Labor Party (was Venezuelan strike beginning to fail)

JBrown72073 at cs.com JBrown72073 at cs.com
Tue Dec 31 10:24:47 PST 2002


David Schanoes writes:
>There is now in the U.S. a labor party called the Labor
>Party which articulates the first step, breaking with the established
>political parties, including Lugar's. Let's all join and develop a
>concrete program for rolling back capitalist globalization. That's my
>plan.
>
>But I'm sure that's already been discussed.

Yeah, check around Oct. 9 '02 in the archives for stuff with Labor Party in the subject line, I know there's a longish back & forth between me and Yoshie, and there's plenty more discussion around it this fall.


>But here's the question that you haven't answered-- when do you give up on


>the lesser evil. Let me answer. You don't ever. Because the point of


>lesser evilism is denial and evasion. Just look at Powell, the general of


>the last war. The general of the invasion of Panama. What are you people


>thinking?

Hey, some of my best friends are liberals. Well, OK, only one. But look, ain't no one in Americay is free of liberalism to some degree, that's not just an external fight. If you only hang out with people you agree with, life would get boring pretty fast. Like having sex with yourself.


>I've been thrown out of better joints, believe me. Usually after closing


>hours.

Hey, where ya going? The party just started. Get yerself something to drink and settle down. It's still many hours till midnight on the US east coast. Happy new year to our Asian & Aussie comrades. Let's make it a damn sight better than the last one, eh?

Jenny Brown

Alachua County Labor Party



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