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6226 [lbo-talk] Barbara Epstein & MR -- rank: 1000

On Aug 1, 2009, at 3:09 PM, // ravi wrote: > Who is this Barbara Epstein? <http://jewishstudies.ucsc.edu/directory/details.php?id=8>

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Date:	Sat Aug 1 12:20:34 PDT 2009

6227 [lbo-talk] Barbara Epstein & MR -- rank: 1000

I've just been informed (by someone who wants to remain anonymous) that Barbara Epstein resigned from the board of MR because of the nonsense that Yoshie has been posting to MRZine about Iran. When she made her complaints known to the board, they made it clear that they supported Yoshie's work, so Epstein felt that she had no choice but to quit. She's not interested in campaigning against what she still regards as a venerable institution, but she feels that Yoshie's position on Iran has s ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 1 11:40:26 PDT 2009

6228 [lbo-talk] 31-cent ice cream and anarchist theory -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 9:36 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > But I can only ignore him or call him a slimeball if on this list he > relates to me (or to any other poster) as a journalist to a subject. I've been doing this for more than a decade and you can say something this ridiculous? Fuck off. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 20:21:59 PDT 2009

6229 [lbo-talk] 31-cent ice cream and anarchist theory -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 9:00 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Or do you regard lbo-talk subscribers as merely grist for your > journalistic mill? If so, no wonder I so often find you so offensive. Sometimes your prickishness is funny, and sometimes I just want to say "fuck you." This is one of those times where I want to say "fuck you." Why do you have to be such an asshole so often?

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 18:24:36 PDT 2009

6230 [lbo-talk] 31-cent ice cream and anarchist theory -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 3:41 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > as for the anarchist thread, i do agree with carrol that, if you're > goin to ask questions, it's probably a point of principled debate that > you bother to give your own stab at an answer, first. That's nonsense. Sometimes you ask a question because you want to know the answer. That's half of what journalism is about. (Alex Cockburn at Andrew Kopkind's memorial: "He was a real journalist. He asked people questions, wrote do ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 13:09:20 PDT 2009

6231 [lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Sheldon wrote: > I generally agree with Doug's point here. But the broader social > vision can work both ways and can come from below as well. I agree with that, of course. It can't come from the top. But with no state, it will dissipate or be crushed. Yes, yes, I can hear the anarchos say that the state will crush anything spontaneous out of its own aggrandizing interests. But that's why the movement from below is necessary. With a state, movements from b ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 11:11:37 PDT 2009

6232 [lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 11:40 AM, Eric Beck wrote: >> Which suggests that the co-op/worker ownership movement can't >> really grow >> without a sympathetic state, eh? > > Can you say small sample size? Yeah, but social life often doesn't provide large n's. So you have to supplement it with theory. And theory tells me that states can accomplish things that small bands of individuals, especially those lacking a broader social vision, can't. I used to find the whole anarchist ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 09:10:10 PDT 2009

6233 [lbo-talk] repulsive press release of the day -- rank: 1000

[These creeps are still going on about the evils of Islam. Yuck. Why not give her a piece of your mind? I just did.] Dear Mr. Henwood, Iranian native and ex-Muslim Mano Bakh has paid a price for his views on terror. Exiled from his birth country, Bakh marginally escaped with his life and the life of his family all because he denounced his Muslim religion, standing on the premise that evil is inevitably inherent in the teachings of Islam. As President Obama radically reworks the strategy for ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 08:23:22 PDT 2009

6234 [lbo-talk] The extreme Google brain -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 5:25 AM, Fernando Cassia wrote: > Basically you write about stuff without knowing how it works. > WTF is cyber culture to begin with? > Hardware? Software? Web Design?. I hate when people wave buzzwords in > front of my face. > The ignorant mainstream press > I'd like to write what I think of the "graphics design crowd", but my > mind is boiling and I can't seem to find the right arrotment of > derogatory adjectives right now. etc. Chill, dud ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 07:11:05 PDT 2009

6235 [lbo-talk] PBS special on socialist housing co-ops -- rank: 1000

On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:51 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > I think it's still around in Argentina, just smallish and > marginalized. The > real explosion in cooperatives and worker management has obviously > been in > Venezuela. Which suggests that the co-op/worker ownership movement can't really grow without a sympathetic state, eh? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 30 06:32:39 PDT 2009

6236 [lbo-talk] Reps don't play nice -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5233418/swift-brutal-retribution-against-specter> REVENGE Swift, Brutal Retribution Against Specter By Ryan Tate, 7:44 PM on Wed Apr 29 2009, 1,287 views Republicans believe revenge is a dish best served hot, on Arlen Specter's face. The 2010 election will be here in no time, so no wasting time reminding people Specter was George W. Bush's big crush. The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a robo-call campaign directed at 100,000 Democratic voters. The c ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 29 18:34:33 PDT 2009

6237 [lbo-talk] U.S. auto sector socialized! WITBD? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2009, at 9:17 PM, Jenny Brown wrote: > A Chrysler retiree on the Chrysler deal: > > http://labornotes.org/node/2238 > > Mark Brenner manages to insert a few good points (including briefly > WITBD) on Fox: > > http://labornotes.org/node/2232 There are many things I love about Labor Notes, but this is symptomatic of something I don't: Chrysler is broke. GM too. They can complain all they want to about pay and pension cuts, but the companies don't have the mone ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 29 18:26:27 PDT 2009

6238 [lbo-talk] AQ test -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2009, at 6:38 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > I find this kind of thing annoying -- the tendency to see Asperger's > everywhere -- especially after reading a book on nerds last year > with a particularly good chapter that found more holes in the thesis > than Ronnie Barnhart's character is _Observe and Report_ fires holes > into a target. > > Be that as it may, I thought y'all might like to 'test' you > Asperger's Quotient: > > http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/ ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 29 15:51:09 PDT 2009

6239 [lbo-talk] U.S. auto sector socialized! WITBD? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2009, at 3:10 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Concepts like "nationalization", "workers' control" and "employee > ownership" > only have relevance when there is a demand for labour and the > working class > is self-confident and on the offensive. When the workers and and their > organizations are being routed and the class struggle, such as it > is, is > entirely defensive, these issues are no longer even fodder for Sunday > speeches. ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 29 13:21:12 PDT 2009

6240 [lbo-talk] The extreme Google brain -- rank: 1000

On Apr 29, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Jordan Hayes wrote: > There's a (small, but exploitable) segment of society that believes > that their consumer choices reflect on their personal aesthetic; > Steve Jobs has tapped into this as a source of profit. Aesthetic > Value has always been a luxury: you always had to become a Prince > before you could get paintings comissioned for the walls of your > villa. > > It's just a (small, but exploitable) differentiation: sure, I'm a > dr ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 29 09:32:54 PDT 2009