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13741 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to -- rank: 46

Justin: >There is no hint of dialectics here, no sense of how >the precious freedoms of bourgeois democracy represent literally centuries of >struggle from below against arbitrary power. Freedoms of bourgeois democracy are precious (if compared to feudalism, slavery, Jim Crow, etc.), but I suspect that the majority of Americans have ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Thu Apr 27 02:42:08 PDT 2000

13742 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to -- rank: 46

... freer society than NK), with its scary block warden thought police, is more free. There is no hint of dialectics here ...

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Author:	JKSCHW at aol.com
Date:	Wed Apr 26 19:39:42 PDT 2000

13743 CHINA REPORTS BIG SURGE IN LABOR UNREST DURING 1999 - SF Chronicle -- rank: 46

The San Francisco Chronicle Monday, April 24, 2000 CHINA REPORTS BIG SURGE IN LABOR UNREST DURING 1999 Disputes over unpaid pensions, wages, fraud By John Pomfret, Washington Post Beijing -- The number of labor disputes in China has skyrocketed -- to more than 120,000 in 1999 -- as workers in unprecedented numbers get ...

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Author:	Stephen E Philion
Date:	Wed Apr 26 12:16:27 PDT 2000

13744 [lbo-talk] Achcar's latest -- rank: 46

On 2011-03-25, at 1:42 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote: > It's pretty obvious that the U.S. and European powers have selected three, and only three, Middle Eastern nations for regime change. Why else would the Defense Secretary on a visit to Israel only mention this select few of ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Fri Mar 25 17:25:00 PDT 2011

13745 USA: More Dominant of Thought than N. Korea; Critical Resistance -- rank: 46

Join the Angela Davis critical thinking and resistance cult ! Free your mind. >>> Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> 04/26/00 01:38AM >>> Hi Jacob: >The question raised might the comparative freedom or lack of freedom in >these societies. Simply to raise the number of the prision population do >not ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Apr 26 08:27:59 PDT 2000

13746 [lbo-talk] UN mask drops in Haiti -- rank: 46

... htm for the first time Rwanda enters the picture sending police forces to the mission http://www.newtimes.co.rw/index ...

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Author:	Jaromil
Date:	Mon Mar 28 03:49:43 PDT 2011

13747 [lbo-talk] jam on Wisconsin: A whiff of the '60s -- rank: 46

Greetings, all - I suppose a few updates are in order. The capitol was quickly lost after I wrote the message to which Carrol referred; people remained in it over night but by the "tractorcade" on Saturday, 3/12 it had been 'retaken' by the Department of Administration (my current FB profile ...

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Author:	Joshua Morey
Date:	Mon Mar 28 08:56:41 PDT 2011

13748 [Fwd: Re: Info guerillas] -- rank: 46

-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: Info guerillas Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:01:41 -0700 From: Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby at tao.ca> Reply-To: marxism at lists.panix.com To: marxism at lists.panix.com References: <Pine.PMDF.3.96.1000426015127.539004121A-100000 at OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> (snipped) > Not every ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Apr 26 07:09:18 PDT 2000

13749 Divorce and empty shell? (was:(Re: Ex-GDR (was:Re: RES: a trip to North Korea)) -- rank: 46

... creches and kindergartens, but these were not >they. If the police state of the GDR is communism, then yes, I would ...

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Author:	Johannes Schneider
Date:	Wed Apr 26 06:07:57 PDT 2000

13750 Ex-GDR (was:Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 46

In message <001301bfaea9$a3330880$51c7fcc3 at hrath>, Johannes Schneider <Johannes.Schneider at gmx.net> writes >I did not say anything about the motivation of that policy. What counts in this >context are the results: In the former GDR women were much more included in the >productive process and not simply reduced ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 01:44:43 PDT 2000

13751 USA: More Repressive Than North Korea (was Re: RES: a trip to North Korea) -- rank: 46

Much as I admire Yoshie's opposition to US imperialism, the argument that there is more liberty in N Korea than America strains credulity. Indeed, it is a consequence of imperialism that domination of the developing world underwrites a measure of liberty at home. Jailing large numbers of the population is ...

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Author:	Jim heartfield
Date:	Wed Apr 26 02:15:13 PDT 2000

13752 [lbo-talk] The Balcony -- rank: 46

... a high profile torture victim who interrogates a high profile police state torture administrator under Pinocet. You can't imagine a ...

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Author:	Chuck Grimes
Date:	Mon Mar 28 21:28:40 PDT 2011

13753 Chomsky and Hero Worship -- rank: 46

... been an anti-bolshevik, characterized the Soviet Union as a police state, written favorably of anarchist criticisms of Marx (e.g ...

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Author:	Rakesh Bhandari
Date:	Fri Oct 9 06:01:50 PDT 1998

13754 [lbo-talk] The Balcony -- rank: 46

Actually, the torture took place under the Videla regime in Argentina. There is an interesting reversal of roles in the documentary, as the torturer, Julio Simon, was the good cop figure in the concentration camps, who tried to illicit confessions from detainees with small kindnesses; while his former victim, "Hernardo" (?) now ...

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Author:	Mark Bennett
Date:	Tue Mar 29 00:16:18 PDT 2011

13755 [lbo-talk] Stranger and stranger news out of Pakistan -- rank: 46

... the scene of the occurrence and according to latest reports police and fire brigade teams were rushing towards the blast scene ...

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Author:	Dissenting Wren
Date:	Sun May 1 21:42:42 PDT 2011