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37441 Anarchy In The U.K. -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >So the 'And I thought it was the UK' bit is probably making the point that >even this first-world mother-of-democracies has a surprising amount of >immanent tension and a lot of aggro in the streets ... Yup, but the next line is "or just another country," right? Which would bring the UK down from the first-world mother-of-democracies to just some crappy little place. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 28 00:07:09 PST 1999

37442 fulani-wise -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Nathan Newman wrote: > > > The fact that Clinton got 49% of the vote rather than the 56-58% he > > would probably have received cut his coattails quite a bit. > >Anti-Clintonites usually wield a breakdown saying Willie got 43% of the >vote. Is that oft-repeated nonsense, or am I misremembering? The idea of >a minority president has much less bite if it was 49%. Clinton got 43% in '92, 49% in '96. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 23:18:29 PST 1999

37443 LBO web updates -- rank: 1000

I've just added some stuff to the LBO website: * Liza Featherstone's followup article on organizing McDonald's (with a dashing photo of Lenin) <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/McDonalds2.html>, a sequel to <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/McDonalds.html>. * U.S. employment <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_empl.html>, earnings <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_earns.html>, and unemployment <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Stats_unempl.html> figures from 1890 th ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 18:35:14 PST 1999

37444 work & gender -- rank: 1000

[Michael Yates forwarded a book chapter, "Learning About Work," from *Working to Live, Living to Work*. At 60k, it's well over the posting max of 35k. Here's the conclusion; I'll send the whole thing to anyone who asks for it. Please ask offlist.] CHAPTER TWO: LEARNING ABOUT WORK VI. Final Thoughts The men from whom I learned to labor performed highly alienated work. My father worked at jobs which used only a small fraction of his capabilities. His father used more of his, but he did w ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 16:58:41 PST 1999

37445 [Fwd: Re: ignore this, it's about women and sexism ...] -- rank: 1000

There's been some splendid stuff in this thread, and I know the road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom, but could people throttle back on the volume a bit? Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 12:56:20 PST 1999

37446 Paul says... -- rank: 1000

Some of the sayings of Ron Paul, from his website <http://www.house.gov/paul/> (excerpts, ellipses omitted). According to his bio, he "was one of the early advocates of pro-family and pro-life values." philosophy ---------- The key to the Constitution working is our acceptance of the premise laid down by Jefferson: "All men are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights." Rights, being natural or God-given, are the only moral alternative to the secular hum ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 10:27:29 PST 1999

37447 in defense of opportunism/hating the white working class -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >if you can tear yourself away from zizek for >a moment, doug, There it is again, that rhetorical trick. I suppose it's supposed to show how rooted you are in the righteous & real, while my fellow ludics & I cavort around in what Shelley called the intense inane. > i believe you'll see that his >notes on larry pratt are not exactly the only >thing ac has written on the subject of the >folks who congregate around militia gatherings, >and it's disin ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 09:44:29 PST 1999

37448 Only one sex? -- rank: 1000

[bounced for an address oddity] Date: Sat, 27 Nov 1999 04:02:47 -0500 (EST) From: "Raphael C. Allen" <rcda at duke.edu> Methinks that way too much good thinking is sidestepped by our treating sex, and sexual difference, like they're the ontological real-deal of gender or sexuality. They ain't, as plenty others have already tried to show. Don't get me wrong: I join all y'all in hating it when lefties simplistically run away from biology, sure. So it's to the better that none of t ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 09:21:35 PST 1999

37449 FT on backlash against capitalism -- rank: 1000

[less interesting for what it says than as an index of elite anxiety] Financial Times - November 27, 1999 The critics of capitalism [editorial] Communism may be a dying political creed, but capitalism still has its enemies. Next week's Seattle meeting of the World Trade Organisation is set to be swamped by thousands of protesters. Their aims are varied, but all agree on one thing: the new trade round must be stopped before it gets started. The backlash against global capitalism is gaining force ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 08:21:19 PST 1999

37450 in defense of opportunism/hating the white working class -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >in other words, i think the distrust of >opportunism round here is synonymous with a >distrust and distaste for the white working >class at large--those (mostly urban) few who >are still members of organized labor perhaps excepted. where exactly is the >left to go, >what is it to do, as long as this prejudice >obtains? say a few more words about judith >butler et al., i suppose. Really? Who precisely expressed "distrust and distaste for the whi ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 08:01:19 PST 1999

37451 Glenny on Balkans -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - November 27, 1999 THE BALKANS: Exploding the myth of the mad, bad region The west blames the region's 'ancient hatreds' for its volatility. But Misha Glenny says it should blame itself The Balkans, so every schoolchild is taught, are the powder keg of Europe and no event has defined perceptions of the peninsula so profoundly as the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in 1914. "It is an intolerable affront to human and political nature that these wretched ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 07:46:14 PST 1999

37452 Ben and Jerry's, Powell's Books, & unions -- rank: 1000

[Even Dissent publishes something good now & then...] <http://www.alternet.org/PublicArchive/Featherstone1125.html> "It's Business, Man!": Unions and Socially Responsible Corporations Liza Featherstone "How do you feel?" roared Jerry Greenfield, CEO and co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, the ice cream company that has (in the public imagination, at least) long epitomized corporate social responsibility. He posed this question a few years ago to the audience at the com ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 27 06:54:50 PST 1999

37453 STRIKE -- rank: 1000

kelley wrote: >GOD DOUG No gods, please. They're nothing but trouble. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 15:20:15 PST 1999

37454 Fwd: AUT: (en) Another right-left article (fwd) -- rank: 1000

[Picked up from aut-op-sy, though it didn't originate there. It's wonderful to see so much of this going around now.] ________________________________________________ A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C E http://www.ainfos.ca/ ________________________________________________ >From: kessi at bitex.com I hope this text will be seen as a discussion of certain problems, in solidarity with the struggles against capitalism and all types of exploitation and discrimination. My aim is definitely not t ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 26 13:06:31 PST 1999

37455 post-capitalist society emerging? -- rank: 1000

[Anyone know anything about Adler?] "Market, Hierarchy, and Trust: The Knowledge Economy and the Future of Capitalism" BY: PAUL S. ADLER Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=186930 Contact: PAUL S. ADLER Email: Mailto:padler at usc.edu Postal: Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-1421 USA Phone: (213 ...

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