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35716 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Absolutely. Populists can always resort to Carrol's >rationale -- you are really a populist but didn't want >to alienate your marxist friends. > >As you know, words on the page are out of your control. >You have to worry about your friends more than your >enemies. > >your friend, >max Ok, now I'm seriously worried. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 17:14:15 PST 2000

35717 Schweikart chapter -- rank: 1000

[forwarded by Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com>] From: "David C. Schweickart" <dschwei at ORION.IT.LUC.EDU> Subject: Beyond Capitalism CHAPTER ONE COUNTERPROJECT, SUCCESSOR-SYSTEM, REVOLUTION "A spectre is haunting Europe--the spectre of Communism." So wrote Marx and Engels in 1848. They were right. Europe, indeed the world, was haunted by "Communism" for nearly a century and a half. Now, at least for the time being, that ghost has been e ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 16:11:10 PST 2000

35718 Schweikart: Beyond Capitalism -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 16:04:11 -0800 From: Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> David Schweickert is a brilliant Marxist intellectual whose work deserves to be widely read, so here it is. I know this willbounce on lbo talk but I don't know of any other way to send it. happy new year, Sam Pawlett From: "David C. Schweickart" <dschwei at ORION.IT.LUC.EDU> To s*bscribers to the Society for the Philosophical Study of Marxism list: Happy New ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 16:09:15 PST 2000

35719 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Chip Berlet wrote: >Anyone with a library card can discover that there have >been over two dozen books on populism written since 1980, Hey, who needs a library card if you post stuff like this here? A couple of questions: How large a constituency do you think there is for right-wing populism? Do you agree with my rather complacent assessment of the Buchanan threat, for example? And how much do you think the U.S. antiglobalization movement draws on this? >6) Americanism--a form of patrio ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 16:07:05 PST 2000

35720 Who Admires Hitler's Economy? -- rank: 1000

Max B. Sawicky wrote: >So today in the U.S. we live under conditions analogous >to those of the Third Reich? Hello? One, 4.x% unemployment isn't really full employment. Two, it's not likely to stay there forever, especially if real wages rise briskly and union density increases. And three, the right to organize is considerably repressed in the U.S., though obviously not in the Hitlerian style. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 16:02:36 PST 2000

35721 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Because you have written the book on "Wall Street," >the locus diaboli of ALL American populisms. Even though I take considerable and repeated pains to differentiate my analysis from the "populist" one(s)? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 16:00:02 PST 2000

35722 Tax breaks and WTO -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak asked: >Are you saying there's an argument to be made that VAT is not regressive? to which Max Sawicky replied: >yup Don't be coy, Max. What is it? I seem to remember Bob Pollin citing you (back when he was advising Jerry Brown in '92) as saying that a VAT could finance a generous welfare state, and the combined tax and spending effects would be progressively redistributive. Is there more to it than that? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 13:47:01 PST 2000

35723 history of money -- rank: 1000

An interesting website on the history of money cited in today's Financial Times: <http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/amser/chrono.html>. Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 13:43:23 PST 2000

35724 Who Admires Hitler's Economy? -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >I don't recall what Henry said about admiring Hitler's economic policy. Here's the post: >Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 11:19:06 -0800 >From: "Henry C.K. Liu" <hliu at mindspring.com> >To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com >Subject: Re: Capitalist support for fascism.... > >Thanks, Michael. >Do you, or any one else on the list, have any views on how Hitler >managed to turn >in 4 short years a war-torn economy that the Weimar's permissive ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 12:35:10 PST 2000

35725 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Various analyses of populism habe been offered on this list >in the past, but as I was reading through this issue of *The >Progressive Populist* (January 1-15, 2000) it came to me >that we had perhaps overlooked yhr most characteristic attribute >of its current manifestations: Profoundly Dull. Come now - duller than Dissent and The American Prospect? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 12:31:56 PST 2000

35726 Populism (as shown in *The Progressive Populist* -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >"Modern populism" is quite a few different things. >For instance, it's Jimmy Hoffa, Gary Bauer, Ralph >Nader, and Doug Henwood. Wait a second. How am I a populist? Doug

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 12:30:14 PST 2000

35727 Naderites Craft "Fix It or Nix It" Campaign -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >But given America's current politics, "reform" or elimination of the IMF >and the WTO will push us toward an America that Pat Buchanan likes and not >toward an America that Lori Wallach likes, no? I don't know. I really wonder how large Buchanan's constituency - elite or popular - really is. His poll numbers are pretty low (and his negatives are pretty high). Snarling xenophobia really doesn't seem to play that well; Reagan and Clinton both succeeded polit ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 1 12:11:42 PST 2000

35728 Malaysian social imperialism? -- rank: 1000

I just interviewed G. Rajasekaran, Secretary General of the Malaysian Trades Union Congress for a forthcoming Nation feature, post-Seattle, pre-A16. He's entirely behind the incorporation of "core labor rights" into the WTO, and entirely supports the ICFTU position. He also had kind things to say about the AFL-CIO's position on these issues. Is he a social imperialist too? Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 29 22:37:15 PST 2000

35729 Sweeney on trade -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >I just don't get this. A country goes into debt; it's being cut off by intl >creditors. Under the Nathan plan, The IMF gives them a loan or organizes >debt reduction only insofar as production is now geared to domestic >consumption (that is they turn inward, go away as I put it earlier); and if >they don't, the AFL CIO will raise trade barriers to prevent any import >surge if the country instead tries to export its way out of crisis. This isn't entirely ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 29 22:17:22 PST 2000

35730 Why We Need the Stock Market -- rank: 1000

matt hogan wrote: > Doug called for the gradual elimination of the stock market in >his book "Wall Street", but I have a problem with this >recommendation. > Consider the venture capitalists founding a startup company. >Having a stock market where he can "cash out" means that, once he's >successfully started a company, he can recover his capital, and go >on to start up other companies. Without a stock market, his capital >would remain tied up in ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 29 17:38:41 PST 2000