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41386 false & true? -- rank: 1000

Anyone know if or where Marx wrote "The false is a moment in the true"? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 21:48:48 PST 1998

41387 cyberutopian libertarianism -- rank: 1000

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: >I sincerely believe I'll live long enough to see Microsoft's demise, or, at >least, cutting to size. Not thanks to anti-trust action, but simply because >they won't be able to move fast enough. Did you ever have a moment where you thought that maybe furious change for the sake of production is an appalling, destructive, even oppressive thing? Even just a nanosecond? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 20:07:54 PST 1998

41388 Nuts and berries -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Of course, as Ev Ehrlich once said, carry that argument to its conclusion, >and we would have 80 million people employed today in hunting and >gathering, all of them receiving government subsidies as they look for nuts >and berries... > >Why isn't it a better policy for the long run--even for the medium run--to >tax and spend to accelerate the long-run structural evolution of the >economy (along with a healthy social-democratic program of redistributi ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 19:36:33 PST 1998

41389 cyberutopian libertarianism -- rank: 1000

michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote: >Yes, until you get to be about 40 and the industry considers you to be so >much dead meat. > >You have a still immature sector where start ups are still common, unlike >the mature sectors, such as steel, coal, textiles, but also media. Little >by little, the AOLs >and the Microsofts invade this still fertile turf. As that happens, the >brave libertarianism >common to that sector will dissipate. Still it's amazing how long an ideol ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 18:58:45 PST 1998

41390 Merger Mania -- rank: 1000

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: >>>No you shouldn't: low tech is what industries in the 3rd world can do >best, >>>and if you flood their market with subsidized products you destroy their >>>fledgling industries. Instead, you should open your markets and _buy_ >their >>>products. Even if this upsets your steel lobby (and your textile lobby, >and >>>your toy lobby and...) >> >>And what line of work are you in? > > >I'm not sure a ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 17:36:29 PST 1998

41391 biotech report suppressed -- rank: 1000

INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY - December 13, 1998 Revealed: risks of genetic food By Marie Woolf, Political Correspondent A KEY government report on the effects of growing genetically modified crops has been suppressed because of its controversial warning of serious environmental risks. It says there are serious dangers to Britain's hedgerows, birds and indigenous plants from growing GM crops on a commercial scale. The report, commissioned by ministers to assess the potential effects of cultivating GM f ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 16:04:05 PST 1998

41392 Pop Music and Fascism -- rank: 1000

Alex LoCascio wrote: >Far more interesting to me is the Slovenian performance art/rock band >Laibach. Wasn't Zizek their theoretical advisor? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 13:10:51 PST 1998

41393 Fascist Music -- rank: 1000

Daniel wrote: >What if I were to claim that virtually all popular music of our time is >fascist music. As a musician, I would be glad to discuss the basis on which >such determinations can and should be made, but, rather than bore you all, >why don't I just enumerate some of the more telling signs of fascism in >music. First is loudness. Second, a relentless beat. Third, a remorseless >bass, which together with the aforementioned beat, I like to call the "iron >boot.&qu ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 11:52:54 PST 1998

41394 Merger Mania -- rank: 1000

Enzo Michelangeli wrote: >No you shouldn't: low tech is what industries in the 3rd world can do best, >and if you flood their market with subsidized products you destroy their >fledgling industries. Instead, you should open your markets and _buy_ their >products. Even if this upsets your steel lobby (and your textile lobby, and >your toy lobby and...) And what line of work are you in? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 13 10:58:08 PST 1998

41395 debt and bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

rc&am wrote: >can anyone file fro bankruptcy, or is this only relevant to certain >kinds of debt, for instance? In the U.S. right now, it's easy to file for bankruptcy - over 1 million people do every year, the highest rate (relative to population) in our history. No surprise, since personal debt levels are also at records. Not all kinds of debt can be "discharged" (as they say) in a bankruptcy - tax debt, student loans, and child support can't be wiped away. But the major ca ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 21:21:32 PST 1998

41396 Third world issues -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Vandana Shiva an activist? No of course not, and you're right. I was pointing to her as the kind of "green" that anti-enviros like Ron Arnold and James Heartfield generalize from. But where do green activists go for theory? Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 17:56:02 PST 1998

41397 debt and bankruptcy -- rank: 1000

rc&am wrote: >does anyone have any take on the relation between bankruptcy laws (for >those who may use toher people's labour) and debt (whihc applies to >everybody else)?? > >i have some notion this is vastly different, but beyond this... It's pretty simple: when people get too deeply into debt, they sometimes file for bankruptcy. Personal bankruptcy laws in the U.S. are probably the most indulgent in the world, though our Congress is trying busily to change that, using a bil ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 11:39:31 PST 1998

41398 Third world issues -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote, responding to James Heartfield: >>All over the third world now, such ativists >>lecture people in destitution that they must not leave the countryside >>for the towns, that they should not aspire to Western standards of >>living, but Western values of ecological austerity. > >Ah, just as I thought. You are imaginging things. There are no such >activists. None whatsoever. Oh there's one or two. E.g. Vandana Shiva, who jets around the world - f ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 11:37:37 PST 1998

41399 Marxism in the USA -- rank: 1000

Someone asked here about whether Verso had plans to reprint Paul Buhle's Marxism in the USA. Colin Robinson, their editorial director, told me the other night that they're not going to. Doug

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 11:31:36 PST 1998

41400 percentage of transportation cost? -- rank: 1000

David Powers wrote: >Hi ... I've been staring at the "work detail" graph in LBO #86. I'm a >transportation activist in San Francisco, and I'm wondering, this >climb in hours needed for median income seems to coincide with >increased car trips in the usa, and increased car ownership. > >I won't and don't isolate that as a cause of the work increase but >I'd like to somehow find out how much of an effect greater individual >transportation costs had on the cost of ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 12 11:28:49 PST 1998