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4291 [lbo-talk] money and s*x -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:01 PM, B. wrote: > But Emma Goldman sure was. Is that verboten to say on a list full of > capital-M Marxists? :) Of course not. And I don't think the consensus is too capital-M around here.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:21:45 PDT 2010

4292 [lbo-talk] the proclamation -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:42 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > You don't have to be sympathetic to the Confederacy to see the > actions of the Union as a resort to coercion. Then three cheers for coercion. If only the South had really really lost. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:13:07 PDT 2010

4293 [lbo-talk] AFL-CIO pres on class anger -- rank: 1000

On Apr 8, 2010, at 10:44 AM, brad bauerly quoted Richard Trumka: > And at this moment, the labor movement is working to give voice to the > justified anger of the American people. We need help. We need public > intellectuals who will help design the policies that will replace the > bubble economy with a real, sustainable economy that works for all of > us. So, in the service of that, we will continue to write big checks to Democratic politicians. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:08:15 PDT 2010

4294 [lbo-talk] hysterical appeal from The Nation -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:02 PM, Joanna wrote: > MHL wrote: > > "We must now guard against the descent of a vicious new Jim Crow > terrorism." > > Wow. That's a beaut. There are so many idiocies in that sentence my > brain just exploded She's like that, isn't she? Her awfulness is like a distillation of a certain kind of idiotic liberalism into its purest essence. Someone saw her on the Olbermann show the other night and said that she succeeded in the difficult task ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 8 04:40:47 PDT 2010

4295 [lbo-talk] the proclamation -- rank: 1000

[added text is ***'d] http://www.governor.virginia.gov/OurCommonwealth/Proclamations/2010/ConfederateHistoryMonth.cfm Confederate History Month WHEREAS, April is the month in which the people of Virginia joined the Confederate States of America in a four year war between the states for independence that concluded at Appomattox Courthouse; and WHEREAS, Virginia has long recognized her Confederate history, the numerous civil war battlefields that mark every region of the state, the leaders ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Apr 7 15:47:48 PDT 2010

4296 [lbo-talk] oops, forgot about slavery! -- rank: 1000

-------------------- News Alert: Virginia governor apologizes for leaving slavery out of Confederate History Month proclamation 06:11 PM EDT Wednesday, April 7, 2010 -------------------- Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell (R) apologized late Wednesday for failing to include slavery in his proclamation declaring April as Confederate History Month. In his statement, McDonnell said slavery "has left a stain on the soul of this state and nation." For more information, visit washingtonpo ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 15:44:37 PDT 2010

4297 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Afternoon Update: Upheaval in Kyrgyzstan as LeaderFlees -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:10 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I wonder how long this can go on before even the U.S. Secretary of > State > has trouble keeping a straight face as she/he announces a new phase in > the "War Against Terrorism." Longer than any of us probably thinks. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 15:20:47 PDT 2010

4298 [lbo-talk] The Death of a Nation (on Melissa Harris-Lacewell and The Nation magazine) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I didn't mean to promote Cockburn, but I do absolutely deny in no > uncertain > terms that the Tea Party "threat" has been grossly exaggerated by > liberal commentators and the hate merchants at the Southern Poverty > Law > Center. Lemme see if I'm parsing this correctly: you deny the exaggeration of the "threat"? Why do you put it in quotes then?

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 12:20:22 PDT 2010

4299 [lbo-talk] Carrol-baiting versus actual discussion (WAS: Re: west on obama and boycotts) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Andy wrote: > I should follow Doug's recent example and not rise to the bait I want to report excellent results from the experiment. My only remaining grudge now is against Stanley Aronowitz. Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 12:11:04 PDT 2010

4300 [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox: > I am getting increasingly impatient with this utter failure on the > part > of so many who call themselves leftists to recognize that the issue is > organizing ourselves. Then we can talk about "reaching out" but not > before. Chip Berlet: > I'm with Carrol on this one... Then why do you spend so much time on the right-wing "threat"? Is it a way of organizing ourselves, a way of binding the left to the Dems, or what? Doug

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 11:30:49 PDT 2010

4301 [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:55 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > There's no fucking there, there. Give it the fuck up. Spend your > energies on freakin people who matter. It's not these ratfuckers > that's for sure. Yeah. It's much more promising to spend time proselytizing among people who think more or less like us - who are either sympathetic but inactive or those who are close but not quite with us (e.g., the growing number of disillusioned liberals) - than among these reactionaries and n ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 08:03:59 PDT 2010

4302 [lbo-talk] hysterical appeal from The Nation -- rank: 1000

[As they say in The New Yorker, letters we stopped reading...] Dear Friend: Bitter opponents charge our first black president with totalitarianism and offer states-rights arguments in an effort to repeal sweeping health care reform. Nation columnist Melissa Harris-Lacewell framed in no uncertain terms the challenge we face from the Tea Party resistance: "There are historic lessons to be learned. But they are the lessons of the 19th century not the 20th. We must now guard against the des ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 7 08:01:05 PDT 2010

4303 [lbo-talk] money and s*x -- rank: 1000

[from an anonymous piece by a male patron of high-end courtesans in the new ish of Filthy Gorgeous Things] The paradoxes of courtesanship surprise even those in the industry; a courtesan (I can't think of a better word) once confessed to me: I don t understand why, as a class, most of the men I ve seen as clients have been good fucks. Much better than the men that don t partake in the industry. I don t understand why: you d think it would be the reverse." My reply: It s because, as ...

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 18:50:43 PDT 2010

4304 [lbo-talk] Demographic composition of the Tea Party -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:14 PM, brad bauerly wrote: > I just don't > understand why we should shoehorn people into one of the two > capitalist > parties. You think independents aren't pro-capitalist? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 17:22:26 PDT 2010

4305 [lbo-talk] Random sights from an afternoon walk in Brooklyn -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2010, at 5:49 PM, Julio Huato wrote: > http://www.google.com/buzz/juliohuato/Z5tyxkzTY1u/http-picasaweb-google-com-juliohuato-DropBox > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk Hey, that's my 'hood! We're 1/2 a block from the mural in the 3rd shot. Marx is around the corner from Ivan's old daycare. Aren't those flowering trees on Greene gawjus? Doug

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Date:	Tue Apr 6 15:33:58 PDT 2010