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31 [lbo-talk] Park Slope Food Coop and Israel boycott -- rank: 1000

Joe writes Well, which one maintains a regime of ethnic cleansing and racial apartheid over an indigenous population --- that s the food coop and which one offers healthy food at affordable prices to all who care to fulfill its membership requirements? --- and that s Israel

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Date:	Tue Mar 20 14:42:52 PDT 2012

32 [lbo-talk] Damien Hirst? Anthony Earnshaw! -- rank: 1000

In the early 90s, Hirst seemed like a breath of fresh air, a rave-era blast against the terrible, starchy politeness that characterised the British art scene. In a world of high theory and rigorously monochrome wardrobes, it was funny to say that you paid assistants to make your art "because I couldn't be fucking arsed doing it". Then, when stories of your millions were all over the press, and it came out that those assistants were extremely poorly paid, it seemed less funny. Are ...

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Date:	Tue Mar 20 14:26:48 PDT 2012

33 [lbo-talk] Park Slope Food Coop and Israel boycott -- rank: 1000

Between Israel and the Park Slope Food Coop, which is the true voice of elitism? Perhaps it is time to rally the Israeli boycott of the Park Slope Food Coop.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 20 14:13:32 PDT 2012

34 [lbo-talk] On a Social History of the Restaurant -- rank: 1000

Good piece. Britain in wartime organised communal dining, which Churchill insisted should be called British restaurants , not canteens which sounded too municipal (though that s what it was). Communal eating was a good way of feeding people cheaply, and its rituals still survive in school dinners. In the USSR, though communal eating was favoured, it was said that waiters in restaurants were famously rude, feeling that their servile status was a throwback to the days of privilege.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Mar 10 16:10:45 PST 2012

35 [lbo-talk] George Monbiot on Karl Marx -- rank: 1000

George Monbiot's long rant against Ayn Rand http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/mar/05/new-right-ayn-rand-marx lets him squeeze this judgment on Karl Marx in. Apparently Ayn Rand was 'what Karl Marx once was to the left: a demigod at the head of a chiliastic cult.' Further down the comments, Monbiot is pulled up on this and says 'I agree with you on Marx's erudition and insight, but to me the Manifesto contains in theoretical form many of the horrors later visited upon the people of th ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Mar 6 01:34:51 PST 2012

36 [lbo-talk] CIA and abstract expressionism -- rank: 1000

When I was growing up my dad, who taught at the Leeds School of Art at the time, regaled us with a relentless critique of abstract expressionism (he was a follower of Fluxus, and surrealism) for its moronic worship of spontaneity, 'like cavemen, still amazed that the paint drips off the ends of their fingers'. Later, when the CIA story was reported in the late 1990s (I remember first in a TV programme by Philip Dodd, I think I still have it somewhere), I told my dad, 'see, it was all a CIA plot, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Jul 14 02:55:54 PDT 2012

37 [lbo-talk] Bloody Sunday, 40 years on -- rank: 1000

The Guardian today runs a piece on Bloody Sunday, when 13 civil rights protestors were shot dead. 40 years on they note that the marchers were exonerated and David Cameron had apologised. That was not how they reported it at the time. Then they blamed the demonstrators for the killings: The organisers of the demonstration, miss Bernadette Devlin among them, deliberately challenged the ban on marches. They knew that stone throwing and sniping could not be prevented, and that the IRA might use the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 30 04:57:41 PST 2012

38 [lbo-talk] Lucio Magri and the Italian Communist Party -- rank: 1000

With enemies like these, who needs friends? Again and again, the official Italian Communist party helped to prop up Italy s ruling class, saving it from its potential gravediggers. A review of The Tailor of Ulm: A Possible History of Communism, by Lucio Magri by James Heartfield http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/12019/

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 27 05:16:47 PST 2012

39 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul and the Civil War -- rank: 1000

Mind you, the anti-establishment arguments that these Paul-supporters are coming out with are pretty spirited. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzG9y_K3_Sw We need tub-thumpers like this.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 23 16:16:02 PST 2012

40 [lbo-talk] Ron Paul on the Civil War -- rank: 1000

>>> You really have to wonder how much a man values black people when >>> he says >>> that the Civil War marked a loss of liberty. I've spent a lot of >>> time >>> following the right and I still find that remark shocking. >>> >>> Doug I agree. It is shocking. As if it was 1865, not 2012. On the news that Lincoln had been assassinated, the Manchester Guardian said of his rule, we can never speak except as a series of acts abhorrent ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 23 14:15:45 PST 2012

41 [lbo-talk] Capitalism and porn -- rank: 1000

Ravi : I have always assumed that the sexual lives of most people are bleak :-). And I don?t find it implausible that capitalism is the cause. If all are bleak, in respect of what standard? And isn t Capitalism the cause of everything in this kind of argument.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 23 12:42:17 PST 2012

42 [lbo-talk] A scene on the Holloway Road -- rank: 1000

Walking up Holloway Road a family of punks ahead of me, she, in leopard-skin coat, with green hair, he in untidy dread-locks, black drain pipes, a toddler in a push chair. Just ahead of them, two teenage girls, quite provocatively dressed, one in tights and pants, the other in a Ra-ra skirt high on her waist and tights printed as if they were stockings and suspenders. I can feel the punk family flinching in disapproval: 'I've got an idea: why don't you just go out naked', says Mrs Punk, loudly e ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Jan 21 14:19:33 PST 2012

43 [lbo-talk] Feb 6: Andrew Kliman talk in NYC -- rank: 1000

Andrew Kliman will discuss his just-published book, The Failure of Capitalist Production (Pluto Press 2011), and how he was frequently surprised ...the more he delved into the data,... he concluded, Karl Marx?s theory of economic crisis fits the facts. Hold the front page! Marxist concludes that Marx s theory of economic crisis explains the economic crisis!

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 20 04:04:05 PST 2012

44 [lbo-talk] More on Greek translation -- rank: 1000

Yes, found Dmitri Kessel s picture now. It was published in Life 25 December 1944. The caption says that Blood of the dead was used to letter this sign which I think is a sub-editors misreading, the banner is blood-stained. It goes on to say that it is a funeral march on Dec 4th for the casualties on University Street a previous massacre by British troops. Life s translation (which I think must have been read over the phone because of the homophonic error): When the people find themselves ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 15 02:11:49 PST 2012

45 [lbo-talk] More on that Greek Passage -- rank: 1000

Ismail, Michael that is a lot of help many thanks any good books on this period in English? I am just writing about it now The best books that I know of are Dominique Eudes, The Kapetanios - partisans and civil war in Greece, 1943-1949, New York, Monthly Review 1972 Constantine Tsoucalas, The Greek Tragedy, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1969 Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler s Greece, New Haven, Yale Nota Bene, 2001 Also, there is Basil Davidson, Special Operations Europe: Scenes from the anti-Nazi War, ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Jan 15 01:41:04 PST 2012