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40801 geo temporal displacement -- rank: 1000

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: >>Why? If you define Marxism as a theory of an inevitable terminal crisis of >>capitalism - which I think is always the point of the whole >>value-theorizing tradition, though they've gotten shy about admitting it in >>the late 1990s - yes, it is. But if you define Marxism as a theory of >>capitalism as a social system based on exploitation, which is unstable, >>polarizing, and destructive by its very nature, then Marxism has lot of &g ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 5 09:11:44 PST 1998

40802 Working Families Party -- rank: 1000

So it looks like the Working Families Party won't get their ballot line in New York State. They needed 50,000 votes to qualify, and they got 45,218, with 98% of ballots counted (excluding absentees). The NY Times quotes a board of elections spokesperson as saying that they're unlikely to make it when the tally is completed. Guess this shows that no matter how vigorous your spin and well-staffed your phone banks, you still can't convince union members and "progressives" to vote for a co ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 5 07:32:52 PST 1998

40803 Bartlett (sic) and Steele in Time -- rank: 1000

Tresy Kilbourne wrote: >It matters not at all whether one finds these statistics convincing, as >deLong's claim was that B&S did not understand the regressivity argument. >Clearly, they did, and rejected it. A fair characterization of their >argument would have acknowledged this, just as B&S acknowledged the >argument that led to Congress reversing course on IRAs and presented it >in enough detail to allow a reader to make up his own mind. That deLong >instead prefer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 4 12:10:51 PST 1998

40804 geo temporal displacement -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > The Marxist argument (I believe) is not that a balanced budget would >improve economic performance; rather the argument is that overcoming >stagnation and downturns through deficits tends to create its own >problems over time (heightens the contradictions and all that): I don't disagree with that at all. I was just objecting to your claims about the present fiscal situation of the U.S., which is actually quite sound by conventional measures. >I would lik ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 4 11:44:02 PST 1998

40805 bye for now -- rank: 1000

[bounced as a nonsub] Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 13:32:45 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <v02130502630bd4369dd4@[128.112.71.59]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-mailer: Eudora Pro 2.1.3 To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com From: bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Rakesh Bhandari) Subject: bye for now Please send any replies to my posts directly to me; I have unsubbed as I am going to the radical philosophy conference in San Francisco. I guess the only thing worth ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 4 11:24:44 PST 1998

40806 Brazil -- rank: 1000

Tuesday November 3, 2:34 pm Eastern Time Brazil shares soar on optimism ahead of key vote SAO PAULO, Nov 3 (Reuters) - Brazilian shares soared in late trade Tuesday as optimism spread in the market that a key reform would be approved in Congress on Wednesday, increasing the government's chances of carrying out promised budget cuts, traders said. The blue-chip Bovespa index shot up 5.81 percent to 7,457 points at 1708 local time/1408 EDT/1908 GMT, with less than an hour of trade left. ``The marke ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 20:40:45 PST 1998

40807 Bartlett and Steele in Time -- rank: 1000

Tresy Kilbourne wrote: >But I have come to realize that factual >scrupulosity is a one-way street in these quarters. Hmm, I'd have thought that "factual scrupulosity" would be a one-way street, since, if you believe in Facticity, there's no two ways about it. Unlike, say, the dialectic. Still, I think we maintain a pretty high standard here. You have a fact-checker's bill of indictment? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 17:43:30 PST 1998

40808 exit polls -- rank: 1000

Raw exit poll data, whatever that means exactly, at 5:30 PM had Schumer 9 points ahead of D'Amato. Lots of tight races all over the place, but an apparently heavy and Dem-friendly turnout. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 16:01:17 PST 1998

40809 Schumer v. D'Amato -- rank: 1000

Turnout is quite heavy on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, which can't be good news for Senator Al, but Lou says I should get out of Manhattan more, so I probably shouldn't have reported that. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 15:25:52 PST 1998

40810 Bartlett and Steele in Time -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >I highly recommend the piece on the Death of the Supermodel. Heavens. Who's going to take her place? Is there a dehierarchalization going on in the image business? Egalitarian nodal strctures replacing the old top-down thing? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 15:25:08 PST 1998

40811 Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >His role in history seems to me an entirely different >matter. A recent Nobel (in chemistry, I believe) was >exposed as a child-abuser. What does this mean for >his work? I would say zilch. The personal behavior of a chemist doesn't matter much for chemistry. The actual political behavior of a political icon matters a great deal. Of course, if I were in a Zizekian mood, I could go on about the value of "Jefferson" as an empty signifier, but I haven't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 10:27:14 PST 1998

40812 Geo-temporal Displacment via Fictitious Profits (reply to Comarde Bond) -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >1. The US could only realize a budget surplus by savage cuts; "Savage" is a major exaggeration, as I'm sure Max Sawicky will be quick to point out. There have been caps on domestic spending. The end of AFDC, while a savage piece of social policy, has had minimal fiscal impact. >the rather >insane debt to GDP ratio was increasing until 1995, and whether it resumes >its upward incline in a downturn--a great liklihood, no matter how low >Greenspan pu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 09:51:52 PST 1998

40813 Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Failure to dismiss does not equal forgiveness. >It's not even in the same dimension; dismiss goes >to the social value of a person's thoughts and >actions (emphasis plural); forgiveness is some >kind of moral judgement. Bet you once considered >the seminary. Actually I did; Jesuit, of course. But that was a youthful indiscretion. The point isn't whether TJ was a good guy or not. The point is why the hell is he so revered by people who should know better. Hi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 08:49:51 PST 1998

40814 Ayn Rand -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >Who is this guy Sciabarra? Big fan of Rand & the Austrians too; thinks they share the dialectical method with Marx. Did his poli sci diss at NYU under Bertell Ollman. By the way, paging through his Rand book I learned that the dreaded term "self-esteem" was coined and popularized by Rand's protege/lover Nathaniel Branden. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 08:12:25 PST 1998

40815 Time to bulldoze the Jefferson Memorial? -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >Quite right. The specifics of this case aside, we >could just as easily dismiss Marx for being a sexist >or overly fond of hamburgers, or any other figure from >the past for some deviation for contemporary left mores. Yes, by all means let's forgive Jefferson for this, too - an excerpt from a Sep 23 1800 letter to Dr Benjamin Rush regarding yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia: "Providence has in fact so established the order of things that most evils are t ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 3 08:04:09 PST 1998