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8806 [lbo-talk] Words for Today -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2008, at 3:07 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I considered leaving out precisely the words you quote. Discussing > them > (I didn't bother to read your comments Aren't you ever embarrassed by what a jackass you can be? Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 21 12:13:07 PST 2008

8807 [lbo-talk] Words for Today -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:46 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This conception of our task is > closely related to our conception of capitalist society; it is the > solid > ground which underlies our view that capitalist society is caught in > insoluble contradictions which will ultimately necessitate an > explosion, > a collapse, at which point we will play the role of the banker-lawyer > who liquidates a bankrupt company. Aha, thank you for revealing the fantasy behind catastrophist ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 21 11:55:09 PST 2008

8808 [lbo-talk] (Fwd) Fed pump-priming; Doug sees a fix, Whitney doesn't -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> ... Patrick, if I were given to nattering on about >> overaccumulation, the LA Times would never have asked me to do >> this, and if by some weird chance they had, no one would read it. >> You have to think about audience. > > And if six months ago, I'd have suggested raising the question of > widespread economic crisis requiring nationalisation of a vast chunk > of the US financial s ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 21 10:59:36 PST 2008

8809 [lbo-talk] [DEBATE] : Re: (Fwd) Fed pump-priming; Doug sees a fix, Whitney doesn't -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2008, at 2:29 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Ok, the penultimate 'graf way below isn't bad at micro-level, but > for broader consciouness shifting, I'm still looking for something > inspiring and forward-looking, comrade, that will take us beyond > Golden Age Keynesianism. Still looking... Since you seem to have something in mind, please share it. I doubt it's "forward to devalorization!" Doug

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Date:	Sun Dec 21 10:51:13 PST 2008

8810 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Uncle Joe! -- rank: 1000

On Dec 21, 2008, at 10:36 AM, SA wrote: > Here's an article he published analyzing Bukharin's confession, > where he demonstrates that Bukharin was in fact guilty of a > seditious conspiracy in league with Trotskyist elements, the > military, and Nazi Germany. Though I haven't been to a Marxist Literary Group summer institute in several years, Grover used to dazzle everyone with his defenses of Stalin. He's done research in the archives using recently released material showing tha ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 21 10:09:51 PST 2008

8811 [lbo-talk] Happy Birthday Uncle Joe! -- rank: 1000

[a note circulated by the irrepressible Grover Furr, the leading defender of Cde Stalin in literary/cultural studies] The birthday of Joseph Stalin, one of the great communist revolutionaries of the 20th century, is celebrated today. He was born December 21, 1879. Stalin's life and legacy is a vital source of lessons, positive and negative, for all those who struggle to build a better world. There's probably no one else in history about whose life and times so many deliberate falsehoods have be ...

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Date:	Sun Dec 21 07:17:09 PST 2008

8812 [lbo-talk] the peace candidate to send up to 30, 000 to Afghanistan -- rank: 1000

Up to 30,000 new U.S. troops in Afghanistan by summer By Golnar Motevalli Sat Dec 20, 1:11 pm ET KABUL (Reuters) The United States is aiming to send 20,000 to 30,000 extra troops to Afghanistan by the beginning of next summer, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Saturday. Washington is already sending some 3,000 extra troops in January and another 2,800 by spring, but officials previously have said the number would be made up to 20,000 in the next 12 to 18 months, once ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 20 18:23:28 PST 2008

8813 [lbo-talk] overaccumulation in Japan -- rank: 1000

On Dec 20, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Patrick Bond wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: >> By the way, Patrick - is Japan your strongest example of >> overaccumulation? They've had some trouble over the last 15 years, >> but it's still a rich country very far from collapse. If that's >> overaccumulation, what exactly is so bad about it? And on whom did >> they displace their crisis, if anyone? > > My 'strongest' example is the one I know best, South Africa. But the > th ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 20 12:06:36 PST 2008

8814 [lbo-talk] auto bailout terms -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ's Real Time Economics] Bush's Auto Bailout Contains Lame Duck Demands President Bush announced this morning that the White House is digging into TARP funds to aid struggling auto makers, laying out several conditions to accompany the $13.4 billion of immediate loans. However, with just 32 days remaining for the administration, enforcement of those terms will be left to the incoming president s team. The loans have conditions including warrants, limits on executive compensation ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 13:36:38 PST 2008

8815 [lbo-talk] NS agreement -- rank: 1000

<http://newschoolinexile.com/agreement.html> Agreement with New School President Bob Kerrey 1) I agree to grant total amnesty for all participants involved in the occupation and all events related to it over the course of 12/17/08 through 12/19/08 at all New School Buildings. Neither criminal charges nor academic disciplinary measures will be pursued against those involved. The University will not press charges against Eliot Liu. Agreed. Staff and security guards will be compensated fo ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 13:33:19 PST 2008

8816 [lbo-talk] New School: the Gawker view -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 4:20 PM, Mark DeLucas wrote: > The comments are impressively reactionary. Aren't they always? Why are web comments almost always stupid and reactionary? I don't get it. Doug

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 13:29:35 PST 2008

8817 [lbo-talk] Dustup 3 -- rank: 1000

Final installment's up: <http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oew-henwood-doherty19-2008dec19,0,3777089.story >. I'd post the text, but I don't want to undermine their traffic figures. But here's my conclusion: > Most of what I've written over the last few days is about the short- > term strategies of addressing a profound economic crisis. But there > are some long-term considerations as well. One that immediately > comes to mind is a fundamental re-thinking of our market-dri ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 13:13:52 PST 2008

8818 [lbo-talk] Obama to create domestic intelligence agency? -- rank: 1000

[via Wonkette - the incoming administration keeps getting better & better! "Two former intelligence officials said the Obama team is weighing whether to propose the creation of a domestic intelligence agency."] <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122970963384222109.html?mod=googlenews_wsj > Obama Selects Blair as Director of National Intelligence By SIOBHAN GORMAN President-elect Barack Obama has chosen retired Adm. Dennis C. Blair to be his top spymaster, indicating his pre ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 12:48:58 PST 2008

8819 [lbo-talk] overaccumulation in Japan -- rank: 1000

By the way, Patrick - is Japan your strongest example of overaccumulation? They've had some trouble over the last 15 years, but it's still a rich country very far from collapse. If that's overaccumulation, what exactly is so bad about it? And on whom did they displace their crisis, if anyone?

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Date:	Fri Dec 19 12:32:02 PST 2008

8820 [lbo-talk] Anti-union corporate front group at it again -- rank: 1000

On Dec 19, 2008, at 1:35 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > It's more pitiful than that. It assumes we should go through a dumb > show > in a corner imitating the way in which those who don't even know we > exist should act to make this the best capitalism paossible. What are > the probabilities that the impassioned posts of Doug, Michael P, and > Jim > T a couple months ago in support of the bailout had even an > infini8tesimal effect on events. It remains a great puzzle to me what ...

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