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3916 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000
On Feb 1, 2010, at 9:35 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Nobody in Russia in 1917 thought that Trotsky was a Russian, > including Trotsky. By "most people," you mean "Americans and Western > Europeans in the late 20th and early 21st century." PS. "everybody > who lives in the former USSR" is not "some Stalinists." So anti-Semitism is still a problem in Russia. Too bad.
Document Size: 5094
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 18:49:09 PST 2010
3917 [lbo-talk] Sigtarp -- rank: 1000
On Feb 2, 2010, at 12:24 AM, Eubulides wrote: > I call on all error theorists to turn to rubbish the sophomoric use > of "moral hazard." The economics profession would do well to spend a > few years studying what's happened in metaethics; unfortunately the > academic/policy wonk dol is not going to come to terms with nihilism > any time soon. That'll tie 'em up in knots. And we'll get the next > crisis even sooner. Let's be efficient in bringing on monetary doom, > ...
Document Size: 5027
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 18:40:41 PST 2010
3918 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Dershowitz: Goldstone is a traitor to the Jewish people -- rank: 1000
[To Chris Doss and Alan Dershowitz, Goldstone is a Jew, I guess.] http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1146392.html Dershowitz: Goldstone is a traitor to the Jewish people "The Goldstone report is a defamation written by an evil, evil man." -- Alan Dershowitz By Haaretz Service Prominent political commentator Professor Alan Dershowitz slammed jurist Richard Goldstone, the architect of a UN report which accuses Israel of Gaza war crimes, saying he is a traitor to the Jewish people, Ar ...
Document Size: 7342
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 18:12:24 PST 2010
3919 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000
On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > in our world Trotsky was a Jew To you and some Stalinists maybe. To most people, he was a Russian, or even Soviet, Communist. Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 18:10:20 PST 2010
3920 [lbo-talk] new radio product -- rank: 1000
[Note: files are often posted well ahead of their announcement here or on the web archive page - so for the latest, subscribe to the podcast version.] BEHIND THE NEWS with Doug Henwood "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show" Village Voice Best of NYC 2005 opening commentaries at: <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/> -------------------------------------------------- Just posted to my radio archive <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>: January 28, ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 15:56:08 PST 2010
3921 [lbo-talk] Budget Quickie -- rank: 1000
On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:37 PM, Max Sawicky wrote: > Tightening (change from 2010 to 2011): 1.1% discretionary, split > evenly between defense and non-defense; .7 in 'other mandatory' (not > TARP); receipts up 1.5%. Total is 2.5% of GDP (the difference is an > increase in net interest paid), as DH said yesterday. (Terrible > fiscal policy) That's tight. So, given the usual multipliers, doesn't this suggest a >2.5% drag on GDP? Doesn't that tip us back into recession?
Document Size: 4951
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 13:47:50 PST 2010
3922 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000
On Feb 1, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Oh, to answer your question below. The child of a Russian and a Jew > is the same as the child of an Italian and Ethiopian. That is, "I am > half Italian and half Ethiopian." Or, I'm a Russian. Or an Italian. Or an Italian-Ethiopian. Or a chef. Or a belly dancer. Or a human. Why this obsession with ethnicity? Let's hear it for hybridity. Doug
Document Size: 5086
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 13:36:17 PST 2010
3923 [lbo-talk] the five cock rings of death -- rank: 1000
This insults cock rings. Doug
Document Size: 4658
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 11:07:38 PST 2010
3924 [lbo-talk] Enough With the China Shtick Already! -- rank: 1000
On Feb 1, 2010, at 8:27 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > How "authentically" Russian or Jewish are Russian Jews, whether they > were born of a Jewish mother or another parent or grandparent was > Jewish - that is to say, is the blood coursing through their veins > "Jewish" blood or "Russian" blood? - is a question of importance > only for traditional antisemites and Zionists and, it would appear, > those like yourself who have a peculiar but mainly innoc ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 08:32:43 PST 2010
3925 [lbo-talk] Prospects and consequences of a devalued USD -- rank: 1000
The funny thing about all this is that everything Garten says is already well known. So why has the dollar been holding up despite that? Might it be that no one else is in such great shape either? Doug
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Feb 1 08:23:14 PST 2010
3926 [lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism -- rank: 1000
On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:14 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Only Carrol and Angelus seem to get the non-autonomy of labor (and > though they may dispute it, in the process they repudiate, or at least > critically complicate, marxist writ about capitalism being the > struggle between two classes). Saying that workers' working makes > capitalism work seems controversial only if you take it as a moral > statement. But it's not. We all, even the non-laborers, reproduce > capitalism every da ...
Document Size: 5210
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 31 10:25:35 PST 2010
3927 [lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism -- rank: 1000
On Dec 31, 2010, at 11:17 AM, Bill O'Connor wrote: > Isn't that an old anarchist saw, "If you're not revolting against work, > you're working against revolt"? "Every attempt by an individual to solve for himself that which concerns all must fail." - Friedrich Durrenmatt
Document Size: 4796
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 31 08:22:30 PST 2010
3928 [lbo-talk] Agency and Capitalism -- rank: 1000
On Dec 31, 2010, at 12:38 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Angelus Novus > > > This reminds me of a brilliant sticker by the group Gender Killer I once saw > on a lamppost: "Capitalism is Not a Conspiracy of the Few. It Works Because > You Work." > > ===== > > Perhaps I'm being thick, but couldn't the above statement be true of any economic system? Not to be actionist or anything, but does this mean that working is somehow counterrevolutionary? Doug
Document Size: 5161
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Fri Dec 31 08:08:35 PST 2010
3929 [lbo-talk] China -- rank: 1000
On Dec 26, 2010, at 8:40 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Everyone assumes that > this expansion must have brought about a historic increase in the size > of the Chinese industrial working class, but that is flatly false. The > latest statistics show that, on balance, China did not create any new > jobs in manufacturing between 1993 and 2006, with the total number of > such workers hovering around 110 million people. Well yeah, but that's a narrow conception of the working class. Overall ...
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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sun Dec 26 09:26:15 PST 2010
3930 [lbo-talk] A holiday card for everyone on lbo-talk and Pen-l -- rank: 1000
On Dec 25, 2010, at 2:15 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > So where does the left "underwear knot" come from in this > conversation? Not you, Gar! We know your aversion to hair shirts. An example: a friend of mine said several years ago that he was worried that he'd been enjoying some holiday parties. He wondered if this meant that he was "selling out." Doug
Document Size: 5159
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Sat Dec 25 11:27:57 PST 2010
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