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451 [lbo-talk] Karl Rove's plan -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Charles Post has done a pretty exhaustive > history of who did the fighting (initially at least) in all the great > upsurges of working-class struggle, and almost _always_ it was that sector > of the working-class which too many leftists (including Marx, Engels, Lenin, > & Trotsky) have sneered at -- the so-called labor aristocracy. No such sneers from me. I don't like that term at all.

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Date:	Thu Jun 7 11:20:33 PDT 2012

452 [lbo-talk] Karl Rove's plan -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2012, at 12:23 PM, ken hanly wrote: > The U.S. citizens also needs to experience what austerity is like for real so that the experience will turn them against the Republican austerity mongers. More likely they'll turn on Mexicans and each other. Canadians. Doug

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Date:	Thu Jun 7 09:29:39 PDT 2012

453 [lbo-talk] Fw: Geopolitics with Robert D. Kaplan: Is Greece European? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 7, 2012, at 10:38 AM, CHRISTOPHERR CARRICO wrote: > He probably > thinks that the answer to the Greek crisis is to send in the drones. Nah, just German colonial officials.

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454 [lbo-talk] me on Wisc -- rank: 1000

Me on Walker etc.: http://lbo-news.com/2012/06/06/walkers-victory-un-sugar-coated/

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Date:	Wed Jun 6 12:05:17 PDT 2012

455 [lbo-talk] WI recall FWIW -- rank: 1000

On Jun 6, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Quinn Hechtkopf wrote: > PMC = Private Military Company ? Professional-managerial class.

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456 [lbo-talk] WI recall FWIW -- rank: 1000

On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:48 AM, James Leveque wrote: > This is, of course, keeping in mind that the Dems were never really a > union party to begin with. But I am saying that it's had a functional, > if deeply exploitative, relationship with unions. Now it just looks > like the party is willing to sacrifice even that relationship. It wants the PMCs who are liberal on social issues and centrist on fiscal policy - the portion of the elite repelled by the yahooism of the Republicans. The PM ...

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457 [lbo-talk] [SPAM_ISU] :Re: Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2012, at 11:45 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug gives (or cites) an excellent definition of historicism -- which is > Graebeer's quite false mode of analysis. Origins of a phenomenon DO NOT > EXPLAIN IT. Historicists assume that origins define meaning. That fallacy > pervades Graeber's thought.. You've been making this point for a while and I think I've finally grasped its importance. Also, the way we understand things backwards. Those historical "roots" often only ma ...

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458 [lbo-talk] Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit -- rank: 1000

On Jun 5, 2012, at 3:52 AM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > what do you mean by "hostility to economics"? The state is always paramount, the first and last cause of everything. So there's this, and his lack of a discussion of how debt (never credit) functions under capitalism. Roger Lancaster (an anthropologist) had a nice comment on Facebook - there's a tendency among anthros to look for explanations of modern behavior in classic texts and earlier societies and say that's it, they'v ...

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459 [lbo-talk] Of flying cars and the declining rate of profit -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2012, at 10:54 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Another great essay by Graeber > > http://www.thebaffler.com/past/of_flying_cars/print This captures my beef with Graeber - his hostility to economics: "With results like these, what will the epitaph for neoliberalism look like? I think historians will conclude it was a form of capitalism that systematically prioritized political imperatives over economic ones. Given a choice between a course of action that would make capi ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 20:07:22 PDT 2012

460 [lbo-talk] Smart about smartphones? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2012, at 8:12 PM, lasko wrote: > On 6/4/12 7:41 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:17 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: >> >>> If you're in a strange city, a smart phone is a great blessing being at once a map, a phone, a camera, and a mobile, lightweight computer. >> >> In a strange city? I do that at least 10 times a day in Brooklyn. > > > http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/opinion/sunday/the-death-of-the-cyberflaneur.h ...

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461 [lbo-talk] Smart about smartphones? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2012, at 6:17 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > If you're in a strange city, a smart phone is a great blessing being at once a map, a phone, a camera, and a mobile, lightweight computer. In a strange city? I do that at least 10 times a day in Brooklyn.

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 16:41:05 PDT 2012

462 [lbo-talk] Smart about smartphones? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > The sad truth is that it costs way more to provide cell service than people are willing to pay. I get your point, but they're paying it. And AT&T and Verizon are hardly wanting for return. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 11:43:07 PDT 2012

463 [lbo-talk] Smart about smartphones? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2012, at 2:25 PM, // ravi wrote: > The data rates have been getting worse recently, but up until now was adequate. They've gotten considerably better in Brooklyn - about 220kB/s down and 180kB/s up lately. A year or so ago, much slower, with lots of drop-outs. Now very few. True of both our neighborhood and closer to downtown. So they must have put in a few new towers. Voice signal strength has gotten better too. Yeah, I'd rather pay less, but it doesn't feel totally outrageous. Dou ...

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464 [lbo-talk] Smart about smartphones? -- rank: 1000

On Jun 4, 2012, at 2:06 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > Is there anyway to get a smartphone without getting totally ripped off AND still getting good reception? It's indecent how much I love my iPhone. So I don't quite get what you mean by "ripped off." Doug

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Date:	Mon Jun 4 11:22:45 PDT 2012

465 [lbo-talk] Ace -- rank: 1000

My contribution to the Cockburn memorial series: http://lbo-news.com/2012/07/23/alexander-cockburn/ Doug

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