Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Note to the left. Who hates you?

2010-11-29 Thread Doug Henwood
On Nov 29, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Peggy Dobbins wrote: > The Z guy writes as if he was a real participant in the movement in 1968. I > don't remember him Wow, that's a conclusive argument! Doug ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.uta

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] My house

2010-10-15 Thread Doug Henwood
On Oct 15, 2010, at 4:28 PM, c b wrote: > My house is the fourth door from the left. > > Danielle is my neighbor Hey, that's very cool. I know that Venturi said that less is not more, less is a bore, but I still like Mies a lot. ___ Marxism-Thaxis ma

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] White America Has Lost Its Mind

2010-10-06 Thread Doug Henwood
On Oct 6, 2010, at 9:59 AM, c b wrote: > http://www.villagevoice.com/2010-09-29/news/white-america-has-lost-its-mind/ > > White America Has Lost Its Mind > The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular > fashion Wow, there's only one white brain? 20-30% of the pop rep

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] GS wiki

2010-04-30 Thread Doug Henwood
What is the point of this, Charles? We could all look it up if we wanted. ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-04 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jan 4, 2010, at 4:13 PM, c b wrote: > In the US , there is not a significant portion of the population > that has the concept "ruling class" nor thinks in terms of it > concerning politics. Not in those words, but people use colloquialisms like "city hall" (which you can't fight), elites, t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barack Obama Worked For The CIA - John Pilger

2010-01-01 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jan 1, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Jim Farmelant wrote: > That would be an interesting issue to look into. > How does the US ruling class go about recruiting > political talent? How were people like > Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and > Barack Obma able to rise to the > top so fast? What agencies are >

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Will Obama Save America From Capitalism?

2009-10-19 Thread Doug Henwood
On Oct 19, 2009, at 2:49 PM, c b wrote: > Will Obama Save America From Capitalism? No. Doug ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/ma

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Jackson - Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 6

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:19 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > Not a problem for me. A problem for you? > > At 01:13 PM 7/12/2009, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: >> >>> Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Michael Jackson - Marxism-Thaxis Digest, Vol 69, Issue 6

2009-07-12 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jul 12, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > Of course this stuff is silly. Aside from the obvious, it might be > interesting to delve into the ideological content of Jackson's songs > and his views. Also, the social basis of his pathology. > > But to tell the truth, I'm more interested in

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Super Capitalism, Super Imperialism and Monetary Imperialism

2009-01-06 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jan 6, 2009, at 3:25 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > > CeJ jannuzi >>> > > Poor CB,he can't even tell when I agree with him. Dude, if you would > stop soaking your ass in places like A-hole list, Marxmal and Liberal > Bored Observer, maybe we could communicate occasionally. > > CJ > > > ^ > CB:

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Down Jones

2008-11-13 Thread Doug Henwood
On Nov 13, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > The Dow Jones Indigestion Average Don't worry, Charles. Barry will fix it. Doug ___ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http:/

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama falters McCain the winner

2008-10-08 Thread Doug Henwood
On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:19 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > No, the distinct characteristic of Obama's position is that he > proposes a definite "timetable" for withdrawal as opposed to an > indefinite one or "eventually." Yeah, and he explicitly wants to take the troops withdrawn from Iraq and send

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Obama vows to be ‘champion of working people’

2008-08-05 Thread Doug Henwood
On Aug 5, 2008, at 12:37 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > http://www.uft.org/news/champion_working_people/ > Obama vows to be ‘champion of working people’ > Aug 4, 2008 4:05 PM How funny to see a press release from a deeply anti-Communist union on a Marxism list. Doug __

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Barry's Black

2008-07-18 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > CB: I'd say Barry's setting a new record for the least debasing > oneself in running for President. This ain't the same-o same-o I had a friend long ago who thought of writing his psychology dissertation on self-deception, but decided it w

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Crafty post headings of slanderous innuendo

2008-05-12 Thread Doug Henwood
On May 12, 2008, at 11:12 AM, Charles Brown wrote: > "Crafty" is a crafty post heading here, continuing overworked > effort to > impute bad motives to pretty boy Barry. This continues a strange > focus > on spinning everything about Barry as sinister, especially strange > wihtou t a word ab

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Wright and "leftbrain /rightbrain"

2008-05-10 Thread Doug Henwood
On May 10, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > It's bad enough to be a preacher, but > to peddle this ignorant bullshit makes one wonder why Obama was so > impressed by him. According to Adolph Reed, who lived in Obama's legislative district at the time, Obama was thinking of running for m

