On Sun, 25 Nov 2007 15:46:21 -0500 Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
writes:
>
> On Nov 25, 2007, at 1:59 PM, Chris Doss wrote:
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> > --- Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> > Bob Malecki ... actually
> >> debated the Swedish PM on Swedish radio,
> >
> > You're kidding, right?
>
> No, really. Malecki got designated the official spokesman of the
> Swedish poor or something. Such is hegemony.
I don't have the imagination to make up something so wildly improbable. It really did happen.
Checking the archives of Thaxis, I found that Bob debated former Prime Minister Persson back in August 1998, see:
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-August/010969.ht ml http://lists.econ.utah.edu/pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-August/011005.ht ml
>
> Malecki allegedly got radicalized by a single leaflet, became an
> anti-
> Vietnam War activist, got busted for trying to blow up a power plant
>
> in Cleveland, and ran off to Sweden (with the defense fund his
> comrades had raised). His ezine, Cockroach, is still up on the web:
>
> <http://www.algonet.se/~malecki/>
>
> Doug
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