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32746 Baudrillard -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >Maybe I'm obtuse here, but I'm having difficulty following the logic of >this exchange. Doug posts a typically annoyingly vacuous remark of B. >which is subsequentally shown to be vacuous, though "to be fair" not quite >as stupid as one might have initially thought. But then it is claimed that >there is no reason to forgive B's idiocy in any case-the implication being >that we all knew he was an empty suit to beging with. > >What, then, was t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Feb 9 06:43:14 PST 2001

32747 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Peter van Heusden wrote: >While I'm certainly a supporter of >international workers solidarity (after all, we *do* have a world to >win!), I am also sympathetic to the accusation that traditional >'proletarian internationalism' often remains blind to the operation >and contestation of capital outside (and against) the factory. Peter, this is excellent stuff. You must really stop disparaging the naivete of your posts! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 14:05:47 PST 2001

32748 Sparts & Noam -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Oddly enough, I think they're right about 80% of the time, > > but they're just so annoying that you want to cut off their mikes and > > have them hauled out of the room. > > >What are they right about? Going way back, they were right about Polish Solidarity, which they dismissed as a tool of the Church and the CIA. They're right in condemning illusions that laptop bombardiers have about humanitarian imperialism ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 14:02:01 PST 2001

32749 Sparts & Noam -- rank: 1000

Dennis wrote: >Just saw a video of Chomsky speaking about the Middle East (from December), >and in the Q&A he was verbally attacked by a Spart, who was then voted out >of the auditorium. Chomsky said that the Sparts do this all the time, >"breaking up meetings" as he put it, and he was quite rough on the guy, who >exited yelling, "You manufacture your own consent!" > >Doug, you follow the Sparts. What's with this? Worse, I actually talk to them, and r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 13:44:31 PST 2001

32750 Baudrillard on movements -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >To be fair to Baudrilliard Why? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 12:47:06 PST 2001

32751 delinking does not equal autarchy -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Doug, you've elided the central strategic questions with this reply >(so too do Hardt/Negri). What concrete instruments and tangible >political processes do you want to propose, given that your >preferred scale of politics is global? And what are the power >relations you're going to have contend with there? We're only beginning to think these things through, but like I said last week before taking my private jet to Germany, some examples/prefigurations include ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 11:34:02 PST 2001

32752 delinking does not equal autarchy (Zim case) -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Enveloped in car culture, our yachting-addicted, computer-dependent, >frequent-flying comrade Doug must really not delay a trip to reality >any longer. Right, that's me. I've just dumped my Lexus for a Lamborghini. > As to your earlier point that Patrick loves jet-setting >from Belfast to Alabama to Philadelphia/Baltimore/Washington to >Harare to Jo'burg (my initinerary these last 39 years), what's the >big deal? We've always said, internationalism of p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 11:06:20 PST 2001

32753 Taylor: abolish IMF -- rank: 1000

[Yesterday's FT had an article mourning the fact that Bush has no senior official who comes out of Wall Street, the first administration to be so financierless in 40 years.] Washington Post - February 8, 2001 Taylor Advocated Killing IMF Prospect for Global Job at Treasury Gave Views in '98 By Paul Blustein Washington Post Staff Writer In a sign that the Bush administration may take a dimmer view of international bailouts than its predecessor, an interview transcript shows that the leading candi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 10:27:09 PST 2001

32754 Baudrillard on movements -- rank: 1000

[Thanks to nettime.] Baudrillard in a footnote to his 'Implosion of Meaning in the Media' (1983) writes: "Distrust the universalisation of struggles through information. Distrust campaigns of solidarity that is both electronic and worldwide. Every strategy of the universlaisation of differences is an entropic strategy of the system."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 06:41:15 PST 2001

32755 UNAM flares up again -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - February 8, 2001 Radical Students in Mexico Commemorate Strike by Forcing Professors to Strip By RHONA STATLAND de LÓPEZ Mexico City A year after federal police officers ended a 10-month strike over tuition at Mexico's largest university, radical students took over part of the campus once again on Tuesday. Smashing windows and writing graffiti as they did during the long strike, the student activists went even further this time by humiliating a number ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Feb 8 06:29:04 PST 2001

32756 Jack Straw's been smoking something... -- rank: 1000

Lisa & Ian Murray wrote: >Straw relaxes law on cannabis possession Didn't his son get busted for possession? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 16:20:21 PST 2001

32757 Zoe Heller on Arianna Stassinopoulos (Huffington) -- rank: 1000

Daily Telegraph (London) - February 3, 2001 The smart set entertains thoughts of revolution By Zoe Heller ONE of the more curious aspects of LA life is the way in which a certain sector of its middle class is constantly trying to prove the city's cultural standing. The disinterested visitor is likely to find all sorts of things to recommend Los Angeles - beautiful scenery, nice beaches, a pleasant climate and of course the specific, vulgar charm that comes with being Entertainment Capital Of The ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 15:33:15 PST 2001

32758 value theory -- rank: 1000

Brad Mayer wrote: >Any discussion of G. Carchedi on this list in the past, in this context? Long ago, when Rakesh Bhandari was around. You like? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 15:00:06 PST 2001

32759 Migration & Primitive Accumulation (was delinking does not equal autarchy) -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>If Hardt & Negri really think that the work of internationalist >>revolutionaries is to advocate increased migration, they might as >>well advocate a faster pace of primitive accumulation -- kicking >>off direct producers from their land -- and more wars (especially >>wars that result in the expulsion of a large number of people from >>their homes). It is said that "the 50-70 per cent of the worl ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 14:25:42 PST 2001

32760 Migration & Primitive Accumulation (was delinking does not equal autarchy) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >If Hardt & Negri really think that the work of internationalist >revolutionaries is to advocate increased migration, they might as >well advocate a faster pace of primitive accumulation -- kicking off >direct producers from their land -- and more wars (especially wars >that result in the expulsion of a large number of people from their >homes). It is said that "the 50-70 per cent of the world's >population...is still agricultural" (at ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 7 14:14:03 PST 2001