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34561 The Suicide of New Left Review (posted by Doug Henwood to LBO-Talk) -- rank: 1000

kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca wrote: >Doug, do you have any possible explanation why people are loosing their vision >/ patience / solidarity [??] because of your tacit interest in a Lacanian >social theorist? It seems to be that the very effort to read a particular >theorist has lead to a widespread break in party ranks. The issues used to be, >how might we improve the lot of the majority of the population of the planet, >what about food distribution, unionization, the cr ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 08:24:40 PDT 2000

34562 Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin -- rank: 1000

Reese wrote: > >Sorry to be predictable but which bits of Marx/Lenin are out of date? > >Which bits do you think are modern, mark? I'm not Mark, but just off the top of my head I'd say the descriptions of factory life, though not literally accurate desciptions of lots of work today, are still fresh evocations of work under capitalism; the stuff in the Manifesto about the revolutionary nature of capitalism (sorry, Lou Proyect); the analysis of the phenomenal categories of profit, int ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 07:56:19 PDT 2000

34563 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

dave wrote: >What human being living under capitalism, especially in the >media-saturated zones, is living >an "actual life," or can even remember what it means/how it feels to do so? How do you know anyone ever lived an "actual life"? What is an actual life, anyway, and how would you recognize one. Where is that pure kernel of identity which is hidden or distorted by the horrors of "reality"? Doug

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Date:	Thu May 4 07:30:17 PDT 2000

34564 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Gordon Fitch wrote: >How about _state_ as in the entire power structure I know people do that, but it seems to me like the use of "ego" in American ego psychology - the effect is to enlarge the category so much that it loses its analytical usefulness. To me, "state" refers to the agency or agencies with official powers of coercion. Market discipline is a kind of coercion, but a very different kind from one enforced ultimately at gunpoint. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 07:26:30 PDT 2000

34565 I "LOVE" YOU -- rank: 1000

[already got one copy this morning] May 4, 2000 'I Love You' E-Mail Virus Attacks Computer Systems World-Wide Dow Jones Newswires HONG KONG -- A computer virus spread by e-mail messages bearing the title "I Love You" spread through Asian businesses Thursday afternoon, and appeared to be quickly tainting computer systems world-wide. If the attachment holding the virus is opened, the virus apparently multiplies by finding other e-mail addresses and prompting the computer to generate new ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 07:04:03 PDT 2000

34566 The Suicide of New Left Review (posted by Doug Henwood to LBO-Talk) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese quoted Lou Proyect: >Doug, of course, is an expression of the hopelessness conveyed by Perry >Anderson's piece. Damn, it's a good thing I jumped out the window the other day, reducing the world net supply of hopelessness by a smidgen. And Perry Anderson won't have to be offended by the "subliterate" Harvard reference style in any more Verso books, either. >I think Doug is a classic example of the middle-class intellectual who is >attracted to the workers mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 06:59:09 PDT 2000

34567 1993 Resignations from NLR Editorial Board -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: > > Kate Soper, >best keep quiet about Ms Soper. Come now. You can't foreground discretion in that way and then say no more. Out with it, James! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 4 06:43:33 PDT 2000

34568 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >CB: From summary of Lenin's analysis of imperialism: 1) monopoly >capitalism is still applicable 2) state-monopoly capitalism is >still applicable ; privatization is a late 1900's -2000 fresh >example of state-monopoly. Privatization is an instance of state-monopoly? I find that very confusing. Lenin and Hilferding talked about state-sponsored cartels and the suppression of competition. Everywhere on earth, deregulation and the intensification of competition ar ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 15:57:27 PDT 2000

34569 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Doug wrote, > >> Lenin's another issue, though. I'm really curious about what of his >> is relevant to life in 2000. Reimagining a Lenin for today is one >> thing; making his formaldehyde-suffused corpse walk and talk is >> another. > > This is an odd exchange. Doug invited a discussion on the subject so, >against my better judgment, I posted two straightforward comments. >Immediately one reader demanded that I be exp ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 14:47:46 PDT 2000

34570 Plato and Lacan, was Re: Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Even Plato seemed to doubt the existence of an abstract >desire. prior to and independent of the object of desire. Uh, who are you claiming holds this position, of an abstract desire apart from an object? Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 14:12:39 PDT 2000

34571 the positive critique -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Doug asserts--I won't say defends, since he offers no argument--the >alternative probably preferred by most people on this list, >democratic planning. Not me. Don't think I used that phrase, because I'm not sure what it means. If I did use it, must have been some odd neural twitch for which I apologize. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 13:52:15 PDT 2000

34572 OFFLIST Re: Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Charles Brown wrote: > >> >> CB: I've been meaning to say here, those here who keep talking >>like their jargon does not suffer from the same list of weakness >>that Doug gives us here are indulging themselves in unfounded >>self-congratulations. >> >> To make the above judgment implies that you have some talk and >>political language that is not as you criticize "left jargon" to >>be. But, do you reall ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 12:03:57 PDT 2000

34573 Zizek's Lenin -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The Subject replaces the acting human person (and hides history >as a by-product). Desire replaces honest confrontation with human >desires. Social construction substitutes metaphysics for history. The >Phallus trivializes the oppression of actual women. Neurosis is, for >intellectuals, the 20th century repalcement of the 18th century >entertaniment of watching the nuts at Bedlam on Sunday afternoon. >Discourse is what Marx meant by vulgar economics. And C ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 12:01:42 PDT 2000

34574 Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: > > -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood >> Sent: 03 May 2000 19:02 >> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >> Subject: Re: Zizek's (Cockburn's) Lenin >> >> >> Charles Brown wrote: >> >> >What's wrong with left jargon ? >> >> Formulaic, out-of-date, alienating, clunky. How's that for a start? ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 3 11:56:40 PDT 2000

34575 the positive critique -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >In the U.S. we have lots of local democratic land-use planning Where? I thought most urban planning in the U.S. was a byproduct of real estate scheming, lubricated with campaign contributions. Doug

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Date:	Wed May 3 11:07:23 PDT 2000