On Tue, December 2, 1997 at 22:43:23 (+0000) john gulick writes:
>At 07:09 PM 12/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
Who is "you"? Could you insert the person's name to whom you are
responding? It makes following the thread a bit easier.
>>Not all of the Reform Party positions are compatible with
>>progressive populism. But progressive populists ought to work with the
>>Reformers on common issues such as opening the ballot to alternative
>>parties, campaign finance reform, fair trade laws and encouraging small
>>farmers, small businesses and American manufacturing.
>
>Excuse me, but if the "progressive populist" movement has not enough
>moral imagination to oppose free trade agreements and the MAI because
>of the destitution these policies/laws/institutions wreak upon workers
>and peasants in "developing countries," and instead gets all up in arms
>embattled textile firms in the Piedmonts and gracious U.S. "sovereingty,"
>then I don't see much difference between "progressive populism" and
>Buchanan's crypto-fascism, or other crypto-fascisms in Europe.
All this righteous anger might be better directed at someone who
actually does not oppose free trade agreements. From the quote you
are responding to, "you" mentions "fair trade laws", exactly the
opposite (according to my reading of Tom Athanasiou's book) of "free"
trade.
Bill
