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226 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

OK ----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> > Aren't you the guy who insinuated that Derrida was a closet Nazi? Drop this. ___________________________________ http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 2 19:27:10 PDT 2010

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On Apr 2, 2010, at 9:08 PM, Chris Doss wrote: > Aren't you the guy who insinuated that Derrida was a closet Nazi? Drop this.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 19:19:17 PDT 2010

228 ... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 812

... talk] Limits of Criticism, was Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers Well, I don't know about 'vapid bullshit', but ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
Date:	Fri Apr 2 18:08:46 PDT 2010

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Well, I don't know about 'vapid bullshit', but this is plainly a triumph of rhetoric over reason: 'Hitchens recognized that Ba'athist Iraq's steady disintegration and the emergence into plain view of Islamist fascism ...' http://platypus1917.org/2009/03/15/going-it-alone-christopher-hitchens-and-the-death-of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 2 16:46:08 PDT 2010

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... since almost all of your -- and the rest of your platypus comrades' -- comments regarding Klein, or anyone else (aside from Michael ... insubstantial, as the awfully written, self-regarding essay assignments your "Platypus" collective keeps doling out. On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:56:17 PDT 2010

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At 03:07 PM 4/2/2010, mep "doesn't play well with others" wrote: >"vapid bullshit" would better describe that crap essay you keep >posting to this list: http://www.amazon.com/How-Win-Friends-Influence-People/dp/0671723650

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 15:14:26 PDT 2010

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Thanks, I always appreciate a well substantiated argument! Sent from my iPhone On Apr 2, 2010, at 6:07 PM, mep <maximumep at gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara > <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote: > >> Calling out Klein's vapid bullshit is probably ...

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On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:57 PM, Bhaskar Sunkara <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> wrote: > Calling out Klein's vapid bullshit is probably the most productive thing > I've done in the past 12 months and I filed my own taxes! > "vapid bullshit" would better describe that crap essay ...

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On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > And it is not clear that "the Bourgelisie," as a class, is all that > clear on where its real interests lie at anygiven time. Yeah, I'm not sure ruling-class agitation against certain state ...

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Author:	Eric Beck
Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:31:22 PDT 2010

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Doug Henwood wrote: > > On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > > > What made sense in the emergency conditions of the thirties and > > early forties, later became a barrier to capitalism. But that > > doesn't mean that it wasn't - however contradictory - an effective > > ruling class strategy at the ...

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Date:	Fri Apr 2 12:24:39 PDT 2010

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... PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James ...

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Author:	Chris Doss
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237 [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers -- rank: 773

On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James Heartfield wrote: > What made sense in the emergency conditions of the thirties and > early forties, later became a barrier to capitalism. But that > doesn't mean that it wasn't - however contradictory - an effective > ruling class strategy at the time. After all ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 11:34:26 PDT 2010

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Doug: 'If the bourgeoisie was so happy with FDR, why did they spend so much time trying to undo it?' I guess that like most strategies, it had its limitations (for the bourgeoisie, I mean, it had different limitations for the working class). What made sense in the emergency conditions of ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Apr 2 11:23:25 PDT 2010

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... interview-with-leo-panitch/ I have this recurring problem with Platypus, not that I've made an extensive study of their ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Apr 2 09:45:05 PDT 2010

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... feeling more sympathetic to Cohen than I did to the Platypus gang. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail is redefining busy w

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