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2236 East Timor -- rank: 1000

I've sat out this discussion, because of other things. I am generally with Yoshie on this one. This is a background document on British policy I wrote up for friends over here. References are to Mark Curtis, Ambiguities of Power, Zed Books. A survey of British policy on Indonesia Indonesia's generals are resisting pressure from the West to install a democratic government and to allow an international force into East Timor. The present regime was created through the 1965 coup that deposed radical ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 14 13:53:12 PDT 1999

2237 Blair's moral purpose -- rank: 1000

National moral purpose sex shocker Tony Blair thinks that teenage sex 'should be a matter of anxiety and concern to anyone who believes in the future of the country', which is a bit weird, according to James Heartfield It is sad news that two twelve year old girls have fallen pregnant, but it must have been a surprise to them as much as to anyone else that they were to become the Prime Minister's next moral crusade. After showing his determination to fight in Kosovo to the last American soldier, ...

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Date:	Thu Sep 9 11:54:16 PDT 1999

2238 definitions -- rank: 1000

In message <07E012F391C6D2119AFD0050040E8AE022E4D1 at RLM-EXCH>, Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes > > No, neutrality is what science *claims.*  I think of science as > functioning like a searchlight -- providing piercing, albeit > narrowly focused, illumination of the subjects it focuses on while > leaving the rest of existence in darkness.  The question of what > you focus that searchlight on often requires ideologically based > judgm ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Sep 8 10:19:37 PDT 1999

2239 definitions -- rank: 1000

In message <s7d4dd53.072 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes > > > >>>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 09/06/99 06:33PM >>> >No one claimed it was ideologically neutral. No one ever claimed >science was ideologically neutral either. I claim science is ideologically neutral. In fact, that's what science means. The view that there is nothing but ideology, really means that there is no such t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 7 14:50:10 PDT 1999

2240 Inequality. Was: Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc) -- rank: 1000

In message <v04210111b3fa4098d9f6@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Max Sawicky wrote: > >>Since I raised it, >>I'll reveal my own unproven hypothesis: people in the >>U.S. don't give a damn about inequality. > >Oh yes. My impression is that inequality had more salience as a >political issue when liberals could blame it on Reagan and Bush, and >not the normal operations of American capitalism. Inequality is worse >n ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 7 05:56:05 PDT 1999

2241 Heidegger and Lukacs -- rank: 1000

Martin Heidegger and Georg Lukacs Lucien Goldmann argues that Martin Heidegger's 'Being and Time ... cannot be understood without the realisation that it constitutes largely ... a debate with ... Lukacs' work History and Class Consciousness. (Immanuel Kant, NLB, 1971, p 25.) The Hungarian Marxist Lukacs published History and Class Consciousness in 1923. It drew upon the same philosophical sources as Heidegger, but interpreted these as intellectual forms of alienated social relations - as analyse ...

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Date:	Tue Sep 7 03:45:33 PDT 1999

2242 Derrida: everywhere and nowhere baby, that's where you're at -- rank: 1000

In message <v01540b03b3f8ea4da3d1@[165.247.12.163]>, Jacob Segal <jsegal at mindspring.com> writes >It is easy enought to attack Heidegger for his Nazi past, his >anti-semitism, etc. But what does that have to do with Being and Time? >To call his philosophy "Fascism" is a foolish generalization. Of course, an >argument could be made showing how Being and Time could lead to a fascist >position, but such an argument has to be carefully made with textual >re ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 01:42:23 PDT 1999

2243 Immanuel Wallerstein -- rank: 1000

In message <v0421010ab3f8db008060@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Jacob Segal wrote: > >>I just returned from the American Political Science Association conference >>in Atlanta where Immanuel Wallerstein gave a lecture in which he argued >>that the world capitalist order was headed towards a crisis. > >Hmm, I was just reading a paper that claimed it's been in crisis >since 1973. Or was it 1997? I forget. It's so hard to ...

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Date:	Mon Sep 6 01:46:52 PDT 1999

2244 Derrida: everywhere and nowhere baby, that's where you're at -- rank: 1000

A Heidegger glossary: Inauthentic being: racial impurity Being-there: true German (Levinas joked that the problem with Heidegger's 'Being-there' was that it usually entailed being in someone else's country) Das Mann: The Jews/the urban masses (in a sideswipe at Georg Lukacs, H' says that it is unthinkable that Das Mann could be a subject, still less a collective subject). Destruction of ontology: book burning The stand in History: The third Reich Being-towards-death: the SS In message <002301 ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 5 15:15:28 PDT 1999

2245 One Cheer for Collective Guilt -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.NEB.4.10.9909050856020.28218-100000 at panix6.panix.com>, Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> writes > But collective atonement is not always wrong -- and therefore, >neither is collective guilt. The guilt that Germans have felt for the >Holocaust has been in many ways a salutory and sometimes even a radical >impulse. I don't agree. The concept of collective guilt was coined by the conservative German émigré Lord Vansittart. The Allies employed 'collect ...

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Date:	Sun Sep 5 10:31:12 PDT 1999

2246 Derrida: everywhere and nowhere baby, that's where you're at -- rank: 1000

In message <001f01bef664$b16b14e0$da12fdd0 at chrisgroup>, christian a. gregory <pearl862 at earthlink.net> writes > >First, Derrida didn't defend Heidegger against the charge of Nazism. How >could he? Everyone knew Heidegger was in the party, and that he accepted the >Rector's position (at Heidelberg). The Farias book was tabloid research at >its finest--it made its way on the fact that no one in the United States >knew the first thing about Heidegger (or the holoc ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 4 03:05:41 PDT 1999

2247 Facing "facts" with fantasy -- rank: 1000

In message <07E012F391C6D2119AFD0050040E8AE022E4C7 at RLM-EXCH>, Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes > > Until societies can make fairer provision for all their citizens, > and so long as population pressures pose serious threats to the > global economy -- there seems no reason to regret low birth rates > wherever they occur. In message <07E012F391C6D2119AFD0050040E8AE022E4C9 at RLM-EXCH>, Carl Remick <cremick at rlmnet.com> writes > ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 14:00:17 PDT 1999

2248 Derrida: everywhere and nowhere baby, that's where you're at -- rank: 1000

>Catherine Driscoll wrote: > >> what harm? precisely what *harm* has Derrida done? or, ok, even loosely, >> what *harm*? Oh, I think quite a great deal of harm, if reason is something to be valued. Most pointedly, his defence of the Heidegger against the charge of Nazism is a pretty serious abuse of Derrida's authority. More generally, Derrida's elevation of marginalia, word-play and other aspects of the frivolous have had a desultory influence upon scholarship. It seems a sham ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 12:01:16 PDT 1999

2249 Facing "facts" with fantasy -- rank: 1000

>Martin Schiller wrote: > >> But can the "willingness to mother" variable be put forward as >>a servicable indication of a society's health. I don't know, but I think that the low birth rates in the West are pretty depressing. It says that people have very little positive hope for the future. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 10:41:24 PDT 1999

2250 Evil Lenin -- rank: 1000

Angela quotes Lenin >"party struggles lend a >party strength and vitality; the greatest proof of a party's weakness is >its diffuseness and the blurring of clear demarcations; a party becomes >stronger by purging itself." drawing the conclusion that >leninism elevates sectarianism to a virtue But how is Leninism as described above any different from Engels' comment: 'A party proves itself a victorious party by the fact that it splits and can stand the split.' 'Sectariani ...

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Date:	Fri Sep 3 10:27:09 PDT 1999