[lbo-talk] a teacher in trouble, reply to Nathan

Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 5 11:28:29 PST 2006


Doug:
> So while it's wonderful that the forces of good won this one, the
> coalition behind it was very broad. An American Prospect
> pre-election piece
<http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewWeb&articleId=10411>
> reports broad support from business groups & moderate Republicans. So
> thanks to Colorado's unions for whatever they did in this fight, but
> they were hardly alone, and not taking any political risks.

there are (at least) two types of victories. There are those against the most blatant irrationality, things that aren't even good for capitalism. For example, even though a lot of capitalist interest groups want us to ignore global warming (uh, I mean "climate change"), avoiding global warming would make life under capitalism more bearable, even for capitalists. These are cases where what's good for capitalism (and those who have no choice but to live under it) is different from what's good for individual capitalists.

Then there are those against capitalism itself, which increase the power of the working class and other groups subordinated and dominated by the system.


>From what I've read, the anti-TABOR victory is of the first type.
TABOR wasn't even good for Colorado capitalism, since it made governing very very difficult, if not impossible. Capitalism needs government, for both protecting and legitimizing capitalist rule.

Sometimes capitalism requires external forces to push for a more rational management of the system. That's what the anti-TABOR victory seems to entail. -- Jim Devine / Bust Big Brother Bush! "Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense." -- Gertrude Stein



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