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3646 Cyber Yoshie -- rank: 156

At 02:59 PM 9/10/99 +0300, elena wrote: >And, getting back to Yugo war - Accidentally or not, the support for NATO in >Bulgaria >started from "the top", it was "well" motivated, excellently planned, >brilliantly carried out as a media campaign (which stumbled only over >the spontaneous public protest in ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Fri Sep 10 07:18:12 PDT 1999

3647 The Manifesto of the Communist Party -- rank: 156

-----Original Message----- From: Lew <lew at lewhiggins.freeserve.co.uk> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: 02 1999 . 11:54 Subject: Re: The Manifesto of the Communist Party >Except that neither Marx nor Engels wrote about the Party leading the >working class ...

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Author:	elena
Date:	Thu Sep 2 03:20:22 PDT 1999

3648 Malthus and Darwin -- rank: 156

Louis Proyect wrote: > >Thus, instead of a unified genetic inheritance as grist for the mill, > >Ehrenreich presents us with picture of a conflicted dynamic > >inheritance. While her thesis doesn't bear immediately on human nature > >vis-a-vis economic cooperation vs. competition, it does inspire us to > >think more complexely about ...

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Author:	Paul Henry Rosenberg
Date:	Mon Aug 17 13:18:52 PDT 1998

3649 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 156

Since the big C was written before Darwin, Einstein and Godel, the framers can be forgiven for the inconsistency between the freedom of association clause of the 1st amendment and the property and takings clause of the fifth. In the age of computation and toxics, we cannot. The judicial guards on ...

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Author:	Lisa & Ian Murray
Date:	Sat Oct 30 16:52:38 PDT 1999

3650 Well-Regulated Militias, and More -- rank: 156

Max Sawicky wrote: >How do rights that facilitate popular >struggle demobilize it? Because we are lulled into false >consciousness? Because there's such reverence for the text - and the wisdom of The Framers that inheres mystically in it - people are absolved from any sort of self-organized political action. That's ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Oct 30 14:22:46 PDT 1999

3651 Zizek on Havel -- rank: 156

On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > > People who are outraged and fired up are not very good Kantians.... > Another argument for postmodern ethics: its fear of the masses and their > actions. In which case it is nothing but the logical result of the development of the 'modern' Communist movement ...

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Author:	Mr P.A. Van Heusden
Date:	Tue Oct 26 04:21:36 PDT 1999

3652 Orwell on Gandhi (was Re: Zizek on Havel) -- rank: 156

Russell wrote: >His Satyagraha campaigns stressed that oppressors should be treated as >equals who could be convinced of the truth and justice of the cause of the >oppressed. What was key here was that he refused to allow the use of force >by the oppressed. Satyagraha thus only served to reconcile ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Mon Oct 25 22:28:41 PDT 1999

3653 Fwd: offlist - review of bhaskar -- rank: 156

[someone sent this offlist] radical chains <http://www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/guest/radical/RCSOCSOC.HTM> Critical Unrealism David Gorman reviews A Meeting of Minds: Socialists discuss philosophy - towards a new symposium Roy Bhaskar (ed.), foreword by Roy Edgely. Published by the Socialist Society for The Socialist Movement, ISBN 1 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Oct 24 19:53:00 PDT 1999

3654 Subject: Re: Postmodern Cover for Gitlin's 'Yes' -- rank: 156

> From: "christian a. gregory" <chrisgregory11 at email.msn.com> > "A nonsmoker like Hitler" is not a sentence. Does that mean you're an a > grammatical leftist? i'm definitely an a grammatical leftist. > From: "christian a. gregory" <chrisgregory11 at email.msn.com> > > 'the recolonization of yugoslavia': as though YU were ...

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Author:	t byfield
Date:	Sat Oct 16 22:44:13 PDT 1999

3655 Postmodern Cover for Gitlin's 'Yes' -- rank: 156

> > 'the recolonization of yugoslavia': as though YU were a solid, > homogeneous, and abiding entity that merely and passively was sub- > ject to the wills and wiles of great powers. 'yugoslavia' is the > name for what seems to have been the very transient period during > which the great powers exerted less ...

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Author:	christian a. gregory
Date:	Sat Oct 16 15:37:20 PDT 1999

3656 Ruth Hubbard on Power & the Meaning of Differences -- rank: 156

... irrelevant lie half persuades me of the political correctness of Stalin's "Four walls are three too many for some people ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Mon Nov 29 10:01:59 PST 1999

3657 Contrails, Chussodovsky and Chechnya To Go Please! -- rank: 156

Go looking for stuff on contrails, and I find this mother lode of New Age/Anti-NWO Conpiracy Theory with alot of John Whitley cites. Whitley was unfortunately cited by Michel Chussodovsky who Doug called "overheated" Anti-KLA lefties cited Chussodovsky alot. Cf. the symposium in New Politics on Kosovo in ...

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Author:	Michael Pugliese
Date:	Mon Nov 29 01:39:36 PST 1999

3658 Only one sex? -- rank: 156

Raphael wrote: >Which reminds me, curiously, of a similar impasse in science-studies >debates, esp since Alan Sokal's lame attempt at a hoax. Everytime one >of my listservs would come upon a mention of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway, >or Emily Martin holding forth on the social construction of scientific >practice ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Sat Nov 27 23:38:13 PST 1999

3659 Glenny on Balkans -- rank: 156

Financial Times - November 27, 1999 THE BALKANS: Exploding the myth of the mad, bad region The west blames the region's 'ancient hatreds' for its volatility. But Misha Glenny says it should blame itself The Balkans, so every schoolchild is taught, are the powder keg of Europe and no event has ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Nov 27 07:46:14 PST 1999

3660 It didn't start with the Sparts...and it won't end thereeither, if these comrades keep it up... -- rank: 156

Doug Henwood wrote: > My god. What is it about Trots? Put three of them together in a room > and in 5 minutes you'll have two new parties and a tendency. Is there > some conjunction between the doctrine and a particular > psychopathology? Can someone explain this? > The closest I can come ...

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Author:	Sam Pawlett
Date:	Tue Nov 23 20:33:29 PST 1999