Death Penalty

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Max replied to me:
>> I agree with you on everything you guys wrote. I just wonder why death
>> penalty seems to attract even some leftists in America. It's not the same
>> elsewhere, is it? The popularity of death penalty must be related to the
>> popularity of anti-abortion sentiments via
>> moralism/individualism/anti-hedonism routes.
>My impression is that very few on the U.S. left have
>any support for the death penalty.  This dovetails
>with their absolutism on abortion and their general
>isolation from the working class.

Wrong! Abortion used to be more popular and death penalty less so. Compare
their respective popularity rates now, in the 80s, in the 70s, and in the
60s. You'll find that when leftists had mass movement upsurges, abortion
was more popular and death penalty less so. Michael Hoover'll give this
empirical support, I hope, when he gets around to it.

Yoshie