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136 The mythos of empire and terror -- rank: 319

A failure to promote a positive program to get justice for the victims of Sept 11 as an alternative to war and violence is a fundamental moral and strategic failure of the Left. They are making war more likely by the day. -- Nathan Newman ----------------- Well, somewhere in the first two or ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Sep 24 14:46:15 PDT 2001

137 Tee Vee -- rank: 319

... all that i'm not a structuralist, i think levi-strauss's elaboration of mythical thought as intellectual "bricolage" is very ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Wed Oct 10 17:12:51 PDT 2001

138 Notes on Disability History -- rank: 319

Here are some notes on what I've been reading on the disability rights movements. Yes, yet another very long deteriorating rant. I think I would rather be in Genoa, but maybe not---you all looked great on the few media clips I saw. I would say generally disability rights history ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Jul 23 01:02:22 PDT 2001

139 [lbo-talk] vaca reading -- rank: 319

... of others. Carroil On 5/11/2011 1:12 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: > Yes, I would say my real education began when ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed May 11 13:07:35 PDT 2011

140 Dawn of the Euro -- rank: 319

... It all reminds me of the drum roll in Richard Strauss's Thus Spake Zarathustra... Chuck Grimes

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Dec 31 21:47:54 PST 2001

141 [lbo-talk] yakking about the right -- rank: 319

   Certainly Spinoza read and was influenced by Hobbes and his Dutch disciples. See: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/spinoza-political/  However, Spinoza did not think that Hobbes view of the social contract was consistent with his naturalism: consider Spinoza's reply to his friend to Jarig Jelles, when asked what ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Sun Apr 1 17:45:10 PDT 2012

142 On racial ideology and its sources -- rank: 319

On Carrol Cox's posts on racism as ideology. It should be mentioned that racism as an ideology historically co-evolved with European nationalisms and colonialism, particularly the Protestant branch of this capitalist expansion (English and Dutch) during and after the Reformation. In any case the Americans gave it several unique ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Sun Jul 5 14:31:14 PDT 1998

143 [lbo-talk] yakking about the right -- rank: 319

... what effect. On Apr 1, 2012, at 7:16 PM, Chuck Grimes wrote: >>> >>> A concern about `the right' is the obsession of ... Dennis Claxton > > ----------------- > > Hmm. I learned a tremendous amount by studying Strauss and meditating on the neocons and their US historical origins ...

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Author:	martin schiller
Date:	Sun Apr 1 19:27:49 PDT 2012

144 [lbo-talk] Back -- rank: 319

... my iPad On Aug 19, 2012, at 10:08 PM, "Chuck Grimes" <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > Welcome back. I was just ... was about your suggestion to look into Isaiah Berlin v. Strauss. > I picked up a great term from Berlin in an ...

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Author:	andie_nachgeborenen
Date:	Sun Aug 19 20:31:27 PDT 2012

145 [lbo-talk] Gadamer, Truth and Method -- rank: 319

... were doing together. I am having a similar problem with Strauss. I am still brooding on what he wanted out of ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Feb 12 19:17:09 PST 2004

146 [lbo-talk] Re: Heidegger, Blackburn -- rank: 319

The heart is a mysterious place, and I would not judge anyone for her commitments. For all that, it would give me pause, as a Jew and a leftistis, to know that my adored, hwoever brilliant, was a "mild anti-semite." As a Jew and a leftist, my erstwhile beloved's ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Feb 17 10:44:05 PST 2004

147 [lbo-talk] Re: Free Martha, hell free Leo -- rank: 319

... around. Take my current sick and twisted fascination with Leo Strauss. I want to find something really dark and abhorrent, some ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Jan 20 18:52:16 PST 2004

148 [lbo-talk] Looking for a sailing poem -- rank: 319

... seems. On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 12:35 AM, Chuck Grimes <cagrimes42 at gmail.com> wrote: > ``Set keel to breakers, forth ...

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Author:	Arthur Maisel
Date:	Wed Oct 16 22:11:26 PDT 2013

149 [lbo-talk] Re: Rise of anti-democratic liberalism -- rank: 319

Chuck Grimes wrote: > The point is that Strauss didn't share these as ideals and did > not seem ...

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Author:	Ted Winslow
Date:	Wed Jun 16 05:48:59 PDT 2004

150 [lbo-talk] Re: Neitzschean visions -- rank: 319

... influential neoconservatives, was a follower of the political theorist Leo Strauss, whose quiet odes to classical virtue and harmonious order veiled ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Fri Mar 12 08:46:52 PST 2004