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41041 Final Program for Black Radical Congress (fwd) -- rank: 1000

I just got back from the University of Illinois-Chicago, where the Marxist Literary Group was (and still is) meeting, and where the Black Radical Congress is about to open. Latest word was that non-black people aren't welcome. So anyone planning to go should keep that in mind. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 18 10:14:48 PDT 1998

41042 US Execs vs Germany, UK, France, etc. -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >I have to admit, Daimler handled the whole buyout with impressive savoir >faire. American yahoos are fond of bashing Europeans as being plodders >with overpriced labor and terrible management, but Juergen Schremp, >Daimler's CEO, played the global card in his business-class English, used >the M-word (merger) instead of the B-word (buyout) and swayed even the >neonationalists on Wall Street with arguments that Daimler needs a >transfusion of American ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 18 08:47:18 PDT 1998

41043 left conservatism -- rank: 1000

This may have come up when I was away - I'm still have 350 messages to go - but there are transcripts from the infamous Santa Cruz left conservatism conference at <http://calliope.jhu.edu/journals/theory_&_event/v002/#2.2>. Contents: >ON LEFT CONSERVATISM >Introduction Thomas Dumm and Anne Norton, Editors > >The Flyer Chris Connery > >Left Conservatism, Introduction Chris Connery >Left Conservatism, I Wendy Brown >Left Conservatism, II Judith Butler >Left Con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 17 20:08:01 PDT 1998

41044 race & sex -- rank: 1000

How about this as a proof text for the race-sex nexus? From the New York Times story by Rick Bragg (June 17) on the three guys who killed a black man in Jasper Texas by dragging him around with a pickup truck until he disintegrated: "Relatives say Mr Brewer too learned hate in prison. Both he and Mr King joined the Confederate Knights of America, a loosly organized prison gang for white supremacists, although his lawyer, Bill Morian Jr, says Mr Brewer joined the gang for protection. 'If you ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 17 19:24:57 PDT 1998

41045 Gender, Race, and Publishing on the Left -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >One more thing. There is nothing natural about using prostitution as a >metaphor for 'any act undertaken for purely monetary motive.' You don't >really understand the nature of capitalism and wage labor if you think sex >work is a 'natural metaphor' for 'any act undertaken for purely monetary >motive.' Many workers, not just prostitutes, receive pay for 'servicing >pleasure.' And many (if not most) acts are undertaken for purely monetary >motive unde ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Jun 17 16:02:22 PDT 1998

41046 The nature of risk ... -- rank: 1000

Rosser Jr, John Barkley wrote: > Probably Boris wouldn't stiff Soros. But plenty of >big cheese foreign investors in Russia have been taken for >a major ride, including most of the big US oil companies. >And I am not just talking about the recent sharp declines >in the stock market over there after last year's >world-leading runup. > Part of the problem is that Boris is not really in >control. In fact, nobody is. Thus when the oil majors >have tried to cut deals ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 12 18:30:40 PDT 1998

41047 leave of absence -- rank: 1000

Well, comrades, I'm off to Chicago on Saturday morning, returning on Wednesday, to consort with the theoryheads in the Marxist Literary Group. I've deputized Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> as list disciplinarian while I'm away. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 12 16:33:51 PDT 1998

41048 bankruptcy & credit cards -- rank: 1000

DENNIS_CLAXTON at fragomen.com wrote: >Do you know if anyone in the los angeles area carries your show? I haven't >been able to find it. No, they don't. Talk to the KPFK management. Damned if I know why WBAI isn't doing RealAudio yet, but they aren't. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 12 09:48:56 PDT 1998

41049 bankruptcy & credit cards -- rank: 1000

Speaking of credit cards, I interviewed Ken Klee, a UCLA law prof, on my radio show last night. Klee was once the chief staffer of the House Judiciary Committee, where he was the principal author of the 1978 U.S. bankruptcy code. Two days ago, the House voted to tighten things up sharply - to force all households with incomes above the national median into debt repayment plans (today that's only an option for those who want to take it) and to make credit card debt nondischargeable in bankruptcy. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 12 08:56:08 PDT 1998

41050 The nature of risk ... -- rank: 1000

Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Risktaking is a myth like Horatio Alger. They "externalize" costs >> and risks. > >Tell that to George Soros, who loaned Russia "several hundred >million" last summer. Now *that's* risk. Not if you get a sweet deal on an imminent privatization it isn't. And I doubt that Yeltsin would ever stiff George Soros. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jun 12 07:40:31 PDT 1998

41051 Adolph Reed -- rank: 1000

Thomas Mertes wrote: >I think that slamming Adolph Reed without him being able to respond is >politically unsound. I forwarded Kenny's remarks to Adolph Reed. I'll let you know if he feels like responding. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 11 12:14:59 PDT 1998

41052 Investment, Summers-DeLong, and the Old Paradigm -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >> The Summers-Delong paper does argue that investment is key to growth, >> although growth may spur investment in a reverse causality. Their data is >> historical. Today's investment,as Doug says, is very different. > >If memory serves, >Jane Gravelle, of whom I think a lot, says if >you jiggle their data a little the results >fall apart,e.g., that they rest on a few itty- >bitty third world countries. (forgot which >ones) Well, we hav ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 11 12:05:24 PDT 1998

41053 race & religion -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Mostern wrote: >In a white supremacist world, I simply jump every time someone says that >African Americans (or African American institutions) are getting a free >ride. 'Taint true. Of course it isn't, and I had no intention of making it seem that way. Surely there's some ground between the free ride and zipped lips schools, though, isn't there? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 11 09:17:02 PDT 1998

41054 Consumer debt crunch and division by two -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >Doug, you have mentioned elsewhere that this boom is among the most >consumption-led in terms of consumer durable and housing spending, and I >have always hoped that you would elaborate on the significance of this. As >we are debating the effect consumer debt has had on this special character >of the 1990s boom, it would seem that the Hayekians would emphasize the >fragility and danger of a boom of this character. This is ancient history by now - what, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 11 09:06:51 PDT 1998

41055 race & religion -- rank: 1000

Kenneth Mostern wrote: >I don't know why you didn't think the positions various people who would >weren't already implicit on other threads. But I do know that you >proposed using the black church as a matter of "fun" for the discussion >list. In fact, what I'm really not sure of is what it means that you, or >anyone, would propose that the black church is an autonomous discussion >topic at all, as though the issues around the black church are different >from the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Jun 11 07:42:28 PDT 1998