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37621 [Fwd: Re: NYP, It's Writers (Future and Present)] -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >What! Amy Sohn lost her job at the NY Post?! (You see, Katha, there >*are* limits to what I'll read.) Sohn was certainly proof-positive >that the NY Press is *not* what you might call your father's >right-wing rag. The NY Press's combo of (frequently but not >exclusively) hard-to-starboard politics and prurient grunge is >almost certainly unique. Oh I don't know about that - it's pretty compatible with a P.J. O'Rourke/fratboy view of the world. The right i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 10:34:52 PST 1999

37622 Max is not an anti-semite! -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment] From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Date: Mon, 15 Nov 1999 11:39:42 -0500 K: . . . I don't know a thing about monetary policy, but it's true -- I do think of the populists as anti-semitic, . . . I made a case for a distinction between the old party, pre-1900, and the dissolution which led to the likes of Coughlin, Gerald L.K. Smith, the Birchers, and 1950's anti-communism. There's obviously something to the charge of anti-semitism. It's come up too often. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 09:44:29 PST 1999

37623 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >what negative economic feedback follows >from 'loose money'? Inflation, which isn't necessarily good for the working class. I've had this argument before, but maybe it's time to have it again. As far as I can tell, there's no empirical evidence for the populist assumption that higher rates of inflation are good for the w.c. The high-inflation years of the 1970s were also times of real wage loss. A decade summary shows no simple relation between inflation and real wage g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 10:00:40 PST 1999

37624 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The populists had a clearer view of money >than most of their critics on this list. >They understood that an inelastic currency >and a private monopoly on credit >favored creditors over debtors, stasis >over economic growth, and concentration >over broad participation in enterprise. Well they got their elastic currency with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. It didn't turn out quite the way they planned. So maybe, by even the most pragmatic standards, the f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 09:49:43 PST 1999

37625 Pop Answers -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What kind of political environment would it take to get your kind of >guy running the Fed? Wouldn't it take a near-revolutionary state of >mobilization? > >mbs: Who knows? Are you making a general >case against ambitious or far-reaching demands? Not at all. My unspoken point was that getting the kinds of reforms (nonreformist ones, essentially) that you're talking about - interest rates low enough to tighten the labor market enough to change the balance of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 09:35:27 PST 1999

37626 working class civil society -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >No, more precisely, the tendency is to discover militant >particularisms, as Raymond Williams and David Harvey put it Yes, but... Harvey, following Williams, is very clear about the complexities of relating m.p.'s to the wider world. He quotes Williams saying that movements based on "local and community experience" are "insufficiently aware of the quite systematic obstacles" that stand in their way - obstacles, Harvey comments, that can "only b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 09:00:42 PST 1999

37627 WTO -- rank: 1000

[bounced bec of an attachment; reformatted & hotmail ad removed] From: "Christine Peterson" <quintanus at hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 22:49:17 PST Here are two recent Seattle times articles. The first is from the head of the National Wildlife Foundation - which isn't so settling. And the other is from a patronizing person at the Seattle times who takes the tone like in some articles from the Wall Street Journal that everyone else other than her is a dum dum who hasn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 06:47:20 PST 1999

37628 'Democratic Money' -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > See my forthcoming "Queer as a $3 Bill: Legal Tender, Authenticity, > > and Heteronormativity." > >Forthcoming where, Doug? In the realm of imagination. Just a joke, sorry. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 15 06:37:22 PST 1999

37629 Buchanan on Fulani -- rank: 1000

Pat Buchanan's Statement Welcoming Lenora Fulani to his campaign "Lenora spoke from the heart, and let me do the same. I want to thank you very much, Lenora, for this endorsement. "Let me say, in political terms this a giant step toward the Reform Party nomination. I have known Lenora for a long time, mainly through 'Crossfire,' when I do not believe we were on the same side of the fence. We're going to have those tapes recaptured and take a look at them before we put them out. "B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 18:54:30 PST 1999

37630 'Democratic Money' -- rank: 1000

Yoshie: >Pace Nader, it is in fact populists who have traditionally engaged in >the "gonadal" politics: for the populist imagination, private property is as >good and natural as heterosex -- it is only 'finance' that is queer and >CONTRA NATURAM. I wish Max had a kinkier taste than Pound. Max: >I'd taste whatever you'd care to offer. >As long as it was sincere. See my forthcoming "Queer as a $3 Bill: Legal Tender, Authenticity, and Heteronormativity." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 18:45:46 PST 1999

37631 Adolph Reed on "stupidity" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Brad De Long wrote: > > > And when did the Republicans last run a presidential candidate worthy > > of receiving any votes? > >1856? Marx had many kind words about Lincoln, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 15:21:12 PST 1999

37632 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism(wasRe:Populism) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >The AFL-CIO and many folks in Seattle. EPI is organizing >with its counterparts in other countries around alternatives to >"free trade." Well, good. In case you've got the wrong idea, as fucked up as the AFL-CIO is, I still think it's a lot better than nothing, and as tepid as your colleagues as EPI can be, I think it's an indispensable organization. How's that for doctrinal impurity? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 13:57:22 PST 1999

37633 Fwd: <nettime> WTO -- rank: 1000

[from nettime] Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 13:13:52 -0500 (EST) From: RTMARK Admin <admin at rtmark.com> The World Trade Organization is proud to announce its new official home page, officially inaugurated just fifteen days before the "Millennium Round" negotiations begin in Seattle. RTMark agreed to donate their own URL, http://rtmark.com/, to house the new WTO site for the next few weeks. All of the usual content of http://rtmark.com/ is available on the site, though in a somewhat d ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 13:54:55 PST 1999

37634 Pop Answers -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >In summary, populists offer the following points >of superiority relative to some would-be marxists: > >they do not cede monetary policy to elites; What kind of political environment would it take to get your kind of guy running the Fed? Wouldn't it take a near-revolutionary state of mobilization? >they do not oppose free trade with futile, > imaginary internationalist rhetoric; How about non-futile, non-imaginary, non-rhetorical internationalism (e.g., s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 13:50:59 PST 1999

37635 Populism -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >Populist movements/parties generally claim to support 'common people' >in face of economic & political elites (whose characterization as >'corrupt' often serves as explanation in lieu of systemic/structural >analysis). Nader & lots of other left populists like to talk about corporate crime, but have little to say about the normal exploitative operations of capitalism; they like to talk about monopoly, without having much to say about the destructiveness ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 09:48:19 PST 1999