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211 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Doug: 'If the bourgeoisie was so happy with FDR, why did they spend so much time trying to undo it?' I guess that like most strategies, it had its limitations (for the bourgeoisie, I mean, it had different limitations for the working class). What made sense in the emergency conditions of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 2 11:23:25 PDT 2010

212 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

http://platypus1917.org/2008/11/01/friedrich-hayek-and-the-legacy-of-milton-friedman-neo-liberalism-and-the-question-of-freedom/ <http://platypus1917.org/2008/11/01/friedrich-hayek-and-the-legacy-of-milton-friedman-neo-liberalism-and-the-question-of-freedom/>and their use of "activism" is obviously lifted directly ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:05:32 PDT 2010

213 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Your criticism of their criticism is a bit toothless if you don't bother to listen or engage with them... (not to dismiss your points glibly, i'll post my thoughts on this later) On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > I ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Thu Apr 1 20:02:50 PDT 2010

214 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

On Apr 1, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > Listening to it now, agree completely with Ian and Chris' critique > of Naomi > Klein and her left... For those of us without the time to listen to the interview, what is this critique? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 1 19:33:40 PDT 2010

215 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Listening to it now, agree completely with Ian and Chris' critique of Naomi Klein and her left... On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote: > http://nytalkradio.net/wordpress/podcasts/stealthisradio/106/

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Thu Apr 1 11:37:52 PDT 2010

216 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

http://nytalkradio.net/wordpress/podcasts/stealthisradio/106/

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Thu Apr 1 11:27:19 PDT 2010

217 [lbo-talk] Platypus Interview with Moishe Postone -- rank: 773

Not as bad as São Paolo or Rio. Mubai and Nairobi are much worse still along with many others. Mexico City certainly has a huge problem that they don't seem willing to tackle but it's an exaggeration to claim 90% of the cities residents are in slums. I believe ...

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Author:	John Thornton
Date:	Sun Oct 12 14:00:59 PDT 2008

218 [lbo-talk] Platypus Interview with Moishe Postone -- rank: 773

Is Mexico City really that bad? --- On Sun, 10/12/08, Angelus Novus <fuerdenkommunismus at yahoo.com> wrote: The problems that > we face with the capitalist diminution of proletariat > labor on a worldwide scale go hand in hand with the > increase of gigantic slum cities, e.g., São Paolo, > Mexico City ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Oct 12 07:55:40 PDT 2008

219 [lbo-talk] Platypus Interview with Moishe Postone -- rank: 773

http://www.platypus1917.org/archive/article74/ Excerpt: BB: If one accepts the notion that left-wing anti-capitalist politics necessarily has as its aim the abolition of the proletariat—that is, the negation of the structure of alienated social labor bound up with the value form of wealth—what action should ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Oct 12 07:49:18 PDT 2008

220 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

Bhaskar Sunkara wrote: > > http://platypus1917.org/2008/11/01/friedrich-hayek-and-the-legacy-of-milton-friedman-neo-liberalism-and-the-question-of-freedom/ > I guess I don't know who the Ian & Chris you are referring to are, or what their criticism of Klien was. Carrol

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:18:07 PDT 2010

221 [lbo-talk] Capybara: Behold! The New New Left Shall Rise From The Ashes of The Old New! -- rank: 632

Where Platypus failed, like a frog tossed into a wilderness of desert ... But first, let's give credit where it's due.  Platypus broke new ground by denying everything, (including its denial!).  This ... a point of irretrievable stodginess -- into paroxysms of defense.  Only Platypus had the courage to ferret out the secret Taliban-love ... to Taliban/al Q/Hezbollah loving interpretation and so...). But Platypus has reached its limit.  It's time to post the post beyond what's post and go beyond Platypus into a denial of the denial. It's time, in ...

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Author:	Dwayne Monroe
Date:	Fri Apr 9 13:40:52 PDT 2010

222 [lbo-talk] just don't do it -- rank: 487

... assrtion that The Left does not (currently) exist and the Platypus claim that the left is dead. My claim was originally ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Apr 20 10:58:12 PDT 2010

223 [lbo-talk] Playpus? An Invitation. -- rank: 487

... anyone on the list to the inaugural meeting of the Platypus New York City Reading Group; you are getting this email because you .Platypus, founded two years ago in Chicago, is a project devoted ...

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Author:	Benjamin Shepard
Date:	Thu Apr 24 10:55:09 PDT 2008

224 [lbo-talk] Where Are We Going? What Are We Doing? -- rank: 487

... has said most of what needs to be said on Platypus & Hitchens, but I remain disturbed by this subject line, and ... Dec. 1, 1957. I think that something very like the Platypus lament could have been written, showing conclusiviely that "The Left ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat May 30 09:18:58 PDT 2009

225 [lbo-talk] Crisis of the Left: Doug Henwood, Mike Ely, Stephen Eric Bronner and many others speaking this week! -- rank: 487

The Platypus Affiliated Society is hosting a series of panel discussions on ...

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Author:	Edward Remus
Date:	Sun Nov 13 22:48:48 PST 2011