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40726 AAMA -> UAW, & brief comment on EU question. -- rank: 1000

pms wrote: >>Ford & GM can't agree on trade or >>environmental policy. > >Doug, do you know the main thrust of this disagreement? Says the WSJ: <quote> As trade has grown less contentious, the public and strategic divisions between GM, Ford and Chrysler have widened. In January, while the Big Three, along with international auto makers, were trying to cut an industry deal on tailpipe standards with Northeastern states, Ford made a splash at the Detroit auto show by an ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 14:09:42 PST 1998

40727 Fear of the word "racism" on the left -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown wrote: >Louis Proyect just suspended me from his >list for a vigorous debate which ended in >the post below. Since Lou posts as >a militant anti-racist here, I just wanted >show some of his other side. I'm catching up, so I just saw this. No more from you either Charles. I won't tolerate any of this ugly meta-list shit. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 13:56:06 PST 1998

40728 EE -- rank: 1000

[this bounced] Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 15:54:45 +0000 From: Jeffrey Sommers <jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu> Reply-To: jsommers at lynx.dac.neu.edu Organization: World History Center X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com Subject: Re: lbo-talk-digest V1 #672 References: <199811280341.WAA07321 at dont.panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Brad, I'm not so sure. The recent American ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 13:42:52 PST 1998

40729 progress in economics -- rank: 1000

[The bourgeois mind turns to theory....] "First Author Conditions" BY: MAXIM ENGERS University of Virginia, Arts and Sciences Department of Economics JOSHUA GANS University of Melbourne SIMON GRANT Australian National University STEPHEN KING University of Melbourne, Faculties Economics and Commerce Department of Economics Document: Available from the SSRN Electronic Paper Collection: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=90728 Date: May 1998 Contact: JOSHUA GANS Email: Mail ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 13:01:25 PST 1998

40730 Abuse of power -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >I was not talking about Louis Proyect, I was using him to talk about >freedom of speech. >This is a classic example of class struggle. No it's not about class struggle - the bourgeoisie only have Brad & Max here! It's about maintaining a social/discursive space. Lou & I have watched a lot of "Marxism" mailing lists spin out of control. No more about this. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 12:40:18 PST 1998

40731 Abuse of power -- rank: 1000

Henry C.K. Liu wrote: >Being banned from Louis Proyect's Marxist list is my first personal >experience in electronic tyranny. This is not a forum for the discussion of Lou's moderation policies. No more on this, or I'll turn electronically tyrannical too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 10:52:22 PST 1998

40732 Doug Henwood's crisis -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >In the latest issue of Left Business Observer, Doug Henwood announces that >"the worst of the world financial crisis is over." Leaving aside the >question of whether the underlying economic crisis is over, one is must ask >what Doug's definition of crisis is. If the world's markets are at record >levels, including the battered Asian markets, but the level of economic >activity is at Great Depression levels for most of the world, then does the > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 28 10:50:08 PST 1998

40733 AAMA -> UAW -- rank: 1000

So, the Wall Street Journal reports that the U.S. auto industry's trade assocation, the American Automobile Manufacturers Assn, is breaking up now that Chrysler is German-owned. Ford & GM can't agree on trade or environmental policy. So what's this mean for nationalist trade policy in general and the UAW's traditional nationalism as well. Now that capital is wobbly, will the UAW be forced to think for itself? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 27 14:55:33 PST 1998

40734 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman wrote: >In the present case, the pomos are the ones who have ventured >beyond the bounds of their own specialities, and their abstract >and ideological conceptions of the natural sciences have been >revealed by S & B. If you think Lacan is full of it, you should show that by taking on the body of his work, not mocking some badly appropriated scientific metaphors. The exercise proves nothing. And just who are these "pomos"? They don't carry cards, so y ou c ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 27 14:20:09 PST 1998

40735 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

Excuse me for filing some late comments on ancient, now-yellowing threads, but I just started reading David Harvey's Justice, Nature, & the Geography of Distance on the plane back from Vancouver Wednesday. Harvey offers this quote from Marx that reads like the perfect gloss on the Sokal affair: "[The] weak points in the abstract materialism of natural science, a materialism that excludes history and its proces, are at once evident from the abstract and ideological conceptions of its spo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Nov 27 10:56:46 PST 1998

40736 work = play -- rank: 1000

[The things you discover when visiting Canada...] TORONTO GLOBE & MAIL - Tuesday, November 24, 1998 MANAGING The office: where people meet, work and party A younger generation -- which has witnessed the weakening of the family unit and the neighbourhood -- is seeking support, advice and friendship in the workplace. ROBERT BARNARD and JENNIFER WELSH Special to The Globe and Mail A Montreal advertising agency recently hired a chef to prepare the staff's culinary selections throughout the day. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 26 15:44:18 PST 1998

40737 the Brenner controversy -- rank: 1000

Damn, wish I could get involved in this one, but not from this expensive, flaky hotel telnet connection. Seems like a good controversy has erupted without me, though. More after Thanksgiving, which I just learned from Hobsbawm was an attempt to assimilate non-protestant immigrants to the American Way. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 21 17:08:34 PST 1998

40738 Oppresseder than thou -- rank: 1000

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: > Now, I personally was unthrilled to get thousands of words on Buddhism on > this list. But I wouldn't say I found it oppressive. And I would > never have the effrontery to suggest that it doesn't "belong" > here. Right you are. I have a very inclusive definition of what belongs here. Which sometimes results in more volume than many folks would like, but that's the price of (small-c) catholicism. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 18 12:53:59 PST 1998

40739 Review of Sokal & Bricmonts' _FASHIONABLE NONSENSE_ in NY Times Book Review -- rank: 1000

Oh I wish I were around to respond at length to this, but I'm telnetting in on an awkward connection. I just started reading this silly book before leaving town. Kristeva, Lacan, and the entire gang misuse math! Well, yes they do, but what about anything else they have to say? Sokal & Bricmont are silent on that score because they really don't know. I'll concede that if you use math metaphors you should know what you're talking about, but, on the other hand, if you want to write about philos ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 16 16:16:20 PST 1998

40740 off... -- rank: 1000

Well, comrades, I'm off for 10 days to points west - SF from Sunday-Thursday, up to Seattle on Friday for the American Studies conference, then to Vancouver the following Sunday, and back home the day before Thanksgiving. I've asked Bill Lear <rael at zopyra.com> to keep an eye on the list. I'll be checking email now & then, but not all that regularly. Happy pre-holiday season.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 14 21:32:47 PST 1998