[lbo-talk] Singapore

[Carrol Cox]

Doug:  In the US - can't speak for anywhere else - the love of the DP is a
symptom of a barbarically punitive approach to everything. The revival of
the DP in the mid- 
1970s was a sign of a rightward repressive turn, and the fight against it is
a fight for a somewhat more decent society.

Yes.  Part of the definition of a leftist is uncompromising opposition to
the death penalty. It shouldn't even be a subject for debate.

Carrol