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Forum Post Hahnel: Re: In A Democracy

Forum Post, May, 02 2012 Robin Hahnel
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Yes, the political system is "broke" and "fixed" to serve the interest of the one percent. -- just as the heathcare, educational, financial, and economic systems are. No, the political system is not implementing policies...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Tax and dividend

Forum Post, April, 28 2012 Robin Hahnel
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I should point out that in my posted article I was talking about international climate policy not domestic climate policy. I was explaining why Kyoto -- which is a cap and trade policy, i.e. a policy that puts mandatory caps on country's natio...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Tax and dividend

Forum Post, April, 27 2012 Robin Hahnel
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Tax and dividend is fine. It is important that tax proceeds are used to compensate middle and lower income households for the increase in prices for not only gas and electricity but other energy intensive goods they buy, because puting a price on ...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Solidarity and Revolt

Forum Post, February, 29 2012 Robin Hahnel
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Personally, I have been ready to overthrow US imperialism and replace global capitalism with participatory socialism since 1968. And as soon as there are enough other people who feel likewise to pull it off, I don't want to delay a minute long...

Forum Post Hahnel: Amen

Forum Post, February, 22 2012 Robin Hahnel
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This is an incredibly insightful and constructive commentary. If we all can remember to think like Rebecca we will surely find powerful ways for Occupy to move forward this spring.

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Even Worse...

Forum Post, January, 26 2012 Robin Hahnel
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Yes.... I have dirven rural roads in Pennsylvania. At one point I was commuting between Washington DC and Carlise PA and also visited state Pennsylvania state parks for cross country skiiing. The damage to those fragile roads by trucks is a sig...

Forum Post 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...

Forum Post 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...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Montreal?

Forum Post, July, 12 2011 Robin Hahnel
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Increasingly publishers control both cover design and titles, often not even asking for author input. That is the trend of the mostly sad times we live in. Unfortunately authors' only revenge against an industry that increasi...

Forum Post Hahnel: Class differences between external nd internal devaluation

Forum Post, January, 26 2011 Robin Hahnel
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  Besides the fact that Krugman is no socialist and therefore spends no time thinking about whether or not events may lead Europe in more revolutionary directions, the only place where I think his analysis leaves something important out o...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Insightful! Where is it all leading?

Forum Post, December, 26 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I think your observations are very much on the mark. Economists who identify with the "social structures of accumulation" or SSA school of Marxism have begun to debate this point among themselves. The old SSA assumption was that whate...

Forum Post Hahnel: Insightful! Where is it all leading?

Forum Post, December, 25 2010 Robin Hahnel
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  I think Bello’s analysis above is excellent – as always. What I particularly appreciate is that he does not resort to “capitalism is inevitably plagued by contradictions so that is why the most recent bad outcome occur...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Re: Re: par-partyism?

Forum Post, December, 20 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I don't know squat about the electoral situation in Canada. I should have made this clear in my posting. I was only talking about the US electoral environment. Citizens United v. the Federal Electoral Commission was a recent Supreme Court decisi...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: building social movements vs. agitation for socialism

Forum Post, December, 19 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I should emphasize that I am uncomfortable with this conclusion because I believe that our chief problem is reaching out and attracting support from people who are not anti-capitalists or socialists yet. and who are not ready to respond to a ...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: par-partyism?

Forum Post, December, 19 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I do not have easy access to the internet for the next few weeks, so I can only participate in this conversation briefly. It is interesting that both Tom W. and Matt G. -- both of whom I know and respect -- have responded to my posting  su...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Finance and housing comments + Qs

Forum Post, December, 07 2010 Robin Hahnel
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When I said I was a socialist and supported nationalizing all industries I did not mean I favor Soviet style central planning -- which I never have. Instead I meant that since both economic democracy and economic justice are impossible to ach...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Hot money

Forum Post, November, 15 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Not just this last round of quantitative easing, but the sum total of Fed policies ever since the crisis hit in 2008 has been to drive interest rates down in the US. That means that financial investors, whether looking to make short or long term f...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Re: Growth

Forum Post, November, 09 2010 Robin Hahnel
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I'd be careful before knocking organizing the unemployed. It was one of the most politically effective movements during the Great Depression -- along with a very active anti-foreclosure movement that won major victories. I'd...

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Forum Post, November, 09 2010 Robin Hahnel
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Stefano says: "  I have a doubt on the underlying premise, which is: the economy has to grow, no other alternatives are realistic now." This is a crucial area where "the left" is self-contradictory which makes it very diff...

Forum Post Hahnel: Re: Can the Republicans Deliver the Goods?

Forum Post, November, 09 2010 Robin Hahnel
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The Republican/Tory/EU program of fiscal austerity will aggravate the recession. At a minimum it will usher in a "lost decade" for Europe and and the US economies, similar to the lost decade Japan experienced in the 1990s. If unabated...

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