At 10:56 AM 1/10/01 -0500, you wrote:
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>Published on Sunday, January 7, 2001 in the Boston Globe
>Our New Corporate Republic
>by James K. Galbraith
>Further, Democrats must adapt to the new pollitics that emerged from this
election. Outside of Florida, and facing a Southern Republican, the
Democrats can't win the South. But they have excellent prospects of
consolidating a narrow majority of the Electoral College - so long as, in
the next election, there is no Ralph Nader defection.
I hate this fucking punk Jamie Galbraith. When I was assigned to the
Harvard Student Mobilization Committee in 1971 as a kind of political
commissar to the Trotskyist youth, we had to deal with an attempted liberal
coup led by Galbraith. (I was working at First National Bank of Boston and
wearing suit and ties by day and jeans and sweatshirt by night. The FNB rep
in Argentina had been kidnapped by Mandelistas in Argentina. I had to point
out to my co-workers that I was not connected to them, although I really
was. At least for the time being.)
Galbraith said that it was not sufficient to march against the war. We had
to elect "peace" candidates. Basically he wanted the SMC to become a kind
of auxiliary to the campus Young Democrats. We had a big mass meeting and
we argued them down.
Galbraith, like his old man, can not understand the STRUCTURAL causes of
capitalist crisis. Our tasks as Marxists is to explain this crisis as
rooted in the mode of production and lead people to draw revolutionary
conclusions. Each day I look around at the mounting signs of crisis and can
only conclude that each of us must draw upon inner reserves in a way that
has not been necessary or possible in the past 50 years at least. That is
the reason that it is important for HARD-CORE (as in X-rated) Internet
forums such these to exist.
Louis Proyect
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