The left: still dying (was Re: European Unions)

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue Apr 10 14:12:50 PDT 2001


At 11:21 AM 4/10/01 -0400, Charles wrote:
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>>>> seamus2001 at home.com 04/09/01 06:42PM >>>
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>> >RB
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>> Take it from me, Jan -- er, RB -- Marx was the last lefty to furrow a brow
>> in a boardroom.
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>> Carl
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>> ((((((((((
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>> CB: I usually agree with Carl, but the last one to really make the
bourgeoisie
>worry was Lenin.
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>Debs, to a lesser extent, to be sure.
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>Ian
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>CB: That's why Mr. Justice Holmes, the great civil libertarian, and the
crew on the Supreme Court, found in the very first cases on the First Amendment, that Debs and other socialists were not protected by it when speaking out against workers marching into their own slaughter in WWI .

Do not forget Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro who effectively held the hordes of US capitalism at bay.

wojtek



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