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6451 [lbo-talk] revisiting the FROP and the Brenner hypothesis -- rank: 1000

On Apr 3, 2009, at 9:10 AM, Eubulides quoted Alan Freeman: > In about 1965, a long slowdown set in Compared to what? The 1930s? Growth averaged 2.7% from 1930-1940. The average U.S. growth rate in the 1910s was 1.4%; in the 1920s, 2.9%. From 1900-65, it averaged 3.5%; from 1965-2008, 3.1%. For the high neoliberal era, 1982-2008, it averaged 3.2%. Growth has slowed since 2000, yes - average 2000-2008, 2.2%. But really. If the long slowdown began more than 40 years ago, this is really a sil ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 3 06:21:58 PDT 2009

6452 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 10:00 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > damn. when is your next book coming out. reading that was like good > sex. ok good group sex. but it was like a teaser. i want more damn it. Ha. It'll be a while. But that was a true group effort. We almost made it into a book, but the invasion of Iraq intervened. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 2 19:07:57 PDT 2009

6453 [lbo-talk] the transitional program of the Marxoid groupuscles -- rank: 1000

<http://doughenwood.wordpress.com/2009/04/02/the-transitional-program-of-the-marxoid-groupuscles/ > The transitional program of the Marxoid groupuscles The World Socialist Website doesn t like my contribution to The Nation s forum on socialism. (Odd, they don t provide links to the texts that they criticize a challenge to readers who want to make up their own minds.) Still, you can t please everyone. In the interests of opening a constructive dialogue what can I say? I m getting mellow ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 19:04:51 PDT 2009

6454 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 9:42 PM, Philip Pilkington wrote: > If a bunch of twats are willing to stir up some shit, then why not > back it? Because all the "twats" can do is "stir up some shit." That's really not adequate to the situation. See: <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Action.html>. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 18:51:27 PDT 2009

6455 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:26 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote: > At 07:04 PM 4/2/2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: >> >>> Me too. Will we see a day soon when people send emails *during* a >>> colonoscopy? Has that already happened? >> >> I think Julia Allison blogged during a high colonic. >> >> Doug > > that would be an enema with an ideology -- a phrase you used to drop > years ago. :) I ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 2 18:28:45 PDT 2009

6456 [lbo-talk] bailed-out banks eye toxic asset buys -- rank: 1000

<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/358e479a-1fbf-11de-a1df-00144feabdc0.html> Bailed-out banks eye toxic asset buys By Francesco Guerrera in New York and Krishna Guha in Washington US banks that have received government aid, including Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and JPMorgan Chase, are considering buying toxic assets to be sold by rivals under the Treasury s $1,000bn (£680bn) plan to revive the financial system. The plans proved controversial, with critics charging that the govern ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 17:54:35 PDT 2009

6457 [lbo-talk] how a non-market economy would work - WAS Re:socialistresponse to hayek -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 7:12 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I'm really not sure why you ar bothering to read my posts. You asked the question, not me.

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 17:41:28 PDT 2009

6458 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:29 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > Me too. Will we see a day soon when people send emails *during* a > colonoscopy? Has that already happened? I think Julia Allison blogged during a high colonic. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 2 16:04:02 PDT 2009

6459 [lbo-talk] ward churchill wins!! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 6:49 PM, MICHAEL YATES wrote: > The jury in Ward Churchill's civil suit for wrongful discharge > against the University > > of Colorado just found the university guilty. The award has not yet > been announced. > > A great vindication for Churchill and a blow for academic freedom. Yay!

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 16:01:53 PDT 2009

6460 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 2:27 PM, Voyou wrote: > Indeed. They're so opposed to any attempt to think about alternatives, > that the University of East London shut itself down entirely for two > days to prevent an "Alternative G20 summit" from taking place. Hadas's > idea that what all we're lacking is someone who can "articulate a > coherent alternative to the establishment's tattered notions" is just > idiotic (and far more naïve than the G20 protesters, who reali ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 11:54:26 PDT 2009

6461 [lbo-talk] Notes on an Orientation to the Obama Presidency -- rank: 1000

On Mar 31, 2009, at 9:56 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I haven't yet read Charles's reply below -- but Yes I think he would > be > "be blanketing the Internet with apologetics > for John Kerry" because > the CP is committed to supporting the DP as the best available. Actually, I did an archive search last night and found almost nothing that Charles wrote in defense of Kerry. On the contrary - I found this, from August 2004: <http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/2004/2004-August/01 ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 11:07:45 PDT 2009

6462 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:50 AM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> they need us - where are we? > > Who do you mean by "we"? The hopeful liberals whose project is to > bring out the best in Obama? Or the Marxist metaphysicians whose > project is to flee reality at such epistemological speed that > radical change can't help but result? > > Between those two camps there's vanishingly little. Vanishingly > little. Yup. Guess I'm asking the social-discurs ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 09:33:23 PDT 2009

6463 [lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks -- rank: 1000

On Apr 2, 2009, at 11:27 AM, Miles Jackson wrote: > Foucault's not interested in explaining crime rate trends or cross- > national differences in crime rates, so this is an odd criticism of > his work. Like I said, I've read a lot of Foucault, and I know what does and doesn't interest him. I was criticizing your use of the "social/ discursive formation" as some sort of black box with explanatory power. It really strikes me as an empty phrase. Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 08:49:08 PDT 2009

6464 [lbo-talk] they need us - where are we? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.breakingviews.com/2009/04/02/G20%20protests.aspx> Incoherent dreams BY EDWARD HADAS A great age of protest should be dawning. The global mismanagement of the financial system has led to a deep recession. Intellectual paralysis has gripped the authorities and their policy response has been risky. After such failure, the political leaders gathered in London for the G20 conference deserve a serious challenge. Sadly, all they are getting are the senseless slogans of a hippie f ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 2 08:16:39 PDT 2009

6465 [lbo-talk] Marx without quotation marks -- rank: 1000

On Apr 1, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > According to F, the modern penal system is an emergent property of > social/discursive formations; it is not a product of individual > planning and motives. (Man, you walked into that one!) Yeah yeah yeah. I've read Foucault, a fair amount in fact. And I admire a lot of it a lot. But really, you can use this sort of formulation to say pretty much whatever the fuck you want. You never have to prove anything - you just say "the ...

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Date:	Wed Apr 1 13:47:09 PDT 2009