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76 [lbo-talk] Doug Henwood declines offer to speak at Platypus panel -- rank: 812

First the blow to the evolutionary tree. Now this. Oh Platypus, when will you stop sowing confusion and causing the very ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 14 09:53:52 PST 2011

77 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

... PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:15:29 PDT 2010

78 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

... feeling more sympathetic to Cohen than I did to the Platypus gang. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy w

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Author:	John Gulick
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:31:47 PDT 2010

79 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

... Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote: > Carrol: "Probably critizing Platypus and/or Klein is equally unproductive." While I largely agree ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Fri Apr 2 06:51:07 PDT 2010

80 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

Carrol writes: "The Platypus people are a very special _selection_ of graduate students, selected ...

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Author:	Joanna
Date:	Tue Apr 6 23:33:04 PDT 2010

81 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 812

... m very careful about what I write or say. and >Platypus is about.... recognizing that nothing cannot be accepted as >received ...

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Author:	Dennis Claxton
Date:	Fri Apr 9 10:39:06 PDT 2010

82 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers Your criticism of their criticism is a bit toothless ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Thu Apr 1 20:18:30 PDT 2010

83 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers Well, I don't know about 'vapid bullshit', but ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 2 18:08:46 PDT 2010

84 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 812

On 09/04/2010 18:19, Christopher Cutrone wrote: > I'm very careful about what I write or say. > If that's the case, then you must concede that you deliberately smeared Tariq Ali. If you did not intend to smear Tariq Ali, then you are not careful in what you ...

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Author:	Richard Seymour
Date:	Fri Apr 9 10:41:35 PDT 2010

85 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Re: Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 812

At 10:43 AM 4/8/2010, SA wrote: >shag carpet bomb wrote: > >>See also: Eric's recent post about trying to avoid the >>patronizing position that these other people can't possibly have a >>politics and that anything that smacks of a politics that's supportive >>of u.s. intervention ...

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Author:	shag carpet bomb
Date:	Sat Apr 10 05:14:43 PDT 2010

86 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Doug Henwood wrote: > A civil war isn't really an imperialist adventure. The U.S. was one > country when the south seceded, and it became one country once again > after 1865. That's not much like bombing Afghanistan. But the point is that for the majority of the South's population ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Thu Apr 8 10:10:59 PDT 2010

87 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Apr 8, 2010, at 12:35 PM, Joseph Catron wrote: > nd for all I know, you might also agree with the M-E line on the > Mexican-American War. My interest here is the way these positions > differ > from those held by anti-imperialists of the Marxist left today. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Apr 8 09:55:28 PDT 2010

88 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Joseph writes: 'I'm hard-pressed to believe it [abolition] was much more than that [propaganda].' But slavery was abolished. So it wasn't just propaganda. Is slavery such an incidental to you that you don't mind if it is or is not abolished? Joseph asks: 'Do you think that ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Apr 8 09:49:02 PDT 2010

89 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:52 AM, James Heartfield < Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote: Help me out, Joe. Are you saying that the cause of anti-slavery was mere > propaganda in the case of the U.S. civil war? In which case, I disagree. Or > have I misunderstood ...

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Author:	Joseph Catron
Date:	Thu Apr 8 09:35:21 PDT 2010

90 [lbo-talk] Platypus: what we are, what we do, and why -- rank: 773

Chris C. writes: " his (their) judgments were about not about phenomena in and of themselves, but rather what potentially advanced or blocked the changes he (they) wanted to politically pursue" I wonder if this way of putting it introduces too great a distinction between objective circumstance and subjective goal. If the ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Apr 8 08:51:45 PDT 2010