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38401 Justice Blackmun, Author of Abortion Rights, Dies -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >Michael Hoover wrote: > >>this is a left list? > >I've almost come to the point of programming a macro into MS Word - "the >left, such as it is..." Actually, though, most of the stuff I read on this list is far better than most of what I see (and don't read) in established "left" publications. So excuse my flippancy. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 19:19:45 PST 1999

38402 Justice Blackmun, Author of Abortion Rights, Dies -- rank: 1000

Michael Hoover wrote: >this is a left list? I've almost come to the point of programming a macro into MS Word - "the left, such as it is..." Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 19:16:29 PST 1999

38403 polemic -- rank: 1000

Help! I'm supposed to give a talk at a conference on polemic (Gegenstand!) sponsored by the Columbia German department, and I'm feeling uninspired. Any advice? Good stuff to read or talk about? Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 17:25:58 PST 1999

38404 Damien -- rank: 1000

John K. Taber wrote: >In those days when the State was pissed at you it let you >know it. But the U.S. state has 1.8 million people behind bars. Based on present rates of incarceration, a black male born today faces a 1 in 4 lifetime chance of going to prison - prison, where you go after conviction for serious crimes, not merely jail, where you go while awaiting trial or after conviction for minor offenses. Then it was extraoarindary spectacles of public cruelty. In Foucault's time, " ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 15:53:31 PST 1999

38405 Slavoj sez... -- rank: 1000

[The intro to Slavoj Zizek's The Ticklish Subject, imminent from Verso.] Introduction: A Spectre Is Haunting Western Academia ... ... the spectre of the Cartesian subject. All academic powers have entered into a holy alliance to exorcize this spectre: the New Age obscurantist (who wants to supersede the 'Cartesian paradigm' towards a new holistic approach) and the postmodern deconstructionist (for whom the Cartesian subject is a discursive fiction, an effect of decentred textual mechanisms); the ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 12:44:28 PST 1999

38406 Why Capital is Overvalued -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >I mean, how long must we wait for the vengeance of the LTV? How does it >find its way into this robustly insular heaven on earth? Here's a scenario: the Bank of Japan's 0% interest policy finally succeeds in relflating Japan, the economy takes off, and Japanese capital returns home. Then the European central bank finally gives in, lowers rates, and European capital returns home. Suddenly, the U.S. has to confront the fact that it's living $400 billion beyond its annual ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Mar 6 08:59:44 PST 1999

38407 A Modest Proposal -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >In my four years of cyberspace, Yoshie's post is doubtless one of the most >brilliant I have read. I shall treasure it. It was indeed, Yoshie, truly fine stuff. Doug

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 08:54:26 PST 1999

38408 A Modest Proposal (was RE: Guthrie to Maggie and Max) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Why stop at hanging and electrocution? You have a very impoverished >imagination for 'retribution,' don't you? If you want to be reactionary, >why not go mediaeval? Perhaps the opening of Foucault's Discipline & Punish might inspire our retributionists. Doug ---- On 2 March 1757 Damiens the regicide was condemned 'to make the amende honorable before the main door of the Church of Paris', where he was to be 'taken and conveyed in a cart, wearing nothing but a ...

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 08:42:39 PST 1999

38409 Burn, Baby, Burn! (was Re: death and the Death Penalty) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Or go to the NY Stock Exchange and urinate >upon rich white guys in expensive Italian suits. Unfortunately they glassed in the visitors gallery after Abbie Hoffman & Co. showered the floor with dollar bills, so they could have the Yippie pleasure of watching the traders scramble for the cash. Besides, they wear their trading jackets over their suits, so their expensive Italian thread would probably emerge unmoistened. DOg

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Date:	Sat Mar 6 08:37:26 PST 1999

38410 Why Capital is Overvalued -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >The main point in the present context is that "assets" are overvalued >because of the labor theory of value. To say that capital flows here >because of unlimited investment possibilities flatly contradicts and is >incompatible with any labour theory of value. Investment of capital demands >surplus values. But surplus vlaue is labour and in any given country labour >is of a given magnitude. From a given working population only a definite >mas ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 5 16:04:17 PST 1999

38411 LEFT THINK TANKS? -- rank: 1000

david dorkin wrote: >What would the list of left (or at least left of center) think tanks be? >I count: > >Economic Policy Institute >Institute for Policy Studies >Jerome Levy Economics Institute ? >Preamble Center >Center for Economic Policy Analysis >Transnational Institute >The Century Foundation ? >Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ? > >Any info on these and others I may have left out is greatly appreciated Financial Markets Center <http://www.f ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 5 10:12:18 PST 1999

38412 Reply to Enrique's query -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >What mystifies me about this idea is why assets are >always incorrectly overvalued by people who ought >to come to know better. Surely you've read chapter 12 of Keynes's General Theory, Max. Truer woidz wuz never spoke. There are at least explanations. One, something established by experimental psychology: that people overvalue recently received information at the expense of everything they'd known earlier. So the enthusiasm of the moment takes precedence over the ou ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 5 09:45:43 PST 1999

38413 Hitchens' gratitude -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >So no one believes Hitchens when he says the managers came to him? Hitchens said at The Nation's offices yesterday morning that he was "very grateful to Judge Starr." Hating Clinton is one thing, but that's another. Doug

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Date:	Fri Mar 5 08:06:31 PST 1999

38414 Reply to Enrique's query -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari quoted: >When the IMF "rescue" team tells Indonesia to engage in a >national fire sale, its only concern is that Indonesia keep up payments on >its debts, not what will happen to ordinary Indonesians in the >process. This is too kind to the IMF. Creating a domestic depression in an economy in financial crisis is part of the standard adjustment package: the rationale is to cut imports, shift domestic production towards exports, and thereby shift the trade acc ...

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Date:	Fri Mar 5 08:01:02 PST 1999

38415 I'm IMPRESSED! -- rank: 1000

Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: >I mean, RILLY RILLY impressed! with the emerging Monsanto/Marlboro/Smith >& Wesson - Marxism that's not afraid to embrace the death penalty and >"rethink" (or better yet, denounce the running dog imperialist) >bourgoise "pro-choice" ideology. > >Yup, folks! I think we're finally onto something here. Why, we could >actually out-Clinton Clinton! > >The mind boggles... > >Who says this PoMo stuff won't clear you ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 4 19:12:09 PST 1999