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6421 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:58 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Angela Davis does call for prison abolition, but her position is > more complex than "demanding the abolition of prisons." Here's a > bit from a long interview: > > >> The most difficult question for advocates of prison abolition is >> how to establish a balance between reforms that are clearly >> necessary to safeguard the lives of prisoners and those strategies >> designed to promote the event ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 14:35:15 PDT 2009

6422 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 4:17 PM, Dennis Perrin wrote: > Richard Pryor on prisons. > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txp8B4ek_kk> Ha. Carrol, wanna write a review? Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 13:32:45 PDT 2009

6423 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:44 PM, ravi wrote: > Ah, dismissal with scorn. The prerogative of authors of great > books! ;-) No, the prerogative of people who've spent years studying something and therefore know what they're talking about, as opposed to your random audience member at the Brecht Forum (where this happened), who just pulls stuff out of the air, or some less fragrant locale. > For the rest of us, though, there is work ahead: > > (http://drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/62) &g ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 13:10:12 PDT 2009

6424 [lbo-talk] more on Larry "Fatcat" Summers -- rank: 1000

<http://gawker.com/5200704/who-likes-larry-summers> Who Likes Larry Summers? By Pareene, 2:20 PM on Mon Apr 6 2009, 1,093 views Well, Barack Obama does. And Tim Geithner. But no one else. Not one other person on god's green earth likes Lawrence H. Summers. Which is why all the Summers income documents were dumped on Friday. Summers is Obama's chief economic advisor, a position that, conveniently, doesn't require Senate confirmation. If it had required Senate confirmation, Summers proba ...

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6425 [lbo-talk] Abolition of prisons (Was: Angela...) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 2:29 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > At 07:53 PM 4/4/2009, Joanna wrote: > >> I never said that people ought to be in prison because of drug use. >> And that covers at least half of the people who are in prison in >> the U.S. right now. > > > This is incorrect. In state facilities the percentage hovers around > 20. In federal it's higher and I believe did reach 50% in the past > but has gone down. The federal system, with fewer than 200,00 ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 11:41:41 PDT 2009

6426 [lbo-talk] revisiting the FROP and the Brenner hypothesis -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 2:18 PM, SA wrote: > It goes of a piece with Brenner's tendency to write about this > period using language that seems to suggest that the capitalists > have spent the last 25 years in a constant state of panic over the > creeping stagnation enveloping capitalism....whereas I've mostly > noticed them having a great time and being suffused with confidence. This is also the beef I have with Patrick Bond. Capitalists have had a big old time of it more or less sinc ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 11:34:37 PDT 2009

6427 [lbo-talk] Prisons and The Left -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 2:02 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > No one even bothered to respond to my post, Prisons & Non-Prisons," > perhaps finding to tax their limited historical and social > imaginations. We're no match for you, Oldest & Wisest. Doug

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 11:21:06 PDT 2009

6428 [lbo-talk] Warren to hammer the bailout -- rank: 1000

<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/apr/05/useconomy-regulators> US watchdog calls for bank executives to be sacked James Doran in New York The Observer, Sunday 5 April 2009 Elizabeth Warren, chief watchdog of America's $700bn (£472bn) bank bailout plan, will this week call for the removal of top executives from Citigroup, AIG and other institutions that have received government funds in a damning report that will question the administration's approach to saving the financial sys ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 09:59:49 PDT 2009

6429 [lbo-talk] revisiting the FROP and the Brenner hypothesis -- rank: 1000

On Apr 6, 2009, at 12:28 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote: > I have to emphasise this point quite strongly in order to put this > question > to bed. I've noticed that there aren't many historians around here, > let > alone many economic historians. In fact I'm often struck by the > total lack > of historical appreciation - but then again many leftists, and many > free-marketeers, think they have the "keys to history" in their desk > drawer. The one known as " ...

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Date:	Mon Apr 6 09:39:41 PDT 2009

6430 [lbo-talk] 'I get so tired... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2009, at 8:30 AM, Eric Beck wrote: > (Civilized? You guys really want to use that as a political label? > Yeesh.) Yeah? What's wrong with it? Marx said that capital can be a civilizing force, and I agree. To me it means cosmopolitanism, art, comity. By that def, much of the USA is pretty uncivilized. Wish it weren't. Doug

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Date:	Sun Apr 5 18:20:04 PDT 2009

6431 [lbo-talk] vegetarianism: an eating disorder -- rank: 1000

<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/giles_coren/article6031230.ece > From The Times April 4, 2009 Do a pig a favour! Ban vegetarianism now! People who don't eat meat are not just pale, boring, vain and flaky. They are also suffering from an eating disorder Giles Coren A report published this week in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association appears to show that teenagers and young adults are more likely to suffer from eating disorders if they have tried being ve ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 5 15:53:33 PDT 2009

6432 [lbo-talk] Marxism & morality -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2009, at 1:30 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > My blushes. I though it had died and that you meant Junge Welt. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jungle_World> Jungle World is a German weekly newspaper published in Berlin. Initially founded in 1997 by striking editors of the German Marxist daily Junge Welt, it became independent after only a few issues. Today, it is published by the Jungle World Verlags GmbH in the names of over thirty current and former authors, editors, and staf ...

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Date:	Sun Apr 5 11:11:56 PDT 2009

6433 [lbo-talk] Marxism & morality -- rank: 1000

On Apr 5, 2009, at 11:49 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote: > You'll get heat for "Jungle," Doug, but the Ucs. speaks the truth: > go review Freud on parapraxis for your real view of Europe... --CGE It *is* Jungle World - that wasn't a typo. http://jungle-world.com/

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Date:	Sun Apr 5 10:18:39 PDT 2009

6434 [lbo-talk] Marxism & morality -- rank: 1000

Got interviewed by the German publication Jungle World yesterday. At the end of the interview, the JW guy thanked me, saying that most of the German Marxists have a "moral" view of things, and he & his colleagues are grateful that instead I've got an "analytical" approach. Shoulda given him Cde Cox's number! Doug

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Date:	Sat Apr 4 20:22:06 PDT 2009

6435 [lbo-talk] "I get so tired... -- rank: 1000

On Apr 4, 2009, at 6:32 PM, Eric Beck wrote: > So, Doug and others who have asked to > explain/justify this place, have at it, gorge yourselves. I never thought Austin was a shithole. Much of the rest of Texas, yeah, that's my impression. But Austin always seemed, from a distance, like a pretty civilized place.

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