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Labor Power Tuesday, August 12, 2014 Abolish economics and the Republican Party
by Charles Brown
"Those who the Gods would destroy they first drive mad" . And so it is with today's crazy, jackedoff "GOP" . The satirical zine "The Onion" may have to go out of business, because truth has become stranger than fiction with the Republicans' fascistic war on women , wild white supremacism , and hatred of the 99%.
Yet why are these rich, fat and happy Republicans so desperate ? Why do so many of their leaders , almost daily, take a position on some civic issue that we've known is crazy for 30 years ? I think the ruling class Republicans sense a weakness in their system , in their status as the elite ruling class. The 1% feels vulnerable to the 99% rising for income equality.
And down with the economics profession, for making up stories about trickle down to the poor, and austerity or belt-tightening, for the 99% and "party like it's 1999" for the 1% on Wall Street; and the economists' vampire, PRIVATIZATION.
Abolish economics and the Republican Party ; they are liars and the truth ain't in em.
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> On Jan 23, 2016, at 12:54 PM, "Carrol Cox" <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> It hadn't occurred to me before, but "militant" (or sounding "militant')
> isn't a very useful concept. It deflects from both program and intellectual
> precision or clarity. She of coursed made no references at all at how it
> would work - that would have been silly. I suppose if we made a city more or
> less ungovernable until it closed its jails and took the cops off the street
> they would work out something. Jails & cops are, after all, a rather recent
> phenomenon in human history.
>
> That old demand for "how would you do it" simply kills both thought and
> action.
>
> She did make it clear that prisons as we know them are unacceptable even for
> the really vicious.
>
> Carrol
>
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> Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Angela Davis on Prisons & Police
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>> On Jan 22, 2016, at 11:35 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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>> Some years ago when I proposed the slogan, Abolish the Prison System,
> among
>> the 'rebuttals' was one citing Davis as proposing reforms rather than
>> abolishing.
>>
>> Well. She spoke here tonight, and her first word on prisons was that they
>> could not be reformed; we had to demand their abolition.
>>
>> Ditto for Police.
>
> That sounds very militant. Did she have any more to say about how it would
> work? Because she didn't in her book on the topic.
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