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2326 [lbo-talk] TURKEY: AKP's Landslide Victory (and Growth of the Secular Far Right) -- rank: 156

On 7/22/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > On Jul 22, 2007, at 1:46 PM, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > > Newspaper Radikal's "Orijinal Demokrasi" Ad, Unexpurgated: > > <http://youtube.com/watch?v=x9A9WJNGY-Q> > > Transcript of "Orijinal Demokrasi": > > <http://www.damacana.org/2007/07/radikal-gazetesi-orjinal- > > demokrasi.html ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Jul 23 11:03:57 PDT 2007

2327 [lbo-talk] national liberation (was: Dallas could elect its first gay mayor -- rank: 156

Russell Grinker ws:] Indeed, national liberation is a worthy pursuit only inasmuch as it leads to social progress and a better quality of life for most people. Russell: Nobody can disagree with this. There are however never any guarantees of a positive outcome to national liberation struggle. Most to date were ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Jun 6 09:25:51 PDT 2007

2328 [lbo-talk] Colonialism and Homosexuality -- rank: 156

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <critical.montages at gmail.com> wrote: > > While exceptions exist, the prevailing view of > sexuality, after > Stonewall, has come to tend to correlate with > economics, within a > nation and between nations. Among the poorest of > the poorest nations, > the notion that society should be divided into > "sexual orientations," > homo ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Wed Jun 20 07:15:10 PDT 2007

2329 [lbo-talk] Iran's Youth Movements -- rank: 156

On 26 Jun, 2007, at 11:37 AM, Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: > Ravi: > > Count me in the group with the time, patience and interest to read > Yoshie's posts. After all, they are some of the most content-rich and > invective free, and anything but one-way: I just did a count ...

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Author:	ravi
Date:	Tue Jun 26 12:48:20 PDT 2007

2330 [lbo-talk] Understanding _Capital_ (Was Re: barbaric) -- rank: 156

This post is an answer to two of Bill's responses. But first can somebody tell me how I can get Angelus Novus to DJ our parties? Bill Bartlett wrote: > On 3/7/07, Bill Bartlett <billbartlett at aapt.net.au> wrote: > It isn't free, it is coerced. However the ...

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Author:	Dmytri Kleiner
Date:	Thu Mar 8 03:06:40 PST 2007

2331 [lbo-talk] conservatives less "integratively complex" -- rank: 156

--- Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com> wrote: > If this refers only to features of a world view -- > if the content of the > views are unimportant -- than it's a description of > a zealot rather than a > conservative; it applies by definition to a style of > holding opinions & > (not) responding to ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Jul 28 18:56:24 PDT 2003

2332 [lbo-talk] Any Christians left in the U. S.? -- rank: 156

----- Original Message ----- From: "Miles Jackson" <cqmv at pdx.edu> > > By the way, loved the trashing of the Anne Coulter book in the Post > > yesterday. It's rare that Book World has me on the floor in laughter. > > > > Chuck0 > > > > Give us a few choice quotes. I need a good laugh at ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Mon Jul 28 18:29:53 PDT 2003

2333 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Letter on "Study" Equating Conservatives to Mass Murderers -- rank: 156

... left-wing, the professors add that left-wing dictators like Stalin, Castro and Khrushchev (who the leftists have consistently supported or ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Jul 28 11:46:53 PDT 2003

2334 [lbo-talk] Understanding _Capital_ (Was Re: barbaric) -- rank: 156

Mike Ballard wrote: > The information I have is different. First commodity production then city > States like those of Sumeria develop some 4,000 years ago. As we disagree on the history, let us make our case logically. "city States," are developed as markets develop, sure, but these are the outcome of ...

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Author:	Dmytri Kleiner
Date:	Tue Mar 13 07:06:32 PDT 2007

2335 [lbo-talk] Understanding _Capital_ (Was Re: barbaric) -- rank: 156

Mike Ballard wrote: > The information I have is different. First commodity production then city > States like those of Sumeria develop some 4,000 years ago. Dmytri Kleiner replied: As we disagree on the history, let us make our case logically. "city States," are developed as markets develop, sure, but these are ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Wed Mar 14 02:04:18 PDT 2007

2336 [lbo-talk] Political Taxonomy (Islam and Muslims (was Doug and Islam)) -- rank: 156

Doug Henwood wrote: > the political spectrum, but in any sensible political taxonomy, > Marxism is a doctrine of the left. It's egalitarian and radically > democratic; the right is anti-egalitarian and often authoritarian. Although I also use this political taxonomy as well; Left:Egalitarian, Right:Hierarchical, I am starting to see ...

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Author:	Dmytri Kleiner
Date:	Fri Mar 16 12:12:30 PDT 2007

2337 [lbo-talk] Your Info Is On File ( Was Re: Hill refines her posish on war) -- rank: 156

... now the rate of incarceration running at the level of Stalin's USSR, and they will no doubt be able to ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Mar 17 16:16:29 PDT 2007

2338 [lbo-talk] Social revolution, North or South -- rank: 156

Yoshie writes: " I don't understand the problem you and Doug have with my view that social revolution is unlikely to appear on the political horizon in the North any time soon. It seems to me that we all agree on that." I think you fetishise social revolution. Just because we ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Mar 19 01:17:34 PDT 2007

2339 [lbo-talk] [Fwd: Re: [Marxism] Arundhati Roy: An Activist Returns To The Novel] -- rank: 156

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [Marxism] Arundhati Roy: An Activist Returns To The Novel Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 20:35:13 -0400 From: Sayan Bhattacharyya <ok.president+marxmail at gmail.com> On 3/13/07, Walter Lippmann <walterlx at earthlink.net> wrote: > Published on Friday, March 9, 2007 by The ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Mar 25 18:42:40 PDT 2007

2340 Tibet and the attraction of Buddhism -- rank: 156

... close to the nadir (next to life under Hitler and Stalin) of human existence... My be

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Thu Jul 2 10:46:19 PDT 1998