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37636 'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism (wasRe:Populism) -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Rather than reckless paraphrases, I'll leave you >with my own quick restatement of the pop program: > >* Democratic money boils down to two things: a monetary policy > dedicated to tight, near-inflationary labor markets; Then you're talking about changing the balance of class forces between K and L. It's cowardly and devious to talk about low interest rates and not talk about the real social consequences you're after. Central bankers understand this very well ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Nov 14 08:55:01 PST 1999

37637 NYT on Bulgaria -- rank: 1000

elena wrote: >So, Doug, why don't you write a "WallStreet" style book or article or >anythoing on Eastern Europe Because I don't know much about EE and it'd take half a lifetime to remedy that. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 14 08:42:55 PST 1999

37638 organizing Silicon Valley -- rank: 1000

[This is something to be optimistic about, no? Or is the Prada bag fatal to all the rest?] New York Times - November 14, 1999 The Most Innovative Figure in Silicon Valley? Maybe This Labor Organizer By STEVEN GREENHOUSE SAN JOSE, Calif. -- With a Prada bag and the air of an entrepreneur, Amy Dean is an unlikely labor trailblazer. But as head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Silicon Valley office, Ms. Dean, at just 37 years of age, has become the labor movement's chief navigator, its Christopher Columbus i ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 14 07:59:01 PST 1999

37639 fundies vs. the yo-yo -- rank: 1000

[I don't know which is more ridiculous, positioning the yo-yo as counterhegemonic or being scandalized by it.] AFA ACTION ALERT - 11/12/99 American Family Association Dr. Donald E. Wildmon, President Tim Wildmon, Vice President P.O. Drawer 2440 Tupelo, Mississippi 38803 Telephone 601/844-5036 URL's http://www.afa.net http://www.afr.net http://www.afo.net +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Online Version of this Action Alert: http://www.afa.net/alert/aa991112.htm ++++++++++++++++++++++++ TOY MAKER REFUSES ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 14 07:27:30 PST 1999

37640 Populism as Masquerade (was Re: Henwood vs. Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

Michael Yates wrote: >On the other question raised in connection with the exchange among Doug, >Cockburn, et. al. concerning militias, populism, etc. let me say a few >words from experience. My youngest brother is what some might call a >raving lunatic: sees conspiracies everywhere, lives in the woods, owns >guns, thinks Y2K may lead to chaos in the streets, etc. But he is most >definitely not a racist or an anti-semite (two of our nieces are black, >for which fact his ow ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 15:13:57 PST 1999

37641 Populism -- rank: 1000

rc-am wrote: >where have migration controls increased the bargaining power of workers? >certainly not in australia Angela has a piece on the "exhaustion" of Australian social democracy that develops this theme in the LBO that's in the mail right now. Having sold out the working class on everything else, the Australian unions and social democrats jacked up the xenophobia and supported immigration restrictions. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 11:32:38 PST 1999

37642 Fwd: Marx on the radio -- rank: 1000

[from another list] from the new Randy Newman CD THE WORLD ISN'T FAIR When Karl Marx was a boy He took a hard look around He saw people were starving all over the place While others were painting the town (buh, buh, buh) The public spirited boy Became a public spirited man So he worked very hard and he read everything Until he came up with a plan There'll be no exploitation Of the worker or his kin No discrimination 'cause the color of your skin No more private property It would not be allowed N ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 10:55:49 PST 1999

37643 Cockburn on confederacy -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Adolph Reed teaches at the New School, but lives in New Haven >because he doesn't like New York literary/political circles. And I should add that he spends a good bit of his life as an organizer for the Labor Party, which involves lots of agitational writing and talking to community groups and union locals. You may think the LP is a doomed effort - I don't; I spend some time working for it myself - but Adolph's life is hardly one of academic leisure. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 10:53:38 PST 1999

37644 Cockburn on confederacy -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Lou Proyect >dismisses the whole crowd of New York Journalists (Cockburn, >Henwood, Pollitt, Reed, etc.) Adolph Reed teaches at the New School, but lives in New Haven because he doesn't like New York literary/political circles. Lou Proyect lives on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 10:48:27 PST 1999

37645 Fwd: Re: Gordon Gecko and the WTO -- rank: 1000

[This exchange between Ian Murry and Joel Kovel was a response to Kovel's piece on the WTO at <http://www.greens.org/ny/tohtml.cgi?kovel/wto.htm>. The original is a bit long for reposting, but I thought this was worth sharing with the outside world.] Thanks for the very thoughtful set of questions, Ian. This was the exact purpose of the statement--to set forward a dialogue on this surpassingly important issue. I'll do my best to answer, though you should know in advance that I am not going ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 13 09:59:01 PST 1999

37646 NYP, It's Writers (Future and Present) -- rank: 1000

Jeffrey St. Clair wrote: >Given Katha Pollitt's damning stigmatization of the NYP as a hothouse for >rightwing blowhards, perhaps the listowner and mighty editor of LBO >should immediatley renounce his plans [based on my preliminary research] >to write a rotating column for Mugger's infernal rag? Not a column. Occasional contributions to their soon-to-be-unveiled op-ed page. I enjoy reading NYP a lot, right-wing blowhards and all; I don't agree with Katha on that, but they've never c ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 10:02:37 PST 1999

37647 Fulani's endorsement of Buchanan -- rank: 1000

[Fulani and Buchanan are supposed to be on the Fox Sunday Morning News Show, Sunday, November 14, 9 AM Eastern time. American politics is so weird.] <http://www.fulani.org/Speeches/111199%20Buchanan.htm> WE'RE ENDING THE HATE Statement by Dr. Lenora Fulani November 11, 1999 National Press Club, Washington, DC I'm here today to give my endorsement to Patrick Buchanan in his bid for the presidential nomination of the Reform Party. In my high school chemistry class I learned that one of the b ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 09:52:47 PST 1999

37648 Populism as Masquerade (was Re: Henwood vs. Cockburn) -- rank: 1000

Mark Rickling wrote: >From: Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> > > I think it's > > really hard to look at what's actually happening with organized labor > > and find much that is inspiring. > >You need to look harder. Uh, could you expand on this? I'm groping for reasons to be optimistic, and any assistance would be welcome. Doug

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 09:45:19 PST 1999

37649 Cockburn on confederacy -- rank: 1000

[Here's the column with the curious reference to the Confederacy in the next-to-last paragraph. Certain residents of the Southern states were not consulted on matters of mutual trust and confidence in the federal government, a point easily overlooked in the face of deadline pressures, I'm sure.] The Nation - February 26, 1996 The 'trust' crisis. Alexander Cockburn Suddenly it's the "trust" crisis. Harvard, The Washington Post and the Kaiser Family Foundation began collectively sinking ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 09:38:11 PST 1999

37650 Reed -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Adolph Reed (whom I admire as much as Katha does, and for the same reasons), I'm going to be interviewing him on my radio show this coming Thursday, 5-6 PM NYC time, WBAI 99.5 FM. He'll be there ostensibly to talk about his new book, Stirrings in the Jug: Black Politics in the Post-Segregation Era (University of Minnesota Press), but I'm sure we'll talk about lots else besides. I suspect the topic of Alex Cockburn and the Confederacy will come up. Also on the show will be David Spiro ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 13 08:42:41 PST 1999