[lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' CARTER

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER
>Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Mon Mar 1 15:22:23 PST 2004
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>>www.tnr.com/docprint.mhtml?i=20040308&s=chait030804
>>THE MYTH OF THE 'GOOD' NADER
>>Make You Ralph
>>by Jonathan Chait
>
>Interesting stuff. He seems seriously nuts, in both the political 
>and psychopathological senses:
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>In 1980, Nader told Rolling Stone, "In the last year we've seen the 
>'corporatization' of Jimmy Carter. Whereas  he was impotent and kind 
>of pathetic the first year and a half, he's now surrendered. ... The 
>two-party system, by all criteria, is bankrupt--they have nothing of 
>any significance to offer the voters, so a lot of voters say why 
>should they go and vote for Tweedledum and Tweedledee." (Liberals 
>today who anguish over Nader's insistence  that no important 
>differences exist between the two parties should note that this 
>belief dates back more than two decades.)

Jimmy Carter = Afghanistan + Paul Volcker

It was "July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive 
for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul" 
("Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski: U.S. President Carter's 
National Security Adviser," _Le Nouvel Observateur_ Jan 15-21, 1998, 
p. 76., 
<http://www.marxists.org/history/afghanistan/archive/brzezinski/1998/interview.htm>). 
Carter made Volcker Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board in August 
1979.

1979 was exactly the right moment for principled non-Marxist leftists 
to give up on the Democratic Party (principled Marxists should never 
have supported the Democratic Party to begin with). . . .

In any case, the 1970s was _the_ turning point for both the 
capitalist and socialist camps, from which we have yet to fully 
recover, politically and economically.
-- 
Yoshie

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