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1411 Jobs and gender (was: Gender, Race, and Publishing on the Left) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > I stick by "mutual ruin of the contending classes" (Marx/Engels) and > "socialism or barbarianism" (Luxemburg), and think that the more positive > of these outcomes in the U.S. depends on the creation of a left that is, > substantially, neither racist nor sexist: and that such a change will at > some point come quickly or it will not come at all. I agee and would add that the creation of an effective left must not be ablist or physicalist. T ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jun 16 14:33:10 PDT 1998

1412 Privatization Pep Rally -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: > (snip) > The existing > seniors, particularly those in the program now, will not > be much affected, if at all. (An exception is if they > monkey with the COLA adjustments.) This presents an obvious > problem, in that the senior groups are looked to as an > important viewpoint on the question and their present > members are not so much in the line of fire. > There is on the table a proposal to hike the retirement age to 70 or more. This would en ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 29 13:09:56 PDT 1998

1413 Socialist Security #1 -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: > > Dear Doug and the Left Business Observers, > Any good guesses out there on the number of Americans with incomes of > over $68,400 a year. Number of households with incomes of over $68,400 > a year. Percentage of civilian workforce with incomes of over $68,400 > a year; based on a workforce of ____(what number) and why. > > Sincerely, > Tom No answer to your question but something relevant to consider . . . Michael Parenti did some investigation ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 23 16:53:47 PDT 1998

1414 New Medium -- rank: 1000

Alec, I now feel like I over-reacted. I did not read you between the lines. Had we had a conversation between us I would have picked up clues. This email can be very unclear. Anyway, I want to apologize for jumping on it so quickly. Marta alec ramsdell wrote: > > Thanks for the responses Marta and Doyle. > > It's that I'm just getting accustomed to this kind of forum of exchange. > I sometimes take for granted things I can say to some, since they're > accustomed to certain, er ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 16 08:47:37 PDT 1998

1415 Health of Children Adopted . . . -- rank: 1000

Alec thanks for your clarification. Here are a few comments. > Let me make clear that I think orphans from Eastern Europe or the Soviet > Union are as fit for adoption by caring parents as much as any other > children, of any race, class, gender, and nationality. I was trying to > indicate their embattled ideological situation-- how these children, > these bodies, are traversed by various judging authorities, like that of > the AMA, and how these judgments contruct the orphans ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Thu Jul 16 01:33:59 PDT 1998

1416 Health of Children Adopted . . . -- rank: 1000

I just felt compelled to add this: On a TNT broadcast monday night, Monday NITRO wrestling, watched by many millions (believe it or not, it's TNT's most watched show), the wrestler Hollywood Hogan proclaimed, and I quote, "The only thing I hate worse than cowards are cripples." Geez we wouldn't want to adopt a cripple now would we? Marta Russell alec ramsdell wrote: > > I just felt compelled to add to my previous post these phrenological > details: > > "growth delay ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 15 07:54:06 PDT 1998

1417 Health of Children Adopted . . . -- rank: 1000

alec ramsdell wrote: > > > At the risk of "reading too much into it": talk about politically, > ideologically, economically fraught. All those prospective adopters > better shop around. And steer clear of East Orphans. > This statement is so ablist it makes me want to puke. Are you such a perfect specimen Ramsdell? I doubt it. Try substituting race and then insinuate we'd better shop around for another kind of kid to adopt - what would people have to say to that? M ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Wed Jul 15 07:44:21 PDT 1998

1418 American "racial" demographics -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > > I would not surprised if there is an active eugenic policy carried out > against the so-called developmentally challenged. >From 1935 until 1976, the democratic socialist government in Sweden sterilized 60,000 women to rid society of the "inferior," those with learning difficulties who were from "poor or mixed racial quality" not of Nordic stock. Although the sterilization was called voluntary, victims reported that they were forced to ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Tue Jul 14 02:38:05 PDT 1998

1419 Addiction Ideology (was Re: ideology, history, transhistory) -- rank: 1000

alec ramsdell wrote: > > By saying "addicts can easily qualify . . ." I had in mind dual > diagnosis. When I was at the treatment center I talked to others who > had received disability through being additionally diagnosed with > deppression by a psychiatrist. I saw a psychiatrist too and discovered > it's not too difficult to be diagnosed with depression, you just don't > even have to really ask nicely with some doctors, just as many doctors > are pretty gen ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Mon Jul 13 06:20:55 PDT 1998

1420 Addiction Ideology (was Re: ideology, history, transhistory) -- rank: 1000

alec ramsdell wrote: > There are countless political, socioeconomic, > etc. implications of that (it's true: addicts can easily qualify for > disability!), This used to be so - until Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act(1996) better known as Welfare "Reform". Alcoholism/addiction is no longer a definition of disability i.e., one cannot collect SSI on that basis, one has to have other conditions to qualify or remain on disability benefits. An ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jul 12 14:09:37 PDT 1998

1421 Overtime (was Re: happy autoworkers) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: > Why do you think so many > workers died in the struggle first for the 10 and then the 8 hour day? You > remind me of the son of a bitch who designed the cover of an atlas State > Farm was still putting out in the early 1950s, showing happy dark folk > dancing among the cotton fields in Alabama (there was some kind of > decoration in each of the states in a map on the cover). > In California Pete Wilson managed to pass a law undoing overtime pay after 8 ho ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sun Jul 12 04:23:21 PDT 1998

1422 Should we celebrate the fall of the Soviet Union -- rank: 1000

michael perelman wrote: > > We should mourn the end of the USSR, if for no other reason than it allowed > the US to drop any humanitarian pretenses. Now it is free to smash unions and > dictate terms to small countries without any need to maintain a humanitarian > facade. > > -- Yes, I think the Soviet Union and East Germany served as some kind of countervailing force against the grossest outcomes of capitalism. Having an existing alternative socialist economy seems to have ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 11 06:14:28 PDT 1998

1423 The customer is your enemy, the competition is your friend -- rank: 1000

> > "There isn't one grain of anything in the world that is sold in a free > market," Dwayne told a reporter from Mother Jones in 1995. "Not one! The > only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. People > who are not from the Midwest do not understand that this is a socialist > country." > > The extent of the price-fixing was laid out earlier this year by federal > prosecutors in a little noticed pre-trial proffer filed in Ch ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 11 05:39:24 PDT 1998

1424 Overtime (was Re: happy autoworkers) -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > 'Work ethic' becomes (or has always been) a racialized, gendered, and > sexualized ideology in this context, and it increases suffering for both > the dominant and the subordinated groups of the working class, only in > different ways. Beyond the fact that it serves the bourgeoisie, 'work > ethic' divides workers. > The focus on the work ethic has other consequences. The Nazis euthanized hundreds of thousands of disabled people because they were & ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Sat Jul 11 00:37:17 PDT 1998

1425 Wenn ich Kultur hoere (was Re: Invention of the white race //Rakeshon eugenics) -- rank: 1000

Oops, just sent this message by mistake. For some reason all of Charles Brown's messages run off my screen and to read them I have to go into "reply mail" format. That was when I hit "send" instead of the close button. Marta Charles Brown wrote: > > > > Charles Brown > > >>> Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> 05/31 12:51 PM >>> > Charles Brown wrote: > > >The evident crappiness of the latest racist pseudo-biology is an ...

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Author:	Marta Russell
Date:	Fri Jul 3 00:50:00 PDT 1998