Dear all,
Justice Wilcox is intoning the findings of the full bench of the federal
court as I write. Justice Tony North's famous findings of Tuesday remain
in place - ie. 'tightly structured and compelling' and 'free from
appellable error'.
North's injunction requiring that MUA wharfies be
Dear Louis list,
I understand where the analysis (at bottom of this message) is coming from,
and what information it is based on, but I suggest it is in error, based on
important facts not taken into consideration.
To begin with, the New Left was not overly marxist at all. It was quite in
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The interesting thing is that your analysis -- that defeat of the left cannot be
blamed on the left itself is an extremely pessimistic one. Of course , if it is
true it is true -- but look at the implication. If the left is not screwing up big
time and we losing this badly then things pretty
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From: Richard K. Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, April 23, 1998 2:43 PM
Subject: Re: Richard Rorty *- demise of left
I understand where the analysis (at bottom of this message) is coming from,
and what information it is based on, but I suggest it is in error,
Some of this talk about the New Left is
science fiction.
SDS and its counterpart formations around
the Communist Party and Socialist Workers
Party were by no means "crushed." Nor is
it obvious that infiltration was an important
factor. These formations were responsible
for the birth of the
The university town's fitness as a place to remain in or move to
is one of the biggest little secrets in American life.
I'm wondering if anyone has undertaken a systematic study of the
growth and change occurring thus in the country's Eugenes and Ann Arbors,
and whether some magazine or journal
I thought that the point of left politics in the 1990s was not to oppose
the old left vs. the new, etc., etc., but to try to seek a synthesis,
criticizing the lefts both old and new (ruthlessly, of course, to use
Marx's word), but while rejecting the "bad," also trying to find the "good"
on both
Since the Chronicle of Higher Ed didn't select my letter for either its
print or on-line publications, here's my response to Rorty's CHE article
of two weeks ago:
To the Editor:
Richard Rorty ("The Dark Side of the Academic Left", April 3) mixes
insight and ignorance with remarkable abandon.
Wojtek, visiting apparent madness upon us, ends with a query:
A friend of mine forwarded me the attached text published in 1894. It may
appear as outdated moralizing on its face. But on the second thought - it
makes a perfect sense from a rat-choice point of view: scarcity jacks up
the
April 23, 1998
BOOKS OF THE TIMES / By CHRISTOPHER LEHMANN-HAUPT
'Achieving Our Country': How the American Left Lost Hope
In his philosophically rigorous new book, "Achieving Our Country: Leftist
Thought in 20th-Century America," Richard Rorty raises a provocative if
familiar question:
=== So does synchronicity. Two weeks ago, searching the upper reaches
of my inbox for old stuff to delete, I found a list post from
Ellen Frank of Wellesley that bashed Michael Moore wonderfully
for exhorting us to meet the working class on its own cultural
terms if we
I am pleased to announce that the workers of the
Economic Policy Institute -- economists, programmers,
librarians, administrative assistants, receptionist, etc.
have organized and affiliated with the International
Federation of Professional and Technical Employees
(IFPTE). Unlike some other
At 06:39 PM 4/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
Friends,
Is it not also the case that in hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. trailer parks and
similar such structures are the worst hit? Who lives in these, rich or poor?
michael yates
An important point that I neglected to make in my original post: the
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