During Reagan's Nicaragua campaign in the 1980s, the contra radio stations
based in Honduras would consistently broadcast horrific stories about
Sandinistas sending children to Cuba, where they would be turned into
canned meat. On the face of it absurd, but in the war-torn northern
reagions of
Carrol Cox wrote:
All that said, it remains one of my half dozen favorite pieces of English
prose -- but I would not recommend it as a model of agitational style.
No, probably not. But the aesthetic, if you can call it that, of writing on
the American left these days is just deadly, and part of
The following are reposted from a history list:
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Responding to Brad DeLong (May 3):
The point is though, surely, that there is a significant difference
between a state and/or party structured to systematically
forwarded by Michael Hoover
Very important documents. German govt. reports state that no extensive
persecution of Albanians in Kosovo was taking place prior to the Nato
bombing. ( The German govt. nonetheless supported the bombing decision. )
This revelation completely undercuts the
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Jim Devine wrote:
I wanted to add that Bob Brenner's excellent new book argues that
international competition between the advanced capitalist countries led to
the crisis of the 1970s, while a similar analysis applies to the
competition in East Asia that led to the 1997 crisis.
One of the
Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His
is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours.
I'm in search for a single piece of information on the Luddites:
Approximate dates during which they were active.
I already have my "position" on their movement which is
Sorry to pen-l for re-sending back pen-l posts. Hahnel, in case you deleted
the second post (pen-l 6472) here it is again.
Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His
is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours.
I'm in search for a single piece of
Robin Hahnel wrote:
I'm in search for a single piece of information on the Luddites:
Approximate dates during which they were active.
I already have my "position" on their movement which is considerably
more positive than standard mainstream OR "left" positions. I just want
to locate
Ricardo Duchesne wrote:
Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His
is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours.
I replied to the original post before seeing this one. Anyone who is not
familiar in detail with Thompson's work can hardly have a "position"
on
Is this captured in the term "chauvinism", which means both male-supremacy and
national jingoism ? (Named for Napoleon's General Chauvin)
Charles Brown
"Michael Hoover" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/06/99 01:20PM
in first days/weeks of US/NATO bombing, this list had a lot of
traffic about
I wrote: I wanted to add that Bob Brenner's excellent new book argues
that international competition between the advanced capitalist countries
led to the crisis of the 1970s, while a similar analysis applies to the
competition in East Asia that led to the 1997 crisis.
Sam writes: One of the
How odd to have a position on something you know nothing about.
Who else but E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class. His
is views on the Luddites may be similar to yours.
I'm in search for a single piece of information on the Luddites:
Approximate dates during
Robin,
They peaked in the late 18teens, around 1819 to
be specific.
Barkley Rosser
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I'm in search for a
Doug,
Well, I finally got my latest LBO. A few remarks, first
on the Hayden interview on Kosovo.
1) Hayden labels Milosevic a "dictator." I think that
we have established on these lists that he was democratically
elected, however imperfectly. He is an "evil thug," as
Hayden says,
Yoshie Furuhashi [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/04/99 05:37PM
They may want to sell it, but marketing efforts seem sporadic +
half-hearted (probably because they don't believe it either). Besides, do
people buy it? What I see in American people's responses to the Clinton
Administration's Kosovo
anyone know if below has a precedent? Michael Hoover
Vets Want US Troops Out of Balkans
Thursday, May 6, 1999; 5:00 a.m. EDT
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- The nation's largest veterans
organization has urged President
This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of when I sent my
earlier post about the risk of left-right coalitions. The national
interest discourse is poison for the left and will drive away the kinds
of people we ought to be trying to win over -- people with an inkling of
solidarity beyond
Doug notes:
If ever there was a target deserving sharp satire and polemic, it's
the smug, brutal, and philistine U.S. ruling class of 1999, but they're not
getting what they deserve.
Right-o. This just in: Camille Paglia explains Littleton CO and comes out
aginst the war. Pithily. Read on:
[Alan Freeman asked me to forward this.]
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Peter Dorman wrote:
This is exactly the sort of thing I was thinking of when I sent my
earlier post about the risk of left-right coalitions. The national
interest discourse is poison for the
Rod Hay wrote:
How odd to have a position on something you know nothing about.
Hey, it's pretty standard practice here in the US of A. Clinton started
bombing Yugoslavia before he started "reading up" on the region.
Doug
Sven Robinson is Foreign Affairs Critic of the Federal NDP.
Initially, he and the party supported the bombing.
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in first days/weeks of US/NATO bombing, this list had a lot of
traffic about nationalism, rights to self-determination, Kosovar
Albanians, etc...a topic missing - with a few exceptions - from
discussions about the war is how nationalism is always gendered.
..I'm thinking, for example,
I'm in search for a single piece of information on the Luddites:
Approximate dates during which they were active.
I already have my "position" on their movement which is considerably
more positive than standard mainstream OR "left" positions. I just want
to locate them in the right century!
BLS DAILY REPORT, WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 1999
The composite index of leading economic indicators edged ahead 0.1 percent
in March, buoyed by slower delivery times and still rising stock prices, the
Conference Board, a private research group, reports. The March increase
points to continued healthy
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