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35551 Valid Conspiracy Theory: the Bourgeois finesse -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Why do you think dictatorship and "conspiracy" are simpler than open >and obvious ? Because they imply a pretty simple transmission of power and a relatively frictionless transmission of intention into action. Dictators are obeyed, under pain of death; conspirators succeed without the knowledge of the conspired-against. In the U.S. and other capitalist democracies, there has to be a considerable amount of consent among the governed. How that consent develops ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 14 10:10:07 PST 2000

35552 Moore talks tough, again -- rank: 1000

Russell Grinker wrote: >Not taking sides with either of two camps on the WTO issue is not the same >thing as abstaining from politics. This debate is about business strategy - >not about developing an independent working class position. Ultimately the >Chinese government will decide whether to go in or stay out on the basis of >its calculations of the benefits - or lack thereof - for indigenous capital >accumulation. > >Unless we of course assume that China is some sort ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 14:09:31 PST 2000

35553 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >That is a great irony of the U.S. dictatorship. It's not a dictatorship. That's too simple. It's a lot more complicated than that. One of the many problems with "conspiracy" is that it effaces all those complexities. Though freedom of expression is hardly limitless, we have no small amount of liberty to say what we want. Ditto freedom of organization. We can vote. We can find out what the hell is going on. Yet the ruling class continues to rule. In extreme mome ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 12:06:26 PST 2000

35554 Fwd: Marx -- rank: 1000

[sent to me rather than list] X-From_: bdavis at citicom.com Thu Jan 13 14:48:50 2000 X-Sender: bdavis at citicom.com Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:45:29 -0500 To: owner-LBO-talk at lists.panix.com From: Bert Davis <bdavis at citicom.com> Subject: Marx Mime-Version: 1.0 To All, I have books of the Bible, Shakespeare, Jefferson and Twain giving quotations on various subjects. Is there such a thing for Marx wherein I can read his pronouncements on most economic, class-struggle subjects? If not, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 11:57:01 PST 2000

35555 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >I am just realizing that there are a whole bunch of people on this >list who are energetically trying to squash thinking of the normal >and regular operations of the U.S. government Wait a second. "Conspiracy" suggests plans concocted by a handful of people in complete secrecy. The policies of the U.S. government are the product of elite machinations, partly constrained by quasi-democratic procedures - but an elite that consists of corporate executives, f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 11:04:22 PST 2000

35556 languishing liberalism -- rank: 1000

[Carl Remick asked me to post this.] Wall Street Journal - January 13, 2000 Without a Leader or an Agenda, Liberals in America Just Languish By JOHN HARWOOD Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- American liberals are drifting into the 21st century with a serious identity crisis. These ought to be heady days for those whose political heart also is a little to the left. Government coffers are bulging and foreign threats are dwindling, both factors that should free up tons of mone ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:59:39 PST 2000

35557 sanctions -- rank: 1000

[for all you Posner fans out there] "Creating and Enforcing Norms, With Special Reference to Sanctions" BY: RICHARD A. POSNER University of Chicago Law School ERIC BENNETT RASMUSEN Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=170713 Other Electronic Document Delivery: http://www.bus.indiana.edu/~erasmuse/@Articles/Unpubli shed/norms.pdf SSRN only offers technical support for p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 10:08:51 PST 2000

35558 On Cultural Privilege -- rank: 1000

Zack Exley wrote: >I think your figure for Russia is old. They used to have a higher >incarceration rate than us, but now it's less than ours. I heard it's cause >they let out lots of prisoners after "communism fell". No, they're recent numbers (from the last 3 years or so) assembled by a statistician from the UK Home Office. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:55:05 PST 2000

35559 Fwd: <nettime> Book of the Undead Laborites -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: > >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > >> [From nettime. This guy is something of an intellectual celebrity, > >> for some thoroughly obscure reason, close to the Australian Labour > >> Party. He's funnier than Buddy Hackett.] > >buddy hackett? Stand-up comic of the old school. Not unfunny, if you like that sort of thing, but no Jackie Mason. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:48:26 PST 2000

35560 On Cultural Privilege -- rank: 1000

Michael J. Cykana wrote: >So is the US ahead of Russia? Not yet, probably. > Or do the numbers separate out jail from prison? They include both. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:46:01 PST 2000

35561 On Cultural Privilege -- rank: 1000

Martin Schiller wrote: >Doug Henwood said on 1/12/2000 10:00 PM > > >Prisoners per 100,000 persons: > > > >Russia 685 > >US 645 > >China 115 > >How does this count the mentally ill. Does Russia also house them in the >streets or in prison? Who knows how many such folks there are. These are just people who are formally incarcerated. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:40:53 PST 2000

35562 Benneton does death row -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: Mattcapri at aol.com Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:42:40 EST Apparently Benneton has, gone beyond its Big Blue Marble ad aproach and is now a 96 page insert featuring death row inmates. I am going to try to get a hold of this thing. I realize this may be a heavily chewed over subject, but I found this article in the most recent Advertising Age. Nothing about this in Brandweek, and Adweek is absent from the library. http://adage.com/news_and_features/ad_review/ar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jan 13 09:28:43 PST 2000

35563 bourgeois highdomes -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Carrol Cox wrote: > > > This is the core spirit of capitalism > >I meant spirit of *Platonism* -- I don't know how "capitalism" got in >here. Do you want to talk about it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 12 22:01:08 PST 2000

35564 On Cultural Privilege -- rank: 1000

Zack Exley wrote: >Keep in mind CHina's only got 1.1 million people in all their various kinds >of re-educaiton camps, >We've got 2 million. Prisoners per 100,000 persons: Russia 685 US 645 China 115 Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 12 22:00:12 PST 2000

35565 Mumia, again -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of a taboo word - pls strip out the s*bscribes!] Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2000 20:32:51 -0800 From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> Michael Yates posted today on the thread re: Marc Cooper on Mumia. This post on the misc.activism.progressive newsgroup struck me as having more organizing savvy than the Cooper piece would have one believe. Michael Pugliese ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Butterfield <theredguard at hotmail.com> Newsgroups: misc.activism.progress ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jan 12 21:55:30 PST 2000