Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 2:02 PM The Future of the Green Party (it's the Greens for Nader and Green leaders like Peter Miguel Camejo, Matt Gonzalez, Jason West, Ross Mirkarimi, Donna Warren, and others who are the future of the Green Party): -Yoshie sex pistols ranted something about 'no

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Hoover wrote: By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake of most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election. Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as the left wing of the New Deal. In other words, they had the

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 3:02 PM Michael Hoover wrote: By 1936, left congressional candidates were negligible factor in wake of most left-leaning period of New Deal that secured FDR's re-election. Well, this is not quite accurate. Those candidates tended to function as the left wing of the

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 3:56 PM Michael Hoover wrote 36 'left' (note scare quotes, few people realized that party was front for father coughlin)) prez alternative was populist candidacy of union party's william lemke (farmer-labor member of congress from north dakota)... left out of above:

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Michael Hoover wrote: big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as 'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft' left leaders did sign on to become 'junior' partners,

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Michael Hoover
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/15/04 4:02 PM Michael Hoover wrote: big difference between 36 and today re. above is that fdr did court variety of progressive types, in fact, he ran 36 campaign as 'progressive coalition' rather than DP candidacy, number of 'soft' left leaders did sign on to become

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Devine, James
In Chapter six (of Klehr's The Secret World of American Communism), an NKVD document reports... do you trust Klehr? Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine -Original Message- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Louis Proyect
Devine, James wrote: NKVD document reports... do you trust Klehr? On this, I do. It actually undermines Klehr's general point that the CPUSA was subversive. They were as subversive as David Cobb. -- Marxism list: www.marxmail.org

Re: The Future of the Green Party

2004-07-15 Thread Shane Mage
Michael Hoover wrote: ...[in 1936] fdr's biggest fear (not too realistic imo) apparently was that lafollette might be able to bring together progressive/'left' elements... but until a year earlier, when the proverbial lone nut appeared, fdr's biggest, and quite realistic, fear, was that Huey Long