[lbo-talk] Tariq Ali endorses Kerry, denounces Nader

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At 12:12 AM 10/31/2004, Michael Dawson wrote:
>There's a huge difference.  Saying that RN opposes the DP because it stands
>for "corporate socialism" in the way Raimondo puts it, makes RN sound like
>he's against the DP because of the second word, not the first.  RN clearly
>is way closer to a socialist than anything close to getting steady NYT
>coverage right now, and calling him an Old Rightist is just an atrocity
>against the facts.  Two wrongs don't make a right.  RN is a man of the left.
>Anybody who says otherwise is an obfuscator.

RN is against corporate socialism and has written an article called 
"Corporate Socialism" in which he describes how the "government of big 
business, by big business and for big business." has warped a kind of pure 
capitalism. He goes on to write:

""Corporate socialism" -- the privatization of profit and the socialization 
of risks and misconduct -- is displacing capitalist canons. This condition 
prevents an adaptable capitalism, served by equal justice under law, from 
delivering higher standards of living and enlarging its absorptive capacity 
for broader community and environmental values. Civic and political 
movements must call for a decent separation of corporation and state."

I don't see how Raimondo directs the reader to think that Nader is opposed 
to socialism. Ralph _is_ in fact opposed to corporate socialism and he is 
in fact opposed to the DP b/c it enables corporate socialism.

kelley

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