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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.
Document Size: 4940
Author: Doug Henwood
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
Document Size: 4722
Author: Doug Henwood
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.
Document Size: 5051
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Thu Jun 7 07:46:30 PDT 2012
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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Author: Doug Henwood
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.
Document Size: 4537
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 6 10:32:49 PDT 2012
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 ...
Document Size: 5166
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Wed Jun 6 09:41:26 PDT 2012
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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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 5 08:54:14 PDT 2012
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 ...
Document Size: 5410
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Tue Jun 5 04:01:34 PDT 2012
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 ...
Document Size: 5883
Author: Doug Henwood
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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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 4 17:25:23 PDT 2012
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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Author: Doug Henwood
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
Document Size: 4766
Author: Doug Henwood
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 ...
Document Size: 5017
Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jun 4 11:36:45 PDT 2012
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
Document Size: 4859
Author: Doug Henwood
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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Author: Doug Henwood
Date: Mon Jul 23 19:13:29 PDT 2012
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