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [lbo-talk] Getting some business that Magic Barry ain't got

2008-05-10 Thread Doug Henwood
On May 10, 2008, at 3:31 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > What religion has over our atheism is optimism, a > can-do spirit, the power of positive thinking. Thus, > religion gets people to _do_ things. It inspires action. > What socialist theorists need from religion is that > optimism that we can chang

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] May Day May Day May Day

2008-05-01 Thread Doug Henwood
On May 1, 2008, at 8:36 PM, CeJ wrote: > Yeah well, what a bum note for the MT list. I must say, of all the > things that come to mind on May Day, Duff Henwood's Liberal Bourgeois > Oaf (LBO) list and Louie Projector's Marxmal really don't come to mind > either. Hey, I think I'll put on my Nation

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] May Day

2008-05-01 Thread Doug Henwood
On May 1, 2008, at 1:33 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: > Two lists so not worth participating in. Important? Have you lost > your mind? > > I might as well join everyone else and schedule a lObamatomy. It's always nice to hear from you, Ralph! Doug ___ Ma

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Drinking Bottled Water Kept in Your Car

2007-05-31 Thread Doug Henwood
Man, don't you check Snopes before forwarding this stuff? It had urban legend written all over it. On May 31, 2007, at 5:44 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Drinking Bottled Water Kept in Your Car > > This is how Sheryl Crow got breast cancer sh

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Nappy-headed Hos of the World Unite!

2007-04-17 Thread Doug Henwood
On Apr 17, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Charles Brown wrote: Although, I'm still trying to figure out the vulgar materialist explanation of GM, the Pentagon, et al. supporting affirmative action in Michigan last year. The big bourgeoisie in the US wants racial harmony. They know they have to deal w

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Radio Stations

2006-06-29 Thread Doug Henwood
tion is the one I do my show on, WBAI wbai.org>. The California stations are KPFA (SF Bay Area, kpfa.org>) and KFPK (Los Angeles, <http://kpfk.org>). Doug Henwood Producer, Behind the News Thursdays, 5-6 PM, WBAI, New York 99.5 FM "best music on a show about economics & pol

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The neo-cons' favourite philosophy had a distinctly seamy side

2006-06-27 Thread Doug Henwood
On Jun 27, 2006, at 2:55 PM, Ralph Dumain wrote: This is all horseshit. At 02:42 PM 6/27/2006 -0400, Charles Brown wrote: The neo-cons' favourite philosophy had a distinctly seamy side by John Gray Yeah. Gray is an old-style Tory wet. Why the left, broadly defined (and my publisher, The

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] [CrashList] refresher course on why we are fucked

2005-07-12 Thread Doug Henwood
Charles Brown wrote: [CrashList] refresher course on why we are fucked William Stanley Jevons was one of the greatest economists of the 19th century. With Menger and Walras he was one of the three co-discoverers of marginal utility t

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Monthly Review on Ralph Miliband

2004-02-02 Thread Doug Henwood
Jim Farmelant wrote: Does Doug or anybody else here know about the political histories of Miliband's sons? In other words were they always Blair-type "Third Way" guys or did they go through a period of being radical leftists? Did their father ever comment publicly on his sons' politics? I knew E

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Monthly Review on Ralph Miliband

2004-02-02 Thread Doug Henwood
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Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] The April 1997 Thread.

2003-10-01 Thread Doug Henwood
Robert Cymbala wrote: For your information, an archive of _The Alternative Orange_ includes Volume 5, Number 2, as of this week. The number has copies of email messages to marxism-thaxis. Link: http://www.etext.org/Politics/AlternativeOrange/5/index.html Wow. Like a mastodon preserved in ice! Do

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2001-07-10 Thread Doug Henwood
Hinrich Kuhls wrote: >Hi Doug, > >and what's about the New Economy in New York? Now the title of your >book in progress has changed from "New Economy" to "A New Economy?" >I am more courious than ever to know about the question mark. >Ordered it ages ago. It's always been A New Economy?, with

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2001-07-10 Thread Doug Henwood
Bob Malecki wrote: >I think Lenin's writings on "The party of the whole class" pretty >much argues against you quite Menshevik understanding of the >question, Albut put in some sort of modern socialogical terms. Wow, Bob Malecki. Haven't heard from you in ages. Where you been? How've you been