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1 [lbo-talk] Caudwell on on language's inability to reflect the... -- rank: 1000

Christopher Caudwell was a remarkable writer, who achieved a great deal in a short life, killed in the Spanish Civil War, where he was a volunteer in the International Brigade. He was the best of the ferment of writers around the CPGB (Third International, not the organisation that carries its name, now), many of whom contributed to the Left Review, such as Ralph Fox (The Novel and the People), A.L. Morton (People's History of England) F Klingender (who wrote probably the first ever book on whit ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Jan 6 00:29:53 PST 2014

2 [lbo-talk] Labour and Labour Power -- rank: 1000

Here's a question for the Marx scholars among you. In different accounts Marx says that he was struggling with the ideas of labour and exchange, until he made the distinction between labour and labour power. I got the impression that 'labour power' was Marx's own coinage. So I was a bit surprised, when reading the the Anti Slavery Reporter for Nov 1858, a paper by the secretary of the Anti Slavery Society, read at the Second Annual Conference for the Promotion of Social Science, a confident refe ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Nov 12 05:53:48 PST 2013

3 [lbo-talk] Armenian massacres -- rank: 1000

A small historical note I was interested to read in the Aborigines' Friend of September 1878 this report of comments by Carekine H Papasian at the Society's annual meeting in May of that year 'The situation of the poor inhabitants of Armenia has become intolerable; their sufferings have been innumerably increased by the disastrous consequences of the recent war. Thousands of villages have been destroyed, honour life and property have been daily exposed to the cruel rapacity of the Kurds, without ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sat Sep 14 11:51:04 PDT 2013

4 [lbo-talk] London, 30th May, book launch, EU & end of politics -- rank: 1000

If there are any LBOsters in London on 30 May, Come to the launch of James Heartfield s new book The European Union and the End of Politics Thursday, 30th May, 6-9pm 5th Floor, 32-38 Wells Street, W1T 3UW Five minutes from Oxford Street and from Goodge Street Tube You can get the book here: http://www.amazon.com/The-European-Union-End-Politics/dp/178099950X

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Sun May 19 11:11:13 PDT 2013

5 [lbo-talk] The 'Masculinity Crisis' debate in Britain -- rank: 1000

WHAT MASCULINITY CRISIS? Are men in crisis? James Heartfield does not think so. Hackney MP Diane Abbott spoke out about a masculinity crisis at a meeting organised by Demos. She claims that young men are increasingly violent and Suzanne Moore demands to know when men will start to discuss their problem with rape and abuse. read more http://www.metamute.org/community/your-posts/what-masculinity-crisis

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri May 17 12:30:34 PDT 2013

6 [lbo-talk] Tony Cliff, of the SWP (UK) -- rank: 1000

Given the extensive discussion about terrible behaviour among the Socialist Workers' Party (UK) I wondered if it was possible to talk about the politics of the SWP - in this review of a life of Tony Cliff http://platypus1917.org/2013/04/01/the-anti-political-party/

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 3 13:54:22 PDT 2013

7 [lbo-talk] Farewell, creative class -- rank: 1000

Richard Florida, who coined the idea of The Creative Class concedes that it has a largely null impact on economic regeneration... http://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2013/01/more-losers-winners-americas-new-economic-geography/4465/ Forgive me if I say I told you so, back in 2005, here http://www.heartfield.org/Creativity_Gap.pdf (or indeed in 1998, here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Desire-Post-material-Economy-Culture-Matters/dp/0863397905/ref=sr_1_fkmr2_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1 ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 20 14:14:20 PDT 2013

8 [lbo-talk] James Heartfield's Unpatriotic History -- rank: 1000

Chuck, Glad you got something out of it. It is here if anyone else wants one http://www.amazon.com/dp/1780993781

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Mar 6 11:52:35 PST 2013

9 [lbo-talk] EDF suing climate activists for ?5 million - protesters face losing homes -- rank: 1000

'I am not exactly sure what you are trying to argue either. That urban planning is bad?' Planning would be a great idea, if planning meant that you had an idea of what you wanted to happen, effected the changes that would make it happen, and then it happened. But as the dogs in the street know, there is no such planning. Instead there is the maelstrom of chaos and unintended consequences that goes by the name of 'smart growth'. The way you write, it would seem as if this was an idea that had not ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 21 16:22:20 PST 2013

10 [lbo-talk] EDF suing climate activists for ?5 million - protesters face losing homes -- rank: 1000

Wojtek - I chose my words. I said I had no sympathy with them, and I don't. I am not in favour of collective liability for protestors. But what these people wanted to happen was to reduce electricity generation, not as a tactic, but as a social goal. Getting their way means that pensioners will die this winter. On construction, you are wrong to counterpose 'suburban sprawl' to houses. Suburban sprawl is houses, just the houses of the people that you irrationally hate ('closet racist white fathea ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 21 13:14:44 PST 2013

11 [lbo-talk] EDF suing climate activists for ?5 million - protesters face losing homes -- rank: 1000

Given that Britons face climbing energy costs and a disastrous shortfall in power generation, I have not too much sympathy for the idiots who thought that it was good idea to prevent power being generated. What, one wonders, will 'No Dash for Gas' have to say about winter fuel deaths among old-age pensioners? And while we are at it, it is indeed terrible that people might lose their homes - especially when nimby activists have succeeded in creating a regulatory framework so hostile to the build ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Thu Feb 21 10:27:36 PST 2013

12 [lbo-talk] Living in a shed -- rank: 1000

This is a little photo essay on Britain's housing crisis http://www.heartfield.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/housing/placespeoplelive.htm

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Fri Jan 25 09:45:29 PST 2013

13 [lbo-talk] British workers rallied for Lincoln -- rank: 1000

When Lincoln and Marx were on the same side 150 years ago, Lancashire cotton workers fought alongside Abraham Lincoln to abolish slavery in the US. ... the workers of Manchester shake hands with the North, and say we glory in your cause . Read more http://www.spiked-online.com/site/article/13220/

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Wed Jan 2 07:07:07 PST 2013

14 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy... -- rank: 1000

Doug - for some reason arguing with the entirely rational proposition that psychology and sociology are distinct: 'No less a psychologist - in the sense that he's not known for the social dimensions of his thought - than Freud thought that the ego was formed in part by models appropriate to "family, class, and nation." The stresses experienced by individual families, not to mention norms, are heavily shaped by the society people live in, and their particular niche in it. All the ideas ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Tue Dec 18 01:31:05 PST 2012

15 [lbo-talk] Collective idiocy -- rank: 1000

Of sociology and psychology, Doug writes 'What kind of distinction is that?' You are kidding, right? Or are you really saying that you don't know the difference between psychology and sociology. Would you ask a sociologist to organise a series of experiments in cognition or memory; or to treat an anorexic? Would you ask a Rogerian therapist to oversee a crime survey? The reason there are two different words is because they are two different things. Doug 'Psychology is shaped by social circumstan ...

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Author:	James Heartfield
Date:	Mon Dec 17 15:44:45 PST 2012