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41656 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

Mark Jones wrote: >But capital is just a passing dream. Mark, I love you for your optimism. But really, the dream has been going on for, what, seven centuries or so. Are you putting all your chips on oil now to bring about the revolution, or at least the wrenching quasi-terminal crisis of capitalism? What if the oil doesn't run out? What if eco-crisis is just the latest refuge of frustrated crisis theorists? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 10:04:24 PDT 1998

41657 BJP's Bomb -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >Or Rakesh, as the Indian anti-nuke movement posited last night, maybe >it's a sign not of having already consolided its rule, but of the >fragility of rule. A feel-good populist measure to keep intact a very >shaky coalition government? Well, hell, if their bomb-inspired bounce in the polls starts to decay, what will they do for an encore? Vaporize Islamabad? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 13 09:50:12 PDT 1998

41658 Purges -- rank: 1000

Bruce Nissen wrote: >Roger Alcaly Who has gone onto make a small fortune in arbitrage and speculation, with a pause to write hosannas for Mike Milken in the New York Review of Books. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 12 12:35:37 PDT 1998

41659 Were the Nazis radical environmentalists? -- rank: 1000

Rakesh Bhandari wrote: >And if I remember >correctly in Marx's Crises Theories, Michael Perelman quotes crucial >passages from Marx's Theory of Surplus Value where Marx develops his >critiqe of the Ricardian Socialists (Hodgskin or Thompson) in terms of >their failure to specify the kind of labor which creates exchange value >and its mysteries. Michael's book led me to the relevant passages in >Theories of Surplus Value. Got the reference handy, Rakesh or Michael? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 12 11:06:33 PDT 1998

41660 Kemp -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >In practice, Kemp supports some of the worst policies imaginable, but I >believe >it derives from an honest if wacko view of the world. And besides, there's that rumor of his unusual predilictions... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 12 10:21:18 PDT 1998

41661 another lecture on behavior -- rank: 1000

I'm sorry to sound so finishing school-ish, but please don't quote 5k or 20k postings just to say "Right on," ok? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 14:06:47 PDT 1998

41662 social science production (was: Dark Sides of 'Solidarity'?) -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: > Larry Meyer Meyer seems to be the leader of the hawk faction in the Fed - what's his story? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 13:59:43 PDT 1998

41663 i.d. check -- rank: 1000

Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote: >I go on to suggest >that the powers-that-be would *like* for me to go to meetings and argue >about precisely what form of anarchism/socialism/whatever should be >implemented after the Revolution There's a wonderful Adorno quote in the new Nation, in Andrew Rubin's review of a new TWA collection from Columbia. "The question 'what is to be done?' as an automatic reflex to every critical thought before it is fully expressed ... recalls the gesture of so ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 11 13:11:28 PDT 1998

41664 leave of absence -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >On Fri, 8 May 1998, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I'm off for the weekend, to the Work conference at SUNY-Binghamton. May the >> hugs & kisses fly in my absence.... > >Driving? Yes, as a matter of fact I did, in an expensively rented car. I've logged about 1,000 miles over the last month, and I'm eager for a long vacation from hell on wheels. But now I'm back. I'm getting unsusb's and complaints about volume. I don't know exactly what to do about this - o ...

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Date:	Mon May 11 09:45:19 PDT 1998

41665 leave of absence -- rank: 1000

I'm off for the weekend, to the Work conference at SUNY-Binghamton. May the hugs & kisses fly in my absence.... Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 8 12:40:19 PDT 1998

41666 info -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >Well, I was thinking of the "new economy" intellectuals as the articulate >ones. > >And I may have to eat my words: if you notice *both* Krugman's quote (and >Bhagwati's use of me as a straw man to beat up on) are taken *from*the*web*. > >If not for the web, Bhagwati would not have been able to rip two sentences >from a Los Angeles Times op-ed out of context for his purposes; and Paul >Krugman wouldn't have found the passage so handy. Doe ...

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Date:	Fri May 8 08:12:59 PDT 1998

41667 rules of engagement? -- rank: 1000

Thomas Kruse wrote: >strident tones >outbursts [vs.] >hugs and kisses (besos y abrazos). > >xxoo- Those aren't mutually exclusive, are they? The Italians seem to run a very pleasant country along those lines - coffee-fueled argument followed by wine-fueled reconciliation, va bene's all around. Besos y abrazos xxoo Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 8 07:42:28 PDT 1998

41668 rural idiocy -- rank: 1000

Patrick Bond wrote: >In all the chatter about cars, not a word about the capitalist urban >and suburban planning forms that have reduced them from luxury to >necessity. What do we do with this landscape after the revolution? What revolution? That's not just my instinctive pessimism at work; you can't have anything like revolution without consciousness and set of social institutions different from what we have now. And how can those develop with the kind of dispersion and fragmentation f ...

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Date:	Fri May 8 07:13:47 PDT 1998

41669 Tentacles of the Eurostate -- rank: 1000

Dennis R Redmond wrote: >(1) Globally, the EU owns the world-system, and can (and will) do anything >it damn well pleases. Except that the EU barely exists as a political entity - they can barely choose the head of their central bank (and, by the way, the lucky Dutchman who will, Wim Duisenberg, thinks the Fed's practice of publishing highly sanitized minutes of their policy meetings is too open!). The U.S. can do what it damn well pleases right now too. What other country could run $200 b ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 8 07:01:42 PDT 1998

41670 Euro sails through -- rank: 1000

Rob Schaap wrote: >Doug writes: > >> A real major glitch that a lot of people are beginning >>to be aware of is that the EU will probably not be able to >>deal with both introducing the euro into its computers and >>also take care of the millennium bug. This conflucnce >>could well trigger the next global crash. > >Didn't you recently say something about computer networks not being ready >for a five-digit DJI? If that was not in jest, we're in f ...

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Date:	Fri May 8 06:38:23 PDT 1998