anti-Ralph petition

[Kevin Quinn]

At 10:38 AM 11/2/00 -0800, you wrote:
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> CONCERNED SCHOLARS, WRITERS AND ACTIVISTS 2000
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>  >>We, the undersigned, are appalled at the continuing national
> campaign by Ralph Nader and the Green Party.
> Signatories (list in formation)
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> Benjamin Barber, Rutgers University
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>Now this is depressing. Barber wrote in Strong Democracy:
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>"The corporation is incompatible with freedom and equality, whether these
>are construed individually or socially. Like the night in which all cows are
>black, it obliterates the distinction between private and public...it sees
>the common talk and common action...of the strong democrat as a grave peril
>to its orderly world of clients, profits and planning. It is the enemy of
>democracy in all its forms. While the arid debate about capitalism and
>socialism goes on, the corporation prospers...If the corporation is not to
>defeat democracy, then democracy must defeat the corporation...Democracy
>proclaims the priority of the political over the economic; the modern
>corporation rebuts that claim by its very existence. [p 256-257]
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>Isn't this precisely what Nader's been talking about for all these years?
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>  ? Well if we should vote for someone we agree with most, why don't we
all just vote for ourselves? Barber obviously believes, without any
inconsistency, that the promotion of those views that he and Ralph agree
on--which I'm sure haven't changed--is better served by keeping Bush out. I
agree with him.