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1 [lbo-talk] RIP lbo-talk, May 1, 1998 February 21, 2020 -- rank: 1000

This will be the final post to this list. It had a great run but then social media happened and listservs began to seem to late 20th century. he list helped keep the flame of left thought going during some dark days, but now the real world has taken up the torch. Friendships were formed, marriages happened, and some of the principals of Jacobin met each other in this virtual space. Now, traffic has dwindled to one or two posts a week. So, in consultation with list host Jordan Hayes - without who ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 21 07:38:33 PST 2020

2 [lbo-talk] Doug in Harpers -- rank: 1000

do they still do that? > On Oct 17, 2019, at 11:13 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > "Those sockless people in Top-Siders, ..."

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Date:	Fri Oct 18 05:08:39 PDT 2019

3 [lbo-talk] Goug Greene on The Democratic Socialist Cul-de-sac: A Critical Look at The Socialist Manifesto -- rank: 1000

I understand where this sort of thing comes from, but these critiques are written by people whose political tradition has accomplished approximately nothing in many decades. It s not like they have a record of success to counterpose. > On Jul 12, 2019, at 5:32 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > > > > Writing in the preface to the 1888 English edition of the Communist Manifesto, Frederick Engels explained why he and Marx did not call their pamphlet the ...

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Date:	Fri Jul 12 14:53:52 PDT 2019

4 [lbo-talk] Leaked: USA s Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela -- rank: 1000

> On May 9, 2019, at 4:58 PM, David Fernández-Duport <dfduport at gmail.com> wrote: > > In this context, it should be clear that independent union leader = not a > member of the state's labor bureaucracy. This is what is annoying about Trots. Venezuela is under attack by the U.S. government, and you all are going on about the state s labor bureaucracy.

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Date:	Thu May 9 14:00:52 PDT 2019

5 [lbo-talk] Leaked: USA s Feb 2018 Plan for Coup in Venezuela -- rank: 1000

> On May 9, 2019, at 3:51 PM, David Fernández-Duport <dfduport at gmail.com> wrote: > > independent union leaders like José Bodas I.e., a member of the mighty Fourth International.

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Date:	Thu May 9 13:05:01 PDT 2019

6 [lbo-talk] [pen-l] What is MMT? -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 13, 2019, at 3:58 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Michael Roberts has a recent three-part criticism of MMT from a Marxist perspective: It all seems rather formulaic. I ve got a long critique of MMT coming out in the next issue of Jacobin, due at the end of February. It should be on the web soon afterwards. Doug

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Date:	Wed Feb 13 13:11:27 PST 2019

7 [lbo-talk] RIP Carrol -- rank: 1000

There are still a few subscribers to this list, and given Carrol Cox s importance to it (he made 11,541 posts!) it seems only right he be memorialized here. I posted this to Facebook a little while ago: "I learned this morning that Carrol Cox <https://www.facebook.com/carrol.cox?fref=mentions> died. We fought a lot over the years he could be a cantankerous SOB but I always liked the guy. Smart and principled and unrelenting. One of the stars of my old listserv, lbo-talk. It was always ...

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Date:	Sat Aug 11 12:21:52 PDT 2018

8 [lbo-talk] Bullshit jobs -- rank: 1000

> On Aug 2, 2018, at 12:43 PM, JOANNA A. BUJES <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > This is the one book of Graeber's that I have a lot of problems with. Why?

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Date:	Thu Aug 2 09:54:06 PDT 2018

9 [lbo-talk] MHI Events in NYC, June 2-3 & June 6 -- rank: 1000

haha this list is almost dead, except for a couple of posts featuring Andrew Kliman!

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Date:	Wed May 30 06:02:23 PDT 2018

10 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis' new memoir -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 23, 2018, at 10:47 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > The six part review is a thorough refutation of the line held by some on the Marxist left at the time that Syriza had no alternative but to bow to the troika and accept continued harsh austerity. Toussaint, who on behalf of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debt was an active participant in the process, shows otherwise. Who on the Marxist left held that position? I read Toussaint s rev ...

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Date:	Fri Feb 23 07:51:55 PST 2018

11 [lbo-talk] Varoufakis' new memoir -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 22, 2018, at 2:48 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Worth reading in the latest New York Review of Books - economic historian Adam Tooze on Yanis Varoufakis account of Syriza s capitulation to the troika. I interviewed YV about the book here (my 18th interview with him!): October 12, 2017 <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S171012> and reviewed the book here: https://thebaffler.com/latest/varoufakis-henwood Doug

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Date:	Thu Feb 22 11:52:28 PST 2018

12 [lbo-talk] The Invisible Hand, ed. Adrian Klaasen, circa 1965 -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 3, 2018, at 1:48 PM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > On the other hand, the book does include a piece by Henry Wallich, who was an economist who would later serve on the board of governors of the Federal Reserve, under Nixon. His piece, Economic freedom versus Organization , from his own book, Cost of Freedom, seems a bit more intelligent than some of the other pieces in this book. I took monetary economics from him in college. He was deeply boring. Dou ...

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Date:	Sat Feb 3 13:24:20 PST 2018

13 [lbo-talk] clip from LBO News -- rank: 1000

> On May 19, 2017, at 7:11 PM, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune at gmail.com> wrote: > > LBO-News ? Has Doug resumed publishing it ? Not the newsletter, the blog, lbo-news.com.

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Date:	Sat May 20 10:41:20 PDT 2017

14 [lbo-talk] What is sexism? -- rank: 1000

> On May 4, 2017, at 1:17 AM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > Looks like he went home. Good.

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Date:	Thu May 4 04:52:56 PDT 2017

15 [lbo-talk] Comment on Henwood's radio interview of James Livingston 3/23/17 -- rank: 1000

I m trying to recall an occasion when you had something interesting to say and coming up blank. But thank you so much for your comments. I have no disdain for Jim at all. I disagree with him on some things. Doug > On Mar 23, 2017, at 4:36 PM, Eugene Coyle <e.coyle at me.com> wrote: > > I just listened to Behind The News on KPFA. The second half of the program was an > interview with James Livingston, the author of No More Work. I gathered from the program that Livingston ...

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Date:	Thu Mar 23 13:43:56 PDT 2017