug ascribes to you that questions are ontologically prior to >affirmations. Carrol, can't you quote? Catherine's aphorism, which I cherish a lot, is that she wasn't done with a paper yet because she hadn't figured out what questions to ask her answers. Clearly, this impulse isn't one that every writer feels. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 11:52:37 PST 2001

32658 spineless pinko's update -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >The constitution, on the other hand, is still treated as if it were sacred >-- but as much by secular thinkers as by religious ones, if not more so. <http://members.tripod.com/~runwin/glorious.html>

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 12:09:03 PST 2001

32659 BBC report on Florida vote -- rank: 1000

[It seems like McReynolds is being too generous to the U.S. media in attributing the non-coverage to professional rivalry; my guess is that the NYT and the rest want to put the whole legitimacy issue to death.] If you can connect to the site below you can see the BBC broadcast from Friday night, which was devastating in its account of the theft of the Florida election. You don't need any special equipment, however, to read the story below. The BBC broadcast was extraordinary and devastating. I s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 11:45:03 PST 2001

32660 States -- rank: 1000

Dennis Robert Redmond wrote: >It's also a potential realm of egalitarianism and inclusion. The slogan of >the great gandmomma of all national revolutions was "Liberty, Equality, >Fraternity", a neat little Hegelian triad. National development regimes >have worked amazingly well in Central Europe and East Asia; China and >Vietnam show that the 3rd world can get into the act, too. China is just a bit repressive, don't you think? No troublesome things like unions make U.S. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 11:13:20 PST 2001

32661 delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

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? There's a good chance we'll see some social security privatization, and we can't even imagine a public health insurance scheme - so how do we take over the leading imperialist state? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 18 11:02:08 PST 2001

32662 "Volatility as Social Flaring" -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: >Doug seems to be laying low on this one Only because I'm about to ship an LBO off to the printer. In the meanwhile, someone sent me (offlist) this quote from Keynes's General Theory. More tomorrow. Doug ---- > The object of our analysis is, not to provide a machine, or method of blind > manipulation, which will furnish an infallible answer, but to provide > ourselves with an organised and orderly method of thinking out particular > problems; and, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 15:17:11 PST 2001

32663 delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Doug wrote: > >> Why have so many state-centered alternative development regimes in >> the so-called Third World gone bad? Hardt & Negri have a theoretical >> answer: that national liberation struggles turn sour once they >> achieve state power, because the nation-state is a realm of hierarchy >> and exclusion... Please convince me why H&N's >> theoretical argument is wrong. >> >> Doug >> > >Cuba T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 14:27:10 PST 2001

32664 unions & students -- rank: 1000

Peter K. wrote: >"I came back from Seattle thinking that the voice of economists was not very >audible in the public space," Bhagwati says." > >This is pretty funny. Isn't it hilarious? These are a bunch of guys who have collectively consulted with GATT, the IMF, the World Bank, G-7 and Third World governments, the UN, the WTO, and central banks; their ideas determine policy and permeate the dominant ideology - yet they feel marginalized! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 11:12:57 PST 2001

32665 unions & students -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >In an email reaction to Liza Featherstone's and my Lingua Franca >piece, a prominent student anti-sweatshop activist pointed out "the >complete absence of discussion on the role of American unions in >building the student movement." This is an important point that I >keep forgetting, and despite the occasional union-bashing I do (hi >Nathan!), this is something that UNITE and others deserve a lot of >credit for. Clarification: *I* often forget ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 10:09:35 PST 2001

32666 unions & students -- rank: 1000

In an email reaction to Liza Featherstone's and my Lingua Franca piece, a prominent student anti-sweatshop activist pointed out "the complete absence of discussion on the role of American unions in building the student movement." This is an important point that I keep forgetting, and despite the occasional union-bashing I do (hi Nathan!), this is something that UNITE and others deserve a lot of credit for. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 09:28:15 PST 2001

32667 delinking does not equal autarky (J O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote, quoting Jim O'Connor: > > I do believe, and am presently working on this question and lots of related >> ones, that the choice is between a plurality of national/regionalist models >> of development, where first things come first, like eradicating poverty, on >> the one hand, and a single global model of development under the rule of >> the US, on the other. > >This is also being pursued by Bello, Amin and the like... Is this like soci ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 09:14:07 PST 2001

32668 Tasteless site -- rank: 1000

Matt Cramer wrote: >I am not going to defend my dc-stuff posts here. Good news, thanks. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 08:47:52 PST 2001

32669 The Next Agenda (left Democrat confab) -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Who anointed them leaders?: The millions of members of their organizations >who elected them to office and continue to fund their efforts. How many union execs are elected by direct vote of the membership? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 17 08:38:00 PST 2001

32670 Volatitily as social flaring -- rank: 1000

J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: > Obviously you are right and I promise to clean >up my act and reform my wicked ways. Clearly >math is an illusion. Examining the details of how >a set of equations depicting investor behavior >generate certain outcomes over time via computer >simulation is as empty and meaningless as spending >a lot of time poring over tables of numbers. > Henceforth, let us both agree to only write our >ideas about economics in poetry, prefe ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 16 14:19:22 PST 2001