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1231 [lbo-talk] Is there still a Jewish question, by Ellen Willis -- rank: 1000

The late Ellen Willis, as cited by Michael, wrote "I reject the villainization of Israel as the sole or main source of the mess in the Middle East. And I contend that Israel needs to maintain its "right of return" for Jews around the world." I agree with the first sentence, but not the second. After years of denying it, I think there is good reason to accept now that there is a streak of anti-Semitism in anti-Zionism. But it does not follow that Israel is anything but a terri ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 11 12:41:39 PST 2006

1232 [lbo-talk] Let the dead bury their dead, was Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

"Earlier revolutions required recollections of past world history in order to dull themselves to their own content. In order to arrive at its own content, the revolution of the nineteenth century must let the dead bury their dead." Karl Marx, 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Franz Fanon often cited Marx's scripture, see the Black Skin, White Masks, Chapter Eight

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:38:17 PST 2006

1233 [lbo-talk] Ellen Willis dies -- rank: 1000

Jesse: "with the body only a few hours cold" let the dead bury the dead, Matthew 8:18-20

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 16:03:36 PST 2006

1234 [lbo-talk] become a vegetarian or rot in a ditch -- rank: 1000

Jon Ablewhite, John Smith Kerry Whitburn and Josephine Mayo were jailed for terms of between 3 and 12 years in May 2006, pleading guilty to blackmail following a campaign of intimidation against a farm that bred animals for scientific research. The animal rights protestors had terrified local people with violent threats and lost national sympathy after they disinterred the corpse of Gladys Hammond, whose son owned the farm. Her remains have still not been recovered. http://www.guardian.co.uk/ani ...

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Date:	Sat Nov 4 23:49:16 PST 2006

1235 [lbo-talk] Niall Ferguson's War of the World -- rank: 1000

Scottish Harvard historian Ferguson's new book is provoking some comment over here. This is my review: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/917/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20060630/e7ea0715/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Fri Jun 30 12:11:40 PDT 2006

1236 [lbo-talk] The very worst custodians of empire -- rank: 1000

Seth's description of Arno Mayer's Persistence of the Old Regime suggests he was following the Nairn-Anderson (That's Tom and Perry) thesis of the imperfect bourgeois revolution, which has its insights, but in the end, I think is confused. Must have a look - Mayer's Why Did the Heavens Not Darken is a great book. Cain and Hopkins history of British Imperialism makes much use of the Nairn-Anderson thesis to describe the relationship between the 'Gentlemanly Capitalism' (ie feudalistic) of the Cit ...

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Date:	Sat Jul 1 04:47:35 PDT 2006

1237 [lbo-talk] Rat on Your Leftist Prof -- rank: 1000

Endlessly irritated by student assessment forms and obstreperous students (all American in my case), I have long nursed the ambition of starting a website dedicated to 'students I hate'. Of course, we could hide behind anonymity. Any takers? -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <../attachments/20060117/746a3096/attachment.htm>

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Date:	Tue Jan 17 11:11:54 PST 2006

1238 [lbo-talk] Woody Allen's latest stupid movie -- rank: 1000

I tend to agree with Joanna about Woody Allen, but you should go to see Match Point to see the Patrick Hughes sticking-out-perspective paintings. Hughes' studio hosted one Doug Henwood on his visit to London a year or so ago. From 21 Jan. you can catch his exhibition at Flowers East Gallery, where some 'Match Point' scenes were filmed, if you are in London. http://www.patrickhughes.co.uk/ Purple Rose of Cairo was Allen's best I thought, or maybe Sleeper, but all that miserable introspection gets ...

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Date:	Mon Jan 16 03:41:16 PST 2006

1239 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek takes issue with me for putting the words 'stop consuming' in his mouth - but he was the one that put the words 'shut up and keep consuming' in mine. I should have checked his other posts, but my assumption was that if 'keep consuming' is wrong, then 'stop consuming' was the logical corollary. Wojtek asks me to come clean about my motivations. OK, I do not own a car, have not for the last two years. (Nor am I employed by any car or petrol interests.) I cycle my two children to school, or ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 14 02:39:39 PST 2006

1240 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax? -- rank: 1000

I wrote that internal combustion engines were a means of living, pointing out that all of our food and other consumption goods are delivered by vans and lorries. To Wojtek replies: "Similar arguments were, no doubt, advanced to defend slavery in the US South - it would be the end of civilization." Which parallel defeats me, I have to say. Is Wojtek aiming to free the combustion engines from servitude to the human species? Keep them enslaved, I say. Then he goes on "If you engage e ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 13 11:02:46 PST 2006

1241 [lbo-talk] A Case for a Higher Gasoline Tax? -- rank: 1000

The UK has imposed a lot of anti-motoring including a moratorium on new road building. 'Petrol in the UK currently costs an average of 76.2p for a litre of unleaded, with duty making up about three-quarters of the price.' The net effect is what? A massive increase in car use: 'the number of licensed vehicles increased by 63 per cent between 1980 and 2003, from 19.2 to 31.2 million' Doug: "Why is so hard to grasp the fact that we're courting disaster by burning hydrocarbons at such a furious ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 13 06:07:31 PST 2006

1242 [lbo-talk] Re: lbo-talk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 243 -- rank: 1000

quoth Michael Hoover: "one joseph weydemeyer, financial contributor to newspaper for which k marx was editor, communist league member, and german '1848er' who fled to u.s., was a surveyor on central park construction... mh" Any more information/sources on weydemeyer? Is it right he served in the Union Army? James Heartfield

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Date:	Sun Feb 26 14:16:27 PST 2006

1243 [lbo-talk] Did 10 000 really die? -- rank: 1000

Michael P. writes: "The Kosovar students, workers and Communists, all through the 80's up to the late 90's, demonstrated peacefully for their national rights. Took a lot of provocation from Belgrade to give birth to the KLA." Yes, but that it evidence that the Kosovars were not interested in independence until quite late in the day. Nor would they be, since union with Albania was if anything less attractive than membership of the Yugoslav federation. Then, they were only lobbying for g ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 30 15:37:07 PST 2006

1244 [lbo-talk] "Did 10 000 really die" -- rank: 1000

The other Ian Williams writes: >I shudder too think of what the large manuscript his group is >preparing on Srebrenica will be like. "Did ten thousand really die" No, nobody says that 10 000 died. The largest number is 8 300, a list made up by the Bosnian Federal Commission for Missing Persons. In the end 5000 bodies have been found, and 2032 identified. Exaggerating the numbers killed in the Bosnian civil war is commonplace. Throughout the conflict total dead were regularly r ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 30 11:18:27 PST 2006

1245 [lbo-talk] The other Ian Williams -- rank: 1000

The other Ian Williams writes: "It was a different Ian Williams who was at the concentration camp -- but he was right and totally vindicated when the libel case went to court." If by vindicated one means that the British judicary rewarded a journalist for the largest UK broadcast news for supporting military intervention by forcing his left-wing critics out of business as vindicated, then of course he is right. If the other Ian Williams means that the ITN Ian Williams' attempt to por ...

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Date:	Sat Dec 30 10:56:31 PST 2006