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1 [lbo-talk] Obsolescence of third parties in US system -- rank: 149

... for 100 years or more; Bull Moose , Socialist, CP, Progressive, Nader. There is a clear trend for third parties becoming obsolete ...

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Author:	Bill Bartlett
Date:	Wed Jun 8 19:18:06 PDT 2016

2 [lbo-talk] Obsolescence of third parties in US system -- rank: 149

... for 100 years or more; Bull Moose , Socialist, CP, Progressive, Nader. There is a clear trend for third parties becoming obsolete ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Wed Jun 8 07:06:10 PDT 2016

3 [lbo-talk] Bernie Sanders & the Green Party -- rank: 298

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/29/the-push-to-make-sanders-the-green-partys-candidate/ <http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/04/29/the-push-to-make-sanders-the-green-partys-candidate/>The Push to Make Sanders the Green Party's Candidate by <http://www.counterpunch.org/author/dave-lindorff/>Dave ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sat Apr 30 03:08:07 PDT 2016

4 [lbo-talk] Kshama Savant says time has now arrived for Bernie to break with Democrats -- rank: 298

I've actually been thinking of registering as a Democrat for the first time in my life. Looking at the success that Bernie is enjoying makes me think that is the place to be, for now. I don't get those Marxists who argue for supporting the Green Party as a ...

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Author:	Michael Brennan
Date:	Thu Apr 21 18:13:43 PDT 2016

5 [lbo-talk] Kshama Savant says time has now arrived for Bernie to break with Democrats -- rank: 298

... doubt such a campaign would far surpass the effort by Nader and Camejo in 2004 because of the much changed economic ... talking about a very small slice of the electorate: the Nader-Camejo campaign only garnered 0.38% of the popular vote ... The same fear that made Democrats and independents who admired Nader s progr

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Thu Apr 21 16:07:11 PDT 2016

6 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat -- rank: 472

Negative dialectic: exactly wrong. CC is like a photograph negative. Print out the truth as an exact opposite of what he says. Or invert his inversion as with a _camera obscura_. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 26, 2016, at 8:01 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote: > > Browsing ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Mar 27 10:00:23 PDT 2016

7 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat -- rank: 568

Nader finally gets it. Go Bernie ! Sent from my iPhone > On ... 32 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand2 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ralph Nader on the futility of running as a third party candidate ... major parties: I was wrong and Bernie Sanders is right . > > Nader argues on the basis of his own experience that tens ... debates, widely covered and commented on by the mainstream media , Nader argues. Sanders has demonstrated the relative weakness of the corporate ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Sun Mar 27 09:55:34 PDT 2016

8 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat -- rank: 568

... 3/26/16 9:32 AM, Marv Gandall wrote: > Ralph Nader on the futility of running as a third party candidate ... the piece linked to. Here are a few things that Nader does write: "Given another chance, I still wouldn t run ... if its corporatist core has abandoned his New Deal priorities." Nader doesn't mention that New Deal priorities were abandoned by ...

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Author:	Michael Smith
Date:	Sat Mar 26 19:45:24 PDT 2016

9 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat -- rank: 472

Browsing through some 18 years of lbo-posts, it seems to me that, overwhelmingly, the discussions (including my own posts) have grossly underestimated (a) the resiliency and power of capitalism/capital and (b0 its destructiveness. And I think lbo-talk has been (perhaps still is) a trustworthy microcosm of left thought ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sat Mar 26 17:01:42 PDT 2016

10 [lbo-talk] Ralph Nader: Why Bernie Sanders was right to run as a Democrat -- rank: 552

Ralph Nader on the futility of running as a third party candidate ... major parties: I was wrong and Bernie Sanders is right . Nader argues on the basis of his own experience that tens ... debates, widely covered and commented on by the mainstream media , Nader argues. Sanders has demonstrated the relative weakness of the corporate ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sat Mar 26 06:32:03 PDT 2016

11 [lbo-talk] Dean Baker: Paul Krugman, Bernie Sanders, and the Fed -- rank: 149

... left-wing anti-Fed that includes everyone from Kucinich to Nader?" Joel On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 10:41 AM ...

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Author:	Joel Schlosberg
Date:	Fri Feb 12 20:59:52 PST 2016

12 [lbo-talk] [Pen-l] Syriza's Tsipras offers reassurances -- rank: 149

Marv G writes: " None of these reform measures, though admittedly bold, can be described as revolutionary both given the context and in that they don t fundamentally alter the structure of capitalist power or property. In fact, their effect would be to place capitalism on a more solid foundation at a ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Fri Nov 7 15:02:58 PST 2014

13 [lbo-talk] Doug, on Salon -- rank: 149

Doug: ""The American elite has lost control," and may not rein in the Tea Party, economic analyst Doug Henwood warns Salon" [WS:] An interesting piece, indeed. The question that I have is "what is the mechanism that caused the American elite to lose control?" The moral rot that you mention may ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Oct 14 06:23:24 PDT 2013

14 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on George Caffentzis' article (Petros Evdokas) -- rank: 235

From: Petros Evdokas <petros at cyprus-org.net> On 24-Mar-13 7:40 PM, Mitchel Cohen wrote: > *Those Not Busy Born are Busy Dying All in all it's a very good piece. Below I noted some themes that need exploring, rethinking, correcting. Many of the other items and elements ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Tue Mar 26 11:06:23 PDT 2013

15 [lbo-talk] Thoughts on George Caffentzis' article -- rank: 149

Those Not Busy Born are Busy Dying BY MITCHEL COHEN George Caffentzis draws an interesting dichtomy between workers and debtors and lays out some of the antinomous implications of each, when it comes to "what to do" (George Caffentzis, "Debt and/or Wages: Organizing Challenges", Tidal, Feb 2013). A parallel way ...

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Author:	Mitchel Cohen
Date:	Sun Mar 24 10:40:18 PDT 2013