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3706 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:47 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > Do you know of any left theory that differentiates between them in any > intelligent way? Can't think of anything off the top of my head, but I'm sure some others could. I don't think that independent cab drivers and the like are all that large a force, either economically or politically. (A lot of "contractors" are actually employees, who are deemed independent so employers can screw them. E.g., FedEx Ground, or software pe ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 12:15:10 PST 2010

3707 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2010, at 2:17 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > But, more to the point: A political project that views cab drivers > and hot > dog vendors as part of the same class as the owners of actual > businesses - > which is to say, employers - is deeply confused and in need of a > fundamental > overhaul. Dunno who said they were the same.

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3708 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > My mother, a cab driver, owns her own car. I imagine in some sense > this > makes her petit bourgeois, but without most of the negative > associations > ascribed to that position by Doug and others. Hey, class tendencies apply as averages, not to every member of the class. Though I do wonder how cab drivers feel about raising the carbon price? Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 11:01:17 PST 2010

3709 [lbo-talk] society today -- rank: 1000

http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/1862910

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 09:10:31 PST 2010

3710 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 25, 2010, at 10:16 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Much of the petty bourgoisie is, I qouls imagine, "hard pressed." But > why do you use the epithet "hated"? Because they're a frequent target of withering criticism from Marxists, including myself: the base for right-wing populism, contemptuous and/or fearful of both the working class and big bourgeoisie, opposed to gov regulation and affirmative action, etc. etc.

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3711 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:10 PM, Mark Rickling wrote: > So all those Republicans and Independents have turned against unions > because they didn't support single payer or support adding $100s of > billions to the deficit in a real jobs bill? Swing in favorability, January 2007-February 2010: white -17 black -16 college grad -18 some college -19 HS or less -14 $75,000+ -19 $30-74,999 -10 under $30,000 -22 (to 43%, a level ...

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 07:06:27 PST 2010

3712 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:46 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Out of curiosity, and not speaking just to Joanna, but when people on > this list talk about "the working class," do they include themselves > in it? I'm not. I'm a member of the hated petite bourgeoisie. Doug

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3713 [lbo-talk] eXile -- rank: 1000

Vanity Fair profiles Mark Ames, Matt Taibbi, and The eXile: http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2010/02/exile-201002

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Date:	Thu Feb 25 06:44:22 PST 2010

3714 [lbo-talk] catchy headlines -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2010, at 4:08 PM, John Gulick wrote: > That's funny, I last remember seeing/hearing from Luttwak on C-Span > in the early 90's, > when, from a neo-conservative/"national greatness" Republican > perspective, bemoaning > the shabby state of US infrastructure (Kennedy Airport in > particular), and advocating > public works investment. I guess it's use the state to bomb their > stuff, and to rebuild ours... I had him on the radio with Corey Robin after Co ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 13:20:03 PST 2010

3715 [lbo-talk] catchy headlines -- rank: 1000

First time I ever heard of Luttwak was in the late 1970s, when I saw him on TV complaining about Jimmy Carter's "pathological fear of the use of force." Good to see the old ghoul hasn't lost his edge: <http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/02/22/in_praise_of_aerial_bombing > > In Praise of Aerial Bombing > Why terror from the skies still works. > > BY EDWARD LUTTWAK | MARCH/APRIL 2010

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3716 [lbo-talk] Wall Street shifts Republican -- rank: 1000

[Nation editor KvH Tweets, re this article: "Hildebrand nails it/Dem refuse Wall St $" - yeah, right] <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/23/AR2010022305537_pf.html > Wall Street shifting political contributions to Republicans By Dan Eggen and Tomoeh Murakami Tse Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, February 24, 2010; A01 Commercial banks and high-flying investment firms have shifted their political contributions toward Republicans in recent months ...

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3717 [lbo-talk] civil liberties under BHO -- rank: 1000

[a friend writes...] NYT 2.24.10 In oral arguments in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project. No. 08-1498, SG Elena Kagan argued to the Court that it would constitute the crime material aid to terrorism under USAPA _for a lawyer to file a friend of the court brief_ on behalf of a group the State Dep't (unreviewably, last time I checked) has designated as a terrorist group._ It would also be a crime for a lawyer to petition international bodies on behalf of such a group. She asked the Court to ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 10:11:54 PST 2010

3718 [lbo-talk] how LBJ would have done it -- rank: 1000

[a few months old, but relevant - Obama's done none of this to promote his agenda - I can understand the structural reasons for his terribleness, but that conceded, why hire Rahm Emmanuel if not to cajole?] <http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/08/24/johnson.lbj.health.care/index.html > Commentary: What LBJ would do By Tom Johnson Special to CNN Editor's note: President Lyndon B. Johnson secured passage of Medicare, the Voting Rights Act and other milestone legislation. Tom Johnson, who s ...

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3719 [lbo-talk] ciao, unions -- rank: 1000

On Feb 24, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > (I'm > not putting the majority of the blame on unions but, from here in > mid-Michigan, its hard to see that they've helped their case much in > the > Rust Belt.) They deserve a lot of blame. Where are they on fighting for a serious jobs program or single-payer health care? Nowhere, man. Maybe some press releases on the former, and active complicity with Obamashit on the latter. Their biggest intervention in the health care deb ...

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Date:	Wed Feb 24 09:56:23 PST 2010

3720 [lbo-talk] Millennials abandoning Dems... -- rank: 1000

...but still promising on ideology <http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1497/democrats-edge-among-millennials- slips> Democrats' Edge Among Millennials Slips A Pro-Government, Socially Liberal Generation February 18, 2010 This is part of a Pew Research Center series of reports exploring the behaviors, values and opinions of the teens and twenty-somethings that make up the Millennial Generation The "Millennial Generation" of young voters played a big role in the resurgence of the Democ ...

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