On Dec 16, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Eric Beck wrote:
> Those things rearrange who is poor; they don't eliminate poverty,
> which will always exist under capitalism. I thought only liberals
> believed otherwise?
They sure can reduce it. The U.S. poverty rate is 3-4 times Sweden's. This would be a better place if we had fewer poor people.
>> How do you fight a war on "structural racism"?
>
> Abolition of prisons would be a good start....
Funny, Angela Davis' elaboration of that agenda sounded pretty indistinguishable from the social democratic program I just alluded to. Does that make her a liberal too?
Doug