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16 [lbo-talk] Petty Bourgeois (was "Big Business Takes Distance... ") -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 31, 2017, at 4:07 PM, Jordan Hayes <jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com> wrote: > > Doug elides (and I don't think you mean to) these with managers, and I don't. Managers are just like cops: street-level enforcers of the boss' will. But the essence of the p.b. is to be between classes, the proletariat and the bourgeoisie. They vacillate, and are politically unreliable. I m talking middle managers, engineers, etc.

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17 [lbo-talk] Petty Bourgeois (was "Big Business Takes Distance... ") -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 31, 2017, at 3:49 PM, James Creegan <turbulo at aol.com> wrote: > > The above groups conform to the classical definition, i.e. small property owners. I would also include doctors and lawyers in private practice. Perhaps more controversially, I would include people like professors, journalists and skilled workers at the high end of IT. True, such people do have to sell their labor power, but have sufficient income, social status and control over their conditions of employm ...

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18 [lbo-talk] [pen-l] Presidential pardons -- rank: 1000

> On Nov 9, 2016, at 10:44 AM, Eugene Coyle <e.coyle at me.com> wrote: > > Obama can pardon Chelsea Manning. A thumb in the eye to Trump. He s more likely to pardon Hillary.

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19 [lbo-talk] Query -- rank: 1000

> On Sep 3, 2016, at 8:30 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > Browsing through old threads I came across a discussion of NYC DAN. What is a DAN? I believe it was Direct Action Network, but that's ancient history.

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20 [lbo-talk] Two Cheers for Brexit -- rank: 1000

> On Jun 25, 2016, at 4:16 AM, Wendy Lyon <wendy.lyon at gmail.com> wrote: > > Speaking as someone who has always identified with the Eurosceptic left, I > cannot see anything good coming out of this for the English and Welsh > working class. Me either. It was sad to see people like Tariq Ali celebrating Leave's victory. The campaign was, from the start, dominated by a xenophobic right. Sure, a lot of the supporters are marginalized people in the sticks, much like Trump supp ...

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21 [lbo-talk] "Why I no longer hate Trans Exclusionary Feminists (TERFs )" -- rank: 1000

> On May 26, 2016, at 10:22 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Why I no longer hate TERFs Take this horseshit somewhere else please.

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22 [lbo-talk] Why gender changers are solopsits -- rank: 1000

Hillary probably wouldn't approve. > On Apr 10, 2016, at 9:21 AM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > Solipsism is subjective idealism. The notion that an individual can determine their own gender is substituting subjective determination for objective determination. > > Social rules are just as much an objective reality for individuals (subjects ) as the physical world is . To claim that one can as an individual change the customs and culture , objective r ...

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23 [lbo-talk] Larry Summers channeling Sweezy? -- rank: 1000

> On Apr 2, 2016, at 10:13 AM, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote: > > Has Summer's read those people but is too embarrassed to mention them, or has he arrived at these positions independently of them? I really doubt Summers read the MR school. Interesting that his argument doesn't focus on the capital-labor relation, i.e., the mighty strength of capital and the deep weakness of labor. It's all about relations between capitalists. Doug

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24 [lbo-talk] Silver : Clinton landslide over Trump -- rank: 1000

"You continue to mistake me for someone who gives much of a shit about politics!" - Nate Silver, March 2013 > On Mar 27, 2016, at 3:23 PM, Charles Brown <cb31450 at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://leftwingnation.org/nate-silver-predicts-a-massive-clinton-win-against-trump/ > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > pen-l at lists.csuchico.edu > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l

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25 [lbo-talk] Astra Taylor: Universities Are Becoming Billion-Dollar Hedge Funds With Schools Attached -- rank: 1000

> On Mar 9, 2016, at 4:37 PM, William Dobbs <duchamp at mindspring.com> wrote: > > Have you heard the latest wisecrack about Harvard? People are calling it a > hedge fund with a university attached. Not to be proprietary or anything, but I made that joke about Yale years ago.

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26 [lbo-talk] A Romney coup in Cleveland? -- rank: 1000

Mittens, proven winner.

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27 [lbo-talk] CNN Money: Under Sanders, income and jobs would soar, economist says -- rank: 1000

I read a draft of this paper a few weeks ago. I was not impressed by its quality. > On Feb 8, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Robert Naiman <naiman at justforeignpolicy.org> wrote: > > Median income would soar by more than $22,000. Nearly 26 million jobs would > be created. The unemployment rate would fall to 3.8%. > > Those are just a few of the things that would happen if Bernie Sanders > became president and his ambitious economic program were put into effect, > according to a ...

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28 [lbo-talk] guaranteed income question -- rank: 1000

> On Feb 6, 2016, at 1:21 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > > Under capitalism, wouldn't a guaranteed income have a tendency to inflate prices? No but it might cause the working class to develop an attitude problem.

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29 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] The Sanders campaign -- rank: 1000

> On Jan 25, 2016, at 3:03 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > In other words, when you are talking about popular interest, elections by themselves are pointless without a strong non-electoral movement to enforce what the nice-guy president wants to do but won't do unless he/she is forced to do it. You do know that Sanders is saying exactly that, right?

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30 [lbo-talk] Cold War Liberalism and Vietnam -- rank: 1000

I'm reading Halberstam's Best & Brightest now and yes, a bunch of them really believed this shit - and refused to believe reports from the field that it was all a wreck. > On Jan 24, 2016, at 9:02 PM, Nick Manley <chessanarch at gmail.com> wrote: > > I've been reading a collection of speeches and whatnot on the Vietnam War > as it relates to American foreign policy. I was especially struck by the > speeches of Kennedy esque Cold War liberals. They give the impression of ...

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