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41341 Class, race and gender in the early American Marxist movement -- rank: 1000

In the middle of a very fine piece, Louis Proyect unfortunately wrote: >The answer to dogmatic Marxism is not Judith Butler, as Doug Henwood seems >to think. I do not think any such thing, nor have I said or written anything remotely like that. Just because I think someone is intelligent and instructive doesn't mean I think he or she has "the answer." A minor point: her critique of "neoconservative Marxism," though rather misspecified (Alan Sokal is *not* a Marxist), it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 19 09:39:44 PST 1998

41342 Derrida Marxist? -- rank: 1000

Jim heartfield wrote: >I was once told that the greatest of all the surrealists, Rene Magritte >wrote sub-Heideggerian philosophical tracts, but I've never been able to >confirm it. Translations would be a commercial triumph in the culture >studies departments I suspect, though no doubt the work itself would be >a disappointment. "Commercial triumph[s] in the cultur[al] studies departments" are not very triumphant things, it turns out. A run-of-the-mill Verso cult stud v ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 19 09:31:00 PST 1998

41343 Billy C -- rank: 1000

rc&am wrote: >does anyone know of the details of the guy who was killed by (i think) >injection in an arkansas prison during clinton's first run for the >presidency? i saw a doco some time back, and bill specially took time >off during the campaign to go and sign the death order. he was being >accused by the republicans of being soft on criminals. just saw >clinton on the telly saying no one in their right mind would beleive >he ordered the bombings to saty in power. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 19 09:17:50 PST 1998

41344 Fwd: 1998-12-18 Presidential Message on Ramadan -- rank: 1000

[They sure have a funny way of sending holiday greetings.] Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 21:14 -0500 From: The White House <Publications-Admin at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov> To: Public-Distribution at Pub.Pub.WhiteHouse.Gov Subject: 1998-12-18 Presidential Message on Ramadan Keywords: Culture,District-Of-Columbia,Mid-Atlantic-Region,President,Principal-Statement,S ocial,Topical-Remarks Document-ID: pdi://oma.eop.gov.us/1998/12/18/8.text.1 URL: http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/uri-res/I2R?urn:pdi://oma.e ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Dec 19 08:44:41 PST 1998

41345 music question -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >A propos of absolutely nothing, can anyone tell what was the big deal >about the Beach Boys, and the cult of Brian Wilson in particular? I hear >them on the radio, and always try to reconcile what I am hearing with what >I hear about Brian Wilson being mind bogglingly brilliant, but I can't. >What am I missing? Nothing, as far as I can tell. They sound insipid to me - all that damn easy melody & easy harmony. Give me Cat Power anyday. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 21:32:04 PST 1998

41346 2. On tobacco and impeachment. -- rank: 1000

PS: This is the total for the 1996 elections; my $433 million was just a partial count. $2.4 billion. Tobacco's $10m is big, but it's not *that* big. Philip Morris is a big giver, but so are the trial lawyers. Public Money $211 million Small Donations $734 million Large Individual Donors $597 million Political Action Committees (PACs) $243 million Soft money $262 million Candidates $16 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 17:21:54 PST 1998

41347 2. On tobacco and impeachment. -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: > Like >Johnson he knew that to defeat the core southern >constituency he had to dismantle its funding. Total >war against tobacco was a strike at a core economic >pillar of the Republican party. >From the Center for Responsive Politics website <http://www.crp.org/pubs/tobaccotally.htm>: Total Dems Repubs 1979-94 PACs $10,683,569 $5,515,110 $5,164,559 1991-92 Total $ 5,730,328 $2,471,568 $3,253,441 1993-94 Total $ 5,143 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 17:14:21 PST 1998

41348 1. On Iraq -- rank: 1000

Greg Nowell wrote: >So, Doug, I share your frustration with Clinton but I >find it unsophisticated. I'm just a simple guy. >Virtually no President of our >capitalist society would be behaving much differently. Which is exactly why I regret defending him. All this "marginally better" crap is precisely why the choices are so fucking awful. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 16:54:50 PST 1998

41349 Fisk on Iraq -- rank: 1000

[Scott Ritter, friend of the Mossad, is all over the various NBC outlets as an "analyst."] The Independent (18 Dec 1998) Robert Fisk - Deadly cost of a degrading act WE ARE now in the endgame, the final bankruptcy of Western policy towards Iraq, the very last throw of the dice. We fire 200 cruise missiles into Iraq and what do we expect? Is a chastened Saddam Hussein going to emerge from his bunker to explain to us how sorry he is? Will he tell us how much he wants those nice UN inspec ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 16:48:37 PST 1998

41350 another hit on mike davis -- rank: 1000

christian a. gregory wrote: >non-fate latte Only in L.A. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 12:21:48 PST 1998

41351 culture and illness -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >the "addict" identity I don't know much about this, but something bothers me about framing people as damaged, "recovering" but never recovered. Is there any critique of/alternative to this? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 12:20:28 PST 1998

41352 Billy C -- rank: 1000

Paul Henry Rosenberg wrote: >Oh, I forgot! I'm posting to the list where the SOPHISTICATED position >is that the South should have won the Civil War! No it's not. What the hell are you talking about? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 10:29:48 PST 1998

41353 Blair's strong supporting role -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Micah Timothy Holmquist wrote: > >> >> So what do people think the real goal of the policy is? > >I've never really understood this in any satisfactory way either. In the run-up to the Gulf War, I interviewed former CIA director Stansfield Turner on the radio. I asked him what the U.S. would do if it "won." He said he had no idea, and didn't think anyone in the Bush administration did either. It seems useful for both domestic and international ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 10:14:13 PST 1998

41354 Fwd: re: culture and illness -- rank: 1000

[This was sent to me rather than the list - in error, I think. So I'm forwarding it.] From: "Fellows, Jeffrey" <jmf9 at cdc.gov> To: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: re: culture and illness Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1998 11:20:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 I have been reading this thread with interest and would like to make a couple of points. 1. In response to Doug's question, I don't know have a good sense of the effectiveness of drug and alcohol treatment. If I can use ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 08:53:37 PST 1998

41355 culture and illness -- rank: 1000

Alec Ramsdell wrote: >My criticism of addiction treatment is that it is too quick to accept >the medical model of addiction, before other possible disabling >conditions. Most addiction treatments have pretty dismal records, don't they? The rabidly anti-drug Mitch Rosenthal of Phoenix House has refused to let anyone study their success rate, which leads one to assume it's very low. AA also has a high recidivism rate, no (not to mention all that "higher power" crap)? Does anythi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Dec 18 07:21:57 PST 1998