[lbo-talk] OWS Demands working group: jobs for all!

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Oct 26 11:12:46 PDT 2011


On 10/26/2011 12:31 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 6:16 PM, Mike Beggs<mikejbeggs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> This discussion is well past the point of diminishing returns. But
>> despite our having repeated ourselves many times you are still
>> misunderstanding or misrepresenting our argument.
>
> It's actually that I don't fully buy the argument. And yes, despite
> SA's thinking I'm an idiot, I have researched this, though, perhaps
> symptomatically, I haven't read Kalecki. But I will let it go for now,
> and maybe later, when I have more time and am feeling less snarky,
> I'll get at why I don't agree and why I think full employment is a bad
> strategy to pursue.

Those who have supported it have supported it as a good thing to have. In other words their posts would make sense as testimony before a Congressional Committee -- but that is all. They have NOT said anything at all about strategy or tactics.

Carrol



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