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39421 Capital Productivity -- rank: 1000

matt hogan wrote: > Is capital more productive than labor? I seem to recall Doug >stating that productivity of capital is in a thirty year downtrend. According to the official productivity stats, yes. But the idea of the "productivity of capital" is problematic for several reasons. What is a unit of capital? There's no physical unit comparable to an hour of labor (and while there are all kinds of labor, you can at least average it all out), and how do you value a monetary uni ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 11:36:02 PST 1999

39422 bull market ethics -- rank: 1000

[From TheStreet.com, by occasional LBO contributor Gregg Wirth. A bit late, but an interesting story.] TheStreet.com - 12/9/99 4:19 PM ET TRUTH SERUM: A TOUT WITH CLOUT By Gregg Wirth Staff Reporter Richard Eakle is a busy man. He's the president of Eakle Associates, a Fair Haven, N.J., hedge fund advisory firm that counts George Soros among its clients, and he runs a $50 million portfolio he says is up 206% this year. A former technical analyst for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (MWD:NYSE - news), ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 08:43:21 PST 1999

39423 Hippie capitalism -- rank: 1000

[from Anthony Arnove of South End Press...] "We set out to prove that 'hippie idealism' is the best way to reinvigorate capitalism and increase profits. . . . This has paid off handsomely in increased profits, market share and shareholder value." Ben Cohen co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc. Letter to the Editor, "For Ben & Jerry's, Idealism by the Pint," New York Times, December 26, 1999, p. 4: 8.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 29 08:32:49 PST 1999

39424 AFL-CIO: endorse Al, stay out of jail -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: >Isn't fair to say that those who inhabit the upper reaches of capital would >certainly prefer a corrupt union leader to a militant one? Completely fair. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 22:40:21 PST 1999

39425 Freud & Psychoanalysis was Re: The death... -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The last line of my post, the line Doug quoted, was one of those >throwaway lines that in published text gets edited out and in >conversation gets cancelled with a hand wave. To quote Bryan Ferry, throwaway lines often ring true. Of course, Carrol, I can't resist the temptation of zeroing in on the very line you now disavow. The editing out or erasing handwave suggests conflict. As my old guru Harold Bloom once said, the question the critic should always ask is " ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 20:19:03 PST 1999

39426 Initiation, or, "To Separate the Analysand from the Herd" -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Schisms and anathemas in psychoanalysis -- which existed before Lacan -- >come from the fact that it is "a confession." It is instructive that those >who left and denounced Marxism thought of it as the "God That Failed." >Those of us who remain Marxist don't think of Marx as "God." So where do all the schisms in Marxism come from? And is there no trace of the scriptural in the way Marxists who aspire to orthodoxy look for backin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 15:37:23 PST 1999

39427 Fwd: platform -- rank: 1000

[Joel Kovel writes.... Though he's going to be out of email contact for a bit, I'm sure he'd welcome comments at <jkovel at prodigy.net>.] Friends-- I'm about to leave the East coast for three months in California, where I'll be campaigning for the green presidential nomination. I'll be most likely out of e-mail contact for the next week or so. Here is the most recent version of my platform. It remains--will always be--a work in progress. I welcome your comments and reactions. Happy New Ye ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 14:44:46 PST 1999

39428 Initiation, or, "To Separate the Analysand from the Herd" (was Re: The death of John L. Simon, Lincoln Brigade) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I take Lacan's claim to be "the most orthodox" of Freudians seriously Why? Just because he said so? Even though Lacan, for all his charms, was at least a bit of a faker? Even though many other orthodox Freudians, including those who expelled him from the realm of the orthodox, would disagree? Even though the whole aspiration towards being an orthodox Freudian - like that towards being an orthodox Marxist - is more than a little bizarre? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 14:24:39 PST 1999

39429 new Rose profile poster -- rank: 1000

A new edition of Stephen Rose's classic 1979 American Profile Poster - a booklet surrounding a poster showing U.S. income distribution by sex, race, and occupation - has just been published by the New Press, under the title Social Stratification in the United States. Besides the centerpiece poster, there are tables and graphs showing wealth and occupational distribution and other data nuggets. Looks absolutely excellent. ISBN 1-56584-550-1, <http://www.thenewpress.com/newbooks/socstrat.htm> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 14:22:23 PST 1999

39430 AFL-CIO: endorse Al, stay out of jail -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >This type of anti-union & anti-union leadership editorializing comes out >before any election. Some hack in the pay of some right to work lobby will >write something slanted in the name of progress attacking union support for >one candidate or another. This stuff (via Mike)was slanted toward Bradley, >the next piece you see maybe slanted toward Gore or whoever. The main >objective of the story is not to help the candidate named, but, to make the >un ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 13:44:59 PST 1999

39431 Newitz on racist use of White Trash -- rank: 1000

[Annalee Newitz responds to Michael Pugliese's comments.] Date: Tue, 28 Dec 1999 12:13:15 -0600 From: Annalee Newitz <annalee at gettingit.com> Doug Henwood wrote: Michael Pugliese wrote: >Did >Matt Wray and Jewelle Newitz, (using my memory here) of the Bad Subjects >crew at Cal Berkeley who wrote a book on "White Trash" culture Your memory is partly correct: it's Annalee Newitz, and they edited the volume, which includes a chapter by me, called "Trash-o-nomics.&quo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 12:24:58 PST 1999

39432 Fwd: Inside Giuliani’s Shadow Government-Newsd ay -- rank: 1000

[Of considerable interest to students of Rudyism, but also a great study of how the American ruling class propagates itself.] Newsday - December 27, 1999 PUBLIC OFFICE, PRIVATE FUNDS / LITTLE-KNOWN ENTITY GIVES PRIVATE MONEY TO MAYOR'S PROJECTS. BY: By Dan Janison. STAFF WRITER. Staff writer Robert Polner contributed to this story. When Mayor Rudolph Giuliani collaborated on a children's book last year, the giant investment firm Goldman Sachs & Co. kicked in $25,000 toward its publication. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Dec 28 08:25:24 PST 1999

39433 The death of John L. Simon, Lincoln Brigade -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The Unconscious is/was/will always be a fetish. It can be - and in much like the sense of the commodity, torn from its social context - but doesn't have to be. Within psychoanalysis, Roy Schafer wrote in the 1970s about the danger of reifying what vulgar Freudians called mental mechanisms, arguing in favor of an "action language" for psychoanalysis. But if you think of the unconscious as the creative product of individuals' personal histories, mixed with some admi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 20:51:41 PST 1999

39434 The death of John L. Simon, Lincoln Brigade -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >The editorial line of that >publication was to the left of the CP and vigorously anti-Freudian. Whew. Can't have those bourgeois subjectivist influences weakening the workers movement! Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 15:52:51 PST 1999

39435 Links - Southern Anti-Bigotry Coalition -- rank: 1000

Michael Pugliese wrote: >Did >Matt Wray and Jewelle Newitz, (using my memory here) of the Bad Subjects >crew at Cal Berkeley who wrote a book on "White Trash" culture Your memory is partly correct: it's Annalee Newitz, and they edited the volume, which includes a chapter by me, called "Trash-o-nomics." > think that >work like theirs and this stuff from U.VA. could be used by folks whose >racial politics are shall we say not exactly progressive. I'm sure the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Dec 27 15:38:29 PST 1999