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4126 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 190

... only two options). ----- Original Message ---- From: Vincent Clarke <pclarkepvincent at gmail.com> Yes and no... I think you're treading on ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Mar 1 12:53:43 PST 2010

4127 [lbo-talk] Philip Mirowski - Social Physicist -- rank: 190

... is a science? ----- Original Message ---- From: c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> The hard science notion that energy follows laws is ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Mon Mar 1 11:08:30 PST 2010

4128 [lbo-talk] 4th @ DC -- rank: 190

... 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Mark Rickling <mrickling at gmail.com> > wrote: > >> There's also the C&O Canal towpath ...

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Date:	Mon Jun 28 19:33:20 PDT 2010

4129 [lbo-talk] 4th @ DC -- rank: 190

... 28, 2010 at 1:49 PM, Mark Rickling <mrickling at gmail.com> wrote: > There's also the C&O Canal towpath ...

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Mon Jun 28 11:06:42 PDT 2010

4130 [lbo-talk] Boy detained for Facebook insult murder in London -- rank: 190

But even this, which I see as quite different from your kill-for-dignity argument, is overstated. First of all, depending on what you mean by "the left", I don't think that you'd have a problem making that argument here... Secondly, though, my sense is that lots of union ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Wed Jun 23 12:15:34 PDT 2010

4131 [lbo-talk] Boy detained for Facebook insult murder in London -- rank: 190

[WS:} You seem to confuse the concept of use-value with the concept of individual "uses and gratifications." Use value has a meaningful level of social objectivity i.e. it is useful to many people in a society not just those who engage in its production. Individual uses and gratifications ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Jun 23 06:40:32 PDT 2010

4132 [lbo-talk] the Stalinist-ethos par excellence -- rank: 190

... 2010 at 7:18 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com>wrote: > "*Small American newspapers [that] frequently fabricate offbeat news ...

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Author:	Matthias Wasser
Date:	Tue Jun 22 22:07:57 PDT 2010

4133 [lbo-talk] Boy detained for Facebook insult murder in London -- rank: 190

I don't buy it for an instant. Rather than dignity how is this, alternatively, not simply fundamental adolescent sexual insecurity - rooted in a sexist, heteronormative and homophobic society - coming out in an extreme fashion? Or, how might this not simply be a manifestation of the depth of the pain "fundamental ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Tue Jun 22 10:52:18 PDT 2010

4134 [lbo-talk] going galt -- rank: 190

... 21, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > The problems that most Americans have is that ...

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Author:	Andy
Date:	Mon Jun 21 16:40:35 PDT 2010

4135 [lbo-talk] Zizek 3 Kusturica 1, or How Slovenia Wins the World Cup -- rank: 190

... 2010 at 7:51 PM, Ira Glazer <ira.glazer at gmail.com> wrote: > http://tonykaron.com/2010/06/11/how-slovenia ...

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Author:	James Leveque
Date:	Sun Jun 20 12:03:43 PDT 2010

4136 [lbo-talk] Dealing with PSL/ANSWER -- rank: 190

... 2010 10:55:03 -0600 Bob Morris <bob.morris at gmail.com> writes: > > The problem is, you can't have it ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Sat Jun 19 12:02:34 PDT 2010

4137 [lbo-talk] Chavez's socialist world vision -- rank: 190

... 17, 2010 at 11:13 AM, c b <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > But are u saying Bonapartism was governing the ...

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Author:	Bhaskar Sunkara
Date:	Fri Jun 18 06:44:00 PDT 2010

4138 [lbo-talk] going galt -- rank: 190

... Jun 2010 12:53:12 -0400 Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> writes: > FC: "Why is the political landscape south of ...

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Author:	Jim Farmelant
Date:	Thu Jun 17 10:24:09 PDT 2010

4139 [lbo-talk] going galt -- rank: 190

"So, an important reason why conservatives want to cut taxes is that they want to keep the federal government hungry; they don't want money readily available to finance new programs, or even to maintain old ones." [WS:] That sound to me like a bunch of nonsense. The government in ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Thu Jun 17 10:12:03 PDT 2010

4140 [lbo-talk] going galt -- rank: 190

FC: "Why is the political landscape south of the border so different? One answer has to be the great American distinction: race. Let's say it bluntly: in the United States the beneficiaries of social programs tend to be of a different color than the beneficiaries of tax cuts." [WS:] I ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Thu Jun 17 09:53:12 PDT 2010