The comparison I made in the posting is between Clinton and Kerry.
Jon Johanning jjohanning at igc.org, Sat May 15 14:12:50 PDT 2004,
[lbo-talk] Bush as the lesser imperialist evil:
>On Friday, May 14, 2004, at 06:39 PM, Joseph Wanzala wrote:
>>The idea is not that the worse things get the better. It is that we
>>have been stripped of so much that the opportunity cost of
>>reclaiming what we have lost and obtaining what we should have is
>>negligible.
>
>I'm sorry, but I don't understand this economic jargon --
>"opportunity cost," etc. -- so I'm not sure what you are saying.
Translation: The effort it takes to reclaim what the working class have lost and the effort it takes to obtain what we should have is negligible.
John Lacny jlacny at earthlink.net, Sat May 15 07:13:18 PDT 2004,
[lbo-talk] Roy on Indian election:
>As you know, I am a firm advocate of stopping the worst abuses of
>the system, but where I think people like Roy go off the tracks is
>in their elevation of "resistance" into the highest form of
>political activity.
Those who support the Democratic Party and the like to stop "the worst abuses of the system" are thinking in the same way as those who elevate "'resistance' into the highest form of political activity." -- Yoshie
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