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41596 The Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >>Ex-Marxist turned neo-Confederate Eugene Genovese, > >A very nicely turned phrase... very true... In case people think I'm exaggerating, I'm not. Both Eugene Genovese and Elizabeth Fox-Genovese have gotten quite close to the magazine Southern Partisan, which is one of the more genteel organs of the neo-Confederate movement. They've been lovingly interviewed by SP, and have also written for the pub. They jointly wrote an obit for M.E. Bradford, a reactionary Texa ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 07:08:25 PDT 1998

41597 The Tax that Dare Not Speak... -- rank: 1000

Richard Marens wrote: >I recommend a recent Twentieth Century Fund paperback on security market >"reform" of a few years ago. Many of us know that the Fund got its start >with Filene (as in basement) money during the depression as a way of >promoting the humanization of capitalism, so the topic is logical. Tobin >(the model for Star Trek's Q?) himself contributed and ended-up having to >defend his tax in a special dissent because the other vaguely liberal >financ ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 22 06:48:02 PDT 1998

41598 humor -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Another thing to think about under the general rubric of leftists being >INTERESTING. (Humor thus is only one way of keeping people's attention.) >The left groups in the US are generally "vanity" outfits, like Pacifica >radio programming or public access cable TV. Without the need to make a >profit, there is very little feedback mechanism. In the SWP, a group that I >have the most familiarity with, you had a subsidized newspaper. It lost >mone ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 15:47:05 PDT 1998

41599 humor -- rank: 1000

This post from Kenny Mostern bounced because of some address trouble. Doug ---- >From: Kenneth Mostern <kmostern at utk.edu> >To: "'lbo-talk at lists.panix.com'" <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> >Subject: RE: Moore, Remy, & Fortune >Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 09:02:42 -0400 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="---- >=_NextPart_000_01BD8497.3722D640" > > >I need to say something kind of obvious about this "are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 12:27:03 PDT 1998

41600 The Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Adele - I posted a bit about The Historical Society to my new lbo-talk mailing list, and someone asked: >Why did Martin Sklar and Sean Wilenz (progressives) join? You know? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 10:00:52 PDT 1998

41601 The Historical Society -- rank: 1000

Ex-Marxist turned neo-Confederate Eugene Genovese, his wife Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (recently converted to Catholicism), and some of their cronies (including Richard Pipes and Donald Kagan) have started The Historical Society. Info is at <http://home.nycap.rr.com/history/>. They're defending the old ways of doing History against the barbarian hordes. Their publicity is being handled by Jeff Rosenberg, who does PR for a raft of cultural conservatives, including the Independent Women's Forum ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 08:47:20 PDT 1998

41602 Gates and Monopolies -- rank: 1000

Richard Marens wrote: >Incidentally Doug, is that why you don't like Korten? Because he makes >populist attacks MNCs rather then dealing with the ruling class behind >them, a class that given modern portfolio theory, could live quite well >sucking rents from hundreds of formally distinct medium-sized >corporations? For many reasons, which are detailed at <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/Globalization.html>. Some of which: his opposition to "globalization," as if it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu May 21 08:22:13 PDT 1998

41603 NYC taxi workers -- rank: 1000

This afternoon I went to a press conference, held at the Brecht Forum by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. Their second taxi strike in a week is slated to begain at 5 AM Thursday. The scene has gotten confusing over the last several days as a group of owner-drivers first proposed to shut the city down with a blockade, which prompted our fascist mayor, Rudy Giuliani, to go mad, threatening to seize licenses and medallions of anyone who participated. There's little doubt he would, though it'd be ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 20 16:30:41 PDT 1998

41604 Moore, Remy, & Fortune -- rank: 1000

Louis Proyect wrote: >Knock Moore all you want, but I'll bet you a dollar that there wasn't a >dull moment at the Remy Martin event. Except when the Fortune & Remy hacks were speaking, or the dozers from the floor. You're right Lou, and I hope I made it clear that I think Moore is brilliant at what he does, even if his politics aren't perfect. My pal I met there, who's a liberal columnist for Esquire, said he couldn't understand why the left was so cannibalistic; he said he really didn ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 20 14:34:15 PDT 1998

41605 Moore, Remy, & Fortune -- rank: 1000

Riding up the elevator at the New York Athletic Club was sort of like being trapped in a reunion of the Yale class of 1948. That ruling class feeling was reinforced by sipping Remy & Perrier on the 9th floor balcony overlooking Central Park. Moore didn't show up until about an hour after the festivities began. We were ushered into a dining room, and onto the stage strode Michael Moore; Geoffrey Colvin, editorial director of Fortune; and Hilary Peck, U.S. marketing director for Remy Martin. T ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 20 10:09:30 PDT 1998

41606 queerleft -- rank: 1000

FYI... >Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 04:15:38 -0400 (EDT) >From: Tom Patterson <ac119 at freenet.toronto.on.ca> >Subject: Queer left discussion list (fwd) >To: marxchat list <marxchat at leftist.net> >MIME-Version: 1.0 > > >(Please forward as appropriate. -tp) > >Dear friends and comrades > >I hope you are interested in a discussion list I am starting on queer >left, both broadly defined, politics and activism. > >The information file below desc ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 20 09:19:21 PDT 1998

41607 Michael Moore -- rank: 1000

I'm about to set off for a little meet & greet with Michael Moore, co-sponsored by Remy Martin and Fortune magazine. I understand that invitations were sent to all Fortune subscribers in New York. The invitation is so tasty I'll quote it at length: "Please join The House of Remy Martin and Geoffrey Colvin, editorial director Fortune Magazine for a spirited Spring Evening Special Guest Michael Moore Creator of the Documentary Roger and Me will discuss his newly released film The Big One ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 19 13:41:42 PDT 1998

41608 Michael Moore -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >One of the sources of the weaknesses of the working >class has been and still is precisely the fact that it's been divided and >stratified by race and gender. Maybe I've been reading too much decadent literature lately, but I have a problem with a formulation like this. Doesn't it assume some kind of originally "pure" working class, undivided and unstratified, that was somehow busted up by some combination of conspiracy and circumstance? But hasn't the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 19 09:27:02 PDT 1998

41609 going public -- rank: 1000

One possible take on Rakesh's question about stock markets the other day (which I was too lazy to answer). Doug ---- "The Stock Market as a Screening Device and the Decision to Go Public" BY: TORE ELLINGSEN Stockholm School of Economics KRISTIAN RYDQVIST Norwegian School of Management SSRN ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT DELIVERY: http://papers.ssrn.com/paper.taf?abstract_id=75358 Date: Undated Contact: Tore Ellingsen E-Mail: MAILTO:gte at hhs.se Postal: Stockholm School of Economics, Box ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 19 08:59:26 PDT 1998

41610 discretion -- rank: 1000

Just another gentle reminder from your MC: please observe the semi-formal 2-3 a day posting quota. I just sent an LBO to press that announces the existence of this list. Since my printer works at the speed of calligraphers - oh the compromises one must make for a union bug! - it probably won't hit mailboxes for 10 days. But expect some new participants here soon. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 19 08:53:29 PDT 1998