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35701 discourse -- rank: 1000

Scott Marshall wrote: >Chuck says: > ><Piss on the anarchists and we'll piss on you. >Chuck0 >Groundzero GMB - Washington, DC IWW> > >Scott replies: > >Don't let you computer write checks, your ass can't cash. Now, now, let's not descend to the Crossfire level. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 13:09:07 PST 2000

35702 Y2-nuthin'? -- rank: 1000

Hey, so all you Y2K Chicken Littles out there - what happened? Too early to tell? Massive media coverup? Successful work by thousands of feverish programmers? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 09:05:33 PST 2000

35703 David Schweickart's interesting chapter -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote, responding to Scott Marshall: > >ps. I'm not sure what is acceptable to post here, but I've written a piece > >on what happened in Seattle for Political Affairs that I would be glad to > >post if folks are interested. Its more feature than analysis, but might be > >of interest to some who weren't there. > >Unless Doug warns you off, which I cannot imagine in this context, please >post here. As I told Scott, such things are welcome if they ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 08:56:07 PST 2000

35704 "Economic Nationalism"? (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >So, what about the Miskito Indians now -- are they better off now that the >Sandinistas are long gone? Dunno about how they're doing. My impression is that Nicaragua is lots worse off. > >And given Patrick's citation of Smith's Rhodesia as a national > >development model, and kind words offered by HCKL & others for Nazi > >economic policy, you have to wonder how separable these economic > >models are from the unambiguously repellent ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 08:53:46 PST 2000

35705 State and Democracy (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Capitalism, especially introduction of capitalism, can't come about without >vigorous repression. The history of any country attests to this fact. If >China becomes a relatively prosperous capitalist country (and it has this >chance -- temporary prosperity it may be -- unlike, say, Nicaragua), it >will probably move toward moderate repression (the kind that, say, Japan >has). Ok. As long as we're clear that what's happening in China is the development ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 08:49:28 PST 2000

35706 human capital -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address, and also, it seems, from a timewarp] (1) I agree with what Doug, Heather, and Jim Devine have to say about the "unobserved skill" stuff, and human capital (HC) theory in general. (2) Some questions. The HC studies used to try to attribute as large a portion of wage differences as possible to "skill" differences, and the remainder was attributed to "labor market discrimination" and perhaps other variables, including "skill di ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jan 3 07:46:46 PST 2000

35707 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Please provide an example to back up this claim. I cannot recall PRA >our me ever having done this. It is the kind of claim that >circulates on the right about our work but I am surprised to see it >on the LBO list. Check out the PRA publication list or our web page >to see what our focus is. Such stereotyping of PRA is very tiresome. >We work very hard to challenge liberal thinking on these issues. I have to stick up for Chip & PRA here. I've been follo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 14:49:06 PST 2000

35708 Berlet on Populism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The liberal elite criticism has been to equate >criticism of the banking industry and specific bankers >anti-semitism and conspiracism; to equate criticism of >monetary policy with quackery; and to equate protectionism >and/or economic nationalism with xenophobia and nativism. The associations show up so often you have to wonder why. The other week I heard Steve Bronner give a talk about the Protocols of the Elders of Zion <http://home.earthlink.net/~centuri ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 13:15:46 PST 2000

35709 David Schweickart's interesting chapter -- rank: 1000

Scott Marshall wrote: >At the heart of revolutionary Marxism is the idea of the class >struggle as the engine of history and development in class divided >societies. Once you back away from this central idea, all kinds of >things can and do go awry. In fact, aside, I think this to be one of >the central failures of the CPSU in building socialism in the Soviet >Union. > >Backing away allows for evolutionary thinking and lack of action. >Including in how one fights for r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:51:15 PST 2000

35710 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

J Cullen wrote: >And yes, I count Henwood's Wall Street as a populist resource. Let me ask you the same question I asked Max - since I went to some lengths to differentiate my critique of finance from ones that are usually called populist, what makes it a populist resource? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:40:59 PST 2000

35711 Tax breaks and WTO -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > > Don't be coy, Max. What is it? > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > [mbs] It's a hundred pages long, that's what it is. I'd send it to you > > but you haven't reacted to previous articles, including a short one > > along the same lines that I uploaded TO THIS VERY LIST not too long > > ago. > >Fair ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:31:10 PST 2000

35712 "Economic Nationalism"? (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >so, then, what exactly was *thwarted* by US intervention in Nicaragua? in >nestor's terms and yours, it is nations, nationality (the difference >between the two is that, for nestor, the latter is supposed to refer to >something more real or at least better, fashioned outside imperial and >colonial spaces). Given Lou Proyect's interest in the role played by the Miskito Indians - abused by the Sandinistas, used by the CIA - it might be interesting to think about he re ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:21:22 PST 2000

35713 Chechnya & oil -- rank: 1000

The Telegraph (London) - January 2, 2000 MOSCOW'S FIGHT FOR OIL CASH FUELS CHECHEN CONFLICT By Philip Sherwell in Tbilisi AS Russian troops fought their way through the streets of Grozny last week, strategists in the Kremlin had their eyes on a different - and highly lucrative - target several hundred miles to the east: the vast oil deposits beneath the Caspian Sea. Moscow is waging more than a military campaign in Chechnya. It is also fighting for access to the Caspian Sea oil reserves pumped t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 12:02:26 PST 2000

35714 State and Democracy (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I don't think you understand my assessment of China at all. With the CCP, >China is going fully capitalist without plunging into chaos; without the >CCP's repressive management, China will probably be "Russia." Socialist >opponents of the CCP do exist in China, but as a social force they do not >appear significant (certainly not in a position to take power). If you or >anyone disagrees with me, I'd like to see concrete evidence. So are thos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jan 2 11:59:43 PST 2000

35715 Fwd: Socialist Scholars Conference 2000 -- rank: 1000

Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 23:40:12 -0500 From: Jason Schulman <jschulman at world.oberlin.edu> ***Call for Panels*** The 2000 Socialist Scholars Conference will take place from Friday, March 31 to Sunday, April 2,at Borough of Manhattan Community College, 199 Chambers Street, New York City. Join twothousand Socialist Scholars, radical democrats, union activists, political reformers, and hopeful revolutionaries who work inside and outside the system at the 18th annual Socialist Scholars Conf ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 1 22:15:54 PST 2000