'Democratic Money' & the Tragedy of Anti-Marxism (was Re: Populism)

William S. Lear rael at zopyra.com
Sun Nov 14 16:33:37 PST 1999


On Saturday, November 13, 1999 at 12:57:02 (-0500) Yoshie Furuhashi writes:
> .... And it is his anti-Marxism that limits his thoughts. Goodwyn
>says:
>
>***** Because Solidarity stayed alive during the years of martial law,
>and because a man named Brezhnev who put down Solidarity passed off the
>stage of history and another man named Gorbachev who would not put down
>Solidarity came on the stage of history, the leading role of the Party this
>very week is going into the dustbin of history all over Eastern Europe.
>
>What if we were to suggest to the American people that we can't do anything
>about the homeless, we can't attack the crisis in the cities, we can't do
>anything about the inability of the children of unionized workers to own a
>home of their own because America has been sold to foreign creditors,
>because it's being de-industrialized -- we can't do anything about any of
>these matters if we don't democratize the financial system in this country?
>In other words, we can't do anything until we get back to being as advanced
>as we were in 1889 in this city when the subtreasury system was first
>introduced. *****

Is this an example of anti-Marxism? If not, do you have an example you could share?

Bill



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