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41701 activism -- rank: 1000

Gar Lipow nominates activism as the antidote to all those disabling oppositions. Yes, but the whole idea of activism as an antidote to theoretical isolation reproduces the division it aims to undermine. A few years ago, I was on a panel about economic development in NYC, and most of my colleagues were hot on stimulating small business. I piped up to say that for the most part, small business jobs pay less, offer few benefits and less training, are typically more dangerous and more volatile. For ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 1 13:27:00 PDT 1998

41702 intro -- rank: 1000

Ok, here's the intro file. Comments welcome. Doug ---- LBO-talk is a mailing list for the discussion of politics, economics, and culture, all expansively defined. It is sponsored by Left Business Observer <http://www.panix.com/~dhenwood/LBO_home.html>, a newsletter mainly about economics, and moderated by its editor, Doug Henwood. Despite that sponsorship, I hope this list will be a forum for speaking across intellectual and social boundaries that have divided the left, such as it is, for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 1 12:44:18 PDT 1998

41703 welcome -- rank: 1000

Welcome to LBO talk. You're here because you expressed an interest in this list when it started up; if you don't want to be, I'm sorry; send the usual "uns*bscribe lbo-talk" to majordomo at lists.panix.com. I got a little ahead of myself; Panix' excellent web front-end for managing majordomo made it so easy, the list was open before I really knew it. And before I'd written something as frightening as a mission statement. One of those will be along soon, but for the moment, welcome to L ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri May 1 12:24:51 PDT 1998