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33136 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >If "socially constructed" means the same as "historically created," >why do we need both terms? Answer, "social construction" is a weasel >term designed to dissolve history. Do you ever suffer moments of doubt or uncertainty? Or do you barrel through life, never surprised by events? If you do exhibit this rocklike confidence, what do you attribute it to? Personal history? Neurochemistry? If neurochemistry, is that influenced by experience ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 9 07:17:33 PDT 2001

33137 Where does thought come from? -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >kelley wrote: >> >> ritual is bound up with language and is > >There you go again. My point is that ritual _preceded_ language, >probably by several hundred thousand years. At this point, and for our purposes - so what? What's with this obsession with the ur-origins of language, or the early evolution of fertilized human eggs? It's not really relevant to analyzing politics or society or parties or movements or anything of immediate interest. Why this ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 9 05:51:58 PDT 2001

33138 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > So by all means let's trust Israel's philanthropist and arms >> merchant, the U.S. (a country already well known for its warm >> feelings towards Muslims), to do right by them. >> >> Doug > >So it appears, to at least as great a degree as any genuine concern for the >plight of the Palestinians, what we really ought to care about is the >opportunity to bash the capitalist seat of world evil (the US) and its >heavily subsidize ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 15:27:10 PDT 2001

33139 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: >Excuse me, but are Nathan and myself the only people on this list to notice >the barbaric treatment of Muslims (first in Bosnia, then in Kosovo) by the >Serbs is at least equivalent to the subjugation of Palestinians at the hands >of the Israelis? So by all means let's trust Israel's philanthropist and arms merchant, the U.S. (a country already well known for its warm feelings towards Muslims), to do right by them. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 14:57:09 PDT 2001

33140 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: >> >> So, you [Doug] believe that gray-green algae plan out all their wiggles in >> advance? And you planned your gestation and birth in advance? >> >> Carrol > >Actually, Doug's insistence that eggs plan their whole life before they >allow themselves to be fertilized is a sort of reactionary idealism >(probably at bottom a vulgar or mechanical materialism rather than >idealism, but we'll let that pass) that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 14:53:32 PDT 2001

33141 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >So, you believe that gray-green algae plan out all their wiggles in >advance? And you planned your gestation and birth in advance? Eh? Grown up human beings are motivated by the same processes as algae and gametes? And you call yourself a Marxist? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 14:50:03 PDT 2001

33142 lbo-talk-digest V1 #4706 -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >And no one has thought it necessary to justify coining this term. I had >forgotten it, but being reminded of it, I am a bit more suspicious of >the term 'praxis,' since 'commuicative action' seems yet another in the >unending series (going back to the late 19th century) of attempts to >dematerialize materialism, of subverting the fundamental assumption of >all real knowledge, the priority (in principle and in chronology) of >motion to thought. How do you k ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 13:10:48 PDT 2001

33143 eco-optimism -- rank: 1000

Ian Murray wrote: >Well it's tough to make generalizations about such a huge age group, >but yeah this is precisely the 'complaint' of younger people; >'Boomers' sold out. Which boomers? There are plenty of us working for unions, defending the indigent accused, writing for tiny pubs at low rates of pay. And what about the conditions of daily life? Relations between men and women are radically different from what they were just 30 years ago; ditto the status of sexual minorities. The sol ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 13:09:49 PDT 2001

33144 eco-optimism -- give me a damn break! -- rank: 1000

Luke Weiger wrote: > > ... and writing checks to Democrats. >> >> Doug > >Wonder if this is the true source of Doug's antipathy? No, it's pathognomonic of their disease... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 12:03:06 PDT 2001

33145 eco-optimism -- give me a damn break! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Wow, Doug, just spouting contempt for all sorts of people who organize >day-in and day-out for progressive and union causes today. Yes, there's the Environmental Defense Fund, bravely taking enemy fire in the trenches - in between cutting deals with McDonald's, promoting trading in carbon futures, and writing checks to Democrats. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 11:48:02 PDT 2001

33146 eco-optimism -- give me a damn break! -- rank: 1000

Chris Kromm wrote: >From: Doug Henwood >> Though I wouldn't go all the way with him, I think James Heartfield >> (and his former comrades in LM) have a point when they argue that >> environmentalism appeals to an upper class contempt for the workers, >> and fits nicely with financiers' taste for austerity. > >James Heartfield is able to blather such nonsense -- with other LBOers >wagging their heads in approval -- because they haven't spent any time in > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 08:11:15 PDT 2001

33147 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> >Nathan Newman wrote: > >>Doug, you are obsessed with numerical trends and sometimes disregard >>qualitative trends. > >-Sometimes, maybe, but not always. But in this case, the numerical >-trends are hard to argue with. > >Yet I did, by noting that under Reagan-Bush, total union membership declined >absolutely by over 1.3 million union members ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 8 05:50:47 PDT 2001

33148 AFL-CIO: enemy of caribou -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Nathan Newman wrote: >> >>I remember at the beginning of the decade, pretty serious pro-labor >analysts >>were predicting a complete collapse of the unions in the 1990s. One guy I >>knew, who headed the California state labor commission under Jerry Brown, >>back when it was pretty hard-core pro-union, with sad confidence wrote >>articles predicting a union density of 5% by the year 2000. > >-That's a bit alarmist. At the Reag ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 16:39:35 PDT 2001

33149 Alan doing ok -- rank: 1000

Tuesday August 7, 5:49 pm Eastern Time Greenspan's holdings may well have grown in 2000 By Elizabeth Lo WASHINGTON, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Despite a sharp slowdown in the U.S. economy that began in the latter part of the year, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan may well have boosted his financial holdings in 2000, a government disclosure form revealed on Tuesday. The figures for last year show the powerful central banker had investments worth between $4.2 million and $12.1 million, $1.1 million ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 16:23:35 PDT 2001

33150 Fwd: Genoa police unit trained by [LAPD] (fwd) -- rank: 1000

[no date provided] ROME (Reuters) - An elite Italian police unit which carried out a bloody raid against protesters at a Group of Eight summit in Genoa was trained by U.S. police chiefs, an Italian newspaper reported Tuesday. For four months, 70 specially selected officers were trained by two Los Angeles police sheriffs. A larger number of police also received a week-long training course from the Americans, according to the Communist daily Liberazione. "The prime responsibility of the two L ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 7 15:14:05 PDT 2001