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2806 Article on Pinochet -- rank: 1000

Chile: Still a laboratory for Western policy experiments The detention of former Chilean dictator Pinochet has raised hopes of justice for his victims, but it still leaves Chile's future dictated outside of its borders, writes James Heartfield The barbarism of the Pinochet regime in the seventies left thousands dead, the elected premier Salvador Allende gunned down on the steps of the parliament building, machine gun in his hand, and diplomat Orlando Letelier murdered on US soil by Pinochet's he ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 4 15:02:15 PST 1998

2807 letters to Straw -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011706b28dcfcd8e07@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Isn't Straw the one whose kid was busted for marijuana possession? Has he >tried a malignant boredom defense? > Yes, Straw Jr, in a heroic bid to be interesting, was seduced by an attractive Daily Mirror Journalist into supplying a small piece of cannabis resin (another UK barbarity - no raw grass). But Straw pere did the right thing and handed the youngster over to the police! O ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 4 14:45:13 PST 1998

2808 Prisoners of the American Dream -- rank: 1000

In message <v04011716b28de03e6c13@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >The other day, someone mourned the out-of-printness of Mike Davis' >Prisoners of the American Dream. Verso tells me they're going to reprint it >in the spring of 1999. I've heard that there is a new Mike Davis out, but it is not available in England is it any good? I loved City of Quartz best. -- Jim heartfield

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Fri Dec 4 14:49:12 PST 1998

2809 letters to Straw -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130323b28cd3e08b0f@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Anyone wanting to make his or her opinion known on the Pinochet affair can >write to British Home Secretary Jack Straw at <gen.ho at gtnet.gov.uk> > >Doug > > A note of caution on opening up a conversation with Jack Straw. When my parents lived in Leeds when Jack Straw was president of the University Student's Union, my father once got talking to him over a drink a ...

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Date:	Fri Dec 4 03:55:09 PST 1998

2810 The biggest corporate phallus of all times -- rank: 1000

In message <s66555ef.053 at mail.ci.detroit.mi.us>, Charles Brown <CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us> writes >Does the phallus have an other ? One of the barriers to teaching post-structuralism in England (tonight I'm off to Richmond to lecture on Bataille and the Erotic) is that "the Other" was a music-hall euphemism for fucking. Anybody not frozen from the neck down by degree study could be guaranteed to splutter and smirk like a reluctant sex education class at the me ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 3 02:09:40 PST 1998

2811 Unger-West -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130300b28b309763b5@[209.54.19.66]>, rayrena <rayrena at accesshub.net> writes >LBOers, > >Anyone read or read anything about the new book by Cornel West and Roberto >Unger, "Progress: A Plan for Democracy"? Reformist placating or radical >realigning? Some of both? > >What's the scuttlebutt? > >eric beck > > I've just been sent Democracy Realized - the progressive alternative, by Roberto Unger for review, from Verso Press. I ha ...

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Date:	Thu Dec 3 02:02:43 PST 1998

2812 Richard Dawkins: Favorite Book (fwd) -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.4.02.9812010917030.1750-100000 at chuma.cas.usf.edu>, Frances Bolton (PHI) <fbolton at chuma.cas.usf.edu> writes > I particularly like the >way Dawkins shows his complete ignorance of Lacan by talking about "erect >penises" instead of "the phallus." Yes, indeed, what utter ignorance to confuse the phallus with a penis. How gloriously naive. Ha ha ha. Amazingly, the Oxford English Dictionary makes the self-same error! Don't they know t ...

