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4906 [lbo-talk] How radical was Derrida? (was 'does anyone read poststructuralism anymore?') -- rank: 1000

On Nov 3, 2009, at 2:46 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Doug thinks I enjoy pissing on Michaels. I did at first. But I've > changed my mind. Glad to hear it. Maybe it's the result of having a kid who looks for the good side of everything, but my outlook on life has changed in the last few years. My initial instinct used to be, "What's wrong with this?" I'm not like that anymore (except for Stanley Aronowitz) - or at least I try not to be. In the Michaels thread I was really struck ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 3 13:35:13 PST 2009

4907 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:57 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > What is the actual left that really matters, then? > > Doug > --------- > > Would you please answer you're own question so we are on the same > page? I'm not sure there is one, actually. Doug

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4908 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2009, at 8:39 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > My problem was tracking down a guy like Tim Wise and > wondering why bother with this guy? Tim Wise doesn't matter. The Ford Foundation doesn't matter, even when it buys of some once-decent leftists. All those campus groups like Catalyst don't matter. You can make a long list of things that don't matter. What is the actual left that really matters, then? Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 18:25:53 PST 2009

4909 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2009, at 10:13 AM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > Michaels didn't enter into it. But he's so much fun to piss on, isn't he? And when the Ford Foundation buys off leftists, that doesn't matter, because they're just liberal capitalists. What really matters is, um, The Left, which is, um, lemme think... Doug

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 17:44:43 PST 2009

4910 [lbo-talk] gore vidal is an old, cranky prick -- rank: 1000

On Nov 2, 2009, at 12:55 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > On 10/30/09, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> But it's a cop out always to point to grand >> forces without at all examining human agency or institutional >> specificity. Rates of profit matter, but so do historical figures >> like >> Ronald Reagan. And surely there are things that a left can learn from >> history, and can do better if we think things through. Obviously >> there ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 05:25:31 PST 2009

4911 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Well, they use every damn thing for the same purpose. I don't get why > anyone should be so damn excited about diversity. Everyone who counts > (leftists) knew as it was happening that it was mostly a shuck, just > as > Obama's health bill is mostly a shuck It is happening but it doesn't matter. It's always been happening, but so what? It isn't happening, it's all a crock. Nothing ever changes, it's all the same shit. QED.

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4912 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2009, at 8:19 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> >>> I live in a neighborhood where it's more real than spectacular. >>> Should >> I tell my neighbors that they're phantasms? > > Is that an argument or a grunt? And if it is an argument, what is it > an > argument for? My first reaction is a simple "fuck you." My second is that that's not terribly constructive. So I'll say, as I did earlier in the post in a passage you ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 17:35:13 PST 2009

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On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Lenin's Tomb wrote: > Er, Doug, diversity a "race- and gender-neutral capitalism". The > liberal > bourgeoisie might aspire, one day, toward this chimerical version of > capitalism in labour is not colour-coded or gender-stratified, but > it is > realistic enough not to actually attempt to achieve this. But it's becoming less and less so, especially on the gender end. There's a large black professional class now, women all over the pro ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 14:29:14 PST 2009

4914 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote: > And here we get to the heart of Reed's point as I see it: By the way, it was Adolph who sent me the link to that directory. > But as I wrote in a previous post, it's possible for both the future > and the past to co-exist -- for a black guy to command predator drone > attacks on hapless Pakistani and Afghan villagers while, somewhere in > the U.S., a flat head gets bent out of shape because he sees an > 'interracial' couple. Th ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 14:09:35 PST 2009

4915 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

On Nov 1, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > Sure, but race and gender-neutral capitalism *is* a progressive > advance over it's more traditional variant. Yes I agree. But there are enough people who are pleased with that that they're willing, even happy, to stop there. Doug

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 14:05:01 PST 2009

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On Nov 1, 2009, at 3:28 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > heh. so his audience are people who would never support leftist > causes anyway? > > lol Man, I just don't get this. Michaels' point that I think is worth making over & over is that the enlightened wing of the bourgeoisie is totally on board with diversity, and uses it as a prop to legitimate economically. A race- and gender-neutral capitalism, with little else changed, is the reigning ideal of the Ford Foundation and much ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 12:39:26 PST 2009

4917 [lbo-talk] more "who" -- rank: 1000

Experts of color on the racial wealth gap - for whom the problem apparently isn't that the richest 5% of Americans claim almost 40% of income, just that too many of them are white: http://www.insightcced.org/uploads/CRWG/2009-10%20ExpertsofColor-Directory.pdf

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 12:05:37 PST 2009

4918 [lbo-talk] Newt thumps the Bible -- rank: 1000

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Date:	Sat May 30 11:32:01 PDT 2009

4919 [lbo-talk] Where Are We Going? What Are We Doing? -- rank: 1000

On May 29, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Furthermore, I don't remember anyone I knew or read on the left - > not even > the much excoriated Ward Churchill - supporting Al Queda and other > reactionary/romantic terrorists or suggesting a renewed isolationism > and > back-to-the-land pastoralism (or traditional-urban-community.) I agree with the rest of what you said, but the isolationism and pastoralism are real strands in a lot of "anti-globalist" thinking. ...

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Date:	Sat May 30 04:31:58 PDT 2009

4920 [lbo-talk] list of the day -- rank: 1000

<http://jezebel.com/5272175/20-famous-big-dicks> We're not size queens or anything but the HBO comedy Hung about a man (Thomas Jane) with a large penis premieres in June, and it got us thinking about big penises, the ultimate status symbol for men*. After the jump, a list of famous ones. ...

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Date:	Fri May 29 07:14:17 PDT 2009