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3451 [lbo-talk] Fw: [worldincommon] Re: We are the crisis of capital (John Holloway) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:04 PM, Mr. X wrote: > Crisis confronts us with these two options. Either we take the highway of subordination to the logic of capital, in the clear knowledge now that this leads directly to the self-annihilation of humanity; or else we take the hazardous paths of inventing different worlds, here and now and through the cracks we create in capitalist domination. And as we invent new worlds, we sing loud and clear that we are the crisis of capital, we are the crisis of the ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 17 18:31:14 PDT 2010

3452 [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2010, at 6:02 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: >> Carrol Cox wrote: > > " Pope and Wordsworth both practically knew the works of > Milton by heart, and both show strong Miltonic influences, but obviously > in both cases the influence is only operative because it satisfies their > purposes independently of the influence." > > Yeah, and then "influence" is such a vague thing. Chopin worshiped Bach; Rossini worshiped Mozart, Wilfred Own wors ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 17 15:15:00 PDT 2010

3453 [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2010, at 2:44 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > No tradition is ever > accepted or adopted unless it responds to some need in the present. I don't buy that at all - though I guess this is another instance of your hostility to psychologizing. There are, for example, contradictions between the forces and relations of production in orthodox Marxism - institutional arrangements at odds with material reality. People do all kinds of things they've been taught that may be thoroughly inadequate ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 12:19:07 PDT 2010

3454 [lbo-talk] Marxology (was "Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong", and once upon a time an interesting discussion about non-commodity-producing work) -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2010, at 8:39 AM, Mike Beggs wrote: > On second thought, though, I would maybe say that what really makes > vulgar supply-and-demand analysis vulgar, more than the lack of a > conception of schedules, is a failure to fully consider the reactions > to disequilibrium of supply and demand, in other words a failure to > understand what adjusts in tendencies towards equilibrium. As I recall, Joan Robinson had some pungent things to say about how "equilibrium" was ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 17 10:05:02 PDT 2010

3455 [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 17, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I really don't see how any discussion of violence in the south can leave > out lynching. > > Nor can it leave out the demands of "white unity. We're working so far with an abstract, not even the full paper, so we don't even know what the author said. That aside, it is of some interest that ethnicity and the animal population do statistically "explain" current murder rates? It might be that there's something there. If no ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jul 17 10:00:26 PDT 2010

3456 [lbo-talk] Faulkner at the University -- rank: 1000

UVa has posted audio clips from William Faulkner's time as writer in residence, 1957-58. Amazing one where WF takes Virginia to task for not acting as the leader of the south, but instead acting like crude Mississippi, by having mistakenly sent out some dinner invitations to "Negroes," invitations that of course had to be recalled. http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/page?id=essays&section=intro Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 18:54:48 PDT 2010

3457 [lbo-talk] Goldman to Congress: stimulate, stimulate! -- rank: 1000

[from a note by Goldman Sachs U.S. economist Ed McKelvey] > For its part, Congress has several options that should be considered > forthwith, as conventional forms of fiscal stimulus are still available to > boost demand. At a minimum, they include renewing the lapsed jobless > insurance programs, providing more aid to state and local governments, and > extending most of the tax cuts due to expire at year-end. Ideally, these > measures should be accompanied by legislation tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jul 16 18:40:27 PDT 2010

3458 [lbo-talk] tweet tweet like little birds -- rank: 1000

Fort hose of you who don't follow the tweets of Nation editor KvH: Going 2 do Hardball tonite w/Jonathan Alter on ...ya guessed it..Obama & Progressives....Achievements & Disappointments & road ahead/

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 18:37:50 PDT 2010

3459 [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2010, at 8:12 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Michael Lind, who is also one from Texas, has some very harsh stuff about the Scotch-Irish in his book on his home state. Describes them as a conniving bunch who'd rather steal than do anything inventive. > > That's the stereotypical line of all lowland southerners about the hill country folk. That's like interviewing a Long Island grandma about the inner city. The fact that they ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 17:59:22 PDT 2010

3460 [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent? -- rank: 1000

On Jul 16, 2010, at 4:33 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > This myopic focus on agricultural types ignores everything else about the > Scotch-Irish. As one who shares their blood (among a few other kinds), I > think their historical origin, as the frontline shock troops of settlement > and displacement, first in northern Ireland, then in America, is a bit more > significant. A claim ignoring this history strikes me as about as sensible > as a study setting out to prove that Zionist se ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 13:41:14 PDT 2010

3461 [lbo-talk] why are white southerners so violent? -- rank: 1000

<http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1621516> "A History of Violence: Testing the Culture of Honor in the US South" FEEM Working Paper No. 51.2010 PAULINE GROSJEAN, University of San Francisco Using historical data on early settlers to the United States, this paper tests and confirms the Culture of Honor hypothesis by socio-psychologists Dov Cohen and Richard Nisbett (1994, 1996). This hypothesis argues that the high prevalence of homicides in the US South stem ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 16 09:00:20 PDT 2010

3462 [lbo-talk] Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2010, at 3:30 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > I nailed it then. I can spot a 1970s M-L cultist from a mile away (amazingly, they have the same rhetorical style the whole world over). Do me a favor, don't come at me with that self-flagellation bullshit. Drop it. Talk Marx all you want, but no more invective. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 12:46:54 PDT 2010

3463 [lbo-talk] a progressive prayer -- rank: 1000

<http://www.correntewire.com/progressive_prayer> A progressive prayer vastleft Mon, 08/17/2009 - 10:55am vastleft O Lord, please give us this day Some inconsequential distraction By a powerless right-wing jerk That we may divert our eyes >From the perpetual-disappointment machine That is our own party Which in thine infinite wisdom Thou hath placed at the nation's helm To do absolutely none of the things We'd like to believe it stands for Amen

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:07:38 PDT 2010

3464 [lbo-talk] Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2010, at 12:34 PM, Angelus Novus wrote: > I'm perfectly willing to drop this whole sidetrack and return to doing battle with Engelsian interpretations of the value-form analysis or Post-Operaistic concepts of productive labour, but it seems people don't have shit to say about Marx, and just want to engage in all kinds of feigned outrage (and I really do think it's feigned) in order to distract from the issue. Hey, so drop the invective and deny them the excuse.

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 10:05:36 PDT 2010

3465 [lbo-talk] Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2010, at 11:34 AM, Max Sawicky wrote: > IMO, the uninvited use of 'homeboy' is not very different > from a similar use of the n-word. Obnoxious at the very > least, also cowardly, since it would be unlikely to be used > face-to-face if we were all in the same room. I would say > racist too, since it is an attempt to dress down J with a > minority group name, reducing him from Julio to a cliché. It strikes me as assholish, quite assholish, but not racist. Maybe I'm ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 08:52:29 PDT 2010