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2761 Alabama and Tibet and Kurdistan -- rank: 1000

In message <19980707032144.18045.qmail at rubella.ecst.csuchico.edu>, michael at ecst.csuchico.edu writes >The Kurds probably have a better case than the Tibetans. In the U.S., we >only support the "good" Kurds, while we arm the Turks to harm the bad >Kurds. The example of the Kurdish safe havens illustrates the perverse version of self-determination preferred by the great powers in the West. Having stamped on Kurdish independence movements for years, Bush and Major coo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Jul 7 00:05:24 PDT 1998

2762 In defense of the Dalai, sort of (Re: Gays and the Dalai) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.3.96.980705222510.22271A-100000 at CHUMA.CAS.USF.EDU>, Frances Bolton (PHI) <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes >The continued existence/vibrancy of Tibetan Buddhism seems to show >that there is something of value there that can stand apart from the >Tibetan political order. and relocate to the West Coast of America. Makes you reflect on what those two societies have in common. What is the community of interests between the sedentary life of a monastic ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Jul 6 02:10:51 PDT 1998

2763 On racial ideology and the Vanguard -- rank: 1000

In message <199807041321.IAA25080 at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>, Carrol Cox <cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes >The excerpts I include here deal directly with ideology, and they contain >embryonically my reasons for holding that a working class movement in the >United States will become viable only if its leadership is primarily >black, and that that condition depends on the prior and continuing >self-organization of blacks, of which the BRC may or may not be a start. A ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Jul 5 10:31:57 PDT 1998

2764 Tibet - modern and gay -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.5.32.19980703145513.00e873c0 at pop.qut.edu.au>, Gary MacLennan <g.maclennan at qut.edu.au> writes > >Now the bit that I disagree with in Jim's post is his unqualified and >undialectical celebration of modernisation. But we have all been over this >one before, so there is not much point repeating it. Then we do not disagree on that much, I think. I do not celebrate modernisation without qualification. On the contrary, I would have said that modernisation ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Jul 3 14:30:24 PDT 1998

2765 Tibet -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130300b1c149853a69@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >I was at a party the other night populated mainly by amiable meatheads, and >one of them started in on Clinton's comments that the Chinese and Tibetans >should talk with each other, negotiations that would be premised on Tibetan >recognition of Chinese authority over Tibet. "Tibet is not part of China! >Free Tibet!!," he exhorted, in a departure for a conversation ...

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Date:	Thu Jul 2 18:59:57 PDT 1998

2766 Pollitt on West -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011707b2b157748475@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes reporting Katha Pollit's views on Cornel West's book >The argument is that >our society hates parents and undermines them economically and >culturally. Well, that's true, isn't it? The family wage has been systematically undermined since the early eighties, making it more difficult for parents to raise their children. What's to disapprove of in that? > The book favors parental ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Dec 31 11:16:24 PST 1998

2767 Doug on Mattick Jr. -- rank: 1000

In message <v0401171eb2add562d1e9@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes > My reaction to e) is that it's so vague as to be useless. So >capitalism has crisis tendencies at some time and some place. Well, yes it >does, but why do they break out where they do and when? Crises are not occurrences in theory, but in fact. It would be wrong to think that you could theoretically explain all crises. Rather, each must be examined in its own particularity. To e ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 29 03:07:57 PST 1998

2768 there's no such thing as positivism -- rank: 1000

Sam Pawlett wrote >> Logical Positivism is not the enemy. The Vienna Circle were all progressives, >Neurath >> was a Marxist. It's true that if you read any contemporary social theory there is an obligatory passage denouncing 'positivism'. But first, the critics rarely mean the same thing by 'positivism' as the few logical positivists there are mean by it. And second, all of the criticisms that the sociologists make of 'positivism' have already been made by the logical positivists ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 29 03:35:06 PST 1998

2769 "Blair isolated" -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19981224190152.0120ef30 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >Today's editorial by The Guardian > > > >Thursday December 24, 1998 > > >A sudden departure ... >But not just the architect: the builder, the thinker, the schemer, the >weaver and the spinner. It is difficult to overstate the contribution of >Peter Mandelson to the Blairite project. His departure will be a >deeply-felt blow. Loathsome as ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Dec 24 11:47:33 PST 1998

2770 the Butler did it -- rank: 1000

In message <v0401171db2a726aaf017@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Here's the winning sentence, from her essay "Further Reflections on the >Conversations of Our Time," in Diacritics: > > The move from a structuralist account in which capital is understood > to structure social relations in relatively homologous ways to a view > of hegemony in which power relations are subject to repetition, > convergence, and rearticula ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Thu Dec 24 04:04:48 PST 1998

2771 tobacco -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19981223074252.011f9638 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >I was referring to the attempts by the industry to explain away the large >amount of money spent on advertising and on lobbying by saying that it has >no effect! I am not aware of their sophisticated reply to this question, >beyond a claim that they are maintaining market share. The tobacco industry's argument is, as Chris says, that there is a given market for ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 23 02:17:16 PST 1998

2772 My position on "I, Rigobertu Menchu" -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.1.32.19981222102442.00687914 at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes >By the way, my own position on this book is different than Robin >Blackburn's I'm glad to hear it. Blackburn's position, argued somewhere else on this list is unsustainable. You are right to say that >While it is absolutely scandalous that Menchu and Elizabeth Burgos, who >collaborated with her, would make things up, No good cause needs lies to sustain it. Nothi ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 22 09:36:25 PST 1998

2773 Impeachment: Clinton's Service to the Democrats -- rank: 1000

In message <19981221.154155.3366.0.farmelantj at juno.com>, James Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> writes >But Doug, you don't see the big picture. The Republicans in my judgement >are in danger of imploding the way that the Canadian Tories, the >British Tories, and the French right have all done in recent years. This seems all too plausible to me. One of the most destructive things that happened to critical opinion in Britain is that everyone continued to concentrate the ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 22 04:12:53 PST 1998

2774 A recollection of Rigoberta Menchu -- rank: 1000

A recollection of Rigoberta Menchu In 1992 I attended a meeting in London titled '500 years of Resistance', addressed by Rigoberta Menchu through a translator. The meeting was exceptionally well-heeled even by the standards of the British left and chaired by our radical playwright-in-chief, Harold Pinter. At the front Rigoberta Menchu, less than five foot high, recounted tales of the persecution of her people and her family to the translator, and through her to us. She was dressed - rather over- ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 22 02:19:32 PST 1998

2775 Stampeding bison? -- rank: 1000

In message <CMM.0.90.0.914250235.kbevans at panix3.panix.com>, K. Bevans <kbevans at panix.com> writes > It's strange to me that you vociferously reject a "stagist" >concept of Marxism and then decry every society that's developed past >primitive communism. It's clear to me that the appealing nature of native >American culture comes from it's primitive communist character. Without >metal tools and organized agriculture, what did these people have exce ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 21 10:42:27 PST 1998