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32701 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Is it necessary to abolish capitalism in the USA? Is it possible to >do so? Those who say No to both of these questions have to settle >for social imperialism or something like that, I think. If you say >Yes to the former but No to the latter, you should be committed to >one kind of theory and practice -- perhaps a combination of >revolutionary anarchism & Third-Worldism; if you say Yes to both, >you should pursue another. Where do you think ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 08:20:11 PST 2001

32702 Davos-Porto Alegre xcript -- rank: 1000

[too long to post here - but with a beginning like this, how can you go wrong?] The Globalization Divide Porto Alegre (World Social Forum) - Davos (World Economic Forum) . http://www.madmundo.tv/francais/globaldiv/script.html George Soros I am George Soros, I am the semi-retired manager of an international hedge fund. And I am also the founder of a network of foundations devoted to what I call an open society. And I am happy to participate in this debate because I am interested in reforming but ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Feb 13 08:12:41 PST 2001

32703 stupid question -- rank: 1000

tniko at megsinet.net wrote: > I'm new on this list. I've got a simple, fairly ignorant question: >what the hell is the talk of a slowing economy about? I'm confused. >Layoffs have been going on all through the golden 90's. Is the problem >simply that these layoffs are of high tech workers? I think anyone who >takes the time to look will see that the economy's been in the pot for >some time: almost everyone I know is barely scraping by,and some of us >are not even doing t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 16:03:41 PST 2001

32704 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >The absence of a revolutionary working class party (to phrase it >broadly) today, demonstrates that we were not able to successfully >"retreat in good order", and have been instead thrust back into a >period of regroupment similar to that of post-1848. However, >instead of taking responsibility, some, perhaps on the basis of >their own bitter experience with these failures, have tried to >escape this responsibility by rejecting the project itsel ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 15:37:01 PST 2001

32705 Murray on prole models -- rank: 1000

Carrol B Cox wrote: >But doug's intro was only a bit less silly than >the column: "It wouldn't surprise me if a few leftists >agreed with some of this." Substitute ANY agent noun for >"leftists" & ANY belief for "this" and the proposition >remains true. Did you break your wrist mounting a high horse? Let me expand on my point, just for the hell of it. Murray is a notorious cultural reactionary, so his views about "coarseness" and "v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 14:08:06 PST 2001

32706 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

John Mage wrote: >Doug, > >If you could check the Harvard Business School article when you're at >Varick Street, I'd be interested. The abstract gave no clue as to what >they were measuring, and I will not willingly give money to the Harvard >Business School so couldn't buy the piece. > Manufacturing industries. The article is rather shy about full disclosure, so I emailed one of the authors for more data. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 13:36:42 PST 2001

32707 Murray on prole models -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Well, I suppose someone should pipe up for "vulgar" expression. Thank you. I was hoping someone would. Fuckin ay! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 13:28:34 PST 2001

32708 No Sex Please - We're Post-Human! -- rank: 1000

Johannes Schneider wrote: >because Essen is proletarian and Dusseldorf is much more bourgeois? Essen didn't look very proletarian to me. What struck my eye was that all the construction in Essen was new, and very ugly, because the city was flattened during WW II, while Dusseldorf still had some old buildings (and the Rhein). Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 13:16:30 PST 2001

32709 Murray on prole models -- rank: 1000

[Better late than never... It wouldn't surprise me if a few leftists agreed with some of this.] Wall Street Journal - February 6, 2001 Commentary Prole Models By Charles Murray, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. That American life has coarsened over the past several decades is not much argued, but the nature of the beast is still in question. Gertrude Himmelfarb sees it as a struggle between competing elites, in which the left originated a counterculture that the right failed to hol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 09:55:12 PST 2001

32710 No Sex Please - We're Post-Human! -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hey, what's wrong with Essen? Can't be any worse than Columbus, Ohio, USA? Never been to Columbus, so I can't say. Squat gray ugly buildings and not much Gemutlichkeit on offer in Essen. Nearby Dusseldorf is far more agreeable, though maybe it helped that I enjoyed Hinrich Kuhls's hospitality there. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 09:39:32 PST 2001

32711 Tasteless site -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >***** http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,41733,00.html >FBI Goes After Bonsaikitten.com >by Declan McCullagh (declan at wired.com) >10:10 a.m. Feb. 9, 2001 PST > >...In December 1999, President Clinton signed a law that makes it a >federal felony to possess "a depiction of animal cruelty" with the >intent to distribute across state lines -- such as on the Internet. >During a floor debate, Rep. Elton Gallegly (R-Calif.) claime ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 09:27:58 PST 2001

32712 No Sex Please - We're Post-Human! -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >>Michael Pollak wrote: >> >>>I had no idea Slavoj thought modern life was so bleak. >> >>He's living in Essen, which explains a lot. >> >>Doug > >Is housing especially cheap? Are municipal services especially good? > >Brad DeLong, who lives where housing is not cheap and municipal >services are not good, but double lattes made from shade-grown >organic fair-trade coffee are really plentiful... Zizek's in Lenin bec ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 12 09:26:28 PST 2001

32713 No Sex Please - We're Post-Human! -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >I had no idea Slavoj thought modern life was so bleak. He's living in Essen, which explains a lot. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 06:22:01 PST 2001

32714 Lenin in Essen -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Well, Lenin wasn't such a simpleton. No, he wasn't a simpleton, unlike many of today's Leninists. But he wrote Imperialism at a time when it looked like the German model of state-sponsored, bank-run cartels were the wave of the future. They weren't. Why use "monopoly" as a synonym for "big business"? There's a world of difference, which is obscured by the terminology. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Feb 12 06:17:28 PST 2001

32715 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3928 -- rank: 1000

geert wrote: >How about post-marxist? To quote Gayatri Spivak at the first Rethinking Marxism conference, "I am not a post-Marxist." Unfortunately, that's all of her talk that I could understand. Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 11 15:21:04 PST 2001