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Wallerstein: "The Social-Democratic Illusion"
Commentary, September, 20 2011
Immanuel Wallerstein
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Social-democracy promised an ever-better future for future generations
Hahnel: Re: Re: Kudos
Forum Post, September, 20 2011
Robin Hahnel
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Clearly Steve and I are in close agreement on pretty much everything. I will read his more extensive post on strategy, but can already tell from his synopsis above that I will find myself mostly in agreement. I actually cannot guess which of th...
Davidson: Re: Re: There is no 'The Left'
Forum Post, September, 20 2011
Carl Davidson
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I think your target is too wide. 'Anti-corporate' or 'anti-capitalist' mean you're taking on all your adversaries at once. Better to segment the business community into productive vs speculative capital, then 'high-road...
Emersberger: Re: Re: Let's consider an example
Forum Post, September, 20 2011
Joe Emersberger
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Thanks for the reply Steve: You worte "I'm not exactly sure what you're asking about how the Left might react to such a proposal, as compared to how it might react to the proposal to privatize it. In any case, as you yourse...
D'Arcy: Re: Kudos
Forum Post, September, 20 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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Hi Robin, Thanks for your kind comments and the important and interesting questions you raise. First, I would like to underline the fact that this piece is a sort of programmatic sketch of a general approach to thinking about how the Left should...
D'Arcy: Re: There is no 'The Left'
Forum Post, September, 19 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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Hi Carl, I don't really approve of your suggestion to classify Left formations based primarily (exclusively?) on their attitude toward the Democratic Party. For one thing, the Democratic Party is explicitly a big business party, and I advocat...
D'Arcy: Re: Let's consider an example
Forum Post, September, 19 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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Hi Joe, The reform you propose would create a type of partial worker/community control over the CBC. In my way of thinking, it would not really be a fully 'statist' type of institution, any longer, in the sense that it would essentially h...
Hahnel: Kudos
Forum Post, September, 18 2011
Robin Hahnel
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Kudos to Steve for an excellent post. This is the kind of serious thinking those of us who consider ourselves to be leftists need more of. I particularly appreciate: Pointing out that the only useful reasons for our weakness worth focus...
Camfield: Should Radicals Care About Unions?
Znet Article, September, 17 2011
David Camfield
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So long as workers use unions to act together against employers and governments, they will be important for any hope of deep-rooted social change
Davidson: There is no 'The Left'
Forum Post, September, 16 2011
Carl Davidson
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First, in trying to deal with this problem, it's useless to start talking about 'The Left.' There is no such thing in any meaningful way. There are dozens of left organizations, all quite different, and many with mutually exclusive str...
Leahy: Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security
Znet Article, September, 16 2011
Stephen Leahy
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German scientists pointed to yet another smoking gun of climate change: the Arctic sea ice reached a new historic minimum ice extent
Shepherd: Jimmy
Forum Post, September, 16 2011
Lester Shepherd
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Jimmy Carter is constantly laughed at and ridiculed by right wing America and Alabama rednecks, who are about as stupid and hateful toward blacks as you can get. However, he was the ONLY President to recognize Global warming as the supreme t...
D'Arcy: A Civil Society Strategy for Revitalizing the Left
Znet Article, September, 15 2011
Steve D'Arcy
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The Left must turn its attention back toward civil society: union locals, cooperatives, social movement organizations, mutual aid projects, popular assemblies
Emersberger: Let's consider an example
Forum Post, September, 15 2011
Joe Emersberger
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Hi Steve You wrote “…the Left must aim to replace both the profit-motivated private sector economy and the bureaucratically administered public sector economy, in favor of a community-based, democratic and egalitarian post-capital...
Tatsuo: new tactic
Forum Post, September, 15 2011
Miyachi Tatsuo
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1.There are only two method to change capitalist society. One is to take over the means of production occupied by bourgeois class. The latter is to refuse to work under capitalist society. The former is fundamental concept of Marxist, and it ach...
Klein: Debunking "Ethical Oil" at Tar Sands Action
Video, September, 09 2011
Naomi Klein
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Naomi Klein gave the following speech at the Tar Sands Action in Washington DC on September 3, 2011. Special thanks to Dahlman Cook Productions
Baker: The Canadian Oil Pipeline
Znet Article, September, 03 2011
Dean Baker
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This Canadian oil would increase greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent over the use of other types of oil
Solnit: Hope: The Care and Feeding Of
Znet Article, August, 02 2011
Rebecca Solnit
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We just need to be better at seeing what is already magnificent and heroic
Rosenfeld: Workers’ Assemblies: A Way to Regroup the Left?
Znet Article, July, 30 2011
Herman Rosenfeld
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Creating a new and different kind of working class organizational form was seen as a way to get beyond some of the limitations of trade unions
Bond: Fighting the Minerals-Petroleum-Coal Complex’s Wealth and Woes in Durban
Commentary, July, 20 2011
Patrick Bond
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With extreme weather events worsening in recent months, who can doubt the imperative to get a fair, ambitious and binding deal?
