And there would be a mass constituency for all three of Jenny's programmatic points as well. (Though I'd call the first "Medicare for All" and there are any number of pithy ways to frame the third, though the ones that occur to me aren't printable.) So where do we start organizationally? Does DSA push this within the Democratic Party? Do the sane groups to the left of DSA (they do exist) push this to the small extent they are able? Do we work within labor unions to make this the core of their political agenda? Do we try to refound the Labor Party with these three points as its agenda?
MM
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Jenny Brown <jbrown72073 at cs.com> wrote:
>> i don't follow the news about this. could you at least fill me in on
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> good things obama has done?
>
> To me, unalloyed goods: The appointments of Hilda Solis at Labor and in
> particular Margaret Hamburg for FDA Commissioner, a sane public-health
> oriented scientist, after the series of shills and buffoons that have
> inhabited that office for at least the last eight years. That appointment
> could save lots of lives.
>
> Now to win things that directly gore big capital--single-payer health care,
> Employee Free Choice Act, financial re-regulation--we really need a labor
> party, or the threat of an international good example, probably both.
>
> Jenny Brown
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