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9781 [lbo-talk] Monthly Review on Iran (2001) -- rank: 1000

[Would MR publish an article like this today?] Monthly Review - March 2001 <http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_10_52/ai_72704337/print> Clerical Oligarchy and the Question of "Democracy" in Iran Saeed Rahnema For more than twenty years the Islamic regime in Iran, along with its extensive repressive apparatuses, has created an impressive array of ideological and economic mechanisms of control to construct an Islamified civil society and build consensus for the estab ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 13:00:23 PDT 2007

9782 [lbo-talk] Revolutionary Leaders (was Iran Poll) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Dennis Claxton wrote: > This is from Marjane Satrapi's intro to Persepolis, which my > just-turned-nine daughter has been reading with great pleasure, I'm wondering if YF actually read the thing. Satrapi does not seem to share our own Imam Furuhashi's politics. I've got a copy waiting for me at home, thanks to Michael Pollak. Looking forward to reading it. Doug

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 12:13:22 PDT 2007

9783 [lbo-talk] Islam and socialism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 28, 2007, at 12:26 PM, Robert Wrubel wrote: > (1) This is always the problem with the anti-war > position. If you take it seriously (and who doesn't?) > it trumps every other politics. You find yourself in > bed with libertarians and paleo-conservatives, like > Sen. Webb, Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan. And happy to > have them on your side! You "bloc" with them, as the Trots say, against the war. When they go on about immigrants or the gold standard, you step aw ...

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 10:43:28 PDT 2007

9784 [lbo-talk] Pacifica news: Nicole Sawaya new ED -- rank: 1000

On Oct 29, 2007, at 12:31 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote: > Pacifica intriguers, including myself Ha. Luv ya, Joe!

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 10:41:33 PDT 2007

9785 [lbo-talk] Is This Thing On? -- rank: 1000

There have been several crashes at the server that hosts lbo-talk, and listmeister Jordan Hayes is off in a little town in Italy (poor guy) with crappy net access. It seems to be working now, but no guarantees it will continue to.

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Date:	Mon Oct 29 10:40:29 PDT 2007

9786 [lbo-talk] Revolutionary Leaders (was Iran Poll) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 27, 2007, at 5:07 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >> My big problem however is your tendency to make snarky put >> downs "about Western leftists" against people who have made >> clear they are anti-war but are rightfully critical of the Tehran >> government. Yes, our main job in the US is to stop Bush from >> blowing up Tehran. However when Iranian bus drivers ask for >> the help of international trade unions in pressuring the Iranian >> gov ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 27 14:35:28 PDT 2007

9787 [lbo-talk] Islam and socialism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 3:28 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > More generally, I think we should cut out the bien- > pensant thing and try a little harder for bloody- > minded. Cheering on Ahmadinejad & Co. is about as > bloody-minded as you can get and it suits me fine. Sometimes it seems that your political philosophy is based on just being contrary. Epater not only the bourgeoisie but the anti- bourgeoisie too. What's so great about being bloody-minded? Wouldn't it be better to be clea ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 27 12:44:19 PDT 2007

9788 [lbo-talk] US fascism Awareness Month -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 8:24 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > I want to hear more about Doug's Confederatist Right phase. > Not being snide -- it's fascinating to me, the winding roads > that bring people to where we find 'em. All explained at the following locales: <http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1998/36/henwood.html> <http://www.thenation.com/doc/20030217/henwood>. I was never a neo-Confederate! Though many of my POR colleagues were - all of them big fans of John Caldwell Calhoun (t ...

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Date:	Sat Oct 27 12:31:15 PDT 2007

9789 [lbo-talk] Revolutionary Leaders (was Iran Poll) -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 2:27 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > There exists an image of ideal-typical class struggle in the > imagination of many a leftist: the working class, united across > borders, fight against the capital-states. That has never happened, > and that never will. > > Jay Gould, who reportedly said, "I can hire one half of the working > class to kill the other half," understood class struggle much better > than any Marxist. Too bad all those old Reds ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 11:48:06 PDT 2007

9790 [lbo-talk] Islam and socialism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You don't get the point: socialism -- expropriate all the > expropriators -- is not on the practical agenda Anti-imperialism isn't "on the agenda" in the imperialist countries either, is it? Though who sets this agenda? Aren't we supposed to be trying to change the agenda? Or would you rather live vicariously through the struggles of others, thousands of miles from Columbus? Besides, there's plenty of socialism-friendly p ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:45:09 PDT 2007

9791 [lbo-talk] Islam and socialism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > You don't get the point: socialism -- expropriate all the > expropriators -- is not on the practical agenda Really? Damn. I keep forgetting. Thanks for reminding me. Doug

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:36:26 PDT 2007

9792 [lbo-talk] US fascism Awareness Month -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 12:57 PM, Mr. WD wrote: > On 10/26/07, andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> > wrote: >> >> I think this sort of talk is generally pointless, >> destructive and misleading, but I found the word >> coming out of my mouth in a conversation with a >> liberal (I mean regular liberal) colleague in the >> faculty lounge to describe Mukasy's defense of >> torture, and neither of us even hiccoughed. > > I've ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 10:22:35 PDT 2007

9793 [lbo-talk] Islam and socialism -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:48 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote, quoting YF: >> What is on the political agenda in many nations (from Latin >> America to >> the Middle East), and what should get on the political agenda in many >> others, today is not socialism but democracy and republicanism. If >> socialism grows anywhere, perhaps in Venezuela, it will do so >> organically out of people's practice of democracy and republicanism, >> which will differ from one countr ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 09:07:36 PDT 2007

9794 [lbo-talk] Rudy's right-wing advisors -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:27 AM, Jeffrey Fisher wrote: > this cracked me up, though: > --- > "I've got to tell you, I don't think he understands what the Steve > Forbes flat tax proposal is," said Alan Viard, a resident scholar at > the conservative American Enterprise Institute. > --- > > isn't one of the big selling points of the flat tax its awesome > un-misunderstandable simplicity? and if forbes as his new campaign > co-chair can't make it clear to him, ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 09:03:41 PDT 2007

9795 [lbo-talk] Gay Men Earn less than Het Males -- rank: 1000

On Oct 26, 2007, at 11:00 AM, BklynMagus wrote: > Study Finds Gay Men Encounter More Job Discrimination Than Lesbians Do > Gay men earn less than straight men because of employer > discrimination, according to a new study published in the Journal > of Labor Research. This supports what Lee Badgett, an economist who specializes in gender and homosex issues, has found: gay men take an earnings hit compared to straight men, whereas lesbians just suffer the "normal" discrim ...

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Date:	Fri Oct 26 08:40:04 PDT 2007