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35986 Noam "The Mind" Chomsky -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: >The only really satisfactory attempt I know to establish a connection >between Chomsky's epistemology and politics is Harry Bracken "Some >Reflections on our Sceptical Crisis" in Reuland and Abraham (eds), >Knowledge and Language, vol 1, From Orwell's Problem to Plato's Problem. >(I'd be happy to send you xerox of this if you send me your address off >list.) Didn't Joel Rogers do such a thing in New Left Review a few years ago? Doug
Document Size: 4960
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Feb 13 08:19:23 PST 2000
35987 The Price of Globalization -- rank: 1000
Stephen E Philion wrote: >Doug, how do you explain *those* numbers, I'm at a loss as to how to >explain it, aside from deindustrialization and shifts to investment in >FIRE and service sector jobs? Yeah, I suspect that's it; I don't have a time series for goods-producing industries alone. Doug
Document Size: 4717
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Feb 13 08:05:50 PST 2000
35988 Neo-Asceticism in Postmodernism -- rank: 1000
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >To sum up, it is postmodern masters, not Marxists like us, who are >neo-ascetics. This obsession with "postmodern masters" - I'm tempted to say it's a symptom. Of what, I'm not sure. Maybe it has something to do with Marx having invented the symptom. Maybe not. Doug
Document Size: 4770
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Feb 13 08:02:23 PST 2000
35989 Fwd: Globalization protests in Bangkok -- rank: 1000
Agence France Presse - February 12 7:24 PM SGT Protestors confront trade conference, slam globalization BANGKOK, Feb 12 (AFP) - A thousand activists marched on a major UN trade conference on Saturday calling for radical changes to the global financial system which they say keeps much of the world locked in poverty. Demonstrators were not deterred by a massive Thai security curtain around the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) designed to prevent a repeat of violence whic ...
Document Size: 12571
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Feb 13 07:57:50 PST 2000
35990 de-skilling -- rank: 1000
kelley wrote: >No, probably not. But, then, I don't think most people are paying him much >attention, actually. Not in academic circles--my impression is that zizek >is pretty much isolated to certain fields. rarelly see him come up on the >cultural studies list even. His Verso books sell about 5,000 copies per, in the same neighborhood as Baudrillard. The Sublime Object of Ideology is up around 10,000, but it's been out 10 years. Not, of course, that sales volume correlates with ...
Document Size: 4818
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 16:15:17 PST 2000
35991 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000
Brad De Long wrote: >Of course one is, if one is named Immanuel Kant or T.S. Eliot... "the greatest treason/to do the right deed for the wrong reason..." - Eliot (quoted from memory, so don't thrash me if I'm wrong)
Document Size: 4863
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 16:13:56 PST 2000
35992 "new times" -- rank: 1000
JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >In a message dated 00-02-12 16:48:17 EST, you write: > ><< Who can tell me about the "New Times" movement in the UK? What was it, > what became of it, and where can I read about it? > >> > >This was a 1980s trendlet pushed by people like Stuart Hall and other >ex-new-lefties. the premise was that the political economy and culture of >British society in particular had made a qualitative change from rhe old >model of ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 14:34:22 PST 2000
35993 big labor endorsement -- rank: 1000
Max Sawicky wrote: >I heard Amy Dean do a talk in January. What'd she say. >Whatever she's selling, I'm buying. I'm impressed too, as I am by the work of her fellow-traveling researcher Chris Benner, who's been doing lots of stuff on the structure of the SilVal labor force. They're doing some work in partnership with EPI, right? Doug
Document Size: 4727
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 14:07:31 PST 2000
35994 lux et veritas -- rank: 1000
Can we disagree without calling people and their positions "disgusting" and "unscrupulous"? I think this is part of what Justin was talking about when he cited the disturbing culture of the left. Who'd want to affiliate with such a bunch of hotheads? Doug
Document Size: 4618
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 13:49:36 PST 2000
35995 Moon Pie (was: Re: Zizek = the Third Way) -- rank: 1000
JKSCHW at aol.com wrote: >The context includes a >social backgrouynd that tells us (without argument) that Marxism is all >wrong, out-of-date, refuted, failed, look at Russia. Young people today have no real memory of the USSR - and Russia today is such a wreck, thanks in no small part to the U.S. government, Wall Street, and the IMF, that it serves as an object lesson in how ugly capitalism can be. >That has to do with the baggage, as well. Nozick says that he felt guilty >about ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 11:15:40 PST 2000
35996 Moon Pie (was: Re: Zizek = the Third Way) -- rank: 1000
Carrol Cox wrote: >But if you mean what social forces, what historical dynamics, is pushing >many intellectuals (particularly young ones) further to the right, then >it would seem to be a very interesting question indeed. You ask the question on a very high level of abstraction - "forces" and "dynamics." You seem quite hostile to any attempts to examine how actual people experience those forces in their daily lives - too subjective, too individualistic, too psycholog ...
Document Size: 5435
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 11:09:52 PST 2000
35997 supreme values: executing journalists -- rank: 1000
[from the official Yugoslavian news service] CHINA WANTS A STRONG YUGOSLAVIA (tanjug 08.02.2000) BELGRADE - Chinese professor Yang Tazhou called on all peace-loving and freedom-loving peoples of the world to lend their moral and financial support to the heroic Yugoslav people, Radio-Television Serbia (RTS) reported Tuesday evening. Academy member Yang who was a guest in an RTS program "Current Events" that was filmed in China expressed admiration for the successful completion of the fi ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 10:49:44 PST 2000
35998 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000
Nathan Newman wrote: >There is a lot to criticize about the Catholic Church, but to compare them >to the far right hate groups strikes me as the kind of hateful >anti-Catholicism that varies little in character to the antisemetism, >homophobia and racism of those far right groups. Hey, I grew up Catholic, and let me say you're letting the Church off too easy. Yes there are Catholics who do fine things. Nice art and even some appealing rituals, too. But the hierarchy of the Church and ...
Document Size: 5605
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 10:53:52 PST 2000
35999 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000
Apsken at aol.com wrote: >Kenneth Mackendrick wrote, > > > *Some* anti-racists derive enjoyment from calling out racism - anti-racism > > "from on high" as it were. . . . It's really important to > > be able to distinguish what drives an ideological position. > >This is especially offensive What precisely is offensive about saying an anti-racist enjoys being an anti-racist? Is one supposed to struggle only out of duty or self-denial? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 10:40:52 PST 2000
36000 Zizek = the Third Way (was Re: Zizek on Haider) -- rank: 1000
John Halle wrote: >Right, and to tie this to another thread, are the domestic far right >organizations (religious and otherwise) which liberals routinely get >hysterical about really any worse than the more repressive and activist >sectors of organized Catholicism. Can we expect a report from Berlet and >his pals on Opus Dei, and if not, why not? I've read quite a bit on Opus Dei coming from students of the far right. Don't know if Chip himself has written anything, but they're an ...
Document Size: 5203
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Feb 12 10:26:21 PST 2000
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