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9706 [lbo-talk] David Graeber: Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes -- rank: 190

What Graeber is critiquing is the fundamental principle on which capitalist society is based: freedom. The question he is raising is, "What does freedom mean in this society or, more properly, what has freedom come to mean today?" Not in Mills' time; but today. Freedom today is conceptualised in negative terms ...

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Author:	Mike Ballard
Date:	Fri Mar 28 15:03:54 PDT 2014

9707 [lbo-talk] David Graeber: Caring too much. That's the curse of the working classes -- rank: 190

... 27, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > "One would think a government that has inflicted ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Fri Mar 28 06:55:26 PDT 2014

9708 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] More on this Re: Mondoweiss: Is the U.S. quietly imposing travel sanctions on Israeli officials? -- rank: 190

... 26, 2014 at 8:30 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > The US State Department is denying visas to ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Wed Mar 26 07:09:33 PDT 2014

9709 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Mondoweiss: Is the U.S. quietly imposing travel sanctions on Israeli officials? -- rank: 190

... 23, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting: > > As the United States begins implementing travel ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Mon Mar 24 09:27:41 PDT 2014

9710 [lbo-talk] with international law in the news, could we make the U.S. comply? -- rank: 190

... 03/2014, at 7:07 AM, Eric Beck <ersatzdog at gmail.com> wrote: > It's not a congenital defect, and there ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Sat Mar 22 15:33:06 PDT 2014

9711 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] A Divide Among Palestinians on a Two-State Solution -- rank: 190

... 19, 2014 at 11:35 AM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 6:12 ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Thu Mar 20 14:30:42 PDT 2014

9712 [lbo-talk] Diplomatic word salad -- rank: 190

... 20, 2014 8:39:10 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: "The best case for Syria and for the ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Thu Mar 20 11:54:10 PDT 2014

9713 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] The pressure on Russia to settle -- rank: 190

... 15, 2014 6:43:49 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Russian Richest Face Margin Calls With Billions at ...

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Author:	Jason Hecht
Date:	Tue Mar 18 19:09:22 PDT 2014

9714 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] A Divide Among Palestinians on a Two-State Solution -- rank: 190

I agree with you; this is much more interesting than the usual fare. I thought this was particularly instructive: Like many Palestinians, Tareq Abbas thinks his father should abandon the American-led peace talks and press for statehood instead through international organizations. He believes that President Abbas should dissolve the Palestinian ...

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Author:	Robert Naiman
Date:	Wed Mar 19 09:12:33 PDT 2014

9715 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] The pressure on Russia to settle -- rank: 190

... 15, 2014 6:43:49 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: Russian Richest Face Margin Calls With Billions at ...

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Author:	ken hanly
Date:	Sat Mar 15 08:04:41 PDT 2014

9716 [lbo-talk] wealth is not a zero sum game -- rank: 190

... 2014 at 6:41 AM, Shag Carpet Bomb <gracehinchcliff at gmail.com> wrote: > Out of curiosity, what do they mean? What ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Mon Mar 17 12:50:18 PDT 2014

9717 [lbo-talk] New Scientist: "Medieval multiverse heralded modern cosmic conundrums" -- rank: 190

... 14, 2014, at 8:00 PM, Joseph Catron <jncatron at gmail.com> wrote: > Disclaimer: There are about 74 different ways I ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Fri Mar 14 18:27:15 PDT 2014

9718 [lbo-talk] wealth is not a zero sum game -- rank: 190

Something else on this point from Marx is the absolute general law of _capitalist_ accumulation that the more at the top the less at the bottom; and the top must accumulate , that is the law and the Prophets for capitalists: "The greater the social wealth, the functioning capital, the extent and ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Mar 13 06:00:31 PDT 2014

9719 [lbo-talk] wealth is not a zero sum game -- rank: 190

At a symbolic level, if there is no mass of poor people, rich people are not fully rich. To be rich is to have much more than most other people. In other words, being rich is not entirely having an absolute amount , but rather having a relative amount, relatively more than ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Thu Mar 13 04:48:39 PDT 2014

9720 [lbo-talk] wealth is not a zero sum game -- rank: 190

... 11, 2014 at 7:02 PM, Mike Ballard <mbbtraven5 at gmail.com> wrote: > Charlie wrote: > > ---- Original Message ----- > I'm mostly not ...

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Author:	charlie herbert
Date:	Wed Mar 12 13:38:56 PDT 2014