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31 [lbo-talk] Socialist modelling (Was: Louis Proyect...) -- rank: 149

Bill: "But I'm not sure which one Wojtek is suggesting." [WS:] What I had in mind is close to the concept of 'social economy' popular in EU and to some extent in Canada http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/sme/promoting-entrepreneurship/social-economy/ This entails enterprises that operate on ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Dec 28 08:10:06 PST 2011

32 [lbo-talk] The guy who 'blocked' John Lewis -- rank: 235

I wrote something back in July on the Obama/West "controversy" for the Association of Black Sociologists newsletter (pasted below). Barack Obama, Cornel West, and the Neoliberal Plutocracy Thomas Volscho CUNY / College of Staten Island The presidency of Barack Obama was viewed by some as re-igniting a progressive era in ...

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Author:	Thomas Volscho
Date:	Mon Oct 17 10:28:01 PDT 2011

33 [lbo-talk] Jacobin Blog: Tactical Media, A-L's 1/2 Wit Step-Parent -- rank: 149

The Jacobin article repeats, with less overall engagement, older criticisms of tactical media found here: http://five.fibreculturejournal.org/fcj-029-dawn-of-the-organised-networks/ On 10/2/11 3:13 PM, Charles Turner wrote: > <http://jacobinmag.com/blog/?p=1701#more-1701> > > Don't know why I always think ...

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Author:	dndlllio at aol.com
Date:	Sun Oct 2 16:49:23 PDT 2011

34 [lbo-talk] Jacobin Blog: Tactical Media, A-L's 1/2 Wit Step-Parent -- rank: 149

... as Extropian), Adbusters (which always makes me think of Ralph Nader) and the Critical Art Ensemble (which went unmentioned in the ...

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Author:	Charles Turner
Date:	Sun Oct 2 12:13:19 PDT 2011

35 [lbo-talk] Obama and His Discontents -- rank: 149

On 7/29/2011 12:38 PM, Dissenting Wren wrote: > There are two successful scenarios for a third party (if the US keeps its single-district first-past-the-post electoral system). The first would be a gradual frittering away of Democratic support in favor of the third party (think Liberal ...

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Author:	SA
Date:	Fri Jul 29 10:19:21 PDT 2011

36 [lbo-talk] Obama and His Discontents -- rank: 149

Here's the rub.  The Democrats will never have to pay a price on the left unless there is a credible threat of defection on the left.  There are only two ways this can happen, AFAICT.  One would be abstention by the left, reflecting the judgment that the difference between Democrats ...

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Author:	Dissenting Wren
Date:	Fri Jul 29 09:38:08 PDT 2011

37 [lbo-talk] St. Hubert Humphrey -- rank: 149

On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > On Jun 3, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Gar Lipow wrote: > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/opinion/27Perlstein.html >> >> Don't have energy to take this nonsense on, but I remember Humphrey as ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Fri Jun 3 11:18:58 PDT 2011

38 [lbo-talk] Pls sign CPD Bahrain statement -- rank: 149

Please Forward & Post on Websites, Blogs, Networking Sites, etc. Dear Friend, We are writing you at this critical moment to invite you to sign the Campaign for Peace and Democracy (CPD) statement entitled "End U.S. Support for Bahrain's Repressive Government." We very much hope that you will join the ...

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Author:	Joanne Landy
Date:	Mon May 16 19:47:52 PDT 2011

39 [lbo-talk] Obama reelection prospect -- rank: 149

Wojtek is more right than wrong. I know that as socialists, social democrats, progressives, anarchists, whatever, we must believe in the People and their inner humanity. And yes, there are numerous decent Americans. But the majority are either reactionary, elitist, or simply apolitical. They cannot be reached nor want to be ...

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Author:	dperrin at comcast.net
Date:	Fri Feb 18 16:23:05 PST 2011

40 [lbo-talk] Inside job -- rank: 149

Secondly, Wojtek is just being deliberately ignorant again when he speaks of collusion: this is as silly as 9/11 conspiracism, for it reduces capitalism itself to a conspiracy. And it also makes it impossible to analyze, _politically_ the interrelationships of education, general culture, the interests of specific capitalists (with names ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Dec 27 15:31:59 PST 2010

41 [lbo-talk] Nader, Bloomberg, and Gonzalez -- rank: 535

Well, hey, didn't Nader write that book about a clique of rich folks saving ... satire, but he's taking it seriously. From Esquire: "Ralph Nader. Yep, that Ralph Nader. Ol Seatbelts was speaking to Fox about New York mayor ...

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Author:	Somebody Somebody
Date:	Wed Nov 3 22:00:49 PDT 2010

42 [lbo-talk] Friends and enemies -- rank: 149

... to Anthro and used to come home talking about Laura Nader and

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Wed Oct 20 13:16:16 PDT 2010

43 [lbo-talk] Friends and enemies -- rank: 235

Chuck: "So, that is what is at stake. Corporate USA may or may not understand what it is up to, but it certainly knows in an intuitative way, what threatens its existance." [WS:] This crossed my mind too, but on the second thought, I do not think it is the case ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Wed Oct 20 08:45:25 PDT 2010

44 [lbo-talk] Friends and enemies -- rank: 235

What good are the humanities? I think they have many different uses, including a certain finishing school quality that creates the veneer of the elite sensibility. But I view that as a kind of corruption, a cooptive use. Consider, this broad curriculum in a different way put to a different use ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Tue Oct 19 17:39:50 PDT 2010

45 [lbo-talk] tea party numbers -- rank: 149

... Debs, > >imprisoned. Huey Long and Martin Luther King, assassinated. Ralph > >Nader, slandered and denied any meaningful access to the public > >forum ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Sep 1 16:20:46 PDT 2010