[lbo-talk] Thoughts on the Tea Party (and why the Left is

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Apr 22 06:35:40 PDT 2010


On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:33 AM, brad wrote:


> What about the anti-glob movement as an example of one left movement
> that
> emerged out of the neoliberal era.

And Seattle happened in the late 1990s at the crest of the expansion, when the U.S. unemployment rate was at generation lows. And, not unrelatedly, while the n is pretty low, green politics looks to be countercyclical: nothing like excess to make you worry about the earth, and nothing like deprivation to make you want to throw caution to the winds.

Doug



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