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On 3/11/14 8:17 AM, Marv Gandall wrote:
the extension of the vote and development of the welfare state;
Huh? The last 40 years at least has been about the dismantling of the welfare state. What planet have you been living on? I don't want to deal with countries other than the USA but the crisis of the left has made it easier for the continued erosion of the welfare state (not that preserving it is our ultimate goal). The 1960s left had a nervous breakdown in the 1980s, thinking that the country was ripe for revolution. So instead of coming together around the need to build a radical alternative to the 2-party system that might have led to something long-lasting and powerful, it followed chimeras based on a misreading of socioeconomic realities.
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