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34531 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >The abstentionists on this list Do you have any evidence for this? How do you know what people do or don't do? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 13:26:43 PDT 2000

34532 Haider rumor -- rank: 1000

I ran the Haider rumor past my trusted source on gay politics, Ken Sherrill of Hunter College. Ken says he's heard the rumor many times, but has no idea if it's true. This reminds me of a conversation I once had with a Vanity Fair fact-checker, who had to fact-check rumors for their rumor-ness: "Have you heard a rumor that...." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 13:23:37 PDT 2000

34533 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 1000

Michael Perelman wrote: >Could he really be that smart? > >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I wonder sometimes if the New Economy >> rhetoric isn't a cover for deflation anxiety - or if maybe one is >> just a version of the other. If he's right about productivity, then >> there's a great risk of either excess capacity (e.g. the late 19th >> century) or underconsumption (e.g. the late 1920s), either of which > > could have severe deflationary implicat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 13:15:34 PDT 2000

34534 Zizek responds -- rank: 1000

I forwarded some of the "Slavoj is a racist" thread to the man himself. He writes: >Dear Doug, thanks for the text. I just laugh. Slavoj Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 13:13:24 PDT 2000

34535 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 1000

Reese wrote: >Doug, this is hyperbole. Hyperbole in poor taste perhaps, but hyperbole >none the less. > >Justin nailed my failure to address Greenspans' position without >acknowledging the singular line I was addressing and the intent of my >hyperbole, you've taken my hyperbole out of context from the rest of my >statements and flamed it. All part of another day on the internet, yes? Yup. Decontextualized tasteless hyperbole, can't get enough of it! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 12:53:27 PDT 2000

34536 Reply to Angela, Ken M, Doug, and Z -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: > > Simple courtesies cannot be mandated, least of all in Internet chats, >> but discussion surely would be facilitated if Angela would trifle to >> comprehend this thread before pouring invective into it > >Yes, it's very hard to remain polite in the face of invective and ignorance. >Might I suggest you read your posts before, or even after, you hit send. >Btw, I do so much enjoy being called ignorant and a bitch, but I think Mack >and Doug a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 12:51:22 PDT 2000

34537 Nathan, learn to read -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Nathan, can you read? You didn't know? Nathan got through Berkeley and on to the Yale Law School on the basis of a brilliant ruse of simulated literacy. I think we should all be in awe, instead of so truculently challenging. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 12:41:58 PDT 2000

34538 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 1000

michael wrote: >Because G. believes in the New Economy, not because he is indulgent???? Word was that back in '96, I think, Greenspan started getting seriously worried about deflation, and resisted calls from his colleagues and from Wall Street hawks to tighten. He turned out to be right; if he'd tightened in '96, the Asian crisis would probably have been a real hum-dinger. I wonder sometimes if the New Economy rhetoric isn't a cover for deflation anxiety - or if maybe one is just a version o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun May 7 12:38:08 PDT 2000

34539 Reply to Doug -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: > You cannot approach mass struggles for proletarian emancipation as though >ordering from a menu at a restaurant, selecting this tasty one, avoiding the >other. When they erupt, you join them, in actual presence or in solidarity, >regardless of specific criticisms you may harbor. Which ones? Surely you're not about to join the Michigan Militia or the Christian Coalition, which are mass movements in at least some sense.So you are choosing the tasty one over ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 6 18:09:43 PDT 2000

34540 [Fwd: [BRC-MUMIA] Fwd: Trials and Tribulations] -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Bourgeois democracy is not a sham, as Doug suggested >someone (I don't know who) had claimed -- but it is >arguable that for sectors of the population is really >is worse than a sham, by anyone's standards. What does this mean? What's "worse than a sham"? The adjective "bourgeois" suggests a limit to the "democracy" it modifies; its flaw is more in the incompleteness of its democracy than in the idea of "democracy" itself. So ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 6 17:10:40 PDT 2000

34541 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >But it should raise questions about >Greenspan's intelligence and the political orientation he brings to his job >that he subscribes to a cult that worships capital and hates labor, no? What central banker would subscribe to a significantly different philosophy? I'm no Greenspan fan, but he's been more indulgent of a low unemployment rate than many of his predecessors or colleagues. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 6 17:06:24 PDT 2000

34542 From The Union "Hardhead List" -- rank: 1000

Reese wrote: >Thought police. Open up. We're taking you for reeducation, you've been >reading Ayn Rand and discussing individualism with others. Oh yes, all those hegemonic lefties, threatining the poor besieged Randians. Truly our precious liberties are at risk. "Capitalism - the unknown ideal." Wow, isn't that a bold thing to say! No wonder people who say it are at such risk - it threatens the existing collectivist order. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 16:59:56 PDT 2000

34543 new Gordon papers -- rank: 1000

Robert Gordon has updated versions of his New Economy papers at <http://faculty-web.at.nwu.edu/economics/gordon/researchhome.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 6 16:55:38 PDT 2000

34544 Reply to Angela, Ken M, Doug, and Z -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: > But time and time again you've >illustrated that you aren't interested in theory, which is a pity, >because Marx >was. Marx had a pretty neat understanding of theory too But he had the last theoretical word; once Marx spoke, there was no further need for theoretical speech. It's so much simpler that way. Doug

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Date:	Sat May 6 16:46:07 PDT 2000

34545 Little interest among Chinese students one year after NATO bombing(fwd) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: > > His statements were widely reported in the Chinese press, as were >> statements made Tuesday by President Bill Clinton which said failure to >> pass PNTR would be "very unwise and precarious" from a national security >> point of view. > >Is this Clinton's line or that of the Chinese press? <http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/2000/5/3/10.text.1> THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat May 6 16:02:26 PDT 2000