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2821 LRB on AS -- rank: 1000

In message <005801bdc3a0$7cfd4a40$1fcee380 at default>, christian a. gregory <driver at nervm.nerdc.ufl.edu> writes >well, my friend, language is never -not- in translation--ie between one >lexicon to another. so mathematicians and scientists aren't the arbiters of >our language--thank heaven. if you didn't like reading althusser, fine--you >wouldn't be alone. but attributing that to althusser's epistemological and >linguistic bad faith or infidelity or insufficient wo ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Sun Aug 9 15:17:03 PDT 1998

2822 Black unemployment in July 21 Left Business Observer -- rank: 1000

In message <35CDC8E2.98991931 at levy.org>, Mathew Forstater <forstate at levy.org> writes >if we can imagine another socioeconomic system in which everyone is >absolutely better off, and that is what we use as our benchmark, then we >can never employ the distinction between absolute and relative within >the present system. everything is relative, then. > >for example, if Blacks sufffer higher unemployment rates due to >discrimination, and whites therefore have ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 9 14:51:03 PDT 1998

2823 the contribution of the communist party -- rank: 1000

I wonder if the contributions of the Communist Party are not being viewed through some rather rose-tinted spectacles. In Britain the Communist Party was a mainstay of national chauvinism and the union bureaucracy. Its campaigns against foreign imports ('British jobs for British workers' was their slogan!) provided fertile ground of the far-right, especially amongst Lancashire's remaining cotton mills in the 1970s. The CPGB was central in promoting the policies of the post-war Labour governments ...

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Date:	Thu Aug 6 09:31:10 PDT 1998

2824 capitalists' nerve -- rank: 1000

In message <19980805205750.8362.qmail at hotmail.com>, alec ramsdell <a_ramsdell at hotmail.com> writes >James, > >I'm a little sketchy with interpreting "Asian growth" and "Western >parsimony" here. Could you expand a bit on the parameters you use these >in? Strictly finance-wise? What about prospective commercial ventures >in Asia? How does commercial colonization, whether in production of >consumer goods for American companies (like Nik ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 15:14:16 PDT 1998

2825 executive pay -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130301b1ecf65f2cff@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >I just read Vanneman & Cannon's 1987 book, The American Perception of >Class, which argues, using existing survey data and original research, that >(working-class) Americans are far more class conscious than anyone >realizes. Since the book is over 10 years old, I looked at some more recent >polls (General Social Survey, New York Times, ABC) and found there's not >mu ...

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Date:	Wed Aug 5 01:14:23 PDT 1998

2826 executive pay -- rank: 1000

In message <3.0.3.32.19980802103136.010eaccc at popserver.panix.com>, Louis Proyect <lnp3 at panix.com> writes in reply to my posting on executive pay, the following >A fundamental point of departure for Marxism in the US today is that the >capitalist system is regressing to the state of inequality that existed >around the turn of the century. Statistics bear this out, as for example >those cited by Andrew Hacker in his book "Money". Yes, money is a very good bo ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 2 11:03:04 PDT 1998

2827 executive pay -- rank: 1000

In message <l03130300b1e8f1e6a215@[166.84.250.86]>, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes >Today's Financial Times has an article by reporter Tony Jackson, "The fat >cats keep getting fatter," on the worldwide boom in executvie pay. It's >decorated by a chart of the ratio to CEO to average manufacturing worker >pay as estimated by the consulting firm Towers Perrin. It is clearly beyond doubt that exec pay is pretty grotesque. But I have some difficulty wit ...

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Date:	Sun Aug 2 06:56:22 PDT 1998

2828 [lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the... -- rank: 1000

Christopher Caudwell was a remarkable writer, who achieved a great deal in a short life, killed in the Spanish Civil War, where he was a volunteer in the International Brigade. He was the best of the ferment of writers around the CPGB (Third International, not the organisation that carries its name, now), many of whom contributed to the Left Review, such as Ralph Fox (The Novel and the People), A.L. Morton (People's History of England) F Klingender (who wrote probably the first ever book on whit ...

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