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33331 Jude the humiliated -- rank: 1000

[These divisions on the right over China are pretty interesting.] Polyconomics' Daily Memo on the Margin (commentary taken from http://www.polyconomics.com) April 16, 2001 Let's Overthrow China's Government!! Memo To: Rupert Murdoch From: Jude Wanniski Re: Your Boy Bill Dear Rupert, I don't know whether you still watch the Sunday morning talk shows, but the editor of your Weekly Standard, Bill Kristol, announced on Easter Sunday that his goal is to persuade Uncle Sam that we should overthrow the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 08:32:45 PDT 2001

33332 Wolfe -- rank: 1000

Here's the whole of my review of Wolfe - as submitted, not as published. Doug ---- CLASS ACT On the first page of his awful book, One Nation, After All, Alan Wolfe writes, "According to the General Social Survey, at no time between 1972 and 1994 did more than 10 percent of the American population classify themselves as either lower class or upper class." He says this to prove that the rest, 90%, are middle class. But theye're not. Wolfe forgot to say that over the same period, half the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 10:19:11 PDT 2001

33333 pre-capitalist sex -- rank: 1000

Kelley Walker wrote: >DOUG! it isn't supposed to be and he doesn't claim it to be. please >don't criticize people on ethnographical methods if you don't >understand how it works and only know statoid econodrone methods or >something. So, Wolfe chooses a sample of people who are more affluent, more white, more married than the U.S. pop - and 100% suburban - and then interviews them using questions he doesn't publish and selectively reports answers from transcripts he doesn't publish ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 10:06:14 PDT 2001

33334 pre-capitalist sex -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >The book came across to me as an expression of sanctimonious >schmuckery with a veneer of pseudo-objective social science. Emphasis on the pseudo. His sample isn't representative of anything in the statistical sense, other than being a reflection of Wolfe's sense of what suburban middle America is like. Quoting myself: >Technically, Wolfe's Middle Class Morality Project is a joke. His >200 respondents are meant to stand for about 50 million suburba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 08:26:51 PDT 2001

33335 pre-capitalist sex -- rank: 1000

Christopher Rhoades D˙kema wrote: >I certainly agree. Another of Wolfe's early books is good too. Forget the >title. My observation is that where old leftists moved to the right around >issues of the USSR, the new leftists who do so do it because, in some way or >other, they deplore the decline of the father-dominated family, and the sexual >values that go with it. This leads to various accommodations with >anti-feminism >and homophobia. I did a review of Wolfe's last book - ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Apr 16 06:57:28 PDT 2001

33336 PJ X 144 -- rank: 1000

Is this true? If so, what does it mean for the state of culture? >I am surprised no one has mentioned the 72 double CDs of every Pearl >Jam concert over a 6 month period in 2000. Wait, you say, are you >talking about the dozen releases of their European concerts? No, I >am talking about an additional 144 CDs of Pearl Jam from last year.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 17:09:20 PDT 2001

33337 methods to socialism (was Re: taxes) -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: > > > Often, unions could achieve the socialist ideal of worker >> > ownership and control of the means of production by buying >> > a controlling interest in the corporations where they work. > >Jordan Hayes: >> What's your take on what has happened over at UAL? > >As far as I can understand the situation, the workers there >do not actually control the business, although they may >nominally own it. That's true of most ES ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 15:33:19 PDT 2001

33338 Fwd: 5201-Stephen Holmes Reviews Stephen Cohen's Failed Crusade -- rank: 1000

<http://www.lrb.co.uk/v23/n08/holm2308.htm> >London Review of Books - April 19, 2001 > >Stephen Cohen, Failed Crusade: America and the Tragedy of Post-Communist >Russia (New York: Norton, 2000) > >reviewed by Stephen Holmes (sholmes at ceip.org) >Stephen Holmes is a professor at NYU School of Law and is currently a >visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in >Washington, DC. > [...] >During the 1990s, Cohen explains, Russian civil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Apr 15 14:46:25 PDT 2001

33339 inheritance, etc -- rank: 1000

Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:26:52 -0500 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: Maureen Anderson <manders at uchicago.edu> Damn, how do you all keep so up-to-date reading lbo postings?? I wish could just put all you interesting folk on "pause" whenever I wanted. To Kelly's original question about peoples who might not be aware of the general connection between sexual intercourse and childbirth, myself I've never heard of any. To the more technically specific question on awareness o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 13 18:15:30 PDT 2001

33340 AAAS -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >In the land of Pareto Optimalia, of course, price should equal the >marginal cost of production and distribution Oh. And where is that Utopia located? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 12 21:09:07 PDT 2001

33341 A Market Fails at Internet Speed -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: > > There were probably plenty of warning >> signs that NorthPoint (or DSL) is a risky service >> today. Where are the business continuation plans? >> Where are the second source prospects? > >My understanding is that NorthPoint simply lied to everyone and >said that everything was going to be taken care of. Yup, that's what the Panix people said, and they're a pretty sharp crew. "Everyone" assumed that AT&T would keep NP go ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 12 08:44:56 PDT 2001

33342 CLR website -- rank: 1000

Still under construction... <http://www.clrjamesinstitute.org/>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 12 08:25:00 PDT 2001

33343 Fwd: FW: NAFTA has harmed workers in all three countries -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >May I make one more fruitless plea for somebody, somewhere to raise >the level of the debate? I doubt we have the same objections to this report, but I'm still struck by how it seems to rely on figuring the increase in the U.S. trade deficit since NAFTA took effect, dividing it by some average annual earnings figure, and assuming that equals the number of jobs lost. We've been through this before, but if trade increases growth, that increased growth could well more than ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 11 16:18:17 PDT 2001

33344 Fwd: *QPol-Talk*: *QPol*: Dale Carpenter: So far Bush is OK (fwd) -- rank: 1000

PlanetOut April 5, 2001 OPINION | OutRight So Far, So O.K. by Dale Carpenter It's way too early to say I told you so, but 10 weeks into the administration of George W. Bush things are actually looking O.K. Bush isn't about to campaign for same-sex marriage (neither did his predecessor) and he isn't going to lift the ban on gays in the military (ditto), but those who predicted gloom and doom for gays under a GOP-dominated government have so far been disappointed. And there have actually been some ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 11 12:59:17 PDT 2001

33345 Conservatives Fear Bush Tax Plan will Help -- rank: 1000

A right-wing raver wrote: >This is why a "progressive" income tax is so unfair. It must be abolished. >We must change the culture's attitude toward this socialistic idea or it >will represent -- and I don't exaggerate -- the end of our free republic. Karl Marx & Fred Engels wrote: >Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following will be >pretty generally applicable. > >1. Abolition of property in land and application of all rents of >land to public p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 11 12:25:33 PDT 2001