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I just launched the following MOVE-ON petitiion -- (pretty tame but we need to stop the bastard in his tracks!) https://petitions.moveon.org/create_finished.html?petition_id=146162 On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 12:17 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Michael Bloomberg, who has personal wealth in excess of 47 billion > dollars (15 times that of Schultz), is also considering running for > President in 2020 but as a Democrat, unlike Schultz. But like Schultz, > he is kept up at night cowering under his blanket from the bogeyman > Elizabeth Warren. With regard to her wealth tax, he told reporters: “We > need a healthy economy, and we shouldn’t be embarrassed about our > system. If you want to look at a system that’s non-capitalistic, just > take a look at what was once, perhaps, the wealthiest country in the > world, and today people are starving to death. It’s called Venezuela.” > > I doubt that Bloomberg ever read Karl Marx but anybody who has concluded > that there was socialism in Venezuela must have been reading Jacobin > rather than V. 1 of Capital. > > I worked on a project to automate the branch office of Salomon Brothers > in London for Bloomberg back in 1975. When a co-worker learned that I > was assigned to the project, she gave me a sour face. What’s wrong, I > asked? She basically described the kind of person #MeToo would have > protested back then if it had existed. On the trading floor at Salomon, > there was a Latina secretary who used to deliver coffee to the traders. > My co-worker, an African-American woman named Barrie, told me that as > the secretary made her way across the floor, he would yell out “Look at > the tits on that broad” or words to that effect. Last September, the > Atlantic reported on “‘I’d Do Her’: Mike Bloomberg and the Underbelly of > #MeToo” that makes clear nothing has changed with him: > > From 1996 to 1997, four women filed sexual-harassment or > discrimination > suits against Bloomberg the company. One of the suits included the > following allegation: When Sekiko Sakai Garrison, a sales representative > at the company, told Mike Bloomberg she was pregnant, he replied, “Kill > it!” (Bloomberg went on, she alleged, to mutter, “Great, No. 16”—a > reference, her complaint said, to the 16 women at the company who were > then pregnant.) To these allegations, Garrison added another one: Even > prior to her pregnancy, she claimed, Bloomberg had antagonized her by > making disparaging comments about her appearance and sexual > desirability. “What, is the guy dumb and blind?” he is alleged to have > said upon seeing her wearing an engagement ring. “What the hell is he > marrying you for?” > > > https://louisproyect.org/2019/02/05/the-dark-night-of-the-soulless-bourgeoisie/ > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/mameerop%40gmail.com _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
