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35971 Moon Pie (was: Re: Zizek = the Third Way) -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >the band that did, "Dig Me >Out. " Sleater-Kinney. Doug

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35972 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at anise.ee.cornell.edu>] -- rank: 1000

Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:54:40 -0500 From: Enrique Diaz-Alvarez <enrique at anise.ee.cornell.edu> Organization: Cornell University X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; HP-UX B.10.20 9000/735) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: From the Bubble Chronicles.... Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit >From Frank Veneroso's (rightwing bear) site... "AOL capitalized marketing expense for fi ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 09:35:24 PST 2000

35973 Theoretical Twiddling and Romantic Fiction and Epic -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I absolutely deny that what is >called psychology can explain that fact -- it can only give >labels which, as Marx said of "Providence," are only a sort >of paraphrase of the facts, not an explanation. Why is it ok when Marx, after observing all the disparate features of actually existing capitalism - product markets, labor markets, money markets, firms, workers, nations - posits a law of value, and makes generalized observations about prices, competition ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 09:29:32 PST 2000

35974 intellectual deskilling -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >Intellectuals stink! To reduce mental pollution they generate, lobotomy >should be considered for the particularly prolific producers of >intellectual logorrhea. Rough weekend, Wojtek? Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 09:21:57 PST 2000

35975 god & the market -- rank: 1000

A friend sent me this exquisite comment by a grad student in finance: >The free market is the one place, besides the judgment seat of God, >where people are held to account for mistreating people. DOUG

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 09:18:37 PST 2000

35976 Moon Pie (was: Re: Zizek = the Third Way) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Carl Remick wrote: > > >Whatever happened to the warmth and mellowness of the counterculture? > >Altamont. >Doug > >>>>>>> > >I trace it earlier, to the rise of The Who. >They elevated cynicism to an art form. But what great music. All the warm mellow stuff I find unlistenable. Give me Bikini Kill over Holly Near anyday! Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 08:43:20 PST 2000

35977 Moon Pie (was: Re: Zizek = the Third Way) -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Whatever happened to the warmth and mellowness of the counterculture? Altamont. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 07:59:51 PST 2000

35978 Fwd: ICFTU OnLine - UNCTAD X statement -- rank: 1000

INTERNATIONAL CONFEDERATION OF FREE TRADE UNIONS (ICFTU) ICFTU OnLine 036/000214/DD UNCTAD meeting should issue bold call to help workers in developing countries, says global union Bangkok/ Brussels, February 14 2000: (ICFTU Info): UNCTAD X must use the opportunity provided by the vacuum of ideas after the failure of the WTO Seattle meeting to push home the need for equity, regulation and a strong social dimension, and the setting in place of an external environment that favours developing count ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 07:39:57 PST 2000

35979 productivity miracle or workhouse? -- rank: 1000

New York Times - February 14, 2000 Working Better or Just Harder? By STEPHEN S. ROACH The United States ended 1999 on a truly spectacular note -- two consecutive quarters of close to 5 percent growth in worker productivity, according to government figures reported last week. The long boom, which many economists attribute largely to growing productivity, seems to be moving into uncharted territory. Little wonder, with each worker producing more and more per hour, that inflation remains at bay, or ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 07:33:31 PST 2000

35980 The Cold War, the "Unconscious," & the "Vigilant Self" (was Re: Moon Pie) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >In other words, the >"unconscious" was politically constructed by the anticommunist rhetoric in >such a way that any and every American would have to fear the accusation of >being an unwitting "dupe" of Communists, therefore having to police their >"psyche" and invent a "new more vigilant self." What does this have to do with the Freudian unconscious, a concept that predates the Cold War by about 50 years (and the PR ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 14 07:27:18 PST 2000

35981 Moon Pie (was:... PLUS Response to Dennis -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The ruling class own the means of ideological production (like the mass >media), whereas we don't. We have small presses, leaflets, and meetings in >church basements, not because we think "small is beautiful," but because we >simply do not have the same resources at hand. That is why we cannot >employ the same means as the bourgeoisie. No but you have to know how they work, and how to fight them. The bourgeoisie have a theory and practice of ma ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 13 18:27:13 PST 2000

35982 Moon Pie (was:... PLUS Response to Dennis -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I don't confuse my abstractions with actual people, so I don't write >posts in which I create mythical subjects who can, as mythical >actual people, directly fit into abstractions. And I don't confuse >actual people with abstractions, which you do all the time. I thought this all came up in the context of trying to understand the massive lack of interest in politics so widely displayed today. Lacking any reagents, as The Man said, we've got to deploy some abstracti ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 13 14:57:09 PST 2000

35983 Farrell on Cooper -- rank: 1000

[This is from Mike Farrell <http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Hills/8917/index.html>, of Death Penalty Focus of California <http://www.deathpenalty.org/>, though more famous as B.J. Hunnicutt in M*A*S*H.] I'm disturbed at the angry response Marc Cooper's column/article has generated. The piece, clearly too pugnaciously worded for some, was a political column intending to provoke thought and reaction. Unfortunately, I see more reacting than thinking. What has the man done besides ven ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 13 14:25:01 PST 2000

35984 "New Times", Lawrence and Wishart 1989 -- rank: 1000

JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >Tom Nairn is there, and he's no New >Timesoid I'd heard that Nairn had made peace with capitalism. Was I misinformed? Doug

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Date:	Sun Feb 13 08:54:00 PST 2000

35985 Rudy's 10 commandments -- rank: 1000

From: ARTISTpres at aol.com Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 07:39:24 EST Giuliani's Ten Commandments of New York At the end of his 2/10/2000 City Hall press conference Mayor Rudolph Giuliani introduced a slide showing two stone tablets inscribed with Roman Numerals 1-10. Media reports made it appear as if the Mayor had proposed putting the original Ten Commandments in New York City's public schools, an act which would clearly violate the First Amendment's separation of church and state. Fortunately, it w ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 13 08:15:39 PST 2000