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1816 [lbo-talk] Re: Ralph Nader, Suicide Bomber -- rank: 472

C. G. Estabrook wrote: >I think the assertion, taken for granted here, that "the election of Bush >would be worse for working-class, poor people and blacks" than that of >Gore, is difficult to prove, at best. During the 80s boom, real hourly wages declined. During the late 80s/early 90s ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed May 5 11:06:32 PDT 2004

1817 Katha Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 472

Katha Pollitt: > > > ... > > > I just think there are some things you can get from electoral > > > politics, and some you can't. rolling back capitalism is not > > > something voting is going to get you. > > > ... Gordon wrote: > >People continue to talk as if voting "gets you" something like > >an outcome (e.g. "Democrats move ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Fri Jul 21 17:11:59 PDT 2000

1818 [lbo-talk] Nader, et al -- rank: 472

On 8/6/07, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: > > > On Aug 6, 2007, at 11:03 PM, Michael Smith wrote: > > >> That's one vote, and heck, the Dems have been ardent warriors since > >> forever. As Bob Dole said, all the wars of the 20th century were > >> Democrat wars, except ...

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Author:	Jeffrey Fisher
Date:	Mon Aug 6 22:00:57 PDT 2007

1819 Katha Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 472

Gordon wrote: >Katha Pollitt: > > ... > > I just think there are some things you can get from electoral > > politics, and some you can't. rolling back capitalism is not > > something voting is going to get you. > > ... > >People continue to talk as if voting "gets you" something like >an outcome (e.g. "Democrats move ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Fri Jul 21 14:36:49 PDT 2000

1820 Katha Pollitt on Nader -- rank: 472

Katha Pollitt: > ... > I just think there are some things you can get from electoral > politics, and some you can't. rolling back capitalism is not > something voting is going to get you. > ... People continue to talk as if voting "gets you" something like an outcome (e.g. "Democrats move to the ...

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Author:	Gordon Fitch
Date:	Fri Jul 21 14:17:29 PDT 2000

1821 [lbo-talk] Green Party on Nader -- rank: 472

In a message dated 12/24/2003 1:29:30 PM Mountain Standard Time, jdevine at lmu.edu writes: > Maybe the Greens don't like the fact that he ran for President a few years > ago as the candidate of the Socialist Workers' Party? > Camejo is incredibly savvy politically, and at ...

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Author:	Stannard67 at aol.com
Date:	Wed Dec 24 12:39:23 PST 2003

1822 Nader -- rank: 472

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998, Justin Schwartz wrote: > > Or that embarrassing half-assed > > presidential campaign in 1996 (which might be partly explained by Ralph's > > reluctance to file financial disclosure forms that would reveal that he > > *is* supported by trial lawyers after all). > > Obviously you think taht being supported by the ...

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Author:	jf noonan
Date:	Wed Jun 10 12:00:13 PDT 1998

1823 [lbo-talk] Greens Reject Endorsement for Ralph Nader -- rank: 472

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Author:	mike larkin
Date:	Sat Jun 26 16:52:59 PDT 2004

1824 [lbo-talk] Chomsky, Zinn and Nader/Camejo -- rank: 472

Brad Mayer wrote: >For those who worship before the mighty phallus of American power: Right. You've nailed it. Do you think this sort of thing is politically constructive? Or does it just make you feel good? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jun 26 10:56:38 PDT 2004

1825 Nader -- rank: 472

> (His organizations are also notorious for not > entering coalitions that they can't dominate and for trying to hog the > limelight.) We've (EPI) worked with them and had no problem. Can't speak for others. MBS

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Author:	Max Sawicky
Date:	Wed Jun 10 12:34:01 PDT 1998

1826 Nader -- rank: 472

Re: >One of his rants before I heard before hitting the off button was about how >utility companies overcharge their customers. Yes, no doubt they do, but is >the most urgent problem facing the U.S. right now overly expensive energy? > >Doug I had thought that one of our big problems ...

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Author:	Brad De Long
Date:	Wed Jun 10 12:07:31 PDT 1998

1827 Nader -- rank: 472

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:45:21 -0400 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> writes: >I know lots of Marxists who leave their >armchairs >to work as union organizers, volunteers in women's shelters, and to do >popular education. A couple of them wrote the platform for the Labor >Party ...

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Author:	unterwelt at juno.com
Date:	Wed Jun 10 05:45:00 PDT 1998

1828 Nader -- rank: 472

> tones in some sort of academic code that no one can understand. > More articulate people than I have beaten up on PoMo, but I'll never pass Bullshit. You are not thinking of a fucking thing except how 21-skidoo it is to use that fresh new phrase, "arm-chair ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Wed Jun 10 13:11:50 PDT 1998

1829 Nader -- rank: 472

On Wed, 10 Jun 1998 15:11:50 -0500 (CDT) Carrol Cox <cbcox at rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> writes: >Bullshit. You are not thinking of a fucking thing except how 21-skidoo >it >is to use that fresh new phrase, "arm-chair marxists." "Fresh new phrase?" Could've fooled me. I ...

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Author:	unterwelt at juno.com
Date:	Wed Jun 10 06:49:04 PDT 1998

1830 US energy bills (was Re: Nader) -- rank: 472

Doug Henwood wrote: > U.S. energy bills aren't "high" by any stretch of the imagination. Well, they are higher than they should be, for all the normal reasons (plus the bungled attempt to build safe, efficient, cheap nuclear plants :-), so they seem to be a decent anti-monopoly target (moreso ...

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Author:	Jordan Hayes
Date:	Wed Jun 10 15:24:09 PDT 1998