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38656 homogeneity - was Re: Comparing... -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >To what extent can the industrialisation of the NICS be understood as a >consequence of Japan's emphasis on its perceived racial purity? >As Sukhamoy Chakravarty muses: >"Korea launched a strategy of export oriented industrialization from the >mid-sixties onwards, when Japan had crossed the so called Lewis turning >point in her economic development, making it necessary to obtain new >sources of cheap labour. Given the character of Japanese socie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 10:48:03 PDT 1999

38657 WB to Yugo: pay $1.5b, then we can talk -- rank: 1000

[from the World Bank's daily press bulletin] YUGOSLAVIA AGREES TO KOSOVO WITHDRAWAL NATO reached agreement with Yugoslavia on the blueprint for the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo, taking a big step toward ending its 11-week-old bombing campaign and embarking on a difficult peacekeeping mission, report the Wall Street Journal (p.A3) and the Wall Street Journal Europe (p.2). NATO is eager to verify in daylight that Yugoslav military and police are complying with the timetable spelled out i ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 10:44:54 PDT 1999

38658 students in debt -- rank: 1000

Chronicle of Higher Education - web daily - June 10, 1999 Study Documents Student Credit-Card Debt; Author Says Colleges Share Blame By BETH McMURTRIE WashingtonCredit-card companies unfairly prey on students while college administrators look the other way, and even profit from the arrangements, according to a study by a Georgetown University professor. Robert D. Manning, a visiting professor of sociology, said Wednesday that he was stunned to find how pervasive credit-card debt was among colleg ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 10:39:46 PDT 1999

38659 homogeneity - was Re: Comparing... -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >You betcha. The latest figures from the Nomuri Shimbun say that the >Japanese postal savings system now has a grand total of 250 trillion yen >in deposits sitting around and accumulating interest (up from 200 trillion >as late as 1994). That's a cool $2 trillion in rocksolid liquidity, just >itching to be spent on Mitsubishi's latest chip technology. But it's not being spent on real world technology. I'm a bit mystified, Dennis, by how you're so scornful o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:43:59 PDT 1999

38660 Comparing the Clinton regime to the Stalin regime -- rank: 1000

Jacob Segal wrote: >The alternative to the Bolsheviks was the democratic socialism of Kerensky >or of the agarian socialist revolutionary party which was in the large >majority in 1917, which is way the Bolsheviks ruthlessly surpressed them, >like all socialists who were not Bolsheviks. It was known to the other >socialists that Lenin and his followers were insane. > >I find it odd these defenses of Lenin, Stalin and Mao. I entirely agree that secret police have no place i ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 10 09:18:12 PDT 1999

38661 "solidarity is sick" (Adorno) -- rank: 1000

The opening sentence of this aphorism came up on the Frankfurt School list, and I thought the whole piece was relevant to recent ruminations on The Party and such. I tacked on the following aphorism too, because it was there, and because it too seemed kind of relevant. As much as I admire Adorno, sometimes when I'm reading him I can't stop saying to myself, "lighten up you old sourpuss." Doug ---- [from T.W. Adorno, Minima Moralia (London, NLB, 1974)] 31 Cat out of the bag. - Even soli ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 10 08:16:21 PDT 1999

38662 model of war -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >Maybe not, but in the June 14th issue of the National Review, the >reactionary Florence King writes the following in her column on book >blurbing: > > "A writer I would love to blurb is Christopher Hitchens. I know, I know >he attacked Mother Teresa, but I have relished his writing ever since we >were regular reviewers in Newsday's daily book section. I was Tuesday, he >was Wednesday: ships that pass in the night, or more likely, trash-compa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 19:57:32 PDT 1999

38663 post-Yugo military -- rank: 1000

[So what's next for the US military? From today's FEED.] <http://www.feedmag.com/essay/es224lofi.html> ROCKET LAUNCHERS light up the pre-dawn desert sky, artillery lines fire, tanks speed past troops wearing green night-vision goggles, making their way across a featureless desert. Then, suddenly, droves of ragged Iraqis, surrendering. Barbecued Iraqis hanging out of smoldering tanks. Hundreds of destroyed vehicles littering the road back to Baghdad. We've all seen images of the allied assa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 9 10:01:33 PDT 1999

38664 Liu's China -- rank: 1000

Barbara Laurence wrote: >Isn't it true that in Marx and Engels, the proletariat makes the >revolution, while in Lenin, Stalin, and Mao, the revolution makes the >proletariat? And the party has to serve the role of both proletarian vanguard (making the revolution on behalf of the masses) and substitute for the bourgeoisie (by promoting rapid economic development). A tall order indeed! Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:46:18 PDT 1999

38665 model of war -- rank: 1000

Roger Odisio wrote: >As for Hitchens, he is easier to like from a distance. It looks like his >opportunistic impeachment affidavit publicity blitzkrieg was successful. But word is that Hitchens has been dropped from the Washington A-list. And maybe Alan Greenspan won't be dropping in at parties chez Hitchens anymore either. Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:41:17 PDT 1999

38666 More on Racism -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Can you tell us more about the Curry case? -- I've only heard one >brief blurb about in on NPR the other day. Here's a NYT story from the other day - a classically Timesian bit of "on the one hand, on the other." But this story has it all - race, class, and sex, all in one. Doug ---- New York Times - June 7, 1999 Wall St. Victim or Young Rogue?; Christian Curry Found Trouble at Morgan Stanley By JOSEPH KAHN If family and friends had taken a poll when Christian L ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 09:35:27 PDT 1999

38667 Comparing Clinton regime to Hitler regime -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Probably because there were lots of people at the end of World War II who >forecast "overtaking"--think of Paul Sweezy, or of Khrushchev's "we will be >there at your funeral". > >The claim, after all, was always "this is the one true road to Utopia." It >was not "this is a slightly better development strategy than the one that >the Dictator Salazar is pursuing in Portugal." Just because that's the claim doesn't mea ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 08:46:16 PDT 1999

38668 Downturn (?!) in Pharmaceutical Stocks -- rank: 1000

Kjell S Johansen wrote: > A question from an outsider: Is "Nifty 50" the 50 best (performing) or???? The Nifty Fifty were the handful of "growth" or "glamour" stocks that dominated the U.S. stock market in the early 1970s - Xerox, drug companies, etc - while the rest of the market was fairly lifeless. They're often invoked as a precedent for today's net stock mania (which is looking more like yesterday's or April's mania). Doug

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 08:28:59 PDT 1999

38669 WSJ on anarchism -- rank: 1000

[from the front page of the WSJ's "Marketplace" section, no less] Wall Street Journal - June 9, 1999 Disaffected Youth Dust Off A Combustible Philosophy By PETER WALDMAN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL EUGENE, Ore. -- This university town of 150,000 is known for its liberal attitudes, moderate cost of living, environmental sensitivity and good cappuccino. Now it is known for something else: anarchists. In recent months, young radicals calling themselves the Black Army Faction ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 9 08:02:55 PDT 1999

38670 model of war -- rank: 1000

[A good time, I think, for the periodic posting of Foucault's homily on the model of war.] from REMARKS ON MARX, Michel Foucault interviewed by Duccio Trombadori [Semiotext(e), 1991] Duccio Trombadori: But still apropos of polemics, you have also stated clearly that you don't like and will not accept those kinds of arguments "which mimic war and parody justice." Could you explain to me more clearly what you meant by saying this? Michel Foucault: What is tiresome in ideological argument ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 8 19:47:43 PDT 1999