[lbo-talk] Republicans want recessions

Jean-Christophe Helary brandelune at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 14:38:51 PST 2015



> On Feb 4, 2015, at 07:15, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>> Increasingly the latter more than the former, as the party dropped its
>> labor/social democratic side in favor of courting professional-managerial
>> class suburbanites
>
>
> That seems to be a broader trend elsewhere in Europe, no? "Old" left
> parties converting to neoliberalism to court techno-managerial voters and
> selling the working class down the river to fascists and nationalists.

That sounds like the PS, although its members were historically mostly composed of local elected officials and public employees.

JC



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