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35926 The Cold War, the "Unconscious," & the "Vigilant Self" (wasRe: Moon Pie) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Hi Ted: > > >Aside from inversion of morality, Cold War anti-communism also displayed > >reversal of reality, another hallmark of pathological cognition. > >The inversion of reality is a normal condition of capitalism: commodity >fetishism. Mmm, yeah, but as Adorno might say, it also contains a grain of truth: the relations between people *are* the relations between things. That may be an inversion of reality, but it also feels very real. Dou ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 15:51:13 PST 2000

35927 banking on Woodstock -- rank: 1000

[Speaking of Woodstock... The headline in the print edition was "By the Time They Get to Woodstock, It'll Be, Like, Over."] Wall Street Journal - February 15, 2000 Commerzbank Hosts Flower Power 'Hippie General Assembly' Revival By ALFRED KUEPPERS Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL BERLIN -- Germany's bankers know all about power suits, power moves and power marketing -- but flower power? Commerzbank AG's international unit here has invited 200 diplomats and business executives ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 14:22:44 PST 2000

35928 2m in jail -- rank: 1000

Guardian (London) - February 15, 2000 Anger grows as US jails its two millionth inmate The land of the free is now home to 25% of the world's prison population Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles Vigils are being mounted today in more than 30 major cities in the United States to draw attention to the arrival of the two millionth inmate in American jails. The US comprises 5% of the global population yet it is responsible for 25% of the world's prisoners. It has a higher proportion of its citizens in j ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 13:58:19 PST 2000

35929 Fwd: TO THE GREENS #3 -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 12:26:42 -0500 From: joel kovel <jkovel at prodigy.net> TO THE GREENS #3 Toward Ecosocialism The response to my last communication, "Beyond Populism," was substantial and gratifying. It kicked off a lively debate that is still swirling as of this writing--which is the source of gratification. We may--given the limits of our knowledge, must--differ in many ways. But one principle should be held by all: long live debate! There may be no absolute truths, but t ...

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35930 eugenics paper -- rank: 1000

The U.S. eugenics paper is at <http://www.acponline.org/journals/annals/15feb00/sofair.htm>. Though the authors are affiliated with Yale, Yale's PR office didn't think it was worth a press release. Doug

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35931 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU>] -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:08:48 -0500 (EST) From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: migration In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000215140629.006f6708 at pop.flash.net> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10002151505340.19843-100000 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII If only all citzenship restrictions seemed as cruel and arbitrary as these 'internal' regulations must seem to us...there ...

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35932 mergers -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 15:05:25 -0500 (EST) From: Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: mergers In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.20000215140629.006f6708 at pop.flash.net> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10002151459410.19843-100000 at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Money and Business/Financial Desk; Section 3 ECONOMIC VIEW As Mergers Get Bigger, So Does The Danger By LOUIS UCHITELLE 02/1 ...

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35933 productivity miracle or workhouse? -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: > > I confess I find the whole FROP theory - at least the kind based on > > the rising OCC - completely mystical and largely useless. The > > "countervailing tendencies" Marx identified have largely done their > > work. I'm happy to listen to arguments to the contrary, but I've yet > > to be convinced. > > > > Doug > >Useless for what, though? Mystical how so? (I don't have a stake in those >theories, ...

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35934 The Cold War, the "Unconscious," & the "Vigilant Self" (wasRe: Moon Pie) -- rank: 1000

Dace wrote: >Cold War anti-communism was a paranoid delusion. There were revolutions going on all over the world, anti-colonial rebellions, the threat of nationalist capitalisms seceding from the world market. While they weren't all literally part of an international communist conspiracy - though some were explicitly Marxist/socialist - to the American ruling class they were all a real threat. Sure it got nutty at times, but there was plenty for the class that deemed themselves the proper own ...

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35935 more eugenics -- rank: 1000

[More from Yahoo! news] Monday February 14 6:09 PM ET Study Says U.S. Eugenics Paralleled Nazi Germany By David Morgan PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - U.S. doctors who once believed that sterilization could help rid society of mental illness and crime launched a 20th century eugenics movement that in some ways paralleled the policies of Nazi Germany, researchers said on Monday. A Yale study tracing a once-popular movement aimed at improving society through selective breeding, indicates that state-autho ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 09:27:48 PST 2000

35936 Fwd: Eugenics Report -- rank: 1000

[Jeff St Clair sent this. Anyone seen more than this little tease?] LATEST NEWS US eugenics worse than previously believed, study shows A new study has revealed the extent of forced sterilisation programmes carried out in the United States, and likened them to those of Nazi Germany. Researchers at Yale University say the eugenics movement in America was conducted for longer and on a larger scale than previously thought. They said that, despite assumptions that interest in selective breeding wane ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 09:22:42 PST 2000

35937 FROP? RROP? -- rank: 1000

[If restructuring and centralization can counter FROP, then is FROP saying any more than that economic life is tough, capitalists have to stay on their toes or the competition will eat them?] Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:50:37 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130502630be94a924d@[128.112.71.24]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.ED ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 09:19:29 PST 2000

35938 OCC etc -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:25:02 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130501630be80445c7@[128.112.71.24]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: productivity miracle or workhouse? >I've read accounts of Marxian rates of profit too. Shaikh says the >U.S. rate is going up. > >I confess I find ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 15 08:36:24 PST 2000

35939 profits -- rank: 1000

Rakesh: >ps2. Doug, profit rate does not have to fall to zero to choke accumulation. >See Grossmann. The 0 was a joke. But what evidence is there that accumulation has been choked? For an area supposedly in the grip of stagnation, EU profit rates (by bourgeois measures, yes - has anyone put the EU accounts through the translation machine?) are pretty high, and by any measure, US profit rates rose from the early 80s through the mid-90s. Japan is a bit of a mess, I'll concede that, but I dou ...

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35940 productivity -- rank: 1000

Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 11:18:09 -0500 (EST) X-Sender: bhandari at mmp.princeton.edu Message-Id: <v02130500630be2f515e3@[128.112.71.95]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at mmp.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: Re: productivity miracle or workhouse? If increased output from comes more off-the-book hours, then unit values are not reduced: each commodity still requires the ...

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