right. However, someday we may have a social-democratic government (which is better
than nothing). One thing they should do is impose a tax on advertising. I think it
would be popular.
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: Carrol Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wed 11/12/2003 10:01 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
Subject: Re: [PEN-L] Advertising
Michael Hoover wrote:
>
> u.s. supreme court did not hold advertising ('commercial speech') to
> have first amendment protection until 1970s, court has given good deal
> of attention to matter since then, rulings have indicated that such
> speech is entitled to less protection than political speech, unlikely
> that court regulation of "truthful" and "not misleading" commercial
> speech would survive constitutional challenge... michael hoover
Advertising, dull writing, allegedly illiterate college students, racist
attitudes, ugly buildings spoiling the landscape, reactionary DP
candidates, etc -- instead of complaining we should simply see them the
way (say) Lewis & Clark presumably viewed the Rockies: just part of the
terrain within which we operate. Mere criticism of what is tends to put
the critic in a passive position. I suppose that is acceptable in
journalists, university lecturers, and isolated marxists, but it is
rather beside the point for those who define their function as building
a mass resistance movement -- against the war and the Occupation of Iraq
to begin with, ultimately, if at all successful, for health care,
affirmative action, abortion rights, living wage, etc.
Carrol
