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2671 Identity politics/Reading Notes -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.16.19980526083802.2e87baf8 at popmail.lmu.edu>, James Devine <jdevine at popmail.lmu.edu> writes >>Hook's Korsch inspired Towards and Understanding of Karl Marx. The >>critique had the unfortunate title (which Mattick repudiated, I >>understand) *THe Inevitability of Communism* (1935). > >are either of these books available somewhere? I understand that Hook (and >his heirs? I don't know if he's still alive) repudiated and suppressed >&quo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 26 10:17:13 PDT 1998

2672 Scabs? -- rank: 1000

After the spasm of vitriol against America's suburban population a couple of weeks ago, now we get a diatribe against white 'scabs'. My sympathies are with Maria G here. I can't help but feel that Yoshie and Carrol are nurturing an old fashioned prejudice against working people underneath their modish anti-racism. So when Carrol says that white workers are scabs, it sounds to me like someone saying 'black people are muggers'. Carrol cites an instance of nationalistic chauvinism (one of many he c ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue May 26 02:05:59 PDT 1998

2673 Against Postmodernism -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.32.19980525033711.00b84b94 at ariel.macarthur.uws.edu.au>, Trond Andresen <t.andresen at uws.edu.au> writes >>>Doug, what examples can you point to of non-vulgar antipostmodernism? John Gillott and Manjit Kumar, Science and the Retreat from Reason, Monthly Review Press, 1998; First publication in the US press of this defence of scientific method against pomo sceptics Georg Lukacs, Destruction of Reason, Merlin, 1980; Lukacs' anticipation of pomo in the critiq ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon May 25 04:36:13 PDT 1998

2674 Alterman and Rorty (was "Re: Some of what Alterman said) -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130311b18e235920b1@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Isn't this just one more attempt (by Rorty on the high end and Alterman on >the low) to assert some pragmatic, pure native strain Americanism, against >all that decadent and foreign stuff going on in the humanities departments? >In the 50s it was Marxists; in the 90s it's Derrideans and queers. The way I see it what Richard Rorty and other 'post-analytic' philosophers (like Co ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 24 14:53:06 PDT 1998

2675 Arts Council -- rank: 1000

New Labour v Old Snobs As the Arts Council is hit by resignations, James Heartfield explains the background to the latest row between New Labour and the intelligentsia A whole swathe of luminaries have resigned from the Arts Council of England, accusing the new Director of being a Blair-appointee and business-minded philistine. Commentators have blamed the Culture Minister Chris Smith for the rift with the custodians of the 'high arts'. Smith's new book Creative Britain is said to be indicative ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 24 02:22:36 PDT 1998

2676 Ehrlich -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980514150548.28614A-100000 at CHUMA.CAS.usf.edu>, "Frances Bolton (PHI)" <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes >Mr. Heartfield, >Are you saying that environmentalism and reactionary politics are >necessarily connected? If so, I'd like to see you make that argument. >Yours, >Frances Bolton > Well first off I would say that it is more accurate to say that reactionary politics tend to the environmental. Let me be clear. When I say re ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 14 14:47:10 PDT 1998

2677 Ehrlich -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980514115138.12944B-100000 at CHUMA.CAS.usf.edu>, "Frances Bolton (PHI)" <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes >Someone (whoops! forgot who, sorry) referred to >Paul Erlich as a green. That seems to be a peculiar claim. He does not >identify as a Green; he admits that he is a Republican. Now, he does have >certain environmental concerns (too many non-white people are bad for the >environment! Make them stop having babies!), but that ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 14 11:50:23 PDT 1998

2678 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

MARX ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRODUCTIVE FORCES There has been so much written on environmentalism vs 'Brown Marxism' that I would like to stick to just one issue, for clarity's sake, and that is Marx's view of the development of the productive forces. I don't say that this ought in any way be decisive for our attitude today, but it does seem to me undeniable that Marx favoured the extension of the productive forces, and that his critique of Capital is precisely that it fails to develop them be ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed May 13 03:20:38 PDT 1998

2679 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

In message <19980511.180705.12270.1.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes >Justin's post shows us how useful an analytical philosopher can >be at times. Clearly Jim Heartfield's arguments presuppose the kinds >of fallacious syllogisms that Justin sketched out for us. Clear to you, but not to me. I posted to the effect that Louis was right that the cult of nature preceded fascism in Germany, only quibbling that the author's he mentioned did ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon May 11 16:20:20 PDT 1998

2680 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

In message <199805111514.KAA04148 at dfw-ix10.ix.netcom.com>, Nathan Newman <nnewman at ix.netcom.com> writes >there was a real misanthropic strain within Earth First that (rightfully) gained >it notoriety in its early years.Lester Brown also recently endorsed the anti-immigrant resolution within the >Sierra Club - endorsing the "carrying capacity" rhetoric of the immigrant >bashers. I was saddened to see him line up with the racist right on this >initiative, ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon May 11 15:56:31 PDT 1998

2681 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.3.32.19980510124503.006d95d0 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >The fundamental mistake that the "brown" Marxists Frank Furedi and David >Harvey make is in assuming that the Nazi party introduced nature worship >into German society. Really? In Louis' own posting he quotes Frank Furedi as saying > it's not surprising that when you look at the more >xenophobic right-wing movements in Europe in the 19th century, .. ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon May 11 02:04:56 PDT 1998

2682 British Losses on US RR Bonds? -- rank: 1000

In message <88730a65.3553a93a at aol.com>, Jay Hecht <JayHecht at aol.com> writes >How badly did British investors get burned on US railroad bond defaults? > >Did this mostly occur between 1880 and 1914? > >Did any British pension/life assurance companies go bust? > >Jason >From Lewis Corey, House of Morgan, NY, 1930: 'Railroad demoralisation, moreover, inflicted heavy losses on foreign investors, many of whom had purchased their securities through the Morgans ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun May 10 11:18:24 PDT 1998

2683 rural idiocy -- rank: 1000

>Wojtek wrote: >>>>1990: >>>>City: 31% >>>>Suburbs: 46% >>>>Rural: 23% >However, I would not mind if those scares on our landscape were simply >bulldozed -- I would even volunteer for the job. You want to bulldoze those greedy suburbanites? All 100,000,000 of them? This is a Nietzschean loathing of the mass you have. In message <35533CEB.571B258B at netcomuk.co.uk>, Mark Jones <Jones_M at netcomuk.co.uk> writes >Doug asks: & ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sat May 9 04:52:33 PDT 1998

2684 class consciousness -- rank: 1000

In message <s551bcc8.065 at ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <charlesb at CNCL .ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Chas. - I think it is good to warn against unconscious or >creeping anti-proletarian prejudice in middle class radicals. >However, it is not a few radicals but masses of working >class Black people who have prenounced there to be an >unacceptable level of racism in the working class white >suburbanites. First of all there was the white flight in which >millio ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri May 8 00:50:26 PDT 1998

2685 Cars -- rank: 1000

I'm guessing that the new Chrysler-Daimler deal will lead to the eventual downsizing of the motor industry. A green victory, or a capitalist one? -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu May 7 09:52:40 PDT 1998