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16 [lbo-talk] RIP Chalmers Johnson -- rank: 872

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Miles Jackson <cqmv at pdx.edu> wrote: >> Remind us again; what's the non-aberrate baseline historical epoch >> which facilitates your judgement that capitalism is an aberration? >> >> Ian >> > > Umm--hundreds of thousand of years of human prehistory? > > Miles ============== With that rhetorical tactic ...

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17 [lbo-talk] RIP C. Wright Mills -- rank: 474

[A salute to the man who fifty years ago identified the elite that still governs us: "crackpot realists."] May 14, 2006 Essay The Deciders By JOHN H. SUMMERS "The powers of ordinary men are circumscribed by the everyday worlds in which they live, yet even in these rounds of job ...

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18 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 434

... thread from November 23-24, 2010, with the subject line, RIP Chalmers Johnson For all but the first post the subject line should ...

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19 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

... thread from November 23-24, 2010, with the subject line, RIP > Chalmers Johnson > > For all but the first post the subject line should ...

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20 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

As far as I know, the first major work in which total strangers meet in a strange context is Paradise lost: The Encounter of the Cherub and Uriel. They must start from scratch, as it were, to establish an abstract principle upon which they can relate to each other. (And the ...

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21 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

Beg to differ. The whole problem in Hamlet is that the autonomy preached by Polonius has very much taken hold and in fact nobody knows anybody. So a lot of very violent detective work gets going. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- As far as I know, the first major work in which total ...

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22 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

You are in effect saying that if someone asked Hamlet who was the King of Denmark he would have been unable to speak the word, "Claudius." You make an unacceptable shift in the meaning of the word "know" in this context. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk ...

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23 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

No. I'm talking about "know" in the deeper sense than "how is this person labeled." C'mon Carol. Don't be tiresome. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- You are in effect saying that if someone asked Hamlet who was the King of Denmark he would have been unable to speak the word ...

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24 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

I know. And that sense would even be relevant to the Iliad. But it is historically irrelevant to the question of social relations. Carrol -----Original Message----- From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org [mailto:lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org] On Behalf Of JOANNA A. Sent: Friday, December 18 ...

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25 [lbo-talk] The Tape of Human History -- rank: 274

... thread from November 23-24, 2010, with the subject line, RIP > Chalmers Johnson > > For all but the first post the subject line should ...

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