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4126 [lbo-talk] Class Analysis of the Empire? -- rank: 149

John Lacny jlacny at earthlink.net, Mon Feb 7 15:19:52 PST 2005: >True, but you don't even have to go there. The reality is that most >men are actually hurt by sexism not only because of its >culturally/psychologically warping effects, but "materially" because >it serves as a ...

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Date:	Tue Feb 8 13:36:05 PST 2005

4127 [lbo-talk] Class Analysis of the Empire? -- rank: 149

>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>In my opinion, all three ideas above should be criticized and >>rejected, but criticisms of the empire (as well as criticisms of >>Israel) are often couched in moral terms that partake of one or more >>of them. For the last several years, we have seen outpourings of ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 7 15:23:59 PST 2005

4128 [lbo-talk] Class Analysis of the Empire? -- rank: 149

At bottom, I'm not interested in Ward Churchill's essay, but I'd like to see leftists seriously confront and criticize the ideas on which Churchill builds his rhetoric, because they are widely shared ones. (A) Benefits of the Empire Americans in general benefit from and depend upon the exploitation ...

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Date:	Mon Feb 7 14:02:53 PST 2005

4129 [lbo-talk] "Little Eichmanns" and the Nuremberg Principles -- rank: 149

Jon Johanning zenner41 at mac.com, Sun Feb 6 21:42:01 PST 2005: >On Feb 6, 2005, at 6:49 PM, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> Let's remind ourselves who Eichmann was. This is from his Encylopedia >> Britannica entry: > >Hey, Doug! No fair! You're trying to inject some historical facts ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 23:48:22 PST 2005

4130 [lbo-talk] "Little Eichmanns" and the Nurenberg Principles -- rank: 149

Doug wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>Notice, however, that Churchill did not call the "technocrats" of >>the American empires "Eichmanns." He called them "little >>Eichmanns," so he recognizes the difference in magnitude between >>Adolph Eichmann on one hand and M&A lawyers and bond traders on the >>other hand as well as ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 20:35:20 PST 2005

4131 [lbo-talk] "Little Eichmanns" and the Nurenberg Principles -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Sun Feb 6 10:34:32 PST 2005: >You don't have to be very far to the right, to put it mildly, to be >offended or annoyed by the little Eichmanns remark. From that >offense-taking, it's not a long distance to travel ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 18:03:26 PST 2005

4132 [lbo-talk] Some Debt Is Too Big to Be Repaid -- rank: 149

Doug wrote: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>>And one of the reasons I think his screed was unfortunate is that >>>it's made it more difficult to condemn the horrid treatment of >>>American Indians. >> >>Why is that? > >Because people - whether nonideological or not - will throw >Churchill's quote in your face whenever you ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 14:27:04 PST 2005

4133 [lbo-talk] Some Debt Is Too Big to Be Repaid (Marc Cooper's flipping out over Churchill) -- rank: 149

Doug wrote: >Chuck0 wrote: > >>I don't hear any of the critics of Churchill on this list qualifying >>their attacks on Churchill by saying that they respect what has >>happened to his people. > >By "respect" I presume you mean condemn, which I do. There is no practical equivalence between failing to ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 11:50:32 PST 2005

4134 [lbo-talk] Right on Mr. Churchill part 1 -- rank: 149

>Chuck Grimes wrote: > >>On the other hand, let's not kid ourselves that most of our `jobs' are >>in fact devoted to supporting and promulgating the evil Empire and its >>neoliberal capitalist pig hegemony---mine included (when I was still >>working). That's what `jobs' tend to be in the ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 11:01:17 PST 2005

4135 [lbo-talk] Bringing Terrorists and War Criminals to Justice -- rank: 149

>+You attribute 'hate' to the political argument. I see a political position >+that you disagree with alone. There is no evidence of hate that you've >+presented. > >The problem is that you see no hatefulness in telling families that >they have no right to justice because their dead loves ones ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 10:27:30 PST 2005

4136 [lbo-talk] Marc Cooper's flipping out over Churchill -- rank: 149

Nathan wrote: >It was at the mass meeting in New York of antiwar activists that the >coalition was destroyed in the weeks after 911, because a minority >refused to call for the 911 killers to be brought to justice under >international law, since they argued that imperialists had no right >to ...

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Date:	Sun Feb 6 09:28:45 PST 2005

4137 [lbo-talk] Churchill and Pacifism + John Brown and Terrorism -- rank: 149

Brian Charles Dauth magcomm at ix.netcom.com, Sat Feb 5 22:35:36 PST 2005: >But at the end he writes: "Undoubtedly, it seems the highest order >of contradiction that, in order to achieve nonviolence, we must >first break with it in overcoming its root causes. Therein, however, >lies our ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sun Feb 6 08:49:14 PST 2005

4138 [lbo-talk] Mr. Churchill, Mr. Dershowitz, Mr. Summers, Etc. -- rank: 149

Jon Johanning zenner41 at mac.com, Sat Feb 5 08:32:46 PST 2005: >On Feb 4, 2005, at 6:38 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > >>As Yoshie has argued, that makes pretty bad politics -- but not I >>think as bad politics as the somewhat sticky moralism or >>almost-Victorian purism of ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 10:07:19 PST 2005

4139 [lbo-talk] "Go Where the Money Is: Reduce Workforce Costs" (Re: Mr. Churchill) -- rank: 149

John Lacny wrote: >The issue, quite plainly, is that this is a witch-hunt, where the >right is taking out an easy target first, in preparation for >clamping down on everyone. Case in point, the "academic bill of >rights" in Ohio and other places. If they succeed with Churchill, >they are ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 5 09:20:06 PST 2005

4140 [lbo-talk] Churchill's performance on CNN -- rank: 149

philion at stolaf.edu philion at stolaf.edu, Fri Feb 4 21:22:45 PST 2005: >Churchill came under a pretty nasty attempt by Paula Zahn to >out-Oreilly Oreilly, but she ain't no O'Reilly, who knows better >than to let his guests speak for more than a sentence ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 4 23:42:53 PST 2005