Re: Re: Re: Socialism American Workers (was Re:ergonomics, etc.)

2001-03-26 Thread Doug Henwood
J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. wrote: I've just been calling for forgetting about 2000. But, just for the record, was it not the case that the CPUSA actually supported voting for Gore? I don't know if they ever actually came out and said that, but in the run-up to the election, the Peoples Weekly

Re: Re: Re: Socialism American Workers (was Re:ergonomics, etc.)

2001-03-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Michael Perelman wrote: Debating who is and is not sectarian is absolutely unproductive. I would like to hear more about the 1982 downturn compared to today. Remember how Volcker was able to turn it around by merely loosening the monetary spigot. Will Greenspan's rate cuts cause a turnaround

Re: Re: Socialism American Workers (was Re:ergonomics, etc.)

2001-03-26 Thread Doug Henwood
Nathan Newman wrote: A lot of people rightly condemned the Dems in the Senate who rolled over on the Bankruptcy Bill, but where was the discussion on designing the best counter-propaganda against the credit card industry? Where were discussions of sample op-eds that could be developed and fact

Re: Re: Socialism American Workers (was Re:ergonomics, etc.)

2001-03-26 Thread Michael Perelman
Nathan, I was at the center of the controversy. Although his staff supported us, Tom Hayden refused to do anything. It was the hearings that you got going that turned the tide. I even had major corporations call me asking what could be done. Nathan Newman wrote: I appreciate that, although

Re: Re: Re: Re: Socialism American Workers (was Re:ergonomics, etc.)

2001-03-26 Thread Michael Perelman
By all means, organize the left. I just don't think that will make much progress organizing on an e-mail list. Nathan Newman wrote: Michael, seriously, why is any of this discussion important if there is no left organization to do something with the analysis? -- Michael Perelman Economics