>Who is Joel Kovel and what makes him a better candidate than Ralph
>Nader?
Joel was originally a psychoanaltic psychiatrist who worked at a hospital in the Bronx for years and wrote books like White Racism. A reviewer of that book commented that Joel could use a good dose of Marx, and he took up on that suggestion and fell under the Old Guy's influence. So he's one of those precious folks who work the nexus between the social and psychological, in the spirit of the Frankfurt school (though Joel's not a gloomy mandarin like them). In recent years, he's gone very green too, writing frequently for Capitalism Nature Socialism (that excellent and under-read journal edited by Jim O'Connor & Co.). He ran for Senate in NY State against D'Amato, and he's now challenging Nader in the Calif primary.
Doug