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2341 Michael Moore's Awful Truth -- rank: 1000

Michael Moore's TV show, a mix of stand-up with a live (American) audience, and agit-prop films, the Awful Truth was broadcast on Channel4 tonight. The show was inspired and quite hilarious. Moore got a man who is (was) dying for want of a Pancreas transplant to picket out Humana HMO with invitations to his own funeral. After Moore and the dying man reduced one PR man to incoherence, Humana backed down. The only mildly irritating thing is all of the patriotic preening over here that he isn't sho ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 3 16:49:44 PST 1999

2342 Genetically Modified (GM) Food -- rank: 1000

In message <36DAFB15.2692 at gte.net>, Paul Henry Rosenberg <rad at gte.net> writes >What's happening now is that companies are getting patents to ANY AND >ALL transgenic soybeans, for example, based on JUST ONE genetic >modification use JUST ONE technique. > >The result is that their "property rights" now cover anything that might >result for the incredibly vast and varied sum of common knowledge in the >field, which used to be completely untouchable b ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 2 12:27:20 PST 1999

2343 Genetically Modified (GM) Food -- rank: 1000

In message <36D9F1D7.5653 at concentric.net>, W. Kiernan <WKiernan at concentric.net> writes >The science of GM holds great promise for mankind, but as always, >capitalism ruins everything. You or I would use GM to improve the >quality and quantity of harvests, for the benefit of the people who eat >the food. Instead, look at what GM is actually being used for today. >Monsanto openly uses it deliberately to poison the people who eat the >food, or to starve them. A ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 1 11:23:35 PST 1999

2344 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories & new enclosures (relative sv) -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.16.19990630163402.38df2d10 at pop2.igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes > But I'm having trouble linking that up to problems with >the labor theory of value as a revolutionary agent. To be sure, the labor >theory is a way to analyse capital's laws of motion. But why is it >inadequate for a full-blown critique of capitalism (if that's what you mean)? Marx doesn't have a labour theory of value, he wrote a critique of the classical economists ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 30 15:15:38 PDT 1999

2345 A Square Peg into a Round Hole -- rank: 1000

In message <v0420553db39f0e583426@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >From: Robert Weissman <rob at essential.org> >Fearful of a public backlash that might drive the biotech industry into >oblivion, Monsanto is reaching out to its critics. > >Last week, Jeremy Rifkin, the biotech critic, flew to Monsanto's world >headquarters in St. Louis to address something called the World Business >Council for Sustainable Development. I don't ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 30 12:10:08 PDT 1999

2346 More on Eagleton/Spivak -- rank: 1000

In message <377A4115.9BF5943C at lafn.org>, Marta Russell <ap888 at lafn.org> writes > Darwin was a >racist which was fashionable amongst his class and he was an ableist, meaning >he concluded that people not of "sound" body and mind should not marry and >propogate their kind. Any proof to all this, or is it just self-evident. I prefer Engels judgement at Marx's graveside, that as Darwin discovered the law of biological reproduction Marx discovered that of soci ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 30 12:10:16 PDT 1999

2347 Marxian vs. bourgeios categories [was Marx on Smith] -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.16.19990630101250.4d374bf0 at pop2.igc.org>, Roger Odisio <rodisio at igc.org> writes > >I don't get this, Rakesh. Profits *are* unhinged from the surplus value >produced. There is no necessary connection between the movements of each. Goes too far, surely. Profit is only surplus value considered in relation to the total capital. There is a mediation between surplus value and profit, a hinge, rather than an unhinge. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 30 12:10:21 PDT 1999

2348 Lebowitz and Thompson -- rank: 1000

I looked again at Lebowitz at Angela and Doug's bidding. The article silences of capital is reproduced in the first issue of the journal Historical Materialism. It is better than I remember it, but in the end, a bit precocious. It is not really a 'silence' in capital that he describes the worker as object rather than subject - that is the fact of capitalist domination, that it makes subjects into objects. Nor is it the case that Marx' emphasis contributes to the objectification of subjects. On t ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 29 01:53:14 PDT 1999

2349 Americans' concerns about moral decline -- rank: 1000

In message <v02130501630be96e90cd@[128.112.71.59]>, Rakesh Bhandari <bhandari at phoenix.Princeton.EDU> writes >The Subaltern School's Founder Ranajit Guha has long argued that historians >have played little attention to the religious consciousness of rebellious >peasants ( see Selected Subaltern Studies, ed. Guha and Gayatri Spivak); >there has been some criticism that the rebellions that subalternists may >ascribe to spontaneous religious consciousness were actually ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 28 01:18:08 PDT 1999

2350 prison -- rank: 1000

In message <37767D41.5CE87AA at mail.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> writes >Didn't someone back in the early 19th century -- perhaps Fourier, >claim that one could judge a society by the way it treated its castoffs, >which would include criminals as well as various specially oppressed >groups, etc. etc.? I have a vague, probably false, recollection of >something like this. Can anyone remember anything more precise? I think Fourier said that you can judge a ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 27 15:59:00 PDT 1999

2351 Meatpacking in the Mid-West -- rank: 1000

In message <37766A2D.2AB0BCFE at lor.net>, Tom Lehman <TLEHMAN at lor.net> writes >http://www.thenation.com/1997/issue/970203/0203coop.htm > >Read the above---you may decide to become a vegetarian. > >Tom Lehman > In 1906 Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle drew attention to the dirty and repressive conditions in the meat packing industry, leading to a meat inspection law that broke the Beef Trust - or at least that's how the official version runs. Reflecting on the st ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 27 16:09:25 PDT 1999

2352 prison -- rank: 1000

In message <v04205502b39bf7dda6c1@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > >And, though this quote has become a bit of a cliche, Foucault's >questions are always worth asking: "Is it surprising that the >cellular prison, with its regular chronologies, forced labour, its >authorities of surveillance and registration, its experts in >normality, who continue and multiply the functions of the judge, >should have become the modern instrumen ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 27 09:40:48 PDT 1999

2353 Marx on Smith -- rank: 1000

>Doug wrote: > >"I don't need any special equipment to believe that profit originates in >exploitation, or that the phenomenal categories of interest and profit are >based on the intracapitalist division of surplus value. I think these are >fundamentally political questions, not technical ones." The distinction between the phenomenal forms (interest, profit, rent) and the origin of these is surplus value is already "special equipment". It is by no means self ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jun 27 10:29:22 PDT 1999

2354 zizek review -- rank: 1000

I wrote this review of Zizek's book for LM magazine --------- The Spectre Haunting the West James Heartfield signs up to a manifesto of assertive subjectivity, or would do if it were one The Ticklish Subject: The Absent Centre of Political Ontology, Slavoj Zizek, Verso, £??.?? Solvenian born philosopher Slavoj Zizek opens this book with a take off of Marx's Communist Manifesto. A hundred and fifty years ago Marx took advantage of the capitalist world's fear of communism, to warn that a spectre i ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Jun 24 12:22:05 PDT 1999

2355 katie roiphe -- rank: 1000

In message <19990623144316.23382.qmail at hotmail.com>, Jane G*** <janeg555 at hotmail.com> writes > If an eleven year old boy can >understand that it is not nice to hit someone, no matter how much he wants >to smack their teeth in, then he can understand that it is not nice to mount >warm blooded creatures without some sign of permission. Of course, many >young boys get into fights, and I suppose you consider that harmless as >well. There is something to be said ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 23 12:11:33 PDT 1999