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39826 Fwd: Re: Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Fabian Balardini wrote: >Marx celebrating the creation of new wants???, Marx as an >advertisement executive!!!! >you gotta be fucking kidding!!!!!! Repeating the excerpts from the Grundrisse that were posted here a few weeks ago... [p. 162] In earlier stages of development the single individual seems to be developed more fully, because he has not yet worked out his relationships in their fullness, or erected them as independent social powers and relations opposite himself. It is as ridi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 09:35:00 PDT 1999

39827 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > What in god's name would a "revolution" in the U.S. look like? > >I don't have the slightest idea. I indicated that it was perhaps impossible. >I was merely asking for some scenario for another route out of the >destructiveness of contemporary capitalism. If no such scenario >exists (and you haven't provided any), then we know what this list, >the pen-l list, the marxism list, MR, NLR, etc. are: entertainment &g ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 09:15:51 PDT 1999

39828 Fwd: Monsanto's Genetically Modified Milk Ruled Unsafe -- rank: 1000

[From the mai-not list.] Monsanto's Genetically Modified Milk Ruled Unsafe by UN commission CHICAGO, Aug. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- The following was released today by Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., Professor of Environmental Medicine, University of Illinois School of Public Health, Chicago: The Codex Alimentarius Commission, the U.N. Food Safety Agency representing 101 nations worldwide, has ruled unanimously in favor of the 1993 European moratorium on Monsanto's genetically engineered hormonal milk (rBGH). ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 09:11:02 PDT 1999

39829 gentrification -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >That is an excellent summary of the problem. The problem is the middle >class boredom and the longing to escape it to a more "rugged" life style - >the ghetto, the boheme, the country-side, the wilderness. So the main >difference between the so-called "leftists" you are talking about and other >segments of the middle class is the cultural icon that symbolize that >escape: gangs, hip-hop, punk, bohemian lifestyle versus SUVs, safar ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 08:53:30 PDT 1999

39830 AID pushes Bosnian bank to collapse -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - August 18, 1999 U.S. AGENCY'S ACTION LED TO COLLAPSE OF BOSNIAN BANK FAILURE WAS COSTLY FOR RELIEF GROUPS, FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS By Thomas W. Lippman Washington Post Staff Writer Foreign governments and relief agencies lost millions of dollars in the collapse of a bank in Bosnia that was triggered when the U.S. Agency for International Development called in loans that the bank could not cover, Clinton administration officials said yesterday. USAID officials said they called in th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 07:56:11 PDT 1999

39831 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Doug Henwood wrote: > > > Seems to me > > you push where you can - more unionization, more worker control of > > the workplace, more socialization of consumption and investment (free > > day care, education, health care, etc.), more democratic forms of > > land use planning, regulatory and other constraints on corporate > > power. . . . > >I would like to see a scenario for this. My own suspicion is that as >difficult (perhaps ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Aug 18 07:51:08 PDT 1999

39832 media -- rank: 1000

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >The publisher's blurb for McChesney's book says that he "argues that the >media have become a significant anti-democratic force in the United >States, and, to varying degrees, worldwide...." My only problem with this is the "have become," which implies that they once weren't. When were they ever pro-democratic? This argument often leads to another (implied and unexamined) nostalgia for the days of local ownership, as opposed to today's conglom ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 07:30:30 PDT 1999

39833 Red Hat IPO -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - August 18, 1999 MANY LINUX HACKERS MISSED OUT ON RED HAT'S LUCRATIVE OFFERING By Randall Smith And Lee Gomes Staff Reporters Of The Wall Street Journal Forget for a moment what you've read about techno-savvy twentysomethings making a fortune on initial public offerings. When thousands of computer buffs received an offer for what amounted to free money -- the chance to get in on one of Wall Street's hottest IPOs this year -- some of them blew it. Instead, they wound up fumin ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 18 07:05:39 PDT 1999

39834 abortion & crime -- rank: 1000

...now on the web! "Legalized Abortion and Crime" BY: JOHN J. DONOHUE Stanford Law School STEVEN D. LEVITT University of Chicago American Bar Foundation Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=174508 Paper ID: Stanford Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper No. 1 Date: June 1999 Contact: JOHN J. DONOHUE Email: Mailto:jjd at stanford.edu Postal: Stanford Law School Alvarado Row & Nathan Abbott ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 17:13:48 PDT 1999

39835 Cox & Alms & Suck -- rank: 1000

Peter Kilander wrote: >I actually penned the following letter to Suck (make sure you do the >"Between 1970 and 1990" hyperlink). sad, sad, sad > >http://www.suck.com This Suck says: >Between 1970 and 1990, for >instance, annual paid vacation >days and holidays rose from 15.5 >days to 22.5 days; over the same >period, ownership of vacation >homes doubled. According to the Fed's Survey of Consumer Finances, 4% of U.S. households owned a vacation home in 1995 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 16:54:53 PDT 1999

39836 Fwd: tcf in wsj -- rank: 1000

[Courtesy of Tom Frank, the original letter he wrote to the Wall Street Journal, responding to libertarian Virginia Postrel's comments that he's a sad, reactionary person - preceded by the version the Journal printed today. Postrel's original article was posted here when it was published.] as published ------------ Is the Public Just 'A Collection of Dolts'? I suppose I should be grateful to Virginia Postrel for even trying to summarize my views ("The Pleasures of Persuasion," editoria ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 13:26:06 PDT 1999

39837 Anarchism / Marxism debates -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote: >If a blueprint works in theory it must work in practice. If it >doesn't work in practice there's something wrong with the theory. Hey, think of a capitalist blueprint: leave all the essential aspects of social life to be regulated and provided for by self-interest. Minimize long-range social planning, maximize short-range individual effort. Couldn't work for long, could it? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 17 13:13:57 PDT 1999

39838 Orwell intro -- rank: 1000

[this bounced bec of an address oddity] From: "Eric Beck" <rayrena at mail.accesshub.net> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 99 15:07:20 -0400 Brian Small wrote Doesn't Chomsky also mention a Foreword or something, where Orwell says we can point the finger but things aren't any better over here. Orwell points out the corporate control of information in the suppressed foreword? The Foreward (Introdution, whatever it was) wasn't published along with the novel. --------------------- It was supposed ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 13:12:32 PDT 1999

39839 ethnic re-cleansing -- rank: 1000

[Two articles for the price of one! For some reason, The Independent has stopped including bylines on its website.] Independent (London) - August 17, 1999 UN EVACUATES SERBS FROM KOSOVO [no byline provided] The United Nations in Kosovo is moving hundreds of Serbs out of the province because of the increase in attacks on the dwindling Serb population by local Kosovo Albanians. The issue was brought to a head on Sunday night when an elderly Serb woman was beaten to death in her home in the capital ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 09:40:28 PDT 1999

39840 ethnic partition of Kosovo -- rank: 1000

[Hey, who said humanitarian imperialism was an easy game?] Los Angeles Times - August 17, 1999 SERBS MAKE LAST STAND IN DIVIDED KOSOVO CITY Balkans: Ethnic Albanians are being driven out of northern Kosovska Mitrovica as Yugoslavs from other parts of the province flee to the area to escape revenge attacks. By DAVID HOLLEY, Times Staff Writer KOSOVSKA MITROVICA, Yugoslavia--Even as terrorized Serbs flee most parts of Kosovo, what looks increasingly like a de facto Serb-dominated partition zone is ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 17 09:13:07 PDT 1999