In today's _NYT_ there is a full-page ad run by the faction of the
Sierra Club which wants the Sierra Club to endorse immigration
restrictions. Obviously anyone and everyone on this list knows how
bogus and malevolent (whether consciously racist or not) their
arguments connecting immigration
G'day Penners,
Believe it or not, Oz is actually an interesting place to be just now.
Some things remain the same (whilst most people you meet are far from
openly racist, the political culture of the place still oppresses
Aboriginees much more than occurs in Canada or the US) and some things are
I know you'll appreciate being apprised of this sterling speculative
scholarship ASAP. Lately I've been exploring some of the Net's
storefronts and back streets; I doubt you'd find better than this.
As you peruse this latest version of the world's longest-running soap,
ask yourself how the
The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with
an electoral manifestaion as opposed to
Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is
embarassing.) It is the difference in the electoral systems.
Ideological political parties are produced by electoral
. . .
Agreed, California might be more ethnically diverse than any other state in
the US, but that does not explain why class politics did not develop in,
say, Massachussetts, Wisconsin or Kentucky. The point I am making is that
while the US as a whole migh be diverse, individual regions
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The DNC, while chagrined that it cannot compete w/the RNC, happily
announced that it raised $ 12 million towards its war chest, helping
to eradicate some of its 1996 campaign debt.
I don't think that we are making much headway here. Max and Nathan approve of the
Dem's strategy. Others don't. The proof:
I challenge anybody to show that I have said
anywhere that "I approve of the Dem's strategy."
First of all, there is no "Dem's strategy."
There is no "Dem's," and
G'day Penners,
Believe it or not, Oz is actually an interesting place to be just now.
No doubt. One thing I'm hearing more about from
my dear friends at the Heritage Foundation is the
great experiment in privatization of social
insurance in Australia enacted by your blessed
social
The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with
an electoral manifestaion as opposed to
Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is
I think this is a good point, though your
confidence in its veracity is a little
breath-taking. I would note that
Capitalist Guatemala's oppression of the Indian majority population has
many similarities with Peru's. The Spanish invaders conquered Mayan Indians
in Guatemala and Incas in Peru. Afterwards they introduced a feudal system
whose trappings lingered on long after the introduction of capitalist
Doug,
Your pal over at Grant's is famous for two things: being a genius and
being wrong about the markets consistently for the past five years. Live and
learn, Doug, the truth is what the bourgeoisie makes it.
peace
Barron's Online -- April 13, 1998
Ties Among Corporate Directors:
The Missing Link to CEOs' Fatter Pay
By GENE EPSTEIN
Some corporate CEOs are paid too much. We all know that.
But in an era where just about everything else has been
downsized at least once, why have the paychecks of even
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Fine, anyone who has ever spent a month in Europe can dig PJ's meaning,
but so what? If our guardian angel waved her remote tuner and magically
produced a parliamentary system, given the nutbar of obsessions stalking
our fractured so-called society there would be more single-issue
From Jim D. (no slouch himself in the word-count
department),
Max writes: I'd say what caused it to break down was, among otherthings,
that the Democrats promoted the interests of blacks without due attention
to working class interests in general.
Do you have any evidence of this?
My god, way back in the mid-1980's _Ron Brown_ was the DNC chair, before
the DLC took over the Democratic Party from the alliance of Cold War
Keynesians (like Humphrey and Mondale) and Dixiecrats.
The DLC doesn't control the party. It doesn't
even control its own members. The DLC meets a
I'm forwarding the following article by Michael Albert. It strikes me that in
these times any new idea about building a mass left organization is worth
considering. Any comments?
Organization to Liberate Society? (May issue of Z magazine)
By
In a message dated 98-04-10 17:10:37 EDT, max writes:
Feel free
to regale him with your pet nostrums of vegetarian
leninism ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
ah, but can we regale him with vegetarian stalinism? inquiring minds want to
know. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By all means, let a
PJM writes:
The answer as to why class politics did not emerge in the US with
an electoral manifestation as opposed to
Europe is SIMPLE. (Skocpol's analysis is so beside the point it is
embarrassing.) It is the difference in the electoral systems.
He then proceeds with a cogent explanation
On Sat, April 11, 1998 at 00:30:00 (+) john gulick writes:
...
and an investment baking company
No doubt involved in shaky croissant loans to the third world.
Bill
I know that our anointed facilitator wants to end this discussion, but
I could not help noticing that the following item appeared in today's
_NYT_.
The DNC, while chagrined that it cannot compete w/the RNC, happily
announced that it raised $ 12 million towards its war chest, helping
to eradicate
In a message dated 98-04-10 17:10:37 EDT, max writes:
Feel free
to regale him with your pet nostrums of vegetarian
leninism ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
ah, but can we regale him with vegetarian stalinism? inquiring minds want to
know. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
G'day Michael,
I don't think that we are making much headway here. Max and Nathan approve
of the Dem's strategy. Others don't.
In Oz, the law requires that we vote (a good idea, I think - imagine how
different US history might have been) - anyway, it has been some time since
I've voted with
G'day Penners,
Speaking of jargon, Dennis, what's a "punter"?
A Wall Street professional, a.k.a. stock broker (that restrained, sober
term for silicon highway robbery). Any etymological-minded political
economists out there know if this was originally a Victorian
word or what?
Appears in both
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