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1996 Berlusconi acquitted -- rank: 1000

In message <4.3.1.1.20000510232741.05841980 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes after I said >>Better that Italian voters decide who is fit to represent them than >>judges, in my view. >> >>After all, the elite do not need fascism if they can get away with >>suspending democracy through legalistic means. That it was > >A rather abstract view of democracy, that ignores the modern reality that >power lies with the abi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 11 08:06:48 PDT 2000

1997 Berlusconi acquitted -- rank: 1000

In message <4.3.1.1.20000509225953.0581e460 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >Bad news that Berlusconi has been acquitted of a bribing tax inspectors. > >Whatever you think of the PDS (Italy) and its former PM D'Alema, the >present government is possibly only a prelude to Italy swinging right >dominated by this media magnate. > >There is democracy and democracy. Better that Italian voters decide who is fit to represent them than j ...

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Date:	Tue May 9 16:25:13 PDT 2000

1998 Fwd: 2000-05-09 Attendees of Distinguished Americans In Support of PNTR -- rank: 1000

What's PNTR? In message <p0431010db53de6d090da@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[They forgot to invite Rakesh!] > > THE WHITE HOUSE > >_________________________________________________________________________ >For Immediate Release May 9, 2000 > > DISTINGUISHED AMERICANS IN SUPPORT OF PNTR > List of Attendees > ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 9 10:57:36 PDT 2000

1999 Bill Fletcher Jr. on Internationalism (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000508142949.538981499A- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes Objecting to my >> There I think I must defend my fellow Europeans. Most US cultural theory >> is derivative of European post-structuralism and phenomenology. > >Fredric Jameson, Henry Louis Gates Jr, Judith Butler? As I read Judith Butler I see her mostly following the post- structuralist critique of the subject, as in 'The Ps ...

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Date:	Tue May 9 11:11:36 PDT 2000

2000 Intellectuals, right and left -- rank: 1000

In message <20000505174431.99687.qmail at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes >>Granted, left thought isn't too dazzling these days, but I'm really >>curious whom James Heartfield has in mind. Katie Roiphe? >> >>Doug > >Nah, not enough of a pitchwoman for Better Living Through Chemistry. >Virginia Postrel's a more likely candidate. I missed this. Yes, I was impressed by Postrel, and though I like Roiphe's work, I wouldn't call ...

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Date:	Tue May 9 11:57:40 PDT 2000

2001 rumour-mongering -- rank: 1000

In message <002801bfb84a$7d0910a0$3201aace at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes >He's a cokehead too! >Jörg Haider, the de facto leader of the far-right Freedom party in Austria, >has been "outed" by German and Austrian newspapers who claim he is a >homosexual. Isn't the fascination with Haider's personal life symptomatic of the Europe's bizarre fixation on the Austrian right-winger? His politics are certainly authoritarian, but no m ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 00:41:18 PDT 2000

2002 New Left Gossip -- rank: 1000

There's an article 'Journey's End for Alasdair MacIntyre' in the British Trotskyist journal New Interventions Vol4, No2, July 1993. I don't have a copy anymore, but as I remember it, MacIntyre was in the Socialist Labour League, the party led by Gerry Healy that Vanessa Redgrave joined. The article has a little doggerel poem about the religious conversions of MacIntyre and Brian Behan popular among his cdes. Sorry I can't remember it. As someone said, his 'Self Images of the Age' is very good, e ...

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Date:	Mon May 8 00:31:22 PDT 2000

2003 Bill Fletcher Jr. on Internationalism (Jim O'Connor) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000506161004.539065550A- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at oregon.uoregon.edu> writes > Forty percent of >Germany's banking system is state-owned. Is that irrelevant to the class >struggle? I'm not sure. What relevance would you say it had? A long time ago Karl Marx scoffed at those who saw state-ownership as synonymous with socialism, citing the German state-funded tobacco industry. >Daimler's co-determination system ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 10:01:50 PDT 2000

2004 The Week ending 7 May 2000 -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 7 May 2000 MILLBANK'S REVENGE ON LONDON When Londoner's snubbed New Labour and elected independent Ken Livingstone (below), party officials at Millbank Tower took revenge by re-directing funds out of the capital, and out of the new Mayor's hands. Europe's Agenda 2000 budget discussion was scheduled to re-draft conditions for regeneration funding. Under EC rules, the government must justify its own spending under the Single Regeneration Budget. The British government map of areas ...

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Date:	Sun May 7 07:07:48 PDT 2000

2005 New Left Gossip -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.21.0005041214220.18432-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > >All these "true gentlemen" comments have aroused my idle curiousity - what >is Perry Anderson's social background? I believe he comes from the Protestant ascendancy in Ireland. There is a long-standing radical tradition amongst these, now more or less overshadowed by the more plebeian and reactionary Orangemen. But, I can't remember the source, ...

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Date:	Thu May 4 16:53:29 PDT 2000

2006 1993 Resignations from NLR Editorial Board -- rank: 1000

In message <00a301bfb549$d9530540$7a01aace at oemcomputer>, Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net> writes Of the 1993 resignations from the NLR board >The events outlined above have already led to several >resignations from the Editorial Board: those of Patrick Camiller, Camiller co-edited a book on the European left with Perry Anderson, so no great hostility there. ... > Norman Geras, well, good riddance to the innately miserable author of The Contract of Mutual Indiffer ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 16:48:36 PDT 2000

2007 Anecdotage/Lenin -- rank: 1000

In message <s90ff573.065 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >>>> "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com> 05/02/00 11:48PM >>> >Cockburn's father was even better in pillorying the party for left jargon. >For example, the CP once issued a dictum about the party newspaper stating >that "the organ must penetrate the backward sections of the working >classes." Cockburn pointed out ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 13:18:19 PDT 2000

2008 The zeitgeist with gusto -- rank: 1000

In message <20000503163724.63581.qmail at hotmail.com>, Carl Remick <carlremick at hotmail.com> writes >American People To Live Happily Ever After That's Carl's biggest nightmare, that there might be nothing to moan about. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Wed May 3 13:04:34 PDT 2000

2009 New Economy -- rank: 1000

In message <p04310101b534a1a8aa68@[216.254.77.128]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > >A lot of the New Economy rhetoric is just a cover for a "flexible" >labor market - i.e., a big low-wage sector. Eileen Appelbaum of EPI >once said that the major difference between the U.S. and German >national accounts, as far as she could tell, was a much higher level >of purchased household services in the U.S. - fast food, laundry >services, out-of-po ...

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Date:	Wed May 3 06:36:27 PDT 2000

2010 Immiseration my eye -- rank: 1000

In message <v01540b03b534ea3a9058@[208.58.101.87]>, Jacob Segal <jpsegal at rcn.com> writes >(snip) >>Hence increasing absolute wages accompany relative impoverishment. Marx >>never had an 'immiseration thesis' in the sense attributed him, that >>workers wages fell absolutely, or as measured in use-values, only >>relatively, or as measured in value, or against profits. >> >>-- >>Jim heartfield > >If so, why does Marx appear to write ...

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