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2221 LaRouche -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210103b40964b37746@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Nathan Newman wrote:Didn't he write a tract or two on value theory under the name Lyn >Marcus in the old days? You've solved a mystery for me. I was given a volume called Dialectical Economics: An Introduction to Marxist Political Economy, (Lexington: DC Heath, 1975) by one Lyn Marcus once. At the time I found it rather boring, but looking over it, it seems ok, as a restatement of M ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 10:06:19 PDT 1999

2222 Breakfast of Champions -- rank: 1000

Did anyone see the recentish version of Slaughterhouse Five. Production values of a TV production, but good to see Nick Nolte play the lead. The cover with it's Stars and Stripes Swastika sent a chill (or thrill) through my childhood. Was that the Vonnegut with the terrible descriptions of clearing out the corpses after the firebombing of Dresden, or was that the time travel one (and is that Breakfast of Champions?)? I have them all mixed up now. In message <v03130301b4089ab031d9@[140.254.112 ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 08:34:47 PDT 1999

2223 Scepticism, Dogmatism, & _White Noise_ (was Re: 'Identity Politics') -- rank: 1000

In message <v03130300b408a5ffda34@[140.254.113.119]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >One ought to avoid (a) being dogmatically sceptic (e.g. in a neo-Kantian >postmodern fashion) and (b) using 'scepticism' in service of dogmatism >(e.g. doubting the fact of evolution). One may even say dogmatism and >scepticism, especially at their extreme ends, form a unity of opposites. > >Scepticism may be sometimes correct, but only situationally so. Leftist ...

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Date:	Sat Sep 18 08:18:26 PDT 1999

2224 American politics [was Reps delaying -- rank: 1000

>From: sawicky at epinet.org (Max Sawicky) Takes issue with my comment >The way I see it, the contemporary political and administrative >establishment is quite decisively a product of the left, but in the >sense of being a product of the left's defeat. >mbs: By this reasoning, we could say the modern U.S. right was >based on American communism/trotskyism, since half the editorial >board of National Review was ex-communist of one type or another . . . Well, after reading Alan ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 16:12:07 PDT 1999

2225 Black Book of Capitalism? (RE: The 20th Century - The Economist -- rank: 1000

In message <006501bf00df$d5f25a00$a5f48482 at nsn2>, Nathan Newman <nathan.newman at yale.edu> writes >Are there any useful compilations of mass death under the >capitalist/colonialist states that use similar expansive methodologies of >murder attributed to those states? First world war Deaths British Empire 947 000 French Empire 1 400 000 Germany 1 800 000 Austria-H 1 200 000 Russia 1 700 000 USA 116 000 Italy 650 000 Se ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 15:50:19 PDT 1999

2226 'Identity Politics' -- rank: 1000

I think that you can say that Labourism or trade unionism is another species of identity politics (perhaps the first). But there is one aspect of Marxism that refuses to be assimilated into identity politics. That is the proposition that the historic mission of the working class is its own abolition. That, surely, is what sets Marxism aside from all other identity politics. All other identity politics will tend to seek recognition for and incorporation of the excluded identity. Marxism proposes ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 02:32:09 PDT 1999

2227 Peasants protest mutant corn field test -- rank: 1000

In message <007101bf00e7$a5b04020$5a19050a at jofix2>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >Jim wrote: >> Farmers all over the world buy their seed corn >> rather than growing it. When you plant from your own harvest you get >> into a pretty rapidly diminishing return. >Since I am no expert in this field I have to rely on what I hear from the >media. In a recent report on GM seed Sueddeutsche Zeitung was saying, that >the rapidly di ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 17 02:36:20 PDT 1999

2228 rah rah America! -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010cb4056a4723ab@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[this guy can't quote Brad De Long enough!] > >Financial Times - September 15, 1999 > >America rules OK > >Given the alternatives, the world should be grateful for the hegemony >of the US throughout the 20th century, writes Martin Wolf ><Martin.Wolf at ft.com> >This was >the American century. Given the grim alternatives to US hegemony, the >rest o ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 07:56:38 PDT 1999

2229 Buchanan: taking on Hitler was a mistake -- rank: 1000

What if history is always pretty problematic, but if you take Buchanan's 'what if' as an historical description, it is surprisingly close to what happened. There was no war between Germany and America until such a time as Germany and the Soviet Union had exhausted each other. Britain, too, while defending its interests in Africa, stayed out of the European theatre until such time as the Soviet Army started to push westwards. The truth is that the allies were the inheritors and beneficiaries of H ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 18:39:34 PDT 1999

2230 dinosaurs in the boardroom, not the classroom -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210114b4057dcabab2@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Many Christian Parents Opt >For Religious Charter Schools The Television here is reporting seven killings in a Texas Church as being the work of a militant atheist, shouting anti-religious slogans: did someone go over the edge over evolution? -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 19:01:18 PDT 1999

2231 FW: Peasants protest mutant corn field test -- rank: 1000

In message <07E012F391C6D2119AFD0050040E8AE022E524 at RLM-EXCH>, Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes > KMP chair Rafael Mariano said that peasants will lose the > twelve-millennium-old rights to raise their own seeds to > agrocorporations > which control the trade of food, chemicals and seeds and which have > exclusive rights to the new seeds that need huge doses of > chemicals. Incidentally, the practice of planting seed from your own crop ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 18:53:52 PDT 1999

2232 UK: we would have risked heavy casualties -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210103b405fae10029@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >[What about that witticism about Blair fighting to the last American?] > >Press Association (UK) - Thursday September 16, 12:46 AM > >'We Would Have Risked Heavy Kosovo Casualties' - Robertson yeah yeah - fighting talk, Mr Robertson. (Incidentally, the new Nato secretary began his political career as an official in the boilermakers' union - how's that for advancement?) (Dur ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 04:58:43 PDT 1999

2233 American politics [was Reps delaying EITC] -- rank: 1000

The way I see it, the contemporary political and administrative establishment is quite decisively a product of the left, but in the sense of being a product of the left's defeat. In personnel terms, in Britain, certainly, and I suspect also in America and Europe, many of today's most influential figures are recruited from the left. (I've just read British Chancellor Gordon Brown's biography, to learn that in the seventies he was the author of a Gramscian-marxist collection of essays on Scotland ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 16 08:06:46 PDT 1999

2234 East Timor [was East Timor: the optimist's scenario] -- rank: 1000

In message <37DF29E8.9D9AA3B7 at igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes >What has been the response of an appalling number of marxists here, and more >so, on Louis' marxism list? Did they try to understand, and give some credit >to, the materialist analysis of their comrades on the scene that timely help >was absolutely critical. No. Such help, they claimed, would violate the >"principle" (I refuse to add "marxist" in front of such b ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 15 00:29:26 PDT 1999

2235 Ideology (vs science) -- rank: 1000

I would argue that the second definition is the most important, but that the first compliments it while the third loses the usefulness of the distinction. Terry Eagleton gives no less than Napoleon pride of place in coining the word. But the idea behind it is straight-forward enough in European philosophy - that opinion or dogma, is an inferior kind thinking to more reasoned or scientific thought. What Marx adds to that is that in the sphere of social thinking, spontaneous thought will tend mere ...

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Date:	Wed Sep 15 00:59:49 PDT 1999