Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Republicans mock everyday people

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Burford
Aggressive contempt is a common feature of right-wing populist politics. Just holding a sense of democratic self-respect is a struggle. The text below, presumably by Obama's aides, seems to me not a bad partial answer to one aspect of that attack. (It is all cheeful fun if you are a competitive "

Re: [Marxism-Thaxis] Ecuador Giving U.S. Air Base the Boot

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Burford
| a new economic reality. With major projects underway in Manta by the | Venezuelan government and a Hong Kong company, the U.S. dollars don't | amount to much. Interesting. Independent of and in addition to, sympathy for the political aims of Venezuela, are we seeing here under later monopolisti

[Marxism-Thaxis] Palin: Queen WASP of the US Bloody Empire

2008-09-05 Thread Charles Brown
Yea, at first I thought there might be something to the analysis of Palin being able to appeal to “regular” folks. But as it sunk in I’m thinking she’s a fake regular folk, and that will come out. She’s also like the Queen of the creatures in the movie “The Alien”, the biggest monster of them all

[Marxism-Thaxis] Republicans mock everyday people

2008-09-05 Thread Charles Brown
Charles -- Why would the Republicans spend a whole night of their convention attacking ordinary people? With the nation watching, the Republicans mocked, dismissed, and actually laughed out loud at Americans who engage in community service and organizing. Our convention was different. We gave t