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2041 [lbo-talk] Hobsbawm Interview: 'History Is No Longer Necessary' -- rank: 156

OutLookIndia.com Magazine Dec 27, 2004 INTERVIEW 'History Is No Longer Necessary' The eminent historian, 87, reflects on the reasons for the "murderous barbarism of the twentieth century", and on what the 21st might hold for humanity, if its leaders do not find a way to make a break with the ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Tue Dec 21 09:54:53 PST 2004

2042 [lbo-talk] The Argument from Design and Polytheism (Was: The "A"lives, apparently -- rank: 156

... the Inquisition a couple of hundred years later? Hell, under Stalin BOTANY was an intensely political matter. ===== Nu, zayats, pogodi! __________________________________ Do ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Dec 20 08:43:14 PST 2004

2043 [lbo-talk] stats on profs' class background? -- rank: 156

snit snat wrote: >The only person I'd ever heard of being from a well-to-do background >was... hmmm.... I was at SU's retreat up near Blue Mountain Lake >where the Hochschild's was it (?) had some property... We were on >the obligatory tour of the way the Adirondacks ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Dec 5 14:23:54 PST 2004

2044 [lbo-talk] Anatoly Chubais: literary critic, pompous git -- rank: 156

RIA Novosti December 3, 2004 DOSTOYEVSKY IN THE AGE OF RUSSIAN REFORM MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political commentator Anatoly Korolev). In a recent interview with the Financial Times, Anatoly Chubais, a leader of Russian liberal thought, lashed out the ideas of Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Mr. Chubais said he had re-read all of ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Sun Dec 5 08:35:32 PST 2004

2045 euro and kautskyism -- rank: 156

Chris Buford: >'No investigation, no right to speak' is a stern rule, but if with all his >enormous efforts, LP wants to win the battle to be read seriously, whether >for his own posts, or those on his list, perhaps he can start by >demonstrating that he has done some investigation ...

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Author:	Louis Proyect
Date:	Fri Jan 8 11:28:00 PST 1999

2046 [lbo-talk] Bush rubs shoulders with FDR & Churchill -- rank: 156

Cool! He makes a great Stalin! - Joe

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Author:	Joseph S. Barrera III
Date:	Thu Dec 2 18:52:12 PST 2004

2047 [lbo-talk] SDS and wikis -- rank: 156

Articles dealing in any way with the Israel-Palestine conflict tend to be pretty dismal. --- Lance Murdoch <lancemurdoch at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:47:01 -0500, Jon Johanning > <zenner41 at mac.com> wrote: > > For politics and other controversial subjects, > > the discussion ("talk") of an article is ...

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Author:	Samuel Waite
Date:	Thu Dec 2 16:46:53 PST 2004

2048 [lbo-talk] the GOP's precariously small margin of victory -- rank: 156

... governmental institutions to make their electoral ouster impossible *forever*. As Stalin said, 'These cadres cannot be removed." If the Bushits are ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Wed Dec 1 21:26:04 PST 2004

2049 [lbo-talk] SDS and wikis -- rank: 156

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:47:01 -0500, Jon Johanning <zenner41 at mac.com> wrote: > For politics and other controversial subjects, > the discussion ("talk") of an article is often more revealing than the > article itself. > > On these subjects, I think it should be regarded as an ongoing > conversation or dispute ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Wed Dec 1 15:42:50 PST 2004

2050 [lbo-talk] biz ethics/slavery/groups/constitutional -- rank: 156

Doug wrote: >Shane Mage wrote: > >>Doug wrote: >>>Charles Brown wrote: >>> >>>>Afterall, Bush may be the lesser evil. How can we say that Kerry's election >>>>wouldn't be something very close to fascism ? >>> >>>Easy: Kerry's election wouldn't be something very close to fascism. >> >>Was Hindenburg's [1932] election "something ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Tue Aug 24 10:25:39 PDT 2004

2051 [lbo-talk] Groups Democracy and Constitutional Rights) -- rank: 156

From: Carrol Cox Justin has argued, somewhat persuasively, that the Communist (self-labelled Marxist) Movement is dead, and that when the left arises again it will be with different slogans and different banners. (This isn't quite accurate, but I think it is true to the general thrust of Justin's ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Aug 20 14:17:49 PDT 2004

2052 [lbo-talk] Re: Groups Democracy and Constitutional Rights) -- rank: 156

andie nachgeborenen wrote: > > To underline the Rawlsian point I made in an earlier post: > the core thing about liberalism is that being rightr doesn't > decide the matter. You have to be procedurally correct too, > and in fact, procedural correctness trumps. The people have > a right to make mistakes, terrible mistakes ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Aug 20 12:28:01 PDT 2004

2053 [lbo-talk] Bush good for The Nation -- rank: 156

... the fault o' that godamn cottonpickin' ANSWER. Fucking mao lovin, stalin lovin anti-anarchist commie Bastids! Buncha Bastids! <spit> But, we ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Fri Aug 20 11:59:30 PDT 2004

2054 [lbo-talk] Threat of Civil War Is Turning the Abkhaz Into Russians -- rank: 156

New York Times August 15, 2004 Threat of Civil War Is Turning the Abkhaz Into Russians By C. J. CHIVERS SUKHUMI, Georgia, Aug. 10 - The men on the seashore announced their citizenship one by one. The first man, who did not appear Slavic, said he was Russian. Then the second, then ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Aug 16 02:48:14 PDT 2004

2055 [lbo-talk] Continuing China fever -- rank: 156

... democracies.. 3. As for Russia, even Khruschev did not continue Stalin's policy. We need to wait to confirm whether Putin ...

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Author:	uvj at vsnl.com
Date:	Wed Aug 11 09:14:34 PDT 2004