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9766 [lbo-talk] asymmetry -- rank: 1000

It's interesting that the criticisms of Harvard students were taken up enthusiastically, but that criticisms of less elite kids are dismissed. If you think the society is polarizing and pervasively anti-intellectual, wouldn't that show up in classrooms (besides those in Cambridge, that is)? More broadly, if you don't think that being poor or working class is at all damaging to mind and character, why be anti-capitalist? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 30 06:26:09 PDT 2007

9767 [lbo-talk] The region formerly known as Persia -- rank: 1000

On Oct 30, 2007, at 1:18 AM, ravi wrote: > > So, anyone have any thoughts on the political goings on in those > parts? Not funny.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Oct 30 04:44:07 PDT 2007

9768 [lbo-talk] Kucinich saw UFO on Shirley MacLaine's porch, was deeply moved -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > But the pile on was going beyond just laughing to painting > Kucinich as the craziest candidate in the race. As oppose to the > mainstream candidates who all seem to favor bombing Iran, and who > mostly (with a few exceptions like Obama) favored attacking Iraq. Is the only way to beat some nuts with another nut?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 20:26:41 PDT 2007

9769 [lbo-talk] Iran moratorium: 1 hr -- rank: 1000

One hour until the Iran moratorium begins. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 19:59:51 PDT 2007

9770 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:31 PM, Miles Jackson wrote: > But that's exactly what I think is going on: changing modes of life > and > thought. Did you read the Flynn interview? > Q: So why are their IQs higher than those of their parents and > grandparents? > > A: The people who invented IQ tests saw the world through scientific > spectacles. They were interested in logical reasoning. But > generations > ago people were very utilitarian. If you asked a person ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 17:47:57 PDT 2007

9771 [lbo-talk] CBN's Halloween page -- rank: 1000

[No doubt Carrol Cox will dismiss me as an isolated sneering intellectual for being shocked and awed by this...] <http://www.cbn.com/special/halloween/> [From the Editor: The views expressed on this page are the opinions of the various authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Christian Broadcasting Network. Leading Christian thinkers have disparate views on Halloween and how Christians should respond to it. We have offered several different viewpoints so that you, the r ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Oct 29 18:24:05 PDT 2007

9772 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think I located the key in my response to Dennis Perrin: It is the > virus of radical indivualism that grounds capitalist ideology and > isolates intellectuals in their own little bubbles where they can sit > and sneer at everyone for not having exactly their own perspective on > everything. Besides, I don't get why the intellectual pathologies of capitalism should affect only critical intellectuals - why not scores of millions ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 17:40:25 PDT 2007

9773 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > I think I located the key in my response to Dennis Perrin: It is the > virus of radical indivualism that grounds capitalist ideology and > isolates intellectuals in their own little bubbles where they can sit > and sneer at everyone for not having exactly their own perspective on > everything. Dennis was reporting what his high-school-age daughter said, and Dennis himself is not some isolated professor. Aside from that, you're rea ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 17:23:37 PDT 2007

9774 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 7:59 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > intellectuals in their own little bubbles where they can sit > and sneer at everyone You've never been known to do that!

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 17:20:41 PDT 2007

9775 [lbo-talk] Monthly Review on Iran (2001) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Iran's labor activists will have to first get their fellow Iranians > interested in trade union rights. Unfortunately for them, the ardent > support of the labor wing of the empire will likely be a minus, not a > plus, for their cause in the eyes of a majority of Iranians. Most Americans supported the invasion of Iraq. A majority thinks that SCHIP bears the threat of socialized medicine. Hillary Clinton is likely to be our nex ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 15:07:54 PDT 2007

9776 [lbo-talk] 'American kids, dumber than dirt' -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 5:10 PM, Carl Remick wrote: > Thanks for the clarification, Miles! How obtuse of me not to see the > flourishing state of US culture today, the vibrancy of our democracy > and the strength of our economy, as -- generation by generation -- > those beloved standardized IQ-test scores of yours zoom upwards! But > for novelty's sake, I'd suggest you stop scrutinizing the IQ stats for > a while and actually contemplate the world around you without the > ano ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 15:06:14 PDT 2007

9777 [lbo-talk] Iran: a moratorium -- rank: 1000

I'm about to approve two posts of Yoshie's. I don't know what they're about, but I'd be surprised if Iran didn't figure in them. In any case, that should be about it. I think we need a vacation from Iran. We're seeing the same points repeated over & over by all sides (I'm boring myself even), and no real progress. So...no more after midnight NYC time tonight. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 14:52:16 PDT 2007

9778 [lbo-talk] Revolutionary Leaders (was Iran Poll) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2007, at 6:11 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > Other Iranian labor activists took note of this contrast. Malm and > Esmailian report that "The activists of Mohsen Hakimi and the other > council communists of Komiteye Hamahangi, on the other hand, limited > themselves to issuing a few statements, one of which was a > condemnation of the global day of action" mentioned above (Malm and > Esmailian, p. 121). Funny you should mention Mohsen Hakimi. Check out the ph ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 27 18:36:25 PDT 2007

9779 [lbo-talk] Islam and socialism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2007, at 6:04 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > One difference I can see is that I don't > spend any time volunteering criticism of the IR, and disengage > very quickly from any in-depth discussion of how good or bad > they are. It's sort of hard to avoid, isn't it? Iran is an important, complicated, and interesting country, and has been for a long time. Why shouldn't we be interested in talking about important, complicated, and interesting countries? God knows people talked a ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 27 18:31:27 PDT 2007

9780 [lbo-talk] Revolutionary Leaders (was Iran Poll) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 4:04 PM, ravi wrote: > It could be... or on the other hand, it could point out, once again, > that Yoshie's critics barely read her (Yoshie's) posts I read enough of them to know what she's saying. But who could read it all? In the last month, she's posted about 84,000 words of material, enough for about 210 book pages. Or 471 pages in my default MS Word layout. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 13:22:00 PDT 2007