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39331 Mindspring censorship; abortion -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >This is why , analogously, Marxists' certainty about certain issues is NOT >invidious authoritarianism, totalitarianism, dogmatism, rigidity or >"Stalinism". We cannot get anything accomplished, PRACTICE, unless we are >and act sure and definite about somethings , sometime. How are millions >of people going to listen to us [...] Problem is, Charles, millions aren't listening, and haven't in years. And one of the reasons they aren't is that heritag ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 13:25:15 PST 1999

39332 Clintonism, Monicagate and the budget -- rank: 1000

Picciotto, Sol wrote: >I'd like to hear more on this list about the Clinton budget Your cue, Max Sawicky.... Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 13:08:34 PST 1999

39333 Poor, Helpless, Weak Japan -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Let me see if I got this straight, what your saying is that accumulation >at this >point in time isn't in the best interests of the Japanese or for that >matter the >rest of the world and that the Japanese should start spending a little bit of >that accumulated cash on a world -wide basis. Or am I putting words in your >mouth. No, the Japanese working class should rise & expropriate the means of production, of course. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 10:39:38 PST 1999

39334 Butler (Re: cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Butler is a dead end so far as political activism goes. Some feminist and queer activists might disagree with you, but let's leave that aside for the moment. I think there's no small value in a reactionary/quiescent time in trying to investigate why people are so pliant. That's my major interest in PLOP (and in Zizek too) - investigating the psychic structures and collective fantasies that sustain the status quo, and developing a radical political strategy that knows how t ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 09:33:08 PST 1999

39335 Butler (Re: cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >Well, you're right, so far as you go--but it seems to me that all the >post-whatever intellectual movements have contributed substantially to a >diversion of energies from practical politics. They're kinda like video >games in that regard; they advance the privatization of experience and of >intellectual/emotional engagements. I mean, is it really going too far to >suppose that they've got something to do with the utter lack of any new >political movement ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 09:27:37 PST 1999

39336 Poor, Helpless, Weak Japan -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >G'day Doug, > >You write of Japan: > >>For sure, the talk of collapse so fashionable in the English-language >>press is >way overdone, but you can't run an accumulation engine on sub-5% >>profit rates. > >Er, why not? Because: 1) it's not worth the additional risk of investing in production when riskless assets, like U.S. Treasury bonds, pay almost as much, and 2) over the long term, since tomorrow's investment is funded from yesteray's p ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 09:15:50 PST 1999

39337 Butler (Re: cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton wrote: >This sentiment has been expressed a number of times. I still don't know why >we have to take such a consequentialist view of reading Butler. Why isn't it >enough that her work is interesting? Why must it contribute to furthering >the cause of the left? I can't remember anyone on this list suggesting >falling behind the Butler banner, as opposed to that of, oh, let's say Marx. >What's up with this "oh but is it good for the left?" litmus test, ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 09:10:55 PST 1999

39338 cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >Butler fans, reflect on this for a moment: "Capital trembles in its >boots every time the name Judith Butler is mentioned." Notice how >ludicrous that sounds? But substitute the words "Karl Marx" for "Judith >Butler" and you have a real statement. Marx has scared the bejeezus out >of capitalists for well over a century -- even now -- because he was not >only brilliant but could, in his essential message, be understood. Oh ye ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 08:56:22 PST 1999

39339 cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >More than two centuries later, people still quote and are moved by the >Declaration of Independence because its philosophical points could be >clearly understood: "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." etc. Clear language, yes, but a bunch of crap. Proclaiming a truth as self-evident is a lot easier than arguing the point. And remember, that document was written by a slaveholding anti-urbanite who was in many respects deeply reactionary. Just goes to ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 08:55:42 PST 1999

39340 Fwd: Oscar for Elia Kazan -- rank: 1000

An update. Not exactly a list of heavies so far.... Doug ---- THERE WILL BE A PROTEST DEMONSTRATION AMONG ALL THE LOVELY GOWNS AND BLACK TIES AT THE ACADEMY AWARD CEREMONY. WE WILL PROTEST THAT THE BLACKLIST IS NOT OVER. That forgiving Elia Kazan should not mean forgetting the hundreds of Hollywood people and the thousands of others throughout the country who suffered from the blacklist. We will protest that it is not for the Academy to forgive informers since the Academy was guilty of supportin ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 08:29:04 PST 1999

39341 Marx and Justice -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >.Allen Wood developed the >interesting argument that Marx's critique of political economy had >nothing to do with justice and that capitalism does exploit the working >class but this exploitation is just. Maybe it's me, but I think there's no small bit of irony here. When he argues that workers trade at their value, it's an implied critique of the commodification of the worker under capitalism. Exploitation may be "just" under capitalist law, but capita ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 08:26:32 PST 1999

39342 Poor, Helpless, Weak Japan -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >Ah, benighted Japan... just another poor, helpless economic superpower, >with cash reserves piled higher than the Himalayas, and the most efficient >accumulation engine in world history, and a per capita GDP 15% higher than >the US. But Dennis, those cash reserves are as much a sign of (present) weakness as of (past) strength - they can't invest the damn money profitably. And I'm not talking U.S. profit rates, but something even in the mid-single digits. Ther ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 08:11:56 PST 1999

39343 Chinese credit crunch? -- rank: 1000

Henry, this looks like more bad news for China... Doug ---- Financial Times - February 8 1999 CHINA: Foreign banks get tough By James Harding in Shanghai Several foreign banks are taking more aggressive steps to recover money from Chinese borrowers, such as calling in loans and demanding accelerated debt repayments. The tougher measures underline the deterioration of international bankers' confidence in corporate China and also suggest a tightening credit squeeze is set to put further strain on ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 8 08:06:52 PST 1999

39344 censuring Clinton -- rank: 1000

[Michael P, posting as Blanche, says...] From: "blanche perelman" <bpperelman at prodigy.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Subject: Censuring Clinton Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 18:17:01 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Nathan did not appreciate my take on ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 7 18:37:41 PST 1999

39345 Fwd: BOUNCE lbo-talk at lists.panix.com: Non-member submission from [Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>] -- rank: 1000

[what's with your addy, Carrol?] Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:30:32 -0600 From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re Nussbaum Re: New Republic Article dig at Butler References: <Pine.NEB.4.05.9902070707590.22850-100000 at panix7.panix.com> <36BE1723.C6EFE6A8 at uniserve.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Michael Pollak wr ...

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