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4171 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:29 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Doug: "I remember that time - it was a sad thing. But my question > about > post-1937 was real - what did happen? Anyone know?" > > [WS:] My inclination is to look into socio-demographic changes > taking place > after WWII (that there was no left mobilization *during* the war is > no-brainer.) Specifically, the dismembering of working class > communities > through suburbanization. Elaine Tyler May ('Homeward ...

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4172 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 2:11 PM, SA wrote: > But I'd swap the 2010 level of worker mobilization for the 1938 > level any day. With or without the 20% unemployment rate? Doug

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4173 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 1:06 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> What happened to political mobilization after the "recession" of >> 1937? > > And what happened to political mobilization after the slump of 1974? I remember that time - it was a sad thing. But my question about post-1937 was real - what did happen? Anyone know? Doug

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 10:40:46 PDT 2010

4174 [lbo-talk] civil liberties today -- rank: 1000

[I interviewed Theoharis, Hashmi's lawyer, and his brother on the radio in July 2008 <http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#080710 >. The outrages continue.] Friends, Please excuse the second email this week. Yesterday, the government issued a motion asking for an anonymous jury and extra security in Fahad Hashmi's trial beginning next Wednesday, citing our recent mobilization and plans to turn-out people to court. (Exhibit A of the government's motion was the 500 at 500 post ...

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4175 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:37 AM, SA wrote: > But my point is, if there hadn't first been a discrediting collapse, > the rebound would have been much less likely to produce that kind of > rebellion. That kind, yes. But the long boom of the 1950s and 1960s produced its own kind of radicalism. And all the activism of the late 1990s came late in a long expansion. What happened to political mobilization after the "recession" of 1937? Doug

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4176 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:26 AM, Shane Mage wrote: > Wasn't it the Governor of Michigan, Frank Murphy, who refused to > bust the Flint strike despite White House pressure to do so? He refused to bust it, but I think FDR resisted his advisors' pressure to lead the way. FDR later appointed Murphy is attorney general. DOug

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4177 [lbo-talk] US v UK -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Richard Seymour wrote: > Oh, but they do, surely? Tory 'progressivism' is drawn straight from > Marvin Olasky's "compassionate conservatism". Bush dropped that early on and you never hear about it anymore. Olasky's name hasn't been in the New York Times since December 2008. Doug

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4178 [lbo-talk] NYC summer sublet -- rank: 1000

A friend is offering to sublet her NYU faculty housing for the summer (June 1-September 1). Great location, large space, all mod cons, $2000/ mo. Let me know if you're interested. Doug

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4179 [lbo-talk] can't afford health care? bring a chicken to the doc's -- rank: 1000

<http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/04/lowden-doubles-down-on-health-care-by-barter.php > Sue Lowden, the front-running Republican challenger to Sen. Harry Reid, yesterday doubled down on her idea that health care could be paid for using the barter system. Last week, when Lowden suggested "that bartering is really good," it seemed that she may have been talking about haggling prices and just had her vocab mixed up. It happens to everyone. But yesterday, on a local news p ...

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4180 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is Dead) -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 10:16 AM, SA wrote: > Doug Henwood wrote: > >> On Apr 21, 2010, at 11:08 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: >> >>> The Great Depression lasted long enough, continuously, that >>> slight improvements in conditions could generate the hope and the >>> rising >>> expectations that are so vital to left movements . >> >> The recovery from 1933 to 1937 was very powerful. The unemployment >> rate fell from over 25% to around ...

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4181 [lbo-talk] US v UK -- rank: 1000

Richard "Lenin's Tomb" Seymour writes: <http://leninology.blogspot.com/2010/04/debating-2010-election.html> "the Tories are partially just doing what they have always done since 1832, in trying to reach out beyond their class base; but that the grammar of Tory 'progressivism' would be incomprehensible were it not for New Labour and its attempt to seize these terms for what is overall a right-wing agenda" Interesting that our Republicans don't feel any need to re-inv ...

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4182 [lbo-talk] more from Martin/Smith on TP -- rank: 1000

In Washington, about 10,000 people showed up on the national Mall last week a rally worth covering but far fewer than the tens of thousands who marched in support of immigration reform in March. If I organized a rally for stronger laws to protect puppies, I would get 100,000 people to Washington, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell cracked on NBC s Meet the Press Sunday. So, I think the media has blown the tea party themselves out of proportion." What s more, the eruption of protest aft ...

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Date:	Thu Apr 22 07:10:42 PDT 2010

4183 [lbo-talk] enough with the Tea Party already -- rank: 1000

[Politico: tomorrow's conventional wisdom today - or maybe this afternoon's, this morning] <http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0410/36185.html> The tea party's exaggerated importance By JONATHAN MARTIN & BEN SMITH | 4/22/10 5:05 AM EDT 2009 was the year when many journalists concluded they were slow to recognize the anti-government, anti-Obama rage that gave birth to the tea party movement. 2010 is the year when news organizations have decided to prove they get it. And get it. An ...

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4184 [lbo-talk] happy birthday... -- rank: 1000

...to V.I. Lenin!

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4185 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is -- rank: 1000

On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:33 AM, brad wrote: > What about the anti-glob movement as an example of one left movement > that > emerged out of the neoliberal era. And Seattle happened in the late 1990s at the crest of the expansion, when the U.S. unemployment rate was at generation lows. And, not unrelatedly, while the n is pretty low, green politics looks to be countercyclical: nothing like excess to make you worry about the earth, and nothing like deprivation to make you want to throw ca ...

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