Thanks for the information. Good luck with your dissertation. I wrote mine shortly before the Great Flood!
Cheers, k hanly
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--- On Thu, 9/17/09, Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Mike Beggs <mikejbeggs at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] something good to read
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009, 8:09 PM
> On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 2:07 AM, ken
> hanly <northsunm at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> > An interesting article. Who is Mike Beggs. A Google
> search gave all sorts of people but none sound like the
> author of this article!
>
> Yeah I'm not the Canadian music critic, nor the mercenary
> in
> Afghanistan, nor the St Louis chiropractor. Just a man with
> a dream!
> There's an 'about' page at the blog but all it says is that
> I'm a
> doctoral student at the University of Sydney and that's all
> there is
> to it really! The piece was written for a discussion
> newsletter for a
> nascent 'rethinking the left' group that started up here a
> few months
> ago. It's an ecumenical group from various backgrounds
> meeting once a
> month to discuss various topics on Australian society - I
> picked up
> social democracy, but we've also had 'the Australian
> working class and
> unions', 'new social movements', 'the crisis' and so on. A
> week before
> each meeting the newsletter comes out, and it's also a
> vehicle for
> ongoing back-and-forth responses to previous topics. No
> e-list
> discussion so it all happens in slow motion, at strict word
> limits,
> which has been interesting. Who knows what will come of
> it.
>
> Cheers,
> Mike
> scandalum.wordpress.com
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