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Date:	Tue Dec 1 09:03:56 PST 1998

2813 On Marx's "not a marxist" -- rank: 1000

'Just as Marx used to say about the French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist."' Engels. letter to Conrad Schidt, 5 August 1890, Collected Corres., Ed. Dona Torr, L&W, 1934 p 472 In message <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980815122355.18549C-100000 at uhunix1>, Stephen E Philion <philion at hawaii.edu> writes >Carrol, > Hal Draper wrote pretty much the same >interpretation of Marx's text (which I don't recall either, it's in a & ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 16:22:15 PDT 1998

2814 Marxiana -- rank: 1000

'Just as Marx used to say aboutthe French "Marxists" of the late seventies: "All I know is that I am not a Marxist."' Engels. letter to Conrad Schidt, 5 August 1890, Collected Corres. p 472 In message <Pine.GSU.4.02.9808142159350.24155-100000 at unicom.marin.cc.ca. us>, Frank Scott <frank at marin.cc.ca.us> writes >My old copy of "Marx & Engels on the Population Bomb" was put out by >Ramparts Press, but I seem to remember seeing it in a library ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 15 02:51:55 PDT 1998

2815 Immiseration, was Krugman on Marx -- rank: 1000

In message <35D4880D.54551545 at Lorainccc.edu>, Tom Lehman <uswa12 at lorainccc.edu> writes >Dear Doyle and Brad, > >Did Marx say or write about himself, " I am not a Marxist." > >Sincerely, >Tom Engels records in the colleted correspondence that Marx used to say, in response to over-eager protestations of 'Marxism', that 'all I can say is that I am glad I am not a Marxist'. That's from memory, but the collected correspondence edited by Dona Torr contains ...

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Date:	Fri Aug 14 16:02:30 PDT 1998

2816 Krugman on Marx -- rank: 1000

In message <35D2FE30.87027C8D at ecst.csuchico.edu>, michael perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> writes > > >Brad De Long wrote: > >> Haven't these efforts at refutation (and those aimed at absolute >> immiserization of the working class) been successful? >> > >It depends what you mean by successful. If you ascribe a crude theory to Marx, >then it is easy to refute it. Did Marx actually insist that absolute >immiseration or the falling ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 13 08:41:44 PDT 1998

2817 Cato Finito -- rank: 1000

In message <000601bdc6c7$8002ca60$02f246d1 at epi59.EPI>, Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> writes >Those who cede the ideal of freedom to >the right certify their own political >irrelevance I agree with that. I wrote an article making a similar point http://www.informinc.co.uk/LM/LM101/LM101_Freedom.html So I think Louis is being a bit harsh when he writes >Who cares what the libertarians say. We are more interested in what they >do. Which I suppose is faultless log ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 13 08:23:38 PDT 1998

2818 Mutual Funds & Social Security -- rank: 1000

In message <Pine.GSO.3.95.980810161511.10090C-100000 at nunic.nu.edu>, Seth Sandronsky - 3472339 <ssandron at nunic.nu.edu> writes >Thanks for posting the WSJ article on the U.K.'s private pension mess. It should be said that the UK pensions debacle was an example of the way that business turns personal anxiety into profits. The overpromotion of pension schemes all came in the wake of the various noises about the inability of the state pension scheme to meet its committments. The ...

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Date:	Tue Aug 11 05:24:02 PDT 1998

2819 Black unemployment in July 21 Left Business Observer -- rank: 1000

In message <35CF2101.B648C61A at levy.org>, Mathew Forstater <forstate at levy.org> writes >Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Are there any U.S. unions that explore race and racism? Any non-U.S. >> unions? Or do they just not want to talk about it. I think that's a bit out of date, certainly for Britain. It is true (as I said before) that British unions in the post-war period were fiercely nationalistic. But nowadays most unions are concerned with equal opportunity policies, ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 10 11:13:32 PDT 1998

2820 Chaos theory and economics. -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.2.32.19980810000702.00da1710 at pop.gn.apc.org>, Chris Burford <cburford at gn.apc.org> writes >Last year an extremely sober book was published called the Impact of Chaos >on Science and Society (United Nations University Press, Tokyo). ... >In view of the main thrust of this list, I will quote from the conclusion >of the chapter on economics by Michele Boldrin from Madrid: > > >"The discovery of nonlinear dynamics and expecially of chaos has ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 10 02:11:08 PDT 1998