On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 08:58 PM, Mark Baugher wrote:
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>> Charlie wrote:
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>> Taking the heads of major trade unions as representing the state of class
>> consciousness?!!!
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> Weren't they elected?
Yes, though some are first appointed as staff reps eligible to run for elected
office hig
Hari, thank you for those quotes.
The public debt has always been the way capitalist (and pre-capitalist, I
would say) nations financed war, exploration and conquest in general.
What changed in the period of the 1930s was the idea that if the "people"
controlled the government, they could use the
Hello Michael:
1) I do not know the name Stephanie Kelton.
But were not Robert Reich and Paul Krugman always going on about how the
"deficit mountain" was not only irrelevant but was over-magnified as a threat?
Am I wrong in this recall?
Don't they count as 'Democrat' advisers etc? Regardless -
But even when Democratic Presidents run deficits they try to reduce them
--- HELL< even Biden has emphasized the on his watch the deficit has come
down --- Obama permitted the Republicans to force him to institute a
sequester which cut the deficit dramatically --- thereby slowing the
recovery and i
> On Jul 13, 2024, at 2:03 PM, Charlie via groups.io
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> Taking the heads of major trade unions as representing the state of class
> consciousness?!!!
Weren't they elected?
Mark
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> On Jul 13, 2024, at 1:24 PM, Michael Meeropol via groups.io
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> the Democrats so quickly embraced "fiscal responsibility" in the demonization
> of deficits ---
Are you talking about Clinton? No other Democratic Party president balanced
the budget. Stephanie Kelton, a Democrati
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 02:03 PM, Charlie wrote:
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> Marv Gandall wrote:
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>> Such is the current state of working class political consciousness in the
>> US and other advanced capitalist countries.
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> Taking the heads of major trade unions as representing the state of class
> consciousness?!!
On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 03:48 PM, Marv Gandall wrote:