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61 [lbo-talk] More on BB antics and their defenders -- rank: 1000

Defend the one true Bullshit (Marxist-Leninist)! Against all Revisionist Bullshit!

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 11 10:39:45 PST 2012

62 [lbo-talk] Query on Hegel -- rank: 1000

Owl of Athena, AKA Owl of Minerva, Glaucus, the Wise Owl: the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk , says Hegel, meaning that (all too often) wisdom comes after the event. Quote is from the preface to the Philosophy of Right. The Marxist Franz Jakubowski uses this to distinguish between the ultimately reflective Hegel, and Marx, for whom consciousness is an active subject, not just a passive mirror, in his book Ideology and Superstructure.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Feb 7 16:20:00 PST 2012

63 [lbo-talk] Europe Freezes -- rank: 1000

'the current cold snap reminds us how rare such events have become... with every year the chances of another one recede... I might never skate outdoors again' wrote George Monbiot, Guardian 9 January 2009 The first day of snow shall henceforth be known as St Monbiot's Day "On Saint Monbiot's Day, all the children shall build model power stations out of snow, in gratitude to their ancestors who had the foresight to harness nature's energy for purposes like central heating." http://twitp ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 4 15:07:49 PST 2012

64 [lbo-talk] Europe Freezes -- rank: 1000

Doug: You know it's not about a one-way warming trend. It's about more volatile weather around rising average temperatures. Yeah yeah, I know, the reason its colder is because its really hotter. Or as Stalin used to say, we are dizzy with success . "Brrrr it's cold" is yahoo science. It wasn t me who said that we would not see snow again in England. It was University of East Anglia s Climate Research Unit. That was yahoo science. I m just pointing out that the popular predictions mad ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 4 15:03:57 PST 2012

65 [lbo-talk] Essential Reading - Hah! -- rank: 1000

'Anyone who has ... read Wellek, Frye, & Tamas...' ... has my sympathy

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 4 06:14:18 PST 2012

66 [lbo-talk] Europe Freezes -- rank: 1000

Anus Nosensus writes warm means cold, black means white, up means down . A theory that explains all eventualities explains none.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 4 04:22:19 PST 2012

67 [lbo-talk] The 'Reactionary Mind': An exchange -- rank: 1000

Ravi said I have been at page 7 of Churchill s Secret War for about a month now it is well worth pressing on. I recommend it to all. http://www.amazon.com/Churchills-Secret-War-British-Ravaging/dp/0465002013

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 4 03:42:00 PST 2012

68 [lbo-talk] Europe freezes -- rank: 1000

'the current cold snap reminds us how rare such events have become... with every year the chances of another one recede... I might never skate outdoors again' wrote George Monbiot, Guardian 9 January 2009. In March 2000, David Viner of the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit said that within a few years winter snowfall will become "a very rare and exciting event". "Children just aren't going to know what snow is," he said (Independent, 20 March 2000).

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Feb 4 03:01:50 PST 2012

69 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy... -- rank: 1000

Doug - for some reason arguing with the entirely rational proposition that psychology and sociology are distinct: 'No less a psychologist - in the sense that he's not known for the social dimensions of his thought - than Freud thought that the ego was formed in part by models appropriate to "family, class, and nation." The stresses experienced by individual families, not to mention norms, are heavily shaped by the society people live in, and their particular niche in it. All the ideas ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 18 01:31:05 PST 2012

70 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy -- rank: 1000

Of sociology and psychology, Doug writes 'What kind of distinction is that?' You are kidding, right? Or are you really saying that you don't know the difference between psychology and sociology. Would you ask a sociologist to organise a series of experiments in cognition or memory; or to treat an anorexic? Would you ask a Rogerian therapist to oversee a crime survey? The reason there are two different words is because they are two different things. Doug 'Psychology is shaped by social circumstan ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 17 15:44:45 PST 2012

71 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy.... -- rank: 1000

I think that David Brooks has a point when he says "The crucial point is that the dynamics are internal, not external. These killers are primarily the product of psychological derangements, not sociological ones." It is a common mistake on the left to imagine that sociological propositions about general trends can give insight into specific individual actions and behaviours. But they can't. Some actions are so exceptional that they do not really fall in the scope of sociological analys ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 17 13:45:58 PST 2012

72 [lbo-talk] US Census Bureau: Exodus to Suburbs Continues through 2012 -- rank: 1000

'Between 2011 and 2012, a net 1.5 million people moved from principal cities to suburbs (principal cities lost 1.5 million people to the suburbs). The movement to the suburbs was pervasive. In each of the age categories, there was a net migration from the principal cities to the suburbs. There was also net migration to the "suburbs" in all categories of educational attainment.' http://www.newgeography.com/content/003299-exodus-suburbs-continues-through-2012

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 11 16:22:39 PST 2012

73 [lbo-talk] British Workers & the US Civil War -- rank: 1000

Forgive this promotion, but I have written a pamphlet for the 150th anniversary of the Lancashire workers' campaign for the Union, and against the British govt's support for the Confederacy. This is the blurb on Amazon: One hundred and fifty years ago America fought a civil war over slavery or freedom. The British government wanted to support the slave-rebellion of Jefferson Davis' Confederacy. They were backed by the rich and powerful throughout England. Lancashire's weavers, though they were s ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Dec 5 09:44:37 PST 2012

74 [lbo-talk] Unpatriotic History of the Second World War -- rank: 1000

I just got my new book Unpatriotic History of the Second World War back from the publishers, so forgive me if I plug it here. This is the blurb: 'Sixty million people died in the Second World War, and still they tell us it was the People's War. The official history of the Second World War is Victor's History. This is the history of the Second World War without the patriotic whitewash. The Second World War was not fought to stop fascism, or to liberate Europe. It was a war between imperialist pow ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Aug 30 11:46:28 PDT 2012

75 [lbo-talk] Karadzic at the ICTY -- rank: 1000

I missed the news that Radovan Karadzic had been acquitted of the charge of genocide: 'The Chamber found that ... this evidence does not rise to the level which could sustain a conclusion that' the suffering of 'those forcibly transferred in the Municipalities was attended by such circumstances as to lead to the death of the whole or part of the displaced population for the purposes of the actus reus for genocide.' http://www.icty.org/sid/10994

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Aug 1 01:23:16 PDT 2012