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2656 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 1000

In message <19981103.060407.3374.2.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes >I would also like to point that my suggestion that Jim H take >a serious look at Chris Sciabarra's work is seriously meant >since it may offer him a way for resolving what looks to me >like quite a glaring contradiction - namely the contradiction >between Jim's espousal on these lists of classical Marxist >positions and LM's veering towards libertarianism. I' ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 3 10:45:04 PST 1998

2657 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 1000

In message <19981102.113635.6278.2.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes > If Jim H. was say pursuing an attempt >to synthesize libertarian and Marxist thought along the lines >of what Professor Chris Sciabarra is attempting to do there >would be less of a mystery but so far there seems to be >little indication that is what Jim H is up to but of course >I could be wrong. It never occurred to me that Marx was anything but a libertar ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 15:34:03 PST 1998

2658 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.PMDF.3.95.981101184455.538990203C- 100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU>, Dennis R Redmond <dredmond at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> writes >Adorno was the furthest thing from a bureaucrat you >could imagine. I don't know then what you call bureaucratic. Isn't it the mind of a bureaucrat that censors Wlater Benjamin's work to take all references to Marx and Marxists concepts out of it? >The Frankfurters were regarded with deep suspicion and >hostility by the Adenauer elit ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 03:23:48 PST 1998

2659 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981101154021.006e6378 at pop.mindspring.com>, pms <laflame at mindspring.com> writes quoting me >>What this represented was a reorientation from the battle over >>production that preoccupied revolutionaries before the War, to a contest >>over consumption, which preoccupied the New Left. >> >>- -- >>Jim heartfield >By this do you mean, everyone getting a fair share of the pie, sort of >thinking? > that last sentence & ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 2 02:40:13 PST 1998

2660 Marcuse and the CIA -- rank: 1000

In message <199811011252.HAA14236 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, Michael Hoover <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >the header 'Agent Marcuse' repeats the original charge...this is not >criticism of/disagreement with someone, but the tactic of the pigfucker. >..Michael Hoover But Marcuse was a paid agent of the FBI and later of the OSS - that much is fact, repeated in this latest publication of Marcuse's collected paper. By contrast I have never fucked a pig (I suppose if I was ...

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Date:	Sun Nov 1 09:57:43 PST 1998

2661 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.16.19980530161448.0e7f5ac0 at pop.igc.org>, Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org> writes >Perhaps it would be helpful to connect this discussion/analysis to the >concept of "labor aristocracy." Don't workers who could be considered in >this category "benefit" from exploitation or super-exploitation of other >workers? But status in the aristocracy is not fixed or enduring and the >inner workers of the system routinely knoc ...

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Date:	Sun May 31 02:56:08 PDT 1998

2662 Cultural racism -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19980529151505.00bac0c8 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >I also think, >however, that both Yoshie and Charles attach too much value to the contents >of this neo-racist pseudo-science. As I tried to show in my earlier >posting under the same thread, this stuff is evdently crap and can be >easily refuted on methodological grounds. Thus, its value to the ruling >class must lie in something else than the content ...

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Date:	Fri May 29 12:54:03 PDT 1998

2663 dehistoricising racism -- rank: 1000

Apart from the many excellent and informative posts on the Invention of the White Race, I have one underlying quibble with an argument that appears again and again. Tom Condit makes it most explicit in tracing racism back to Columbus and beyond. The trouble with that approach, it seems to me is that it dehistoricises the race question, as if race were always the same conflict at all times. This, it seems to me, is to make the mistake that sees racism purely in psychological terms as the animosit ...

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Date:	Fri May 29 06:12:05 PDT 1998

2664 Invention of the white race -- rank: 1000

In a tone of rising hysteria, In message <3.0.1.32.19980528151011.0068bae4 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >Jesus fucking christ, don't people know the first thing >about American history. What drove him to this rage? > >James's statement that, "Rather, the >history of race and racism is more discontinuous that continuous, and the >white/black counterposition that seems today to be the exemplar of race, >did not feature prom ...

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Date:	Thu May 28 12:41:24 PDT 1998

2665 Invention of the white race -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19980528091358.0068ad30 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >It was already an article in LM magazine, No, actually it wasn't. I did write a longer essay on the history of race in US politics, which was never published. I will be happy to send it to anyone who wants it, but its 12 000 words so I won't post it on the list. >What Justin has to come to grips with is how such >"brilliant" history can be deployed to sup ...

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Date:	Thu May 28 09:49:14 PDT 1998

2666 Norwegian women -- rank: 1000

I put some of Trond's views on the attitudes of Norwegian women to a Norwegian woman I know, a psychologist at Manchester University and publisher. She was a bit more sceptical about the radical attitudes of women in Norway. This is what she replied >Are women more anti-racist? Maybe he is saying that on the basis of more >men voting for Carl I Hagen (Fremskritts Partiet - right >wing/anti-immigration/for selective repatriation). However the vote for >Hagen is not necessarily a vote ...

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Date:	Thu May 28 05:45:57 PDT 1998

2667 Invention of the white race -- rank: 1000

In message <1.5.4.32.19980528002531.0094fff0 at pop.pipeline.com>, steven r cohen <lomco at pipeline.com> writes > Virginia tobacco planters in the late 17th century noticed that >importing African slaves was an effective way of mitigating the anger of >free but poor, largely white, young, male Londoners who weren't going to >share in the wealth of the colony as they had expected--mostly by making >them an increasingly smaller part of the overall labor force. F ...

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Date:	Thu May 28 03:35:43 PDT 1998

2668 Identity politics -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.SUN.3.95.980527093901.27985A-100000 at levy.org>, Mathew Forstater <forstate at levy.org> writes >There are a number of Marxist and Marx inspired labor economists >(e.g., Darity, Williams, Mason, Botwinick, Cotton, Shulman) who argue that >white male workers do have an objective material self-interest in racism >and patriarchy. > Mathew puts the case well. He could add that the 'white skin advantage' version of the argument is the basis of Thoedore All ...

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Date:	Wed May 27 09:24:27 PDT 1998

2669 Alterman and Rorty -- rank: 1000

In message <199805261728.MAA56106 at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes >no mass struggle (reformist or >revolutionary or anything in between) has EVER been based on a >majoritarian view. What about black majority rule in South Africa, or the struggle for Irish independence from English landlordism, or against slavery in America, or for the people's charter, or for the Paris Commune. I should have thought that every mass struggle was bas ...

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Date:	Tue May 26 12:26:37 PDT 1998

2670 gender gap (was Re: Scabs?) -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19980526131025.00ac77c8 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >In that respect, the US is more like Norway, women being more likely to >vote Democratic than men. Some analysts see this gender gap not as a >matter of political ideology (i.e. women are as conservative as men), but >as a result of Republicans embracing the so-called "Southern mentality' - >mainly pro gun, macho rhetoric which many women find repugna ...

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