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3571 social science production (was: Dark Sides of -- rank: 156

Let's not clutter either the main questions with my side show or my side show with the important questions. I vaguely remembered a passage, I thought in george Thompson (whose thought was grounded in Caldwell) about evolution becoming *industrially* important, and therefore accepted, while otherwise it would have been fought ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun May 10 15:22:46 PDT 1998

3572 Intellects, and a bit on desire and scarcity -- rank: 156

... by your count. That's even more ancient than the Stalin-Trostky debates. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Feb 2 09:34:52 PST 2000

3573 The Democratic Party & the Illusion of Splits in the Ruling Class,was Re: Cockburn: The Coup -- rank: 156

... as a whole. Debs is no better a model than Stalin's Lenin or populism. The fight against racism in the ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Dec 23 17:55:04 PST 2000

3574 Singing to Tractors (was Re: O Happy Day) -- rank: 156

>CB: In general I agree with movement to resolve the ancient >antagonism between predominantly mental and predominantly physical >labor. > >There is some issue of "workerism" , romanticising physical labor by >some radicals. > >However, not touched here or on LBO-Talk is the wellknown, >platitudinous even , but true ANCIENT SNOBBERY OF PREDOMINANTLY ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Dec 15 14:24:38 PST 2000

3575 There Was a Lad (was Re: O Happy Day) -- rank: 156

>Dennis Perrin/Nancy Bauer wrote: > >>Socialists used to think this way, before they went to >>college, got tenure. > >I went to college, to grad school even, but never came close even to >tenure track, much less tenure. These distinctions between effete >intellectuals and the horny-handed real folk are pretty ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:46:01 PST 2000

3576 "Effete Snobs," Workers, & Walt Whitman (was Re: Labor: Menial vs. Noble) -- rank: 156

Kelley says: >the rest are striving, effete leftists who disingenuously disavowed >that path.... > >yeah. ***** _What do you do weekends?_ Drink beer, read a book. See that one? _Violence in America_. It's one of them studies from Washington. One of them committees they're always appointing. A thing like that I ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Dec 15 11:25:14 PST 2000

3577 Günter Grass on the Colonization of East Germany -- rank: 156

New York Times 14 December 2000 Günter Grass on His New Book and His 'Strenuous Homeland' By ALAN RIDING CASAIS, Portugal - As a late autumn sun warms the red tiles of Günter Grass's getaway here, northern Germany could not seem farther away. Yet even in this isolated corner of southern ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Dec 14 12:05:17 PST 2000

3578 constitutional cretinism -- rank: 156

Speaking of the Constitution, I just unearthed this beaut from the archives. Note the conclusion - the excellence of the document is that it keeps the masses quiet. Otherwise, heavens, they might be taking sides in a big political battle! Doug PS: Schell recently told a class at the New School that ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Dec 13 13:46:26 PST 2000

3579 Douglass In Context -- rank: 156

Gee, Chip, after reading your aggrieved comments, I had to stop and think. One could almost conclude that you had been just minding your own business, and suddenly I, ever on the outlook to pillory someone "to my left," had decided to attack you over your signature line with some pedantic ...

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Author:	Leo Casey
Date:	Sun Dec 10 15:14:34 PST 2000

3580 An end to history? or a farce of it? -- rank: 156

At 09:01 AM 8/19/98 -0400, Louis Proyect wrote: >World imperialism has been at war with Communism since 1918 when it sent >its invading armies into the infant Soviet republic. When fascism could not >achieve its goal, Anglo-American imperialism succeeded. --snip --- >Did the bourgeoisie understand what it was ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Wed Aug 19 11:20:11 PDT 1998

3581 [lbo-talk] Left-neoliberalism: a bold strategy for the year 1999 -- rank: 156

... Stalingrad, 1941. Is that okay with you? I am sure Stalin won't like it, but you will protect me, right ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Thu Aug 4 22:21:26 PDT 2011

3582 [lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier -- rank: 156

... is the case from where I sit, many people considered Stalin as dumbly trying to rationalize his "authoritarian" methods of rule ...

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Author:	c b
Date:	Thu Aug 18 06:35:54 PDT 2011

3583 [lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier -- rank: 156

... internal jockeying and faction and consensus-building. It wasn't Stalin's CPSU anymore. This was the formation that produced Brezhnev ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Aug 18 07:27:23 PDT 2011

3584 social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?) -- rank: 156

George Thompson (the British classical scholar and Caldwell / Stalin / Mao marxist) made an interesting observation in one of his ...

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Author:	Grant, Juliana
Date:	Sun May 10 11:28:02 PDT 1998

3585 Max Weber's Genteel Racism (was Re: weber) -- rank: 156

Doug says: >Carrol Cox wrote: > >>And incidentally, I fail to see any remote connection between a >>proposition on the source of the destructive rationality of >>capitalism and one's view, one way or the other, of the impact >>of prevailing winds on history. > >It's been a few years since I ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Dec 6 23:57:09 PST 2000