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3466 [lbo-talk] Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2010, at 10:24 AM, Angelus Novus wrote: > Are you fucking kidding me? You called me an arrogant prick or something to that effect. Calling you a toolbox was mere retaliation. Ok, you've made your point. Argue all you want but drop the epithets. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 07:35:46 PDT 2010

3467 [lbo-talk] Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 15, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Joshua Morey wrote: > The exchangve between angelus and julio is a prime example of the very > reason I was excited to join this group - I feel smarter having read it; > however, the name calling confuses me. Mind you, I do not prefer holding > hands, singing kumbaya, and then sharing a group hug - the argumentation is > precisely what makes these discussions so important and edifying. But I > think we need to recognize a common purpose, that at th ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 15 06:05:11 PDT 2010

3468 [lbo-talk] Why Marx is Right and Engels is Wrong -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2010, at 11:03 PM, brad wrote: > Angelus Novus wrote: "Even a toolbox like Julio Huato grasps this." > Are others really going to let this racist comment go over? I don't think it's racist. It's nasty and quite unfair, yes, but probably a slur against economists. How is it racist? Doug

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Date:	Wed Jul 14 20:53:47 PDT 2010

3469 [lbo-talk] Tuli on politics -- rank: 1000

[via Lou Proyect] <http://www.matthewparis.com/mp/viewtopic.php?t=72> Interview With Tuli Kupferberg M.P. - Tuli, you started out as a young anarchist; were you Kropotkinesque or Bakuninesque? T.K. - Well, actually I was a Stalinist. In those days everybody was a Stalinist but very shortly I became a Trotskyite or demi-Trotskyite, and then I became very confused. All those terrible questions were being asked about the trials, though other people were asking them. I was very young, about th ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 14 14:33:04 PDT 2010

3470 [lbo-talk] Pollin-Wonder: the press release -- rank: 1000

[via Bob Pollin] For Immediate Release May 10, 2010 ----DRAFT----- POLLIN FAMILY TO HONOR VERIZON CENTER EMPLOYEES AND GROUPS OF DC WORKING FAMILIES WITH FREE STEVIE WONDER CONCERT MAY 26 A Free and Private Celebration for Employees and Family Members from Washington Sports and Entertainment and Local Civic and Service Organizations Featuring the Legendary Stevie Wonder Washington, D.C. Irene, Robert and Jim Pollin, the wife and sons of the late Abe Pollin, will honor the employees of their co ...

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Date:	Wed Jul 14 05:39:52 PDT 2010

3471 [lbo-talk] Bob Pollin & Stevie Wonder -- rank: 1000

On Jul 14, 2010, at 1:44 AM, Michael Pollak wrote: > Pollin is the scion of a very wealthy family. His father owned the Washington Wizards basketball team until a couple months ago. This private charity concert was staged in the Wizards arena just after his Dad sold the team as kind of celebration/PR event/gift to loyal employees. Actually Bob P's father died and he inherited the team - which he then sold.

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Date:	Wed Jul 14 05:10:33 PDT 2010

3472 [lbo-talk] Bob Pollin & Stevie Wonder -- rank: 1000

Amazing! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZXVp_A8ZXo&feature=youtube_gdata

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Date:	Tue Jul 13 20:59:14 PDT 2010

3473 [lbo-talk] FT/Harris: Economic stupidity epidemic throughout populace -- rank: 1000

On Jul 13, 2010, at 12:40 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > I work in hi tech with people in their 40's and 50's, and I think most of them do not believe that virtue triumphs or that the poor are poor because they're lazy and stupid. This might be because despite a life of hard work and long hours (software engineering), most of them are barely able to put their kids through college, and because for many of them, not much retirement is possible. These are people who make stuff. Finance guys ...

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Date:	Tue Jul 13 09:51:59 PDT 2010

3474 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 9:17 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I don't buy the idea that it's an inherently (especially) political > form, but they're definitely interesting people I remember an argument between Charles Bernstein, the language poet, and my old college friend, George Bradley, a highly formal bourgeois poet, at the wedding of mutual friends. I agreed with Charles on all his political points - but I'd much rather read George's poetry. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 18:31:33 PDT 2010

3475 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 8:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > misunderstood this when I wrote my post alluding to Plato. But still > ... "real" is always a bit suspect. I've asked this question before, when you wax democratic about art (an impulse I have some sympathy with). Why did you devote your academic life to studying Milton, Pope, and Pound, and not Edgar Guest? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 17:55:13 PDT 2010

3476 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 8:35 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > Re: Doug s tale of the electric rake. Chadbourne is OG, having been > doing free improv since the early 70s (and he also does other stuff). > But I do think the pure form of the genre at least has become pretty > tired; when you take out structures of harmony and rhythm all you have > left is timbre, which I guess is why build-your-own-instrument has > become so important. I saw him once at the Mudd Club, of all places. When he p ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 17:50:57 PDT 2010

3477 [lbo-talk] Tuli, too: RIP -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > I wish I'd known him rather than of him. I used to see him around NYC a lot. In the early days of LBO, we had a trade going - I'd send him the newsletter and he'd send some cartoons. The cartoons were wildly mixed - some of them great, some of them silly. But man, what a cool guy overall. We'd chat at events, etc. Bought a copy of the first two Fugs albums on cassette from him at a WFMU record fair way back when. Lifestyle-adjusted, his making i ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 14:46:44 PDT 2010

3478 [lbo-talk] Tuli, too: RIP -- rank: 1000

<http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/tuli-kupferberg-poet-and-singer-dies-at-86/> July 12, 2010, 4:01 PM Tuli Kupferberg, Poet and Singer, Dies at 86 By BEN SISARIO Tuli Kupferberg, the poet, singer and professional bohemian who went from being a noted Beat to becoming, in his words, the world s oldest rock star when he helped found the Fugs, the bawdy and politically pugnacious folk-rock group, died on Monday in Manhattan. He was 86 and had been a longtime resident of Greenwich ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 14:19:27 PDT 2010

3479 [lbo-talk] new right-wing pro-Israel group -- rank: 1000

<http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0710/39613.html> New group to oppose Mideast policy By: Ben Smith July 12, 2010 03:54 PM EDT Leading conservatives will launch a new pro-Israel group this week with a scathing attack on Rep. Joe Sestak, the Democratic Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, the first shot in what they say will be a confrontational campaign against the Obama administration s Mideast policy and the Democrats who support it. The Emergency Committee for Israel s leadership unite ...

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Date:	Mon Jul 12 13:27:04 PDT 2010

3480 [lbo-talk] why Prince is right -- rank: 1000

On Jul 12, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Carrol's insistent recitations of Marxist cant about the absolute > separation of private and capitalist economies are almost enough to > make me flee into the arms of Hardt and Negri. You can also make a detour into feminist economics. Doug

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