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4591 [lbo-talk] celebrate the vulva in all its, um, diversity! -- rank: 1000

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Oct 16 18:19:05 PDT 2009

4592 [lbo-talk] Gore Vidal: Tim McVeigh was "a true patriot, a Constitution man" -- rank: 1000

<http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6854221.ece > Vidal became a supportive correspondent of Timothy McVeigh, who blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Building in Oklahoma City in 1995 killing 168 people. The huge loss of life, indeed McVeigh s act of mass murder, goes unmentioned by Vidal. He was a true patriot, a Constitution man, Vidal claims. And I was torn, my grandfather [the Democrat Senator Thomas Gore] had bought Oklahoma into the Union. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 15 17:40:14 PDT 2009

4593 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 15, 2009, at 11:00 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > Because I'm at least as skeptical > of class politics as I am of identity politics, and I think there are > lots of problems with calls by Michaels and others here for a "return" > to heroic class politics Where does he do that?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Oct 15 08:13:51 PDT 2009

4594 [lbo-talk] Bloomberg's plan for BW: make it better, charge more -- rank: 1000

[Swimming against the death of print tide. BusinessWeek has gotten pretty thin and crappy over the last few years.] <http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=139652> Bloomberg's Radical Plan for BusinessWeek: Better Editorial New Ownership Looks to Improve Circulation Revenue by Charging More by Nat Ives Published: October 13, 2009 NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Bloomberg is looking at new opportunities to sell ad packages combining BusinessWeek and Bloomberg.com inventory, but the deal ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 14 08:40:52 PDT 2009

4595 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2009, at 9:43 AM, c b wrote: > In sum, capitalism _in Asia_ , too, "needs" White > supremacy. Present tense? Sure, the imperialism that produced white supremacy alongside it, was crucial to the global establishment of capitalism. But you may have noticed that the U.S. now owes China over a trillion dollars. According to the classical Leninist model, which as I recall you endorse (though I don't), that would make China the dominant, and the U.S. the exploited, part ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 14 08:23:27 PDT 2009

4596 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2009, at 8:26 AM, Asad Haider wrote: > I won't get into "necessary conditions," but white supremacy > certainly has a > robust existence in Asia, with its "fairness creams" and eyelid > surgeries.... For sure, but is that what's been driving 10% growth rates in China for the last 20 years?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 14 08:21:13 PDT 2009

4597 [lbo-talk] the other diversities -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Joanna wrote: > In the interview he did with you, he argued that we are a "post- > race" society. I just listened to the interview again - when you're doing live radio, you're often distracted and can't follow everything - and he says no such thing. He explicitly says that racism still matters, and the society is still full of racists. He also says that victories over racism and sexism are entirely good things (though a lot of anti- racists and a ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 14 08:16:12 PDT 2009

4598 [lbo-talk] the other diversities -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:46 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > At 03:56 PM 10/13/2009, Doug Henwood wrote: >> No one, least of all me, is arguing that x isn't lived >> through y or vice versa, > > > I can't parse this sentence. What does it mean? Race lived through gender, gender through class, etc. etc. It's hardly an original formulation.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 14 05:19:25 PDT 2009

4599 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 14, 2009, at 7:57 AM, c b wrote: > White supremacy is a necessary condition of capitalism. Even in Asia?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Oct 14 05:17:45 PDT 2009

4600 [lbo-talk] the other diversities -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Joanna wrote: > The Blain stuff you quote is as disgusting as it is grotesque, but > there is much more to the race issue today than Blain. Of course. Who ever said otherwise?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 20:15:03 PDT 2009

4601 [lbo-talk] the other diversities -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 3:31 PM, Voyou wrote: > I'm not sure that's right. It's odd to characterize shag as arguing > against orthodox Marxism, when one of the things she has been > criticizing Michaels for is his non-Marxist understanding of class. > Even > if you re-interpret Michaels's point in Marxist terms, the problem is > not over-emphasizing the base at the expense of the superstructure; > the > problem is considering race and gender to be parts of the > superstruc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 12:56:33 PDT 2009

4602 [lbo-talk] corporate rationality -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 12:58 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > Doug knows that blacks make somewhere around two-thirds the > amount of money whites do, that blacks are a kajillion times more > likely to be in prison, and a whole host of other facts that show that > racial minorities have it worse under capitalism Really? Jesus, I didn't know that! Gotta look into this race thing.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 10:37:55 PDT 2009

4603 [lbo-talk] the other diversities -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 8:41 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > On my way out of the door, don't have time to represent the WBM > defenders on > the list, but I just wanted to add that Reed is a fan and colleague > of WBM. Yes, and who finds shag's version of WBM unrecognizable.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 09:30:17 PDT 2009

4604 [lbo-talk] capitalism needs... -- rank: 1000

On Oct 13, 2009, at 7:54 AM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > you don't think it needs ideology? wow! Everything needs ideology. Humans can't exist without it.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 09:11:29 PDT 2009

4605 [lbo-talk] capitalism needs... -- rank: 1000

There have been a lot of sentences beginning "Capitalism needs..." around here lately. As far as I can tell, the only transhistorical thing you can say about capital's needs is profits. Aside from that, the thing is very flexible. Strong state, weak state; regulation or deregulation; slave labor or free labor; vertical integration or outsourcing; Jim Crow or "diversity."

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 13 04:36:56 PDT 2009