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6376 [lbo-talk] Visteon -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:01 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > [Haven't seen much on the list about the Visteon occupation, but > thought I'd put up this postmortem. Not much of a surprise that the > union's existential survival would trump the workers' desires, and > certainly no surprise that the SWP would seize the opportunity to > profit from others' work. But still interesting, to me at least.] I hadn't known a thing about it until your post. But how often is it the case that the rank and ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 20:12:38 PDT 2009

6377 [lbo-talk] cleansing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote: > Hang on... I was under the impression that you can't simply apply > psychoanalytic theory to anything and everything. You have to have a > good > idea of the people involved otherwise it means nothing. Certainly some > connections can be made, but these are spurious. No shit? I hadn't realized that! > This notion that you can arbitrarily call every stockbroker an > obsessional > (i.e. anal figure) is total nonsense. ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 20:04:24 PDT 2009

6378 [lbo-talk] cleansing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:31 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote: > Eh... > > (a) The Freudian thesis is at least a century old > > and > > (b) It assumes that children's first contribution to society is a > shit... > which makes it somewhat immortal. > > > Perhaps its not right (barring the empirical consistency); but the > theory > isn't exactly historical. Yo, dude, you said: > And hilarious that it sort of explains why more people would care > more about ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 19:45:55 PDT 2009

6379 [lbo-talk] help with 3D computer graphics anyone? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:17 PM, ravi wrote: > Ah yes... well nobody ever accused me of over-the-top seriousness on > lbo-talk! The list is a bit over-the-top serious isn't it? God, I hope not. I just typed something about high colonics.

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 19:22:10 PDT 2009

6380 [lbo-talk] cleansing -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 10:07 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote: > Hilarious that people have still ignored the psychoanalytic > explanation... > > And hilarious that it sort of explains why more people would care > more about > their toilet during times in which they have to "hold back" on > spending... That might be interesting, if true, but I'm not sure it is. Americans have been obsessed with colonic health for at least a couple of decades. Sometime in the 1980s, I rem ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 19:21:45 PDT 2009

6381 [lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 2:51 PM, Alan Rudy wrote: > Is that like blood oranges (I like the fruit but never really liked > the band > of that name), or are they communists from Syracuse? An extremely wacky band - as in political formation, not a collection of instrumentalists - of Marxists from Syracuse, who punned obsessively, thought the new terrain of class struggle was the academy, and thrived on disrupting things. "Shag" knew them personally; me, I just ran into them on th ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 12:14:37 PDT 2009

6382 [lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 1:57 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > red-orange marxist God, are those loons still around? Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 11:05:14 PDT 2009

6383 [lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 12:48 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > xposes the putrid claims of your critics You've got a future in Trotskyist polemics!

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 10:29:56 PDT 2009

6384 [lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 12:29 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > robert pointed out that derrida did not criticize master narrative No he didn't, yes that's Lyotard. But Derrida contributed to the skepticism about presence and things outside the text that's a cousin of skepticism about master narratives. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 09:37:08 PDT 2009

6385 [lbo-talk] Voice of America, voice of reason? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 12:20 PM, John Gulick wrote: > I'm firing from the hip here, but it seems that every major or > middling capitalist state > and/or its transnational corporate actors have their claws on > African biological resources > nowadays, from cropland to fisheries -- and rather than a new round > of inter-imperial > rivalry breaking out, it sure seems like there is a lot of > consensual looting going on. North > America, the EU, the Gulf States, and East Asi ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 09:27:27 PDT 2009

6386 [lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:37 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > Are you capable of writing a post without including some sneer to show > your Olympian superiority to the world? Yeah. But when I question myself, you find it annoying. And besides, you are not unfamiliar with the Olympian heights yourself, even though you claim otherwise. Rather like your position on moralism. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 08:47:18 PDT 2009

6387 [lbo-talk] Voice of America, voice of reason? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:34 AM, ravi wrote: > On Apr 11, 2009, at 11:09 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: >> I think this is the guy we saw on the Maddow show the other week, >> who said that the Somali pirates are desperate people who used to >> be fishermen, but that commercial vessels have trawled their waters >> empty, so they turned to piracy to stay alive. > > > > Or maybe this guy: http://bit.ly/E0rb. No - he was definitely a War College guy. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 08:40:44 PDT 2009

6388 [lbo-talk] Heartfield on Derrida -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2009, at 10:56 PM, Joanna wrote: > Did we need Derrida to warn us about master narratives? Didn't Marx > do that? Maybe he did, but the Marxists have done their best to bring them back. We've even got some people on this list who think that Lenin's Imperialism describes the world system of today. Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 08:26:58 PDT 2009

6389 [lbo-talk] Voice of America, voice of reason? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 11, 2009, at 9:16 AM, James Heartfield wrote: > John Patch is an associate professor for strategic intelligence at > the US Army War College and a retired Navy surface warfare officer > and career intelligence officer. He's written an article - appearing > on the US Naval Institute website - on Somali piracy. His comments > are not to be taken as official US government policy. > > In an interview with VOA English to Africa Service reporter Joe De > Capua, he says t ...

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Date:	Sat Apr 11 08:09:50 PDT 2009

6390 [lbo-talk] that Rasmussen poll -- rank: 1000

On Apr 10, 2009, at 5:42 PM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Oops! > > I don't get it. What's the oops for? they said capitalism twice: > <http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/business/econ_survey_toplines/april_2009/toplines_capitalism_vs_socialism_april_6_7_2009 > > > > * Which is a better system - capitalism or socialism? > 53% Capitalism > 20% Capitalism > 27% Not sure It's like they can't type the dirty word.

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