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35371 Marx and Equality (Was: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?) -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Marx would probably say you don't really know your desires until >your needs are first guaranteed. Humans are only truly free in the >absense of need. Freedom is the mastery of necessity or fulfillment >of needs. You only know your desires when you are thus free. How do you know this? When people find their basic "needs" fulfilled - and these themselves are very plastic - do they want less or more? Is the Lacanian trinity need/demand/desire - which beg ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 13:07:41 PST 2000

35372 CIA feminist backs Gore -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > I don't think it's irrelevant to wonder about the ideological and > > employment history of someone who's had a divisive and conservatizing > > influence on American feminism. Did Steinem know who was behind the > > CCF and the NSA? > >And did she care? If it allowed her to do what she wanted to do politically >(whether you agree with her or not), does it matter that much where the >money came from? Well yeah, it would to me. Not ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 13:22:16 PST 2000

35373 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Joseph Stiglitz was then Chairman of the President's Council of >Economic Advisers (he is now Vice President and Chief Economist at >the World Bank). For a couple of more days, mainly because Larry Summers wanted him out. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 13:14:00 PST 2000

35374 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: >Brad, this reminds me of your post last year soon after Oskar >Lafontaine's resignation. Responding to an article by Noam Chomsky posted to >the list, you scoffed at the idea that Robert Rubin/Larry Summers might have >been pleased to see Oskar go. As LBO reported, thanks to a journalist who was unable to report this tidbit in his or her own publication, Summers reaction was that he was happy to see "that asshole" Oskar go. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 13:01:05 PST 2000

35375 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >It's a good article. Wade did a lot of legwork for it. But you will >not be surprised to learn that I have some--sharp--disagreements >with it. Such as? Gosh, why are people so reticent? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:28:43 PST 2000

35376 Marx and Equality (Was: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Chez Panisse Restaurant >Downstairs Dinner Menu >Thursday, January 27 $59 > >Frisée aux lardons with foie gras, hazelnuts, and Banyuls vinegar >Chino Ranch salsify and wild mushroom soup >Grilled Willis Ranch pork loin with mustard, blood orange, and >cornichons; glazed turnips and Kabocha squash purée >Red wine pear feuilleté > > >...cost: 70% of average daily U.S. GDP per capita And I desire that. Badly. Not that I have that kind of $. S ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:20:10 PST 2000

35377 Fwd: Green Jello? -- rank: 1000

[The Greenies proliferate. A friend writes...] > Jello Biafra was nominated for the Green Party Presidential Primary > in New York State. Biafra will be an official candidate in the March > 7 election. Also on the ballot are consumer advocate Ralph Nader, > Stephen Gaskin, founder of The Farm - a commune in Tennessee, and > Joel Kovel, a doctor, peace activist, and college professor. > > Jello Biafra's Platform for 2000 Green Party Presidential Primary > (State o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:17:03 PST 2000

35378 CIA feminist backs Gore -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >It is cop-baiting when you use it as an adjective in a subject header, as >opposed to brining it up in a general discussion of the history of Cold War >liberalism. I don't think it's irrelevant to wonder about the ideological and employment history of someone who's had a divisive and conservatizing influence on American feminism. Did Steinem know who was behind the CCF and the NSA? >Identifying Steinem as primarily a "CIA feminist" is about equivalent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:07:15 PST 2000

35379 Davos -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an address oddity] Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 12:09:34 -0600 (CST) From: Benton John McCune <jmc164 at casbah.acns.nwu.edu> Are there any good books that discuss the World Economic Forum? Ben Benton McCune b-mccune at nwu.edu ------------------ "Who are we to decide that it is hopeless?" R.D. Laing

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:13:55 PST 2000

35380 Spivak & Eagleton -- rank: 1000

Daniel F. Vukovich wrote: >paradigmatic of Stalinism I think the entire practice of flinging terms like "Stalinist" and "postmodernist" back & forth is unproductive and tedious. They're obstacles to conversation. Detail what you disagree with all you like, but epithets are bad bad bad. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 11:12:12 PST 2000

35381 Marx and Equality (Was: Why Decry the Wealth Gap?) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Please, sir. Does this mean that after the revolution our weekly >diet will be (per person): > >7 pounds of wheat flour >1 cans of evaporated milk >2 pounds of cabbage >1/2 pounds of spinach >6 pounds of dried navy beans. God no. I'm not a hair shirt kind of guy at all. After the revo, arugula & goat cheese for all (though Michael Perelman can stick with black beans and brown rice if he likes). I was trying to point out the problem with the use of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 10:44:24 PST 2000

35382 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >If all academics had his theoretical vision, the >profession would look radically different from its >present incarnation. How would it look? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 10:37:33 PST 2000

35383 CIA feminist backs Gore -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Gets more slack from whom? Not from me, nor I doubt from >Henwood -- the author of the subject line in question. That's >complete crap. Farrakhan is an asshole with dreadful politics >-- Steinam is not as bad as F, but her failure to ever come >clean about her past impunes her integrity. Yup. I think Farrakhan is a creep. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 09:11:22 PST 2000

35384 Now Stiglitz makes more trouble! -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Stiglitz's fatal speech was a bewdy Also in the imminently forthcoming LBO #94 - a story on Stiglitz' rise and fall by a World Bank insider! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 09:10:15 PST 2000

35385 Spivak & Eagleton -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >apologies for replying to my own post but I had intended to say that I >find Doug's ho-hum response suggesting that some people are over-reacting >disturbing as well...his 'probably is excessive' completed by 'but it >may not be'...and if it isn't excessive, those who 'complained' did so >falsely, which means that epithet isn't an epithet, so then... > >gonna have to put *Too Many Creeps* on a tape loop, Michael Hoover Hey I love that song. Wasn't ther ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 27 09:08:03 PST 2000