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2731 Althusser -- rank: 1000

In message <199806040457.XAA41702 at mail1.doit.wisc.edu>, Daniel Marcus <Damarcus at students.wisc.edu> writes >While Althusser in many ways had a doleful influence in the 60s and 70s, >there's more to the story, in that post-structuralists in the 80s and 90s >have used the concept of overdetermination not to bury the Subject even >deeper (though some have done this, in the more pomo strains of >post-structuralism), but to avoid economic reductionism and explain the & ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Jun 4 04:34:10 PDT 1998

2732 Prediciting Stalinism's collapse/Ford and Hitler -- rank: 1000

PREDICTING THE FALL OF THE SOVIET UNION >On Wed, 3 Jun 1998, Softel wrote: > >> So ask yourself which "leftist", >> "socialist" or "Marxist" analysis explained the fall of the Soviet >> Union? Dennis volunteers the Franfurters. But to my mind there vision of stalinist domination did not envisage the collapse of the soviet system, more its endless reproduction. Real credit is due to Hillel Ticktin of the 'journal of soviet studies and socialis ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Jun 4 04:34:27 PDT 1998

2733 Debating the militia -- rank: 1000

In message <v03102800b19a316494d6@[128.146.43.42]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >However, as I noted in other posts, I do think that some on this >list--many? hard to say--are more willing to make efforts to not only >understand but also to demonstrate understanding toward militia men, >anti-abortion Catholics, etc., in contrast to the kind of dismissive (and >sometimes overtly negative) comments that come in the direction of >so-called identity ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jun 3 03:02:43 PDT 1998

2734 Vietnam's (meager) resources -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130305b199d76c1344@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Why is it so hard to believe that the U.S. really *was* fighting Communism >in Vietnam? Why do we have to assume the war really was over some precious >natural resource? The domino effect may have been ludicrous in strictly >military terms, but if the U.S. hadn't spent the last 50 years destroying >socialist and nationalist revolutions (and the USSR), the world would be a & ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 2 11:38:32 PDT 1998

2735 Query on Althusser -- rank: 1000

I thought that the various appraisals of Althusser were all rather too generous, failing to see that his philosophy reflected his politics and in particular the ideological crisis of the PCF. Althusser was on the 'left' of the party around the time of For Marx, when he had half an insight into the Comintern's cultural policy of 'humanism'. Althusser rightly saw that this was the intellectual equivalent of a policy of making peace with the 'progressive' bourgeoisie - a 'popular front' of the mind ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jun 2 09:53:55 PDT 1998

2736 Genovese group -- rank: 1000

In message <3572FFDE.3C18 at thenation.com>, Katha Pollitt <kpollitt at thenation.com> writes >In addition to Southern Agrarian tendencies (Genovese recently told the >Times he would favor a movement toward southern secession, although not >the racism with which the South is still generously endowed), Genovese >has reembraced Catholicism, following his wife, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, >who has converted to Catholicism. > best, katha Is this something of a non-sequiteu ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 1 15:04:28 PDT 1998

2737 'Intelligence' and Race (was Re: Invention of the white race // Rakesh on eugenics) -- rank: 1000

In message <v03102802b19790da1413@[128.146.43.47]>, Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes >Further, why even _ask_ questions such as, 'Do different races have >different levels of intelligence?' I think that racism is inherent in >questions like the above. I agree with Yoshie's general drift. Certainly 'intelligence quotient' is a fetishised category (because it implies the sum of intelligence is fixed from birth, whereas most pedagogy is premissed on the opposite ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 1 02:34:52 PDT 1998

2738 Query on Althusser -- rank: 1000

In message <199806010148.UAA31394 at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes >I remember very vaguely about an announcement by Althusser near the end of >his life to the effect that he had never read *Capital*. I assume my >memory is at least partly false, but I wondered if anyone on this list >happens to have knowledge of anything like this. > >(I'm reading a critique of Althusser, parts of which suggest that if he >did read *Cap ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jun 1 03:29:30 PDT 1998

2739 ontology of class and race? (was Alabama and Tibet (?)) -- rank: 1000

In message <2.2.16.19980726220248.12ffbc04 at pop.igc.org>, Michael Eisenscher <meisenscher at igc.apc.org> writes >Jim, .. >my purpose in writing is not to argue >the fine points, but to express my objection to your use of the racial >epithet at the end. It was gratuitous, insulting, and demeans an otherwise >valuable contribution. The NRA was branded 'N-words Ruined Again' by black Americans at the time (it's in Myrdal, I think). I should have made that clear, since ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 27 03:19:00 PDT 1998

2740 Labour's transport policy -- rank: 1000

Austin Williams, co-ordinator of the Transport Research Group, is far from impressed with New Labour's proposed transport policy No Deal for Transport New Labour's much-vaunted White Paper on Integrated Transport promised "A New Deal for Transport". Originally intended for publication in May, it was delayed and delayed to allow for extended lobbying by contributors to the consultation process. Virtually all suggestions have been eagerly adopted by the government for fear of being seen ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 27 02:28:15 PDT 1998

2741 Shameless self-promotion -- rank: 1000

Excuse the self-promotion, but this review appears in the New Statesman today: " Need and Desire in the Post-Material Economy (Sheffield Hallam University, £7.50). James Heartfield suggests that the 'post-material' economy is a self-serving concept and that modern economic thought masks the decline in western European economies [I didn't quite say that]. After the collapse of industry, we have a "consumer economy", which is merely non-productive. This attitude emerged as disputes ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 24 11:38:43 PDT 1998

2742 Soviet and US Economy -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19980721143543.00bd9894 at jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>, Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> writes >At 09:52 AM 7/18/98 +0100, Jim heartfield wrote: > >>'the USSR now produces 161 million tons of steel and 617 million tons of >>oil, not to speak of 744 million tons of coal and 712 thousand cubic >>meters of gas. These are enormous figures, outdistancing the United >>States. They are indeed curious in that the United States produces more > ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Jul 22 08:00:41 PDT 1998

2743 newbie on Participatory Economics -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.SUN.3.95.980721104813.15534F-100000 at levy.org>, Mathew Forstater <forstate at levy.org> writes > She probably >takes a lot of very long flights, etc. I'm probably sounding like an >apologist, but I'm just saying it's not all so crystal clear to me. What >is she supposed to do, swim? No let her fly. We should all fly, drive, or get the bus, without being told off for it. The cover of the British Sun newspaper today has sport at the expense of Deputy Pri ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jul 21 10:57:57 PDT 1998

2744 Brad De Long doesn't belong on a left discussion list -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130304b1da5a2b52b3@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > >Brad De Long is entirely welcome here, whether you or I like what he has to >say. Leftists who don't talk with people outside the church will turn into >braindead automatons, spiritless catechists. The only people who aren't >welcome here are the disruptive, dogmatic, or stupid. I agree. Anyway, he often talks good sense. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jul 21 09:18:20 PDT 1998

2745 newbie on Participatory Economics -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19980720095330.01318d98 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >>I have to think that there is plenty for us to do without waiting for >>a new Paris Commune to come along. > >Of course. They include the following: .... > >--reestablish truly progressive taxation, 100% tax on all incomes over one >million dollars. Today the Labour government has proposed a new tax on car users, to pay for public transport. Ther ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 20 13:48:47 PDT 1998