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5026 [lbo-talk] 35-cent ice cream and anarchist theory -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2009, at 10:51 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > Doug and Alan take issue with my lauding of Gompers. > > If his trade union demands are too downmarket and grasping, will the > Irish Revolutionary James Connolly and original socialist feminist > Sylvia Pankhurst's claims do instead? > > 'Our demands most moderate are,' sang James Connolly, 'we only want > the earth' > > 'We do not call for limitation of births, for penurious thrift, and > self-denial', Sylv ...

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Date:	Fri May 1 08:30:04 PDT 2009

5027 [lbo-talk] happy b'day, lbo-talk -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2009, at 10:41 AM, Jordan Hayes wrote: >> Happy May Day, otherwise. > > Happy 11th birthday, lbo-talk! Yes! Was about to make a list b'day observation, though the snarls of Crank-in-Chief Cox clouded my outlook somewhat. Eleven years. Wow. Doug

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Date:	Fri May 1 08:28:01 PDT 2009

5028 [lbo-talk] 35-cent ice cream and anarchist theory -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2009, at 4:07 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > I have to say that I read Said Sayrafiezadeh's memoir (referred to > by Sheldon, clipped below) when it was in Granta, too (my dad gave > it to me), and laughed like a drain. He is a very funny writer, and > it is an excellent story. When he says > > "I don't need society to be dismantled. I don't want to feel guilty > about the things I have. I have a 32-inch high-def flat-screen TV. I > fucking love that thing, ...

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Date:	Fri May 1 04:47:50 PDT 2009

5029 [lbo-talk] Barry tells GM to go chapter; matching Toyota not enough for Chrysler -- rank: 1000

<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&refer=top_news&sid=aUFsRbmQyiJU > Obama Said to Conclude Bankruptcy Best Option for GM, Chrysler By John Hughes March 31 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama has determined that a prepackaged bankruptcy is the best way for General Motors Corp. to restructure and become a competitive automaker, people familiar with the matter said. Obama also is prepared to let Chrysler LLC go bankrupt and be sold off piecemeal if the third-large ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 31 19:09:41 PDT 2009

5030 [lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:27 PM, WD wrote: > It's interesting that murders are essentially the same in 1960 and > 2002 (5.1 v. 5.6) That makes me wonder if there is some > methodological jimmying going on here: most murders probably get > counted, but rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults probably don't. Yup. I looked into this stuff when I did my atlas back in 1994. The consensus is that reporting standards, both for victims and cops, are very plastic, but the murder numbers are s ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 31 18:43:03 PDT 2009

5031 [lbo-talk] umbrellas and hasidism -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2009, at 3:28 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > It's multiculturalism's fault that the US has never had a black > president. You've become a master of the one-line non sequitur. Doug

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Date:	Tue Mar 31 12:43:52 PDT 2009

5032 [lbo-talk] socialist response to hayek -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2009, at 11:22 AM, SA wrote: > Joshua wrote: > >> Can anyone direct me to a good single volume, or at least >> relatively short >> and accessible, socialist (state or anarchist) response to or >> critique of >> Hayek? >> > > I don't think there is one. Which tells you something. Yes there is - a comprehensive critique of his economics as well as his politics. I can't remember the author's name and the book is packed away somewhere in a ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 31 08:56:45 PDT 2009

5033 [lbo-talk] life after newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:32 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> My only point is that people are drawn to radical politics, or any >> other kind, on what they think of as moral or ethical principles. >> Sure, these can be post facto or socially determined or whatever, >> and not some timeless template applied to transient social reality, >> but I'd argue that even Marxists who think they're being scientific >> are thinking in some moral or ethical sens ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 11:41:14 PDT 2009

5034 [lbo-talk] Single Payer as stimulus and job program -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2009, at 2:25 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > > [Admittedly, universal coverage done the wrong way might also > generate just as many jobs -- until it went broke through fiscal > constraints. Funny how the O administration, with all its concerned > with the fiscal medium term, isn't considering single payer on that > ground alone.] > > http://www.calnurses.org/media-center/press-releases/2009/january/first-of-its-kind-study-medicare-for-all-single-payer-reform-woul ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 11:40:18 PDT 2009

5035 [lbo-talk] ciao, GM & Chrysler -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2009, at 3:06 PM, John Thornton wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> So Obama's pulling the plug on GM and Chrysler? Hundreds of >> billions for banks, but automakers can go to hell? This is rather >> stunning. The Herbert Hoover of our time? >> >> Doug > > That isn't what I took from Obama's statement. I was drawing conclusions from a Politico breaking news headline. Not a good thing to do. Thinking like a stock trader. Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 11:19:23 PDT 2009

5036 [lbo-talk] life after newspapers -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:33 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Perhaps a clarification. I have never said or thought that newspapers > were not important or that we could get along without them. I would > more > or less agree with Doug if that is the question. > > I just said that I personally didn't read newspapers much (even though > we have always subscribed to two & sometimes three). I never read them > very carefully and sometimes only the comics and Ann Landers. :-) Hey, I wa ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 11:00:36 PDT 2009

5037 [lbo-talk] ciao, GM & Chrysler -- rank: 1000

On Mar 30, 2009, at 1:14 PM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > These are the people who gave us the SUV and pushed the anti- > environment agenda. They deserve to be terminated. Schadenfreude, > ha, ha, ha Easy for you to say. Your job doesn't depend on them, nor do you live in a region that depends on the industry.

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 10:30:51 PDT 2009

5038 [lbo-talk] life after newspapers -- rank: 1000

NBER Working Paper No. w14817 SAM SCHULHOFER-WOHL, Princeton University - Department of Economics and Woodrow Wilson School MIGUEL GARRIDO, Princeton University The Cincinnati Post published its last edition on New Year's Eve 2007, leaving the Cincinnati Enquirer as the only daily newspaper in the market. The next year, fewer candidates ran for municipal office in the suburbs most reliant on the Post, incumbents became more likely to win re-election, and voter turnout fell. We exploit a dif ...

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 10:21:48 PDT 2009

5039 [lbo-talk] ciao, GM & Chrysler -- rank: 1000

So Obama's pulling the plug on GM and Chrysler? Hundreds of billions for banks, but automakers can go to hell? This is rather stunning. The Herbert Hoover of our time? Doug

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Date:	Mon Mar 30 04:25:45 PDT 2009

5040 [lbo-talk] software question -- rank: 1000

On Mar 29, 2009, at 6:24 PM, Mike Beggs wrote: > I'm curious as to how the professionals index... just by reading > through and > noting the topics as you go along? Yes. Back when I was doing it, from the early 1980s through the early 1990s, we got the pages as xeroxed proofs - not electronically. I wrote some rather primitive software to do it in the early 1980s (on my primitive CP/M Z-80 Vector Graphic machine). I typed in the entries, and the software sorted and formatted it. But ...

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Date:	Sun Mar 29 18:10:03 PDT 2009