I put Charlie into a spam filter so his stuff doesn't come within my radar screen unless someone includes his email in a reply.
But it is interesting to see him coming out as a Senderista. I suppose this makes sense given his hard-core Stalinism. After all, we have Joe Stalin to blame for the Popular Front that turned the CPUSA into a wing of the Democratic Party. On 3/3/16 8:56 PM, Anthony D'Costa wrote: > I think my point is being misconstrued as anti-Bernie, far from it. I > simply echoed that Danish welfare as it stands is pretty racist, thanks > to Pia and her ilk. I am not even sure where Trotsky fits into all of > this and why stupid people should be clubbed together:) And yes, Denmark > has it right but I will say it is a utopian fantasy for the US to mimic > Denmark. Start working with what will it take to have a Denmark in the > US in terms of tax increases. So late in the game we talk about $15 > hourly wage that too gradual increase over a few years, a good beginning > no doubt but what will it take to get it to 18-20 dollars an hour? > Australia (not Scandinavia) already has it and they pay for it with > taxes and so does Denmark. May be the US federal system should be > thoroughly decentralized and each state should have the power to > introduce its own welfare system. It might be easier to do it on a > smaller scale and then Bernie will have a chance. But then the US isn't > breaking up, is it? Being from Washington state there is not even a > state income tax! So what is to be done? > > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies > Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences > University of Melbourne, 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA > Ph: +61 3 9035 6161, http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ > <https://owa.unimelb.edu.au/owa/redir.aspx?C=KGdpeyp6YEyjUaiENKoAtx8nOn9uStAIlCVtCNE3uLxqkGIwkWdEYjJXILfPlddrM0Q1713syQQ.&URL=http%3a%2f%2fwww.aii.unimelb.edu.au%2f> > > Podcast: > https://theconversation.com/speaking-with-anthony-dcosta-on-the-challenges-facing-indias-economy-43913 > CONFERENCE: > http://idsk.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Instruments-of-Intervention_prog_abstract_final.pdf > <http://idsk.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Instruments-of-Intervention_prog_abstract_final.pd> > *Just Out Book: **https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415564953* > *New Book: *After-Development Dynamics (on South Korea) > http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198729433.do > > *New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development)* > *http://www.springer.com/series/13342 > * > xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Charlie <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Scandinavia and the UK enjoyed a degree of security in life thanks to > retirement, health, and social welfare programs since World War Two or > earlier. On the other hand, racist xenophobia began to swell in Europe > about 15 or 20 years ago. Robert is right about this: fusing old and new > to criticize Sanders as reactionary is blatant illogic. So much for the > Trotskyite claim to be aware of change, opposed processes, and > dialectics. > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > > > > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
