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2716 China and the world economy -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130304b1b04a46c12f@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >By the way, there's an interesting article in the current New Left Review >arguing that U.S. military strategy is now directed towards the containment >of Russia and China, with "Iraq" and "North Korea" serving as respective >stand-ins for the real targets in public documents. If you read Norman Schwazkopf's autobiog. he makes it clear that the choice of Ir ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 19 12:25:01 PDT 1998

2717 left conservatism -- rank: 1000

In message <13706.35103.515733.935095 at homer.dejanews.com>, William S. Lear <rael at dejanews.com> writes >On Fri, June 19, 1998 at 16:10:22 (+0100) Jim heartfield writes: >>... >>In my terminology left-conservatives exhibit the following >>characteristics: >>... >>2. A preference for state action over independent initiative > >Would a left-progressive show a preference for collective action over >independent initiative? > > >Bill ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 19 12:28:19 PDT 1998

2718 Divisions among the "Disabled"; Footnote to Marta Russell -- rank: 1000

In message <199806190007.TAA34732 at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes >One more point about Showalter, and a most damning one in respect to her >book and her personal integrity *even* if it turned out that her >individual accounts of Gulf War Syndrome and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome were >accurate -- by placing the sufferers from and believers in those syndromes >(the believers re CFS, incidentally, now include a growing number of & ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 19 11:13:13 PDT 1998

2719 left conservatism -- rank: 1000

In message <v03102802b1af6c92b179@[128.146.5.16]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >In my terminology, left conservatives possess the following >characteristics: > >(1) economically populist but socially conservative; > >(2) think that anti-sexism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, etc. are >divisive and must be subordinated or postponed; > >(3) while economy is a materialist question, gender, race, sexuality, etc. >are not. In my terminol ...

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Date:	Fri Jun 19 08:10:22 PDT 1998

2720 Who is disabled -- rank: 1000

In message <v04003a07b1ae0a1b4218@[128.32.105.161]>, Brad De Long <delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU> writes >>Why are they allowed to get the fingerprints of a teacher? >> >>Yoshie > >To check to see if he's a child molester, of course! Yes, Brad illustrates an interesting problem here. I remember around 1993 after the UK government, loosely, incorporated the concept of Children's Rights (actually the 'paramount interests of the child') into its 1989 Children Act, ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 18 02:01:52 PDT 1998

2721 Fascism and big business -- rank: 1000

In message <SIMEON.9806171503.B at germanium.primo.ssc.wisc.edu>, Rosser Jr, John Barkley <rosserjb at jmu.edu> writes >Jim, > >let me note that just because >somebody "met with" Hitler does not mean that they >therefore became his supporter or preferred him to more >traditional conservative formations. No, but participation in the Friends of the Party group organised in 1932 might suggest some lingering sympathy, might it not? > Indeed, one of the > ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 18 03:30:35 PDT 1998

2722 Constitutional Longevity. Was Religiosity... -- rank: 1000

In message <SIMEON.9806171146.G at germanium.primo.ssc.wisc.edu>, Rosser Jr, John Barkley <rosserjb at jmu.edu> writes >it is a myth that Big Business was "behind >Hitler." There was a small group of leading Big >Businessmen who supported Hitler early on. But most >preferred more traditional conservative formations and only >got on after Hitler came to power. Of course then most of >them supported him quite fully, with a few notable >exceptions, some ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 17 11:36:39 PDT 1998

2723 Fascism -- rank: 1000

The way I see it the differentia specifica of fascism is not repression or absence of democracy, but the mobilisation of a reactionary mass to destroy the labour movement. It is quite different from using the army, which, in Germany was discounted as a possibility by reactionaries after the failure of the Kapp Putsch in 1920. It was only then that German elites were prepared to contemplate turning to the 'Bohemian Corporal' and his thugs. So when Wojtek writes: >Repression or genocide of mino ...

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Date:	Wed Jun 17 01:15:33 PDT 1998

2724 Religiosity in the U.S. -- rank: 1000

In message <bf91ad47.3584f991 at aol.com>, Dhlazare at aol.com writes >Yes, but the religious invocations like these were universal in the European >world in the 1620s. The question is why is this model so uniquely powerful in >the US nearly four centuries later? Britain has not one but two established >churches, the C of E and the C of Scotland. Yet if a Brit PM ever referred to >the UK as a "city on a hill," the laughter would be general. When someone >lik ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 15 04:08:18 PDT 1998

2725 SCOTT MCLEMEE ON BUKHARIN (NY TIMES BOOK REVIEW) -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130305b1a98b06cf5a@[137.92.42.130]>, Rob Schaap <rws at comserver.canberra.edu.au> writes > Am I right in thinking Gluckstein is a Cliffite of sorts? >Anyway, a great read - and highly recommended to all. His son, I believe. Donny co-authored Tony Cliff's lengthy history of the Labour Party. Cliff adopted his pseudonym to avoid the attentions of the immigration police after moving from Palestine to Britain. -- Jim heartfield

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Date:	Sun Jun 14 11:38:47 PDT 1998

2726 Global overproduction! - Soros -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19980612202107.006d85b8 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >George Soros who made billions speculating on the fall of the pound in >1993, is on record today lamenting the crisis of "global overproduction" - >clear - and of "global inflation". > >I do not get the latter. What is he on about, and why? I read this as Soros endorsing the elite campaign against 'over- heating', which is to say for low g ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 13 03:48:14 PDT 1998

2727 Fascism -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19980612122903.0070e894 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes > >Fascim is not about repression. It is about the state using repression >selectively as the means of social control. To my mind this is a bit too broad to be useful. We already have a word for repression ('repression'), so nothing is gained, but undue dramatisation by saying that America (or Britain) is 'Fascist'. However, Wojtek's anecdote of the holocaust mus ...

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Date:	Sat Jun 13 03:42:02 PDT 1998

2728 Greed is good -- rank: 1000

In message <19980611153410.11450.qmail at hotmail.com>, charles brown <cdehbrown at hotmail.com> writes >Yes,isn't taking risks for suckers who the really successful capitalists >can take advantage of ? It seems to me that real capitalists do >everything possible to make their profits and maximum profits a sure >thing. Risktaking is a myth like Horatio Alger. They "externalize" costs >and risks. Indeed. The era of capitalist entrepreneurship seems long past. ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 11 10:36:46 PDT 1998

2729 Remedial Class Struggle -- rank: 1000

In message <199806092152.RAA27688 at fn3.freenet.tlh.fl.us>, hoov <hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us> writes >expanded access to higher ed was always a dangerous proposition for >the capitalist class...democratizatized access, no matter the >limitations, offers potential empowerment which is a threat to the >established order... I'm not so sure. The British Higher Education sector expanded dramatically from the early eighties till now, from around half a million to a million and ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 11 03:21:05 PDT 1998

2730 Althusser -- rank: 1000

In message <19980604.100844.3326.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes > >On Thu, 4 Jun 1998 12:34:10 +0100 Jim heartfield ><Jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk> writes: > >... >>A. should have gone not to Engels' later letters to Conrad Schmidt on >>historical materialism, but to his formulation that 'freedom is the >>recognition of necessity ... and the leap from necessity'. Seeing the >>obstacles in your w ...

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