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3766 [lbo-talk] John Cassidy's NYer post on the tea party -- rank: 1000
On Feb 19, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Andy wrote: > Do you mean "Anti-Intellectualism"? The paranoid style essay is a > disappointingly short (but excellent). Both. All of Hofstadter, really.
Document Size: 4896
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 19 09:24:28 PST 2010
3767 [lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research -- rank: 1000
On Feb 19, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Chip Berlet wrote: > There is no connection to the mass base of the Tea Party movement > and the potential for fascism? I know that ideology exists in a non-simple relationship with material interest and political outcomes, but the TPers are fiendishly anti- statist, esp central-statist. That's the opposite of fascism, if that word retains any meaning. They have a lot in common with long-standing traditions in right populism, American style. Was that always ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 19 09:22:04 PST 2010
3768 [lbo-talk] Fascism, right-wing populism, and contemporary research -- rank: 1000
On Feb 19, 2010, at 7:06 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > What exactly in this material - mainly aimed at the Jonah Goldberg > and other right-wing commentators' nutty conflation of liberalism, > socialism, and fascism - did you find new and exciting and at > variance with what most contributors to this thread already > understand about fascism? It seems pretty consistent with standard > analyses of the movement and it's ideology dating back to it's > heyday in the 30's. It would b ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 19 09:05:59 PST 2010
3769 [lbo-talk] John Cassidy's NYer post on the tea party -- rank: 1000
On Feb 19, 2010, at 10:25 AM, Julio Huato quoted John Cassidy: > Not all Americans are subject to this unfortunate mental condition, of > course. Many, perhaps most, of our citizens are pragmatic, > open-minded, and justifiably proud of the nation s cultural and ethnic > diversity. But at any period of time, there is a certain segment of > the population a quarter, perhaps that provides fertile ground for > what Richard Hofstadter, back in 1964, called the paranoid style of & ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 19 08:56:25 PST 2010
3770 [lbo-talk] ok, that fixes it -- rank: 1000
[from The Note] What's in a name? ABC's Jake Tapper: "ABC News has learned that the Obama administration has decided to give the war in Iraq -- currently known as Operation Iraqi Freedom -- a new name. The new name: 'Operation New Dawn.' "
Document Size: 4691
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Feb 19 08:46:54 PST 2010
3771 [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 06:55 PM 2/18/2010, Matthias Wasser wrote: > > >> On general principle I stop taking a writer seriously whenever she >> claims a >> movement not from the 1930s or claiming direct descendance from >> such is >> "fascist." > > > But Marv is saying no one did that here. And I think he's right. Chip Berlet did introduce the Weimar meme, though not specifically in reference to the TB'er ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 19:05:30 PST 2010
3772 [lbo-talk] mount veron manifesto -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 7:41 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Other than his occasionally saying he's an anarchist, has there ever > been any actual difference between Chomsky and Leninism? None that I > can see. Would Chomsky endorse firing squads?
Document Size: 4747
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 18:14:34 PST 2010
3773 [lbo-talk] 2007: fat cats made out like bandits, paid little tax -- rank: 1000
<http://www.tax.com/taxcom/features.nsf/Articles/0DEC0EAA7E4D7A2B852576CD00714692?OpenDocument > Tax Rates for Top 400 Earners Fall as Income Soars, IRS Data David Cay Johnston* for Tax Analysts The incomes of the top 400 American households soared to a new record high in dollars and as a share of all income in 2007, while the income tax rates they paid fell to a record low, newly disclosed tax data show. In 2007 the top 400 taxpayers had an average income of $344.8 million, up 31 perce ...
Document Size: 10176
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 12:22:01 PST 2010
3774 [lbo-talk] mount veron manifesto -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 2:53 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > Chomsky discusses his libertarian socialist (anti-statist) vision in > relation to political goals: > > ...My short-term goals are to defend and even strengthen elements of > state authority which, though illegitimate in fundamental ways, are > critically necessary right now to impede the dedicated efforts to > "roll back" the progress that has been achieved in extending > democracy and human rights. State au ...
Document Size: 5433
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 12:19:58 PST 2010
3775 [lbo-talk] Radio Schizo -- rank: 1000
On Feb 17, 2010, at 9:51 PM, B. wrote: > [Radio Schizo kinda-sorta has a special relationship with LBO; the > first time 5 years ago me and my ex-gf tried it as a streaming web > show, Doug dutifully attempted to burn it to CD from afar to mail it > to us so we could see how the quality came across from afar, etc. > Anyway, it's back, and this one below is a more political edition or > else I wouldn't post it here; of special interest here for many > might be the mid-70s pro ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 11:41:38 PST 2010
3776 [lbo-talk] mount veron manifesto -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > On the other hand, wouldn't this only be a risk if people generally > believed in the legitimacy of those framing devices? Do they have a choice? It's pounded into our heads from birth.
Document Size: 4735
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:50:41 PST 2010
3777 [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 11:00 AM, John Adams wrote: >> From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> >> Sent: Feb 18, 2010 9:40 AM > >> On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Wojtek S wrote: >> >>> Prior to 1930, Germany was a social democracy (social democrats were >>> getting >>> most of the votes) known for its high culture and civilization. >> >> Hey, that's another big difference with the U.S., another reason to >> be >> sk ...
Document Size: 5865
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:07:17 PST 2010
3778 [lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:47 AM, Chris Doss wrote: > I dunno Woj. If you look at a lot of rhetoric post-WWI, at least in > the US and UK, there's a strong streak of about "the barbarous Hun." That doesn't make it true.
Document Size: 5115
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:06:08 PST 2010
3779 [lbo-talk] Better live in Sweden than in the US: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:46 AM, Bryan Atinsky wrote: > It is common knowledge that in rich societies the poor have shorter > lives and suffer more from almost every social problem. In a quite > fascinating book, /The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost > Always do Better/ <http://www.amazon.co.uk/Spirit-Level-Societies-Almost-Always/dp/1846140390 > >, epidemiologists Richard Wilkinson <http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cps/index.php?page=2.0.0.40 > > and Kate Pick ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 08:03:58 PST 2010
3780 [lbo-talk] mount veron manifesto -- rank: 1000
On Feb 18, 2010, at 10:38 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > I'm also struck (yet again) by how slender a line exists between right > and left libertarians. I don't know how I feel about this > philosophically (in principle I would rather not have the oppressive > elements of the state), but I'm increasingly unimpressed with grand > anti-state arguments. Maybe it's just aging, but I have to agree. I just don't see how you can get a damn thing done without a state. And I'm thinking more a ...
Document Size: 5985
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Feb 18 07:50:46 PST 2010
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