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91 [lbo-talk] Piketty Responds to Criticisms from the Left: A very detailed interview with Thomas Piketty -- rank: 1000

Good stuff. He's got better politics than I'd thought. > On Jan 7, 2015, at 5:08 AM, Chris Macs <chrismclsf at gmail.com> wrote: > > http://potemkinreview.com/pikettyinterview/ > ___________________________________ > http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk

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92 [lbo-talk] Happy New Year! -- rank: 1000

Charles, stop posting empty messages. It's as annoying as your Obama apolgetics.

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Date:	Sat Jan 3 09:11:05 PST 2015

93 [lbo-talk] Against Neoliberalismby Michael Dawson, former LBO-ta lk list member -- rank: 1000

Charles Brown: > Americans have had an unusually large mass of people with petit > bourgeois personality or embued with the "entrepreneurial spirit" > since the start. See the last chapter of _Capital_. Many many farmers > who have small plots of land, own their means of production, and are > petty producers, potential capitalists. Yes. But as Bourdieu said, the two errors of social analysis are, on the one hand, saying "Everything's changed!," and on the other ...

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Date:	Mon Dec 1 06:57:12 PST 2014

94 [lbo-talk] Against Neoliberalism by Michael Dawson, former LBO-talk list member -- rank: 1000

I think there are a couple of uses to the notion of neoliberalism. One is the conscious appropriation and application of state power by its Mont Pelerin planners to create the market they dreamed of. And the other is, following Foucault, the transformation of all of us from "workers" or "citizens" into little entrepreneurs of the self, custodians of our human capital.

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Date:	Sun Nov 30 18:52:03 PST 2014

95 [lbo-talk] How the former Soviet republics have fared on their own -- rank: 1000

On Nov 12, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Dennis Redmond <metalslorg at gmail.com> wrote: > The World Bank's per capita GDP data in current US dollars is here: > http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD > <http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?page=> > > The data says, almost all the post-Soviet or Eastern bloc nations grew > faster than the US between 1990 and 2013, including Ukraine. (Note the data > set starts in 1993 for Estonia, 1994 for Bosnia and ...

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Date:	Wed Nov 12 17:20:25 PST 2014

96 [lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2014, at 2:40 PM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > I'm firmly with Joanna. Why anyone professing to be on the left would criticize someone from issuing a public call for solidarity with the only left-wing organization engaged in an armed struggle anywhere today is beyond me. The young Kurdish women and men in the YPG and PKK are our political kin every bit as much as were the Sandinistas and Vietnamese earlier. Mocking Graeber for not picking up a gun strikes me ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 11:52:00 PDT 2014

97 [lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle -- rank: 1000

On Oct 9, 2014, at 1:27 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Sorry but this is fucked up. > > Is it bad faith for intellectuals to write about historical events without taking up a gun? He was saying some strange stuff about intervention on Twitter. In The Guardian piece, he cited ancestors who went to fight in Spain. What he actually wants now he didn't make clear, but some of his tweets made it sound like he was encouraging some sort of U.S. intervention. Which is fuck ...

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 10:51:33 PDT 2014

98 [lbo-talk] David Graeber on the Kurdish struggle -- rank: 1000

On Twitter, Graeber weirdly sounded as if he were endorsing some sort of US intervention, though he was slippery on the details. The invocation of Spain was interesting. If we followed that model, David should be picking up an AK-47 and heading off to join the Kurdish anarchists.

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Date:	Thu Oct 9 10:09:30 PDT 2014

99 [lbo-talk] OMFG ...algorithms over unions -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2014, at 2:52 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > What Doug's fourth point is in fact evidence of the > _success_ not the failure of Bush's policy. It'd be really hard to find a serious member of the bourgeoisie who'd agree with this.

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100 [lbo-talk] OMFG ...algorithms over unions -- rank: 1000

On Aug 18, 2014, at 9:08 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Nothing has come so close to make me weep as the stubborn > insistence of lbo-posters that the policies of the Bush Administration were > stupid. Yeah, I know you feel this way, but you could make an argument from a purely bourgeois POV that they were very stupid. Bush left the U.S. deep in debt, helped contribute to the worst economic crisis in 80 years, demonstrated to the world the limits of U.S. military pow ...

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Date:	Mon Aug 18 06:16:04 PDT 2014

101 [lbo-talk] NOT SATIRE: Power Plant Bombed In Gaza Is Insured By U.S. Government -- rank: 1000

On Jul 31, 2014, at 11:53 AM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Glad to see that Joseph is still with us. Yes. He s doing excellent work getting the word out.

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102 [lbo-talk] Joe Catron in Gaza -- rank: 1000

On Jul 18, 2014, at 2:59 AM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote: > Remember Joe? He's in Gaza, acting as a human shield in a hospital. > > http://abcnews.go.com/International/inside-gaza-hospital-israeli-rocket-fire/story?id=24592141 He s worth following on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jncatron

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103 [lbo-talk] FW: [Milton-L] Redundancy of Evaluative Terms was RE: Shakespeare vs. Milton in London, Sunday, 22 June. -- rank: 1000

On Jun 18, 2014, at 10:09 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > Indeed. Not dry at all. And it would be inanely redundant to add to that > analysis such empty terms as "great," "wonderful," etc. Critics use "great" > to fill in when their description of a text is inadequate. The concept just makes you uncomfortable. You quote Austen here - Pound and Milton elsewhere - and a rhetorical analysis of what makes the Austen passage tick. You won't f ...

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Date:	Thu Jun 19 04:43:19 PDT 2014

104 [lbo-talk] Joan Robin's "Economic Philosophy", and Karl Popper -- rank: 1000

Joan Robin*son*, please.

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Date:	Sat May 3 17:51:38 PDT 2014

105 [lbo-talk] Angela Davis in support of the CUNY Graduate Center for Worker Education -- rank: 1000

On May 1, 2014, at 9:07 AM, michael yates <mikedjyates at msn.com> wrote: > The long list of distinguished scholars associated with the Graduate > Center for Worker Education makes this attack even more outrageous. You know what's outrageous? The way the former proprietors rented out the space during the day to a French business school, among other things. A tenured faculty member was fired at a unionized college over the operation of this worker center - that doesn't happen easily. ...

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Date:	Thu May 1 06:27:05 PDT 2014