[lbo-talk] The latest Republican offer is that they will allow the government to reopen, if...

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Sun Oct 6 10:57:09 PDT 2013


Marv g: [clip] The best defence of public spending, of course, is to expose the sham accounting which purports to show the state will run out of money to fund social programs, and to point to truly wasteful spending on the corporations and the military. But the governing parties in the US and Europe are all Austerians to greater or lesser degree, and, except perhaps in Greece, there are, alas, no parties of the left anywhere near to displacing them.

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And there never will be such a party in the foreseeable future. That is the reason it is so crucial for (actual) leftists to break the hold of the DP over "leftists" [sic] in the U.S. There is no hope, period, for anything, as long as that grip continues.

Carrol



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