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39346 Kazan -- rank: 1000

[another bounce - something odd with your address Carrol?] Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:59:43 -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: Check-out time References: <l03130302b2e3bcd53141@[209.54.19.86]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit rayrena wrote: > "On the Waterfront" is one of my favorite films, the > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 16:05:53 PST 1999

39347 Soros & China -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 17:53:00 -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: Soros on truth References: <v04011716b2e3a3db54fc@[166.84.250.86]> <36BE29EA.8120F8E8 at mindspring.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Henry C.K. Liu wrote: "In Chinese culture, a rich man is automatically disqualified ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 16:03:35 PST 1999

39348 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

Enrique Diaz-Alvarez wrote: >Does anybody know in what financial instruments foreign claims on the US >are held? All kinds, but about 30% of foreign assets are U.S. government bonds ($1.5 trillion worth), and 12% corporate bonds. U.S. holders have comparatively small amouts of foreign bonds. Stock holdings are a wash - U.S. owners hold about as much foreign equity as foreigners hold of U.S. paper. The U.S. has a small credit on net foreign direct investment. At the end of the third quarter ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 16:01:57 PST 1999

39349 Soros on truth -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Th pathetic aspect of a capitalistic culture is its tendency to equate wealth >with wisdom. >In Chinese culture, a rich man is automatically disqualified as a wise >intellectual. Preoccupation with counting money is considereed an >insurmountable obstacle to the task of finding truth. There's just page after page of this stuff, all presented as if George himself had discovered it. He's going on about how equilibrium is really an inappropriate concept for ec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 13:16:09 PST 1999

39350 Mindspring censorship (Over-limit, but it's really important) -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Look, I'm unequivocally pro-choice. But I'd like to arrive at a sort of >theoretical justification/grounding for this position, rather than >uncritically regurgitating liberal "rights" talk. Why do Marxists believe that workers should control their conditions of labor and plan production on a conscious social basis? As contemptuous as they often are of crypto-bourgeois moralizing or crypto-liberal rights talk, there's some underlying notion of morality a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 13:01:55 PST 1999

39351 Soros on truth -- rank: 1000

George Soros writes: "What reflexivity and self-reference have in common is the element of indeterminacy. Logical positivism outlawed self-referent statements as meaningless, but by introducing the concept of reflexivity I am setting logical positivism on its head. Far from being meaningless, I claim that statements whose truth value is indeterminate are even more significant than statements whose truth value is known. The latter constitute knowledge: They help us understand the world as it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 12:12:24 PST 1999

39352 Rule of Law 101 (Re: Hitchens Turns GOP stool pigeon -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And who is the victim of the crime that Hitchens is so gallantly defending? Monica for one. The White House that NOW & Co. so vigorously defend tried to paint her as a nut and a slut, and Blumenthal apparently was an integral part of the operation. I watched his deposition on TV yesterday; what a repugnant little shit he is. Hitchens could have written a column about it instead of going to the state, esp the Starr branch of the state. >I don't defend Clinton. Sure ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 11:27:56 PST 1999

39353 cop shows, postmodernism and all that -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Hey Doug, how about the skinny on the ward politics where the street >vendor was gunned down by the police on Friday. I don't know anything about the Bronx - it's on the U.S. mainland, after all. The trigger-happy cops are an extreme instance of a concerted crackdown. I do know that the cops here are high on power and under mayoral command to act like an occupation army. Kids are arrested in Central Park just for being black or brown in the wrong neighbhood. Arrests for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 09:19:20 PST 1999

39354 Mindspring censorship (Over-limit, but it's really important) -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Coming from the same Catholic background as Doug, I've had to wrassle >with all of that jive about abortion = murder, but I *really* don't think >that defending reproductive rights puts us on a slippery slope towards >becoming the Khmer Rouge... Catholic anti-abortion doctrine is surprisingly recent, as is the whole notion that abortion is murder. Here are some excerpts from Kristin Luker's Abortion and the Politics of Motherhood. I've scanned the whole second c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 08:50:07 PST 1999

39355 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >The problem with the euro is that it is now an alternative currency only in >concept. There are not enough euros to really threaten the US dollar. Any >central banker who will put his reserves in equal distribution between euros, >yens and dollars will not hold his job by the end of the week. Same with >corporate CFOs. > >The size advantage of the dollar market is going to be around for at least a >decade, and maybe for the foreseeable future. Ma ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 07:01:21 PST 1999

39356 Fwd: Oscar for Elia Kazan -- rank: 1000

All you Hollywood folks out there.... >I am looking for left intellectuals, artists, notables, and others who would >be interested in supporting a protest at the academy awards of the lifetime >achievement award to Elia Kazan. I believe this action is not so much about >his artistic achievements, as about the current efforts by conservative >historians and ideologues to revise our understanding of the McCarthy era >toward a vindication of government repression and of collaborat ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Feb 7 06:50:37 PST 1999

39357 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >Doug wrote: "Also, I'll bet Greenspan & Co. are terrified of what would >happen if the U.S. bubble >did burst, so I think they're closing their eyes to it for the moment and >hoping all this bad stuff just goes away." > >Don't you think Greenspan will have to raise interest rates to protect the >dollar? If there's a run on the dollar, the whole jig is up. That's the 64 billion euro question, isn't it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 6 15:04:33 PST 1999

39358 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >> A sustained sub-5% unemployment rate and a >>significant hike in the minimum wage are the main reasons > >Doug, I don't think the first is the reason as much as the thing that >itself needs to be explained. I don't disagree with this at all. >(As for the min wage hike, I understood it to >be part and parcel of welfare reform, i.e., in order to force people to >work the min wage simply had to be increased minimally while welfare was >cut ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 6 09:44:44 PST 1999

39359 chatfest -- rank: 1000

>INTELLECTUAL ACTIVISM: A CONFERENCE ON COALITIONAL POLITICS AND THE >ACADEMY > >Conversations with campus activists, cultural organizers and public >intellectuals > >Stanley Aronowitz, Allan Berube, Dennis Brutus, Renee Cramer, Michael >Denning, Lisa Duggan, Brian Freeman, Tami Gold, Amber Hollibaugh, Janine >Jackson, Robin D. G. Kelley, Randy Martin, Cary Nelson, Andrew Ross, Jack >Tchen, Michael Warner, Ellen Willis, George Yudice > > >Sponsored by the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 6 09:35:08 PST 1999

39360 Low Wage Pay Gains -- rank: 1000

Rkmickey at aol.com wrote: >If you are both right, won't these trends encourage massive movement across >borders, with the immigrants putting significant downward pressure on wages in >the US, particularly on the wages of unskilled and semiskilled labor? There's already been lots of immigration to the U.S. over the last 20 years, to which the debt-crisis-induced depression in Latin America in the 1980s contributed no small amount. The impact of immigration on wages is very hard to measu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Feb 6 09:26:34 PST 1999