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

On Feb 4, 2014, at 8:41 PM, robert wood <wood0257 at gmail.com> wrote: > In some cases, yes. I don't think it's something that works all the time, > but I've seen in cases when people know and trust one another. Usually, > there involves some explanation as well. Like I said, I don't think it > works in every case, but I have seen it work. There's a way to do it constructively and conversationally. This is just a discursive bludgeon.

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

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 view of how social power works.

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

On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > This is babbling nonsense. "Check your privilege" is simple bullshit. Or it > could be a deliberate attempt to sabotage political discussion. By the way, Carroll, it's things like this that will make me always cherish you. Seriously. Doug

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

On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:35 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > This is babbling nonsense. "Check your privilege" is simple bullshit. Or it > could be a deliberate attempt to sabotage political discussion. Carroll, you've not been keeping up with Twitter.

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95 [lbo-talk] Against Neoliberalismby Michael Dawson, former LBO-ta lk list member -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown: > Americans have had an unusually large mass of people with petit > bourgeois personality or embued with the "entrepreneurial spirit" > since the start. See the last chapter of _Capital_. Many many farmers > who have small plots of land, own their means of production, and are > petty producers, potential capitalists. Yes. But as Bourdieu said, the two errors of social analysis are, on the one hand, saying "Everything's changed!," and on the other ...

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96 [lbo-talk] OMFG ...algorithms over unions -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > What Doug's fourth point is in fact evidence of the > _success_ not the failure of Bush's policy. It'd be really hard to find a serious member of the bourgeoisie who'd agree with this.

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97 [lbo-talk] OMFG ...algorithms over unions -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Nothing has come so close to make me weep as the stubborn > insistence of lbo-posters that the policies of the Bush Administration were > stupid. Yeah, I know you feel this way, but you could make an argument from a purely bourgeois POV that they were very stupid. Bush left the U.S. deep in debt, helped contribute to the worst economic crisis in 80 years, demonstrated to the world the limits of U.S. military pow ...

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98 [lbo-talk] Fassbinder at Lincoln Center -- rank: 1000

On Apr 25, 2014, at 4:51 PM, magcomm <magcomm at ix.netcom.com> wrote: > It is even known that persons not particularly fond of cinema as an art form are deeply affected by such RWF works as BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ. That would be me! But I like his other stuff too.

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99 [lbo-talk] Doug in Le Monde !!! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 14, 2014, at 6:55 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune at gmail.com> wrote: > Doug is becoming mainstream !!! > > And Piketty's book is at last commented in the French press... Amazing. The French have largely ignored it so far?

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100 [lbo-talk] Are Corporations Really Hogging Workers Wages? by Andrew Kliman -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Christopher Carrico <ccarrico at temple.edu> wrote: > I don't think I'm really qualified to assess this argument... it certainly > doesn't make intuitive sense to me... what do others think? FROP...OCC...stumble...mutter...

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101 [lbo-talk] WBAI radio Community Board Letter awaits your signature! -- rank: 1000

On Apr 9, 2014, at 8:54 AM, Arthur Maisel <arthurmaisel at gmail.com> wrote: > The most important difference between the two side seems to be pretty > binary---to sell or not to sell frequencies. How do you negotiate that? > Selling some of the frequencies (WBAI's is probably the most valuable) is > to sell frequencies, which means that one side wins. Not much of a > compromise. Fuck WBAI.

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102 [lbo-talk] Steve Horn cuts off his association with Mint Press over Syrian "false flag" story -- rank: 1000

On Sep 29, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Maladvocate <maladvocate at gmail.com> wrote: > Who gives > a fuck about GR Me. It's a totally disreputable source. If they reported that the sun rises in the east, I'd demand a fact-check. Doug

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103 [lbo-talk] hi from RM -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2013, at 11:16 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > When I returned from RM I was confronted with a computer crash, and am still > having problems. I'm interested in what Doug has to say about decadence (or > its absence), but that web site is one of the worst I've seen for the > visually challenged. Jan is currently busy, but I plan to have her recover > the article for me. I did install a voice reader on the site just for you, but it seems n ...

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104 [lbo-talk] Steve Horn cuts off his association with Mint Press over Syrian "false flag" story -- rank: 1000

On Sep 27, 2013, at 10:00 PM, Maladvocate <maladvocate at gmail.com> wrote: > I realize that you are the list owner and that I risk offending you at my > own peril, but for fuck's sake. If you don't like Global Research, look > elsewhere. Google really is useful for more than finding porn. Don't patronize me, especially over something as dumb as GR. Doug

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105 [lbo-talk] Steve Horn cuts off his association with Mint Press over Syrian "false flag" story -- rank: 1000

On Sep 25, 2013, at 9:53 PM, Maladvocate <maladvocate at gmail.com> wrote: > That the Saudi intelligence services have threatened Ms. Gavlak is all over > the news, arriving at the most probable conclusion as regards her > distancing herself from the story is trivial. > > http://www.globalresearch.ca/journalist-who-exposed-how-rebels-were-behind-august-21st-syria-chemical-weapons-attack-faces-intimidation/5351168 Since when is that fever swamp Globalresearch.ca "the new ...

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