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991 [lbo-talk] out now: Mute Magazine -- rank: 1000

The excellent Septeember issue of Mute magazine ('Culture and politics after the net') features sections on the philosophy of debt, 'Amortise This' written by Brett Neilson, and an excellent rehearsal of Luxemburgism by Loren Goldner [though I have to object that I have already demonstrated that the concept of 'primitive accumulation' that Mr Goldner is using is based on a knuckle-headed misreading of Karl Marx, see http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA6BA.htm] and another by Jeff Stra ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 4 06:30:47 PDT 2007

992 [lbo-talk] out now: Mute magazine -- rank: 1000

I wrote > and another by Jeff Strahl on what global economic collapse might > look like. Doug wrote: "Which is a crap piece that attacks me!" Yes. I agree. Indeed, the whole thing is somewhat on the catastrophist side of things, even Goldner's piece which is good (though wrong on primitive accumulation). Suhail Malik's is well worth a read, too.

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 4 14:09:17 PDT 2007

993 [lbo-talk] Mute magazine: out now -- rank: 1000

The excellent September issue of Mute magazine ('Culture and politics after the net') features sections on the philosophy of debt, 'Amortise This' written by Brett Neilson, and an very good rehearsal of Luxemburgism by Loren Goldner [though I have to object that I have already demonstrated that the concept of 'primitive accumulation' that Mr Goldner is using is based on a knuckle-headed misreading of Karl Marx, see http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/0000000CA6BA.htm] and another by Jeff Strah ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 4 12:25:30 PDT 2007

994 [lbo-talk] mythbusting: a thankless task -- rank: 1000

Sympathy for myth-busting is generally restricted to those who bust your opponent's myths, whereas anyone who attacks your own tends to be a big irritation. I remember when blaming the Serbs for the civil war in the former Yugoslavia was pretty much universal on the left, and nobody wanted to hear that atrocities were committed on all sides. Similarly, no-one on the left wanted to hear that genetically modified foods represented no special danger to the food chain, or that there was no danger of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Sep 4 12:16:41 PDT 2007

995 [lbo-talk] FW from the NLG: Bush Plans War on Iran -- rank: 1000

Yoshie is right when she says: "Only parties with roughly equal powers can enter into an alliance. Washington's demand is not that Tehran be its ally, which is why it rejected the overtures from Tehran during the Khatami era." But my point was that the Iranian elite would ally themselves to the US if they could, not that the US wanted it. I wanted to make the point that they have no intrinsically progressive dynamic. Also I agree with you when you say to Doug that 'leftist' in this con ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Sep 3 09:04:16 PDT 2007

996 [lbo-talk] FW from the NLG: Bush Plans War on Iran -- rank: 1000

Carrol: "2) And it is to the interests of humanity that Iran achieve nuclear weapons. That and only that would make peace in the Middle East probable." I can see how it is in the interests of humanity that Iran should have the *right* to make nuclear weapons (because our collective implication in a system of nation-based discriminatory rights undermines the principle of equality); and that Iran having nuclear weapons is certainly no more of a threat than Britain, Pakistan or Israel hav ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 2 23:59:01 PDT 2007

997 [lbo-talk] Patrick Hughes in New York -- rank: 1000

Sorry, mis-typed url, which should read http://www.patrickhughes.co.uk/

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 2 11:52:43 PDT 2007

998 [lbo-talk] Patrick Hughes in New York -- rank: 1000

New York Lobsters should enjoy Patrick Hughes' exhibition Perspectrum, at 1000 Madison Avenue, T + 1 212 439 1700 Opening is Thursday, 6 September, 6-8pm Exhibition continues till 20 October 2007, Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm www.patrickhughes.com

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun Sep 2 02:42:06 PDT 2007

999 [lbo-talk] Dave Hallsworth - fighter for the working class -- rank: 1000

Working class fighter Dave Hallsworth died of bone cancer this August, 2007 He was a working class activist all his adult life, joining the Communist Party while on active service in the Korean War. He told the story of his break with Stalinism here http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/printable/1899/ The first time I met Dave was in 1981, during the Workers March for Irish Freedom, which ended with a lobby of the Trade Union Congress at Blackpool. It was at the height of the struggle in ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 1 06:00:57 PDT 2007

1000 [lbo-talk] Armenian genocide? -- rank: 1000

"Why is there a Holocaust museum in DC and no slavery museum?" For the same reason that the Foreign Office agitated against the colour bar in the US forces stationed in Britain while defending it in the colonies. In the early 1950s West German authorities put on exhibitions re-creating the experience of German POWs in the Soviet Union. The picture I have shows nine foot barbed wire fences and coning towers, topped with machine gun posts, with suffering Germans behind them: the very ima ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 17 06:11:28 PDT 2007

1001 [lbo-talk] Armenian genocide? -- rank: 1000

What are thoughts here on the Armenian genocide resolution? A Turkish trotskyist I knew resisted the characterisation of the early 20c. massacres as a genocide. He said that there was no doubt that the Armenians were run out of town, robbed and murdered on their way. But that it was wrong to characterise it as a systematic, state-organised genocide on a par with Nazi Germany. It sounded convincing to me. And then there is another question about the political deployment of genocide resolutions to ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Oct 17 04:21:18 PDT 2007

1002 [lbo-talk] My visit to New York -- rank: 1000

I will be in New York on 16-17th November and again around 27th 28th (Pennsylvania and Adirondacks in-between) with my partner and two daughters if any LBOers would like to meet up for a drink, or coffee. James Heartfield

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 15 02:46:08 PDT 2007

1003 [lbo-talk] Recent articles by James Heartfield -- rank: 1000

James Heartfield, Larry Elliott, Peter Hewitt talking on Creativity and the Economy, A Golden Age or a Lot of Hot Air? Wednesday 14th November, 11:00am to 12:30pm. Main Theatre, Soho Theatre http://www.creativeclusters.com/modules/eventsystem/?fct=viewsession&id=231 -------------------------------- Recent article by James Heartfield On the history of the New Left Review http://www.metamute.org/en/New-Left-Old-Pessimism On the high cost of Britain's housing http://www.spiked-online.com/index. ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 11 02:05:36 PDT 2007

1004 [lbo-talk] socialism and Islam don't mix -- rank: 1000

"advocating socialism in Iran is punishable by death" hhmm... this needs a fact-check, I suspect Would the liquidation of the Vietnamese Trotskyists = "advocating socialism in liberated Vietnam is punishable by death" or the assassination of Billy McMillen in 1975 = "advocating socialism in the Divis Flats is punishable by death" ?

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Oct 4 11:02:37 PDT 2007

1005 [lbo-talk] The high cost of not building houses -- rank: 1000

My article on Britain's phantom housing boom in spiked ( http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/printable/3912/ ) was chosen by the Times as the best of the web today http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2007/10/todays-web-gr-1.html

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Oct 1 12:54:14 PDT 2007