Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done?

Brad DeLong delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU
Sun Jan 14 08:17:19 PST 2001



>Why the Left Always Loses: What is to Be Done?
>by Jonathan Feldman
>JonathanMFeldman at hotmail.com
>
>
>Nader's candidacy and the recent anti-globalization protests are certainly
>meaningful beginnings for creating a kind of operational response to the
>various problems that plague us.

Ummm... 3% of the vote is a very *bad* showing for a third-party candidate in America. Nader wanted to demonstrate the strength of the left without throwing the election to Bush. He failed on both counts...

Brad DeLong -- ----------------------------------- J. Bradford DeLong Department of Economics, U.C. Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-3880 delong at econ.berkeley.edu http://www.j-bradford-delong.net/ ----------------------------------- "In one way only can we influence these hidden currents-by setting in motion those forces of instruction and imagination which change opinion. The assertion of truth, the unveiling of illusion, the dissipation of hate, the enlargement and instruction of men's hearts and minds, must be our means..."

--John Maynard Keynes



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