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2071 Nader & Litmus Tests -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210101b5854f9e31bb@[140.254.112.127]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes > The Green Party doesn't feel that it >can successfully wage an electoral campaign based upon its party >platform in America, instead of one based upon the name recognition >of a famous man. Political parties in America are basically >collections of individuals with their fund-raising machines, not >political _parties_ whose principles are democratically worked ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 3 04:48:46 PDT 2000

2072 Zimbabwe elections -- rank: 1000

In message <4.3.1.1.20000703075915.0551b5b0 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes I certainly welcome Chris' support for land redistribution. This is something that needs to happen. >But the thrust of this passage of Jim's overseas round-up column seems to >be on the Republic of the Congo. I do not see anything progressive in >Mugabe's intervention there. What *is* just, is the unwrapping of the >colonial land settlement and opposition to threa ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 3 02:04:29 PDT 2000

2073 US and Zimbabwe elections; Mbeki and AIDS -- rank: 1000

The Week ending 2 July 2000 CONSUMER POWER? Consumer activist Ralph Nader and Green Party candidate for the American Presidential election, threatens to upset the two-party apple cart. Fears are that Nader's seven per cent showing in the opinion polls could cost a jaded Democratic Party the presidency. The decision of the Teamsters Union to back Nader's candidacy is all the more surprising given Nader's backing for the deregulation of trucking, airline, communication and other industries that le ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 2 07:31:44 PDT 2000

2074 Marx no racist -- rank: 1000

In message <4.2.0.58.20000122160620.009a7760 at staff.uiuc.edu>, Daniel F. Vukovich <vukovich at uiuc.edu> writes > do you deny the Orientalist >moment in the Old Moor himself. Do I need to dig up the references to >"Chinese stupidity," vegetative Asiatics, the AMP, and the like? Do you >not think Marx -- and some Marxisms -- are infected by eurocentrism. I am >with Amin and Meszaros on this, amongst others. I don't think that Marx was Eurocentric or raci ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 23 03:38:03 PST 2000

2075 Responsibility -- rank: 1000

In message <32.7764e0.25bb4beb at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >Ken Hanly, Sam Pawlett, and Jim Heartfield are trying to draw me into a >metaphysical discussion about whether punishment and responsibility can be >reconciled with causal determinism. Hey, include me out. I'm no determinist. I'm a self-determinist. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 23 03:41:04 PST 2000

2076 War as a happening thing -- rank: 1000

In message <01e401bf656a$66f90dc0$94e13ecb at rcollins>, rc-am <rcollins at netlink.com.au> writes > >I've argued a number of times that postmodernism is another way -- an >aestheticised and/or idealistic way -- of talking about changes to the mode >of production, for which we might look to concepts such as real and formal >subsumption as a way of indicating and talking about those changes. Those >who bemoan 'pomos' really enact a similar aestheticisation by rende ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 23 02:37:01 PST 2000

2077 Non-European Marxists? -- rank: 1000

In message <b9.5ab5b8.25bb9203 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >In a message dated 00-01-22 16:37:58 EST, you write: > ><< Could this help explain why the only marxists after Lenin who stand out > as indisputable giants are non-europeans >> > >Lukacs, Gramsci? I don't now about giants, but you could certainly put in a good word for such Marxists as Karl Korsch, Paul Mattick, Franz Neumann, Roman Rosdolsky, Evgenny Pashukanis, Anton Pannekoek, Jindrich Ze ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 23 03:07:37 PST 2000

2078 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000

In message <s87f4d78.040 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes in reply to my >The rise in conspiracy theories is proportionate to the decline in >political engagement. > >&&&&&&&&& > >CB: This is not true. In the last period of heavy political engagment, the >60's/70's , activists took it for granted that the system hatched all kinds of >criminal conspiracies - COINTELPRO, the p ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 22 07:37:04 PST 2000

2079 A Request -- rank: 1000

In Britain there is an annual publication called 'Social Attitudes' which polls peoples attitudes on a variety of issues and breaks down their responses according to all the usual typologies of sex, class, age etc. Is there anything similar in the US, and/or Europe, and if so, does anyone have the publication details? Incidentally, my copy of Marshall Sahlins' pamphlet, Waiting for Foucault, much sought after on this list, came, courtesy of Amazon today. It was re-published in 1999. -- Jim heart ...

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Date:	Sat Jan 22 07:38:31 PST 2000

2080 Responsibility -- rank: 1000

In message <38897A9F.D8E50EF at uniserve.com>, Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com> writes >Because causal determinism (every event has a cause and human actions >are events) is true, I don't think we have to give up the >idea that people (specifically the working class) make history. Even >when every event has a cause you do not know what the ultimate picture >will look like. I'm not sure that this is a reasonable defence of the idea of an historical agent. If that histo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 22 06:38:35 PST 2000

2081 Valid Conspiracy Theory -- rank: 1000

In message <b1.fcd2fb.25b0aff4 at aol.com>, JKSCHW at aol.com writes >:Personally I think the appeal of conspiracy theories is that it makes our >enemes seem more evil if they are supposed to know that they are doing wrong >and still gleefully agree to do it. But this is a deeply anti-materialist >perspective. Materialism tells us to look for structures that constrain >interests, not for bad people. The system is an awful one, to be sure. But it >is not awful because the ...

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Date:	Fri Jan 14 11:21:35 PST 2000

2082 Y2-nuthin'? -- rank: 1000

In message <v04220807b49687266e15@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Hey, so all you Y2K Chicken Littles out there - what happened? Too >early to tell? Massive media coverup? Successful work by thousands of >feverish programmers? Can I say, I told you so, with this article from LM, February 1999: Pre-millennial tensions As the countdown to the twenty-first century begins in earnest, James Heartfield weighs the times and finds them wanting The army ...

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Date:	Wed Jan 5 04:15:08 PST 2000

2083 "Economic Nationalism"? (was Re: Who Killed Vincent Chin?) -- rank: 1000

>>Given Lou Proyect's interest in the role played by the Miskito >>Indians - abused by the Sandinistas, used by the CIA - it might be >>interesting to think about he relationship between nationalism (by >>definition an exclusionary process) & the Nicaraguan revolution. 'Nationalism by definition an exclusionary process' - well, that saves thinking about specific instances. Is nationalism 'by definition' an exclusionary process? On the contrary, it is often a process o ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 3 06:29:46 PST 2000

2084 Who Admires Hitler's Economy? -- rank: 1000

In message <386E68A4.CFEFA5AD at ecst.csuchico.edu>, Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes >Doug, > >I do not disagree with either you or Kalecki. Nor was I recommending >Hitler's policy. The point was that economic planning, even of the perverse >sort that the Nazis used, has the potential to increase production >substantially. In that sense, I made my separation of the political of >economic aspects of Hitler's economic policy. When you rea ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 06:04:07 PST 2000

2085 Schweikart chapter -- rank: 1000

In message <v0422080fb49447ecea89@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[forwarded by Sam Pawlett <rsp at uniserve.com>] > >From: "David C. Schweickart" <dschwei at ORION.IT.LUC.EDU> >Subject: Beyond Capitalism > >CHAPTER ONE > >COUNTERPROJECT, SUCCESSOR-SYSTEM, REVOLUTION > > Hence the importance now of struggles against racism, sexism and >homophobia, against senseless violence, ram ...

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Date:	Sun Jan 2 05:44:53 PST 2000