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4876 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 7, 2009, at 6:46 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > But surely it is more damaging that, according to my straw poll, no > working scientists seem to be remotely interested in the philosophy > of science. No business people seem very interested in a critique of capitalism. Should we give that up? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 18:07:02 PST 2009

4877 [lbo-talk] new Goldner -- rank: 1000

From: Loren Goldner <lrgoldner at yahoo.com> Date: November 7, 2009 2:01:12 AM EST To: dhenwood at panix.com Subject: New article Hi Doug- I just put a new article on the Break Their Haughty Power web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner on the origins of Turkish communism in the early 1920's (following a trip there in September). Perhaps it's a bit off topic for your list; if not,can you post an announcement? My new Capital study group (in part with your help) got off the ground w ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 7 11:36:18 PST 2009

4878 [lbo-talk] Maine ballot initiatives -- rank: 1000

Some follow-up postings by the AAPORites suggest that the misunderstandings probably balance each other out - i.e., roughly equal numbers vote yes when they want to vote no and vice versa. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 6 11:14:10 PST 2009

4879 [lbo-talk] Maine ballot initiatives -- rank: 1000

[Posted to the AAPOR list and forwarded with permission. Typo corrected.] From: Jan Werner <jwerner at JWDP.COM> Date: November 6, 2009 11:30:28 AM EST To: AAPORNET at ASU.EDU Subject: Maine ballot initiatives The Maine ballot initiative to repeal the gay marriage law (Question 1) read: "Do you want to reject the new law that lets same-sex couples marry and allows individuals and religious groups to refuse to perform these marriages?" A "Yes" vote on the people's veto ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 6 09:44:35 PST 2009

4880 [lbo-talk] DeLong repents -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:34 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I don't think DeLong knows much about Kalecki. Nope. He doesn't know much about Marx, either - but that's never stopped him. Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 17:46:58 PST 2009

4881 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:48 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 02:34 PM 11/5/2009, Shane Mage wrote: > > >>> On what basis do you value democracy? The American founding >>> fathers saw it as some kind of gift from god... >> >> The error here could not be more total. > > > Fucking hell. Do you have to make everything sound like a > pronouncement? It's a deformation professionelle of the Trot.

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 15:00:51 PST 2009

4882 [lbo-talk] rehabilitating Stalin -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2009, at 3:14 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > You don't actually believe this, do you? I believe everything that Popbitch says.

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4883 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

James, did all those years in the RCP teach you this bullheaded tendentiousness? On Nov 5, 2009, at 3:07 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > 'opposition to racism, totalitarianism, etc., in the name of > *spirit* or universal human rights or some other axiom (i.e., > something taken as self-evidently true, or assumed from the > outset),' is not convincing. > > This is your version of Derrida's list: '*spirit* or universal human > rights or some other axiom ' > > But this is ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 13:19:02 PST 2009

4884 [lbo-talk] rehabilitating Stalin -- rank: 1000

[from Popbitch] >> Stalin revisited << Wanted: PR firm who will do anything If Max Clifford ever gets bored with his job hiding any skeletons Simon Cowell might have, here's a new one for him - and possibly an easier one - rescuing Stalin's reputation. Russia is looking for a Brussels-based PR company for a new campaign, which will include casting "a positive light on the actions of the Soviet Union before and after World War II in order to justify the idea that modern Russia s ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 11:55:00 PST 2009

4885 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2009, at 4:13 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > He reiterates the point in an attack on anti-fascism (just as bad as > fascism, apparently): 'opposition to racism, totalitarianism, to > Nazism, to fascism' that is undertaken 'in the name of the spirit, > and even of the freedom of (the) spirit, in the name of an axiomatic > - for example, that of democracy or "human rights" - which directly > or not comes back to this metaphysics of Subjectivity.' The meaning &g ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 11:43:52 PST 2009

4886 [lbo-talk] DeLong repents -- rank: 1000

<http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2009/11/zomfg-wtf-95-third-quarter-productivity-growth-number.html > ZOMFG WTF!!!!! 9.5% THIRD QUARTER PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH NUMBER!!!! I WAS EXPECTING A 6% PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH QUARTER, BUT THIS IS RIDICULOUS!!! Productivity increased 9.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector during the third quarter of 2009 as unit labor costs fell 5.2 percent (seasonally adjusted annual rates). In manufacturing, productivity increased 13.6 percent while unit labor costs ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 09:36:29 PST 2009

4887 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > oug: But as for the rest of the field of science studies, my sense > from talking with Sokal was that he really doesn't know what he's > talking about - for him, there's no intelligent critique of science. > Truth is just obvious and self-evident. E.g., I asked him what he > thought of the Frankfurt school & their critique of instrumental > reason and he had no idea what I was talking about. For me, the > result of ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 09:31:56 PST 2009

4888 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 5, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Andy wrote: > So when Sokal pulled his stunt, and then explained in his apologia: > > <http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/afterword_v1a/afterword_v1a_singlefile.html > > > > [...] > > But why did I do it? I confess that I'm an unabashed Old Leftist I spent some time talking to Sokal just after his stunt. I was initially sympathetic, but then turned on him. Ok, he proved that Stanley Aronowitz is a fool. To me, that's obvious and ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 5 08:25:37 PST 2009

4889 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 8:04 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > I'm pretty sure that what Euby means is that the presuppositions of > a "system of knowing" (for lack of a better term) cannot themselves > be demonstrated within that system. For instance, "every event has a > cause" cannot be demonstrated. It's just assumed. Yeah, faith and all that. But putting on my editorial hat - or, as I read recently in the NYT style section, my curatorial hat - I think posters should spend ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 4 17:15:50 PST 2009

4890 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Eubulides wrote: > Arationality rather than irrationality; nonfoundationalism, etc. > > Fideism, secularized. > > The Keirkegaard revival is apropos. > > > http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fideism/ It would be a kindness if you tried to be a little less cryptic. Doug

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