> From: Gar Lipow <lipowg at sprintmail.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 02:16:39 -0700
> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject: Re: for NYC lbo-heads
>
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 18:20:13
> Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com> wrote
>>
>> Hey lbo-talkers,
>> I conceived - and organized - the event below, and Doug is moderating it.
>> Being a red entrepreneur himself and all. It should be great fun, and we'd
>> love to see you there. Bring friends, and difficult questions!
>
> One question (from a non-NY person).
>
> If you are talking anti-Capitalist Entrepreneurs, maybe you should try
> and get someone from the co-op movement? If you are going to run a left
> business, you do want to avoid replicating the boss-worker relationship
> of capitalism to the extent that it is practical. (And practicality does
> set very definite limits.)
>
>
>>
>> Liza
>>
>>
>> Thursday, October 17
>> 7:30 pm
>>
>> FORUM
>>
>> Anti-Capitalist Entrepreneurs
>>
>> Radicalism in the Marketplace
>>
>> Jeff Ballinger, Colin Robinson & Others TBA
>>
>> Radicals are right to be skeptical about the notion of =B3corporate
>> responsibility=B2 - after all, union-busters from Ben & Jerry's to Wal-Mart
>> have claimed to be =B3doing well by doing good.=B2 But does that mean
>> leftists
>> should avoid business enterprise altogether?
>>
>> Some say no. "Socialist Entrepreneurship," a term borrowed from Kevin
>> Danaher of Global Exchange, reflects a belief that radical projects should
>> be self-sustaining, and even profitable. After all, how do most progressive
>> organizations survive? Some rely on the goodwill of generous (rich)
>> individuals. Others get cozy with foundations, often compromising their
>> radical ideals to accommodate ruling class notions of =B3social change.=B2
>> =B3Socialist Entrepreneurship=B2 rejects these dysfunctional relationships,
>> instead asserting that by engaging the marketplace, we can change it. Is
>> that possible? Can we fight capitalism by becoming capitalists?
>>
>> Speakers will include Colin Robinson, longtime publisher of profitable
>> anti-capitalist books (first at Verso and now the New Press), and Jeff
>> Ballinger, a leading anti-sweatshop activist and co-founder of No Sweat
>> Apparel, which will sell clothing made by workers in independent unions
>> around the world. The discussion will be moderated by Doug Henwood, editor
>> of the Left Business Observer and author of Wall Street: How it Works and
>> for Whom?=20
>>
>> Socialist/Capitalist Sliding Scale: $6/$75/$150
>>
>>
>> =A0 122 West 27th Street, New York, NY 10001 - info at brechtforum.org
>
>