Search LBO-Talk Archives

2191 reparations -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130502630be32d2107@[128.112.70.12]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >Jim H wrote: > >>The slave mode of production was a barrier to the development of >>capitalism, so it was abolished. >> >>Maybe I'm being dim, but I don't see what your difficulty with that >>statement is. Or perhaps you think that the slave mode of production is >>intact? > >Your counterposing the slave mode of production to ...

Document Size:	6610
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 26 06:21:19 PDT 1999

2192 Littleton: it's Adorno's fault -- rank: 1000

In message <37ED14F2.392F9CBD at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >George Thompson (the British Stalinist/Maoist greek scholar) A great scholar, too. Lost to history, I had thought, until I read this from Carrol. The Human Essence is my favourite, followed by Aeschylus and Athens. He was at Birmingham University in the sixties, and much harried by the authorities there, coming a generation before Stuart Hall's Centre for Cultural Studies at Birmingham (which ...

Document Size:	5667
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 25 14:23:57 PDT 1999

2193 reparations -- rank: 1000

The slave mode of production was a barrier to the development of capitalism, so it was abolished. Maybe I'm being dim, but I don't see what your difficulty with that statement is. Or perhaps you think that the slave mode of production is intact? In message <v02130501630bdecd1964@[128.112.71.88]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >Jim H wrote: > >. The slave mode of >>production was a barrier to the development of capitalism, and so it was > ...

Document Size:	7532
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 25 14:32:10 PDT 1999

2194 reparations -- rank: 1000

History is not a continuum. To look historically is to understand how each age operates according to its own laws. The slave mode of production was a barrier to the development of capitalism, and so it was abolished. It is a mistake to assimilate racism to slavery. Even if there never had been slavery, capitalism would have created its own system of racial oppression. That is because racism is not a hangover from the past but the contemporary product of capitalist society. I think you miss the w ...

Document Size:	9597
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Sep 24 19:20:36 PDT 1999

2195 Littleton: it's Adorno's fault -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210123b4116a046f05@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >But that's not all. Columbine High School was a pioneer in "Death >Education," a mandatory course in the school. Well, I must say, this does stand out from all the other peripheral details. Anyone in a position to shed any light on 'Death Education'? The other stuff is easily parodied, but from the outside it does look like American society has a developed youth death cult ...

Document Size:	5141
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Sep 24 11:40:53 PDT 1999

2196 reparations -- rank: 1000

I would have said that the weakness of the 'reparations' strategy is that it projects racial oppression back into the past, as if present day discrimination were simply a hangover from the past, rather than something that is actively recreated in the free-market present. It was a core theoretical assumption of such apologetic analyses of race as Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma that racism would be superceded by the modernisation of American society. The substantial fact is that the capitalis ...

Document Size:	5505
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Sep 24 11:29:55 PDT 1999

2197 Suck meets the anti-ironist -- rank: 1000

In message <37EA81A4.7C8C19AE at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes > one from Dickens (the death of >little Nell) and one from Engels (*Working Class in England) on the >death of a worker's child. Didn't Wilde say that no man of true sensibilities could read the death of little Nell without breaking down in laughter. -- Jim heartfield

Document Size:	4973
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 18:08:06 PDT 1999

2198 'Identity Politics' -- rank: 1000

Aren't all these attempts at policing the language precisely what the critics objected to as political correctness? I'm not sure any of us is in a position to 'retire' language that is in use. In message <199909231748.NAA05361 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >> I think the term 'identity politics' (as well as 'political correctness') >> should be retired from use at least in conversations among leftists. >> Yoshie > &g ...

Document Size:	6633
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 13:22:46 PDT 1999

2199 Faludi and Stiffed? -- rank: 1000

In message <XFMail.990922205316.cgrimes at tsoft.com>, Chuck Grimes <cgrimes at tsoft.com> writes > >I saw a Charlie Rose interview of Susan Faludi last night where she >attempted to discuss her new book on men called _Stiffed_. Rose was >over steering the 'conversation' as usual. In any event, any one read >the book or any reaction on Susan Faludi in more general terms? It was serialised in the Guardian (UK) so you ought to be able to find it at their website, www.new ...

Document Size:	5154
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 09:54:38 PDT 1999

2200 lbo-talk-digest V1 #1909 -- rank: 1000

In message <19990923100636.B11097 at panix.com>, t byfield <tbyfield at panix.com> writes >> Date: Wed, 22 Sep 1999 22:03:26 -0500 >> From: "Peter Kilander" <peterk at enteract.com> >> Subject: Stereolab > > <...> >> They are really groovy in concert. Here are concert dates for Europe for the >> next couple of months: > >i'll second that. not nearly as good as they used to be, >but they used to be just about the best ...

Document Size:	5529
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 09:39:22 PDT 1999

2201 killer cars -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19990922123325.00d42140 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >I am surprised that our resident racism and sexism fighters failed to >notice the essentially racist and sexist nature of individual car based >transportation. Sublime. Now cars are responsible for racism and sexism. Don't Americans know how to take responsibility for anything? 'It was the car that made me do it'. This is, if you don't mind me saying, what Marx m ...

Document Size:	10349
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 01:40:41 PDT 1999

2202 pollution is other people than Wojtek -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.6.32.19990922141856.00d4a890 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >BTW, the "want-to" argument from a marxist is shocking. By the same logic, >we can argue that there is nothing wrong with capitalism because workers >would not be working for their minumum wages if they did not want to. Wojtek, you yourself argued just a few posts ago that there was no material advantage to having a car. You costed it down to the last ...

Document Size:	5911
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 01:52:18 PDT 1999

2203 Stupid question about Iraq -- rank: 1000

>>I don't want to freight this question with any baggage about correct >>politics or anything like that; it's an honest query: why is it that >>the ruler of Iraq is referred to in common parlance, even in the press, >>as "Saddam" when it would be SOP to call a high-profile individual by >>their last name in most any other situation? I seem to recall that this >>moniker was bequeathed as a derogatory by Bush the Elder and minions in >>some wea ...

Document Size:	5474
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Sep 23 04:33:06 PDT 1999

2204 Tony's People -- rank: 1000

To any English subscribers, Tomorrow night on Channel Four television, at 9.30pm (just before the Sopranos), watch 'Tony's People' the documentary about ordinary lives in the Prime Minister's constituency, directed by Eve Kay. The series is a critical look at Blairism that contrasts the ideals of 'community' with the reality. Tomorrow night's episode is about education. -- Jim heartfield

Document Size:	4684
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 22 04:19:36 PDT 1999

2205 East Timor, Kosovo, and Kuwait -- rank: 1000

Nathan, you cut me to the quick when you say I am a pessimist. You know I am hopelessly romantic about the chromium plated future. But the realist in me says that one has to have a bit of distance from the so- called 'new social movements'. These movements are generally very small indeed, with much less democratic accountability than even the old Stalinist parties. More to the point they are, as a rule, the client groups of Western-funded "Non- Governmental Organisations", mobilised to ...

Document Size:	9570
Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 22 02:23:03 PDT 1999