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41026 New Party -- rank: 1000

William S. Lear wrote: >What ever happened to the New Party? Wasn't that the one Joel Rogers >was involved in starting? The New Party is apparently many local shows with a loose national organization. They are virtually dead in New York, thanks to the merger with New York State Democratic Party vice-chair Dennis Rivera's Majority Coalition, they are virtually dead. In some small and mid-sized cities, though, ACORN types and the better union people are using the New Party to promote their ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 22 12:17:16 PDT 1998

41027 Bensinger -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >A couple of black men I know have been organizers for the AFLCIO (one >has quit Speaking of which, does anyone know why Richard Bensinger got the boot as AFL-CIO organizing director? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jun 22 08:25:01 PDT 1998

41028 Black Radical Congress and "the Left" -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Doug, which left organization do you belong to? The Labor Party. I've flirted with joining Solidarity, but not yet. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 21 08:53:02 PDT 1998

41029 left conservatism -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >Racial and sexual oppression are indeed premissed upon relations of >production. However, identity politics does not find its foundation upon >those divisions, but on the consumption of the surplus. I don't see the >Women's studies courses related in any way but the most tangential to >the oppression of women. On the contrary, their preoccupation with the >symbols of oppression arises from their concern with the cultural life >of unproductive consumpti ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 21 08:45:35 PDT 1998

41030 Asia and hormones -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >BTW, if I were you, I would ban the use of the terms 'identity politics' >and 'postmodernism.' The terms allow folks to say stupid things without >furthering discussion in any way. This is true, though a ban might be overly strict. I meant to comment on this item from Max Sawicky the other day: >Some time ago I asked >the list if anybody could cite any examples of POMO/ID >political activity above the level of micro-groups. which treated "pomo" ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Jun 21 08:40:29 PDT 1998

41031 left conservatism -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >this newly >established left. > >It is called the Black Radical Congress. Nonblacks then are consigned to the right? As Jordan commented offlist, how radical. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 20 13:08:25 PDT 1998

41032 help -- rank: 1000

Alessandro Coricelli wrote: >I'm looking for statistical data (either on economy or society, i.e >workfare etc.) not biased about Giuliani's administration. You're looking for something that doesn't exist. Giuliani refuses to disclose any information about welfare and workfare. No one knows what's happened to the hundreds of thousands of people who've been kicked off welfare and/or put into workfare. Social scientists trying to do workfare research have to use a dataset that excludes NYC, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 20 09:34:26 PDT 1998

41033 Asia and hormones: query -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >>>To demand what? > >This we're notoriously bad at. We want to optimise human freedom but we're >not very good on the variety of ways in which freedom is currently >curtailed, so some of us get confused about how we get from variable >oppressions to a commonwealth of freedom. I submit we must *unite in >demanding the material requisites implicit in Liberalism's formal >(self-legitimating) guarantees*. So we just want to do individualism better t ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 20 09:12:42 PDT 1998

41034 Asia and hormones: query -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >in short, it's a blind alley. why go there unless at gunpoint? Who says we're not there already? Sure, Wendy & Judy & their friends have nothing to say about class or money or the nondiscursive realm. But it's too easy to pick on them for that. I'm glad to hear that everyone else finds the answers to Brown's comments so self-evident: >Now a third rejoinder to the challenges that some >poststructuralists analyses as well as some late modern political ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 19 16:21:16 PDT 1998

41035 Asia and hormones -- rank: 1000

I just got nonmember submission bounce from one PF, who said that instead of discussing the "major crisis taking place in Asia" we are hearing instead "endless drivel about prostitution and identity politics." This should appeal to no one else but "captive undergraduates whose hormones undoubtedly predispose them to reading whatever is most titillating." The last line was, "Doug if I were you I'd be embarassed." Is this left conservatism? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 19 14:37:18 PDT 1998

41036 automation -- rank: 1000

Thanks to the esteemed Malgosia Askanas, lbo-talk is about to be outfitted with a script that will count posts and issue warnings to those emitting more than three a day. Sanctions will range progressively from mild rebuke through public humiliation and culminate in painful exile. The new technology should be installed sometime in the next day or two. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 19 11:54:03 PDT 1998

41037 China and Foreign Exchange etc. -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Aren't the Chinese threatening devaluation in order to get into the WTO? That's not the way to win friends or influence people. I think the Chinese are threatening devaluation because exports are slipping, profits are slipping, and growth is slipping, and devaluation looks like a mighty tempting option, if you can ignore the consequences. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 19 11:46:04 PDT 1998

41038 China and the world economy -- rank: 1000

Chris Burford wrote: >I suggest it is reasonable to suppose that a major factor propelling the US >into its massive intervention to support the yen, was behind the scenes >warnings from the Chinese that they are considering devaluing the renminbi. > >This may be the first time that the Chinese economy has become a factor in >the management of global financial systems. It wasn't at all behind the scenes - the Chinese were pretty open with their threats late last week and over th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 19 10:07:25 PDT 1998

41039 Divisions among the "Disabled"; Footnote to Marta Russell -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >The term "hysteria" is as outmoded as spontaneous combustin. Yes, now we say "histrionic personality disorder." And unlike wombs, men can have it too. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 18 12:33:26 PDT 1998

41040 left conservatism -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >All I could think of was: "Yes. You, Wendy Brown, esteemed Professor of >Women's Studies at U.C. Santa Cruz, you need to read a little less >discourse theory and a little more by Paul Baran--or at least enough more >by Paul Baran that you can figure out how to spell his name..." To be fair to Brown, the text looks like it was transcribed from a tape, since there are several other misspellings that suggest that. Not that there's any excuse for botching B ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 18 11:21:21 PDT 1998