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4891 [lbo-talk] conversation with derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 7:08 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > No, it was Hegel, Marx, Korsch, Lukacs who historicised social > categories. Heidegger and Derrida who refused the possibility, by a > destruction of ontology, and an endless deferral of specification. > They did not historicise the subject, but abolish it altogether. Where? How?

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4892 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 6:42 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Because if you're the kind of person who believes in "reason" (or > science, or the good, or whatever) as the Salvation of Humanity, the > notion that it is rooted in the nonrational (or the non-good, or non- > whatever) is terrifying, because it points to the irrationality of > your own belief. Why does historicizing something - taking it out of the realm of timeless nature and inserting it into social processes - render ...

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4893 [lbo-talk] Conversation with Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > For the con side on Derrida, he answers almost everything that has > been > thrown against him. For the pro-side, I think Derrida does a beautiful > job of explaining and demonstrating what he means and how he goes > about > it. The basic message, I think, is that our concepts of subject, > rationialism, nation, and other cherished projects are always an > ongoing > system. So then, the method of deconstructing them is ...

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4894 [lbo-talk] conservatives outnumber liberals by more than 2-1 -- rank: 1000

<http://www.gallup.com/poll/123854/Conservatives-Maintain-Edge-Top-Ideological-Group.aspx > October 26, 2009 Conservatives Maintain Edge as Top Ideological Group Compared with 2008, more Americans conservative in general, and on issues by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ -- Conservatives continue to outnumber moderates and liberals in the American populace in 2009, confirming a finding that Gallup first noted in June. Forty percent of Americans describe their political views as conservative, ...

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4895 [lbo-talk] Americans: Obama = liberal -- rank: 1000

http://www.gallup.com/poll/124094/Majority-Say-Obama-Policies-Mostly-Liberal.aspx In U.S., Majority Now Say Obama s Policies "Mostly Liberal" Fewer than half believe he has kept his election promises by Lydia Saad PRINCETON, NJ -- A majority of Americans now see President Barack Obama as governing from the left. Specifically, 54% say his policies as president have been mostly liberal while 34% call them mostly moderate. This contrasts with public expectations right after Obama's el ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 4 12:09:01 PST 2009

4896 [lbo-talk] U.S. Working-Class Political Incapacity -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > The incapacity of the U.S. Working Class for political action and the > barriers to development of political capacity may be summarized in two > phrases: > > Innere Cities > > Prioson Population (Black and Latino) So the U.S. working class consists of the poor and incarcerated? The motor of social revolution will be less than 15% of the population? The most detached elements of society with the least social power? Doug

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4897 [lbo-talk] Reed piece -- rank: 1000

The editors at Black Agenda Report liked Adolph Reed's LBO piece enough to reprint it. They didn't ask, but I'm not going to complain. http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/limits-anti-racism

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4898 [lbo-talk] pretty much as predicted -- rank: 1000

On Nov 4, 2009, at 10:02 AM, Sean Andrews wrote: > But isn't this a bit like shooting fish in a barrel? I mean this > prediction is almost as assured as the sun rising. I'm interested to > know: do you think they are wrong? Do you think this is at all > evidence that it might have been better to actually be remotely > leftist in terms of the policies actually written by the > administration? Or is this just wishful thinking on the part of > people who wouldn't know a le ...

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4899 [lbo-talk] pretty much as predicted -- rank: 1000

[from Mike Allen's Daily Update] THE BLOGS, by Michael Falcone: --DEMOCRATS HAVE A 'BASE PROBLEM' -- DailyKos's Markos Moulitsas Zuniga: 'This is what Democrats better take from tonight: 1. If you abandon Democratic principles in a bid for unnecessary 'bipartisanship,' you will lose votes. 2. If you water down reform in favor of Blue Dogs and their corporate benefactors, you will lose votes. 3. If you forget why you were elected -- health care, financial services, energy policy and immigra ...

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4900 [lbo-talk] more shapeless pissed-off'ed-ness -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2009, at 11:56 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > General Note. All this whole set of threads and the texts they took > off > from do is give a description of the current terrain of struggle. > Hence > my remark (I think) in an earlier post about complaining of the rain > because it wetsone. Lots of Leftists think any damn thing you can > think > up, and except for self-clarification and entertainment arguing > about it > outside the context of actual organizing is s ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 4 06:36:17 PST 2009

4901 [lbo-talk] nostalgia -- rank: 1000

Me, at about 10:30. <http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/tomorrows-election-analysis-tonight/ > Tomorrow s election analysis tonight A year after being pronounced dead, the Republicans are resurgent! Liberals will say that this proves that Obama must move to the left, but Obama will tack to the right. The rightward tilt will prompt a spate of anguished blog posts and Nation editorials wondering why Obama is doing it. --- Katrina vanden Heuvel, 10:57 <http://twitter.com/Katri ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 3 20:09:20 PST 2009

4902 [lbo-talk] Elizabeth Warren bio piece -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > And to be honest, I didn't realize she was being seriously bruited > to be the head of the consumer protection agency, which would be aces: That would never, ever happen. Even if there is a consumer protection agency. Doug

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4903 [lbo-talk] tomorrow's election analysis tonight -- rank: 1000

Tomorrow's election analysis tonight: http://bit.ly/3JDyyI

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Date:	Tue Nov 3 19:22:18 PST 2009

4904 [lbo-talk] more shapeless pissed-off'ed-ness -- rank: 1000

Vast economic discontent marked the mood of Tuesday s off-year voters, portending potential trouble for incumbents generally and Democrats in particular in 2010. Still the gubernatorial elections in Virginia and New Jersey looked less like a referendum on Barack Obama than a reflection of their own candidates and issues. See the ABC News story at: http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Politics/election-2009-virginia-jersey-exit-polls-obama-economy/story?id=8984551

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4905 [lbo-talk] do people still read post-structuralism? -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:42 PM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > at least if i count as being on the list I certainly hope so. Doug

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