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511 [lbo-talk] not theory -- rank: 1000

On Jan 25, 2012, at 11:38 PM, Tahir Wood wrote: > The Leninist baggage of What is to be Done? I don't know about anyone else, but I have always found quite funny the image of Lenin running into the library to get a copy of Hegel's Logic to read after hearing of Kautsky's betrayal. Lenin seems to have had a really mechanistic and naive view of the relationship between theory and practice. Which is why he didn't amount to a hill of beans?

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Date:	Thu Jan 26 15:01:12 PST 2012

512 [lbo-talk] So, what'd you think of Obama's State of the Union speech? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > Obama's State of the Union speech tonight bears comparison to the home-grown fascism of Kennedy's SOTU of fifty years ago ("Ask not what your country can do for you...") Fascism is 21st century Americanism. Really, Carl, fascist? This shit is as old as the USA.

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 21:20:57 PST 2012

513 [lbo-talk] How would democratic ownership and control move us towards serving human needs? -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2012, at 8:37 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > The bourgeois state cannot be pro working class by definition. Wasn't Marx's view that the executive branch was the bourgeoisie's domain, but the legislative branch was contested? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 20:54:45 PST 2012

514 [lbo-talk] WBAI benefit (just $5) - Sat., Feb. 4, 1 pm -- NYC -- rank: 1000

On Jan 24, 2012, at 7:26 AM, Billy O'Connor wrote: > Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com> writes: > >> PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD ..... >> >> Hi, >> >> You're invited to our fourth monthly "Saturday Showcase & Salon" to >> benefit WBAI -- entry is only $5, no minimum! >> >> Come meet your favorite WBAI personalities. Excellent food, great >> music and radical politics in downtown Manhattan. >> >> Sa ...

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Date:	Tue Jan 24 07:44:10 PST 2012

515 [lbo-talk] Checking my filter plus a Queery -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 10:57 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote: > wants to believe in this thing called "the 99 percent". It's a matter of faith?

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 20:24:39 PST 2012

516 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 10:03 PM, Nathan wrote: > On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 09:50:10PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote: >> >> That's old news. But what's surprising is that Paul didn't even pay lip service to the end of slavery. >> ___________________________________ >> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk > > I think what I'm getting at is that at some level the people who respond > to remarks like Paul's "loss of liberty" one at some level sup ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 19:26:16 PST 2012

517 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:39 PM, Nathan wrote: > For someone as familiar with the right and its fringes I'm surprised > you're surprised. The 13th-14th-15th Amendment thing has been a bone of > contention since at least Mike Beach, largely founded the 'Christian > Constitutionalist' movement with his Blue Book in the 1960s. That's old news. But what's surprising is that Paul didn't even pay lip service to the end of slavery.

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 18:50:10 PST 2012

518 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 5:15 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > I agree. It is shocking. As if it was 1865, not 2012. On the news that Lincoln had been assassinated, the Manchester Guardian said of his rule, we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent to every true notion of constitutional right and human liberty (27 April 1865). Manchester liberalism lives!

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 14:25:40 PST 2012

519 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 4:53 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > I didn't read the article but one of the bleakest books I've ever read about contemporary sexuality - whether het,bi, or lesbian - was Tricia Rose's Longing to Tell. I wrote about it here awhile back. Depressing book. Check this out - just learned about the "queer nihilist" school the other day: http://gjss.org/images/stories/volumes/5/2/0805.2a08_halberstam.pdf

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 14:06:02 PST 2012

520 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Andy wrote: > Most people who I've heard express concern about loss of liberty from > the CW -- Paul among them -- don't seem to recognize "wage slavery". In American speech, isn't the word "liberty" mainly the property of right-wingers? Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 12:38:39 PST 2012

521 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 2:15 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote: > But beyond the shoddiness of the writing and thought in the article, I was just curious about the stats. Hearing that 25% of young men cannot achieve potency under normal circumstances seems really questionable to me. Even if it's true, how do we know it's porn's fault?

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 11:56:54 PST 2012

522 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Carl G. Estabrook wrote: > In fact, far from being a racist, Ron Paul is the only major party candidate who has attacked the single most racist program of the federal government, the "war on drugs." You really have to wonder how much a man values black people when he says that the Civil War marked a loss of liberty. I've spent a lot of time following the right and I still find that remark shocking. Doug

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 10:13:34 PST 2012

523 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 11:30 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "Except that most people now watch porn all by themselves" > > [WS:] I do not think this is necessarily germane to the conspicuous > consumption argument. If I remember correctly, Veblen talked about a > sense of status that is created outside public view. Status? They watch in private with the curtains closed because it's embarrassing.

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 08:51:00 PST 2012

524 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn -- rank: 1000

On Jan 23, 2012, at 10:57 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > In other words, it is the > conspicuous consumption argument applied to sex. Except that most people now watch porn all by themselves. The dollar numbers in that piece are grossly overdone.

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Date:	Mon Jan 23 08:06:20 PST 2012

525 [lbo-talk] A scene on the Holloway Road -- rank: 1000

On Jan 21, 2012, at 5:19 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > Walking up Holloway Road a family of punks ahead of me, she, in leopard-skin coat, with green hair, he in untidy dread-locks, black drain pipes, a toddler in a push chair. Just ahead of them, two teenage girls, quite provocatively dressed, one in tights and pants, the other in a Ra-ra skirt high on her waist and tights printed as if they were stockings and suspenders. I can feel the punk family flinching in disapproval: 'I've got an idea: ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 21 17:17:35 PST 2012