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241 [lbo-talk] making the dead left deader -- rank: 243

... with the Platy, what do you make of this stuff: "Platypus asks the questions: How is the thought of critical theorists ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sun Apr 11 08:18:19 PDT 2010

242 [lbo-talk] why is the left dead? -- rank: 243

... there is no such thing as "the" left. WRT the platypus discussion is was a commonplace that the left is dead ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Mon Apr 19 20:19:11 PDT 2010

243 [lbo-talk] why is the left dead? -- rank: 243

My two-cent thesis for the day is that the heights of the left were the Panther convention in Philadelphia in 1970 and MayDay 1971 in Washington D.C., the latter the wonderfullest experience of my youth, notwithstanding my beating at the hands of police and not getting laid that weekend ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Tue Apr 20 07:30:34 PDT 2010

244 [lbo-talk] Why Egypt's Liberal Intellectuals Still Support the Army -- rank: 243

... superior objective position." La Rocca is a member of the Platypus sect, the mission of which consists in concern-trolling leftists ...

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Author:	Angelus Novus
Date:	Sun Jan 12 06:28:19 PST 2014

245 Visualizing Congress -- rank: 243

... Original Message ----- From: "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> >That platypus of the political world, the Progressive Democrat, actually >has a ...

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Author:	Nathan Newman
Date:	Wed Jan 9 14:16:01 PST 2002

246 [lbo-talk] why is the left dead? -- rank: 243

... there is no such thing as "the" left. > > WRT the platypus discussion is was a commonplace that the left is dead ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Tue Apr 20 11:03:13 PDT 2010

247 [lbo-talk] Re: decentralised genocides -- rank: 243

At 2:55 PM +0800 8/6/03, Grant Lee wrote: >On the contrary, I think that "state genocide" almost always _is_ "free >enterprise genocide" --- with the obvious exception of those cases which >occurred under ultraleftist regimes --- since there have always been >economic beneficiaries (in terms of primitive accumulation and disciplining ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sun Jun 8 06:42:41 PDT 2003

248 [lbo-talk] why is the left dead? -- rank: 243

[WS:] I beg to differ. I think the heights of the left were years 1917 - 1924. The Left was the strongest politically and Stalinism was still in the future. After Lenin's death - it was only downhill. There were two reasons - first social conditions for left mass mobilization were still ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Tue Apr 20 15:39:24 PDT 2010

249 [lbo-talk] so . . . -- rank: 243

We are in a period normal for capitalism -- i.e. the absence of an effective left opposition _or_ of any possibility of bringing such an left into existence by any deliberte act. Nevertheless, it is essential in such periods that leftists _do_ continue vigorously to attempt to initieate effective opposition. The ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Aug 30 11:58:20 PDT 2010

250 [lbo-talk] so . . . -- rank: 243

... endless rehashing of the idiocies of political trash >such as Platypus That wasn't endless. It ended some time ago in ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Mon Aug 30 12:05:06 PDT 2010

251 [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER -- rank: 243

Jim Farmelant wrote: > > > > Isn't that the problem with most vanguardist parties? > It seems to me that Workers World (before the > split) and ANSWER had done a reasonably > credible job in organizing antiwar protests > during the run-up to the Iraq War. Eventually > though, they hit a ceiling, and they seem ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Jun 19 13:37:49 PDT 2010

252 [lbo-talk] what is to be done -- rank: 243

... stheir contemporary heroes: they should be regarded rather as the Platypus of the Right. And this kind of conservatism is not ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri May 7 14:31:14 PDT 2010

253 [lbo-talk] On the virtues of print -- rank: 243

The question is whether it's worth the investment in time to produce content for print. If we've reached thousands of people on the web, is there any point to having a pretty magazine in a few indie bookstores on the East Coast and in the mailboxes of a hundred ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Sep 24 00:57:18 PDT 2010

254 [lbo-talk] popularizing philosophy -- rank: 243

... and Philosophy", "Spongebob Squarepants and phil," ...) and "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .," Any academics on the list use ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sun Aug 28 11:53:10 PDT 2011

255 [lbo-talk] popularizing philosophy -- rank: 243

... and Philosophy", "Spongebob Squarepants and phil," ...) and "Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .,"" This is interesting. I have a ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Sun Aug 28 13:07:45 PDT 2011