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76 [lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm firmly with Joanna. Why anyone professing to be on the left would criticize someone from issuing a public call for solidarity with the only left-wing organization engaged in an armed struggle anywhere today is beyond me. The young Kurdish women and men in the YPG and PKK are our political kin every bit as much as were the Sandinistas and Vietnamese earlier. Mocking Graeber for not picking up a gun strikes me ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 11:52:00 PDT 2014

77 [lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2014, at 1:27 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Sorry but this is fucked up. > > Is it bad faith for intellectuals to write about historical events without taking up a gun? He was saying some strange stuff about intervention on Twitter. In The Guardian piece, he cited ancestors who went to fight in Spain. What he actually wants now he didn't make clear, but some of his tweets made it sound like he was encouraging some sort of U.S. intervention. Which is fuck ...

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78 [lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle -- rank: 1000

On Twitter, Graeber weirdly sounded as if he were endorsing some sort of US intervention, though he was slippery on the details. The invocation of Spain was interesting. If we followed that model, David should be picking up an AK-47 and heading off to join the Kurdish anarchists.

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 10:09:30 PDT 2014

79 [lbo-talk] Against Neoliberalism by Michael Dawson, former LBO-talk list member -- rank: 1000

I think there are a couple of uses to the notion of neoliberalism. One is the conscious appropriation and application of state power by its Mont Pelerin planners to create the market they dreamed of. And the other is, following Foucault, the transformation of all of us from "workers" or "citizens" into little entrepreneurs of the self, custodians of our human capital.

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Date:	Sun Nov 30 18:52:03 PST 2014

80 [lbo-talk] How the former Soviet republics have fared on their own -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote: > The World Bank's per capita GDP data in current US dollars is here: > http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD > <http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?page=> > > The data says, almost all the post-Soviet or Eastern bloc nations grew > faster than the US between 1990 and 2013, including Ukraine. (Note the data > set starts in 1993 for Estonia, 1994 for Bosnia and ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 12 17:20:25 PST 2014

81 [lbo-talk] Joan Robin's "Economic Philosophy", and Karl Popper -- rank: 1000

Joan Robin*son*, please.

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Date:	Sat May 3 17:51:38 PDT 2014

82 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis in support of the CUNY Graduate Center for Worker Education -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2014, at 9:07 AM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > The long list of distinguished scholars associated with the Graduate > Center for Worker Education makes this attack even more outrageous. You know what's outrageous? The way the former proprietors rented out the space during the day to a French business school, among other things. A tenured faculty member was fired at a unionized college over the operation of this worker center - that doesn't happen easily. ...

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Date:	Thu May 1 06:27:05 PDT 2014

83 [lbo-talk] FW: [Milton-L] Redundancy of Evaluative Terms was RE: Shakespeare vs. Milton in London, Sunday, 22 June. -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Indeed. Not dry at all. And it would be inanely redundant to add to that > analysis such empty terms as "great," "wonderful," etc. Critics use "great" > to fill in when their description of a text is inadequate. The concept just makes you uncomfortable. You quote Austen here - Pound and Milton elsewhere - and a rhetorical analysis of what makes the Austen passage tick. You won't f ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 19 04:43:19 PDT 2014

84 [lbo-talk] NOT SATIRE: Power Plant Bombed In Gaza Is Insured By U.S. Government -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Glad to see that Joseph is still with us. Yes. He s doing excellent work getting the word out.

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Date:	Thu Jul 31 09:05:54 PDT 2014

85 [lbo-talk] Joe Catron in Gaza -- rank: 1000

On Jul 18, 2014, at 2:59 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Remember Joe? He's in Gaza, acting as a human shield in a hospital. > > http://abcnews.go.com/International/inside-gaza-hospital-israeli-rocket-fire/story?id=24592141 He s worth following on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jncatron

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Date:	Fri Jul 18 05:30:40 PDT 2014

86 [lbo-talk] Once again into the black hole -- rank: 1000

On Feb 28, 2014, at 10:23 AM, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote: > Lbo-talk may be something of a black hole for now and evermore, but it's got nothing to do with a generalized apathy as to gay men attacking a woman (!), lesbians attacking a forlorn puppy (!!), Pat Buchanan celebrating Putin's putative bellwether social conservatism (!!!), or a T-Rex savaging a food truck in hypster Brooklin !!!!)... eh?

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Date:	Fri Feb 28 08:46:01 PST 2014

87 [lbo-talk] take home quiz -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2014, at 12:38 AM, John Gulick <john_gulick at hotmail.com> wrote: > The Age of Obama has driven all of us mad, each of us in our way. And what will the Age of Jeb do to us?

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Date:	Tue Feb 18 05:59:19 PST 2014

88 [lbo-talk] Chuck Grimes -- rank: 1000

On Feb 18, 2014, at 2:20 AM, "JOANNA A." <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > He will be much missed. Wow, that was really moving. Thank you. Doug

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Date:	Tue Feb 18 05:58:39 PST 2014

89 [lbo-talk] Chuck Grimes, RIP -- rank: 1000

I just heard that Chuck Grimes died - got a voicemail with the news. I don't know any more than that. But, shit. Sad. I was really fond of that guy. Doug

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Date:	Mon Feb 17 11:24:01 PST 2014

90 [lbo-talk] Check your privilege: Rise of the Post-New Left political vocabulary -- rank: 1000

On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:45 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: > On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:42 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > >> >> On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:36 PM, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote: >> >>> I daresay it has; but in a significantly constructive way? At best it seems >>> to me like diction policing; at worst it's a way of shutting people up. >> >> It's also an extremely dimensional ...

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