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5236 [lbo-talk] IT innovation and "the Markets" -- rank: 1000

On Mar 3, 2009, at 5:14 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > When precisely did Marxism become so fanatically opposed to > technological progress? We're a long way from Lenin's conception of > soviet power plus electrification. > > My sense is that this shift towards technophobia is basically a > rationalization of failure, the result of making a vice into a > virtue. Really existing socialism proved to be less productive and > inventive than leading capitalist economies on the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 3 14:25:55 PST 2009

5237 [lbo-talk] hegemon succession -- rank: 1000

So the EU is refusing a bailout for Eastern Europe, and the ECB is still hanging pretty tough. I dunno, Dennis Redmond - the EU isn't really looking like it has what it takes to be the next hegemon. It sounds like the last bastion of the austere POV that Keynes mocked as "the Treasury view." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Mar 2 14:13:22 PST 2009

5238 [lbo-talk] The Canadian banking model -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > 1) Does your support for big banks mean support for universal banks? > I.e., you don't think abolishing glass-steagal was the root of all > evil, and that we can leave investment banks and commercial/consumer > banks combined as they are now so long as we institute drop-dead > serious regulation? As part of my transitional strategy, I'd like to see the repression of the securities markets and their replacement with commercial b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 1 11:14:07 PST 2009

5239 [lbo-talk] The Canadian banking model -- rank: 1000

On Mar 1, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > Don't we really have that now? Sure, there's ~6000 banks, but the > top 5 account for something like 90% of the asset base ... No, less than 60%. cumulative ------------------- assets assets % of tot Citi 2,050 2,050 15.1% Bank of Amer 1,831 3,881 28.6% JPM Chase 2,251 6,132 45.2% Wells Fargo 1,404 7,536 55.5% HSBC 493 8,029 59.2% total (FDIC) ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Mar 1 10:53:03 PST 2009

5240 [lbo-talk] I say banana, you say bikini (was: those exotic Iranians) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:40 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:09:40 -0400 > ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org> wrote: > >> On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:00 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > >> We need a picture of you in a bikini, Michael. Now that would be >> something exotic! ;-) > > I fear it would greatly diminish the bikini constituency. Yuk yuk guys. Let's cut the bikini thread, ok?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 30 17:50:26 PDT 2009

5241 [lbo-talk] I say banana, you say bikini (was: those exotic Iranians) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:20 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > The Western view, if you want to call it that, is special. It is not > the baseline for human social reality. "The West" is the one who is > exotic, not the Iranians. The Iranians are normal. This is your 7th post of the day. To quote Lenin, better fewer but better. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 30 17:49:50 PDT 2009

5242 [lbo-talk] Indians cope with influx of Western "gayness" thing, which was sort of OK before the Brits -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 8:09 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > If it was sort of OK before the Brits, doesn't that make it non- > Western? Isn't it like 4 AM in Moscow?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Jun 30 17:17:15 PDT 2009

5243 [lbo-talk] new economic models -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 7:09 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> What he is literally saying is that the business side of an >> editorial operation which is, in this case, the owners, not merely >> the part of the organization that handles the business of the site >> is the complete authority of the editorial operation. That they >> retain all of the value, and that they have no obligation to share >> any of that income with any other part of the ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 16:13:09 PDT 2009

5244 [lbo-talk] Indians cope with influx of Western "gayness" thing, which was sort of OK before the Brits -- rank: 1000

Financial Times - June 30, 2009 <http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5f059856-650d-11de-a13f-00144feabdc0.html> Gay Indians seek sexual equality By Amy Kazmin in New Delhi Siddharth Dube, a gay Indian who writes on poverty and public health, sees "an enormous world of difference" in the confidence of India's young gay community compared with when he came of age in the 1980s. Then, Mr Dube says, he "felt terrified every day". With rapid economic growth creating middle-class opp ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 12:41:22 PDT 2009

5245 [lbo-talk] Indian bikinis... -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:56 PM, ravi wrote: > To you and me, that might seem like people enjoying themselves, > happy and free. But that would be because we are exoticising them. > In truth, these are the faces of people pining (but not for a better > outcome in terms of health, mortality, literacy, freedom from > Western -- IMF, WB, etc -- diktats and so on), for better > swimwear. ;-) Enough with the damned bikinis.

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 12:03:04 PDT 2009

5246 [lbo-talk] I say banana, you say bikini (was: those exotic Iranians) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 2:06 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 08:24 AM 6/30/2009, ravi wrote: > > >> Wearing bikinis as bathing attire is a Western preference. > > > Is elective cosmetic surgery a Western preference? And so fucking what if it's a "Western preference"? Does that mean it's some sort of contaminant against which the pure Iranian and/or Indian society has to be protected? Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 11:14:24 PDT 2009

5247 [lbo-talk] new economic models -- rank: 1000

<http://www.theawl.com/2009/06/chris-anderson-explains-himself-terribly> Chris Anderson Is Worse Than Wal-Mart Wired editor Chris Anderson raised issue with and made some explanations regarding yesterday's Malcolm Gladwell review of his book, Free, which has chunks of other people's work in it. Unfortunately, he ends his concluding paragraph with a question. To which he hedges the answer. And then he ends in disaster proposing a system of labor divorced almost entirely from profit, a ...

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 10:28:55 PDT 2009

5248 [lbo-talk] I say banana, you say bikini (was: those exotic Iranians) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 1:08 PM, ravi wrote: > Any argument that relies on accusations of "exoticising" is not a > serious o Yes it is. The point I'm trying to make is that a lot of people on this list and elsewhere on the Ahmadinejad-defending left treat Iranians as if they're somehow really special, and not at all concerned with the kinds of personal freedoms that Westerners take for granted. That's crap. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 10:15:23 PDT 2009

5249 [lbo-talk] Indian bikinis... -- rank: 1000

<http://lifestyle.iloveindia.com/lounge/bikini-fashion-887.html> "The Bikini is fast becoming an essential fashion accessory in a woman s wardrobe in urban India. Check out some quick tips for choosing the right bikini for you."

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 08:51:44 PDT 2009

5250 [lbo-talk] I say banana, you say bikini (was: those exotic Iranians) -- rank: 1000

On Jun 30, 2009, at 11:24 AM, ravi wrote: > Wearing bikinis as bathing attire is a Western preference. People go > bathing in the sea in Madras. They don't wear bikinis. They don't, > AFAIK, yearn for the freedom to wear one. And you too - why are you reducing the repression of women in Iran to the question of wearing a bikini? How about veiling, stoning, court testimony, etc. etc. Doug

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Date:	Tue Jun 30 08:47:11 PDT 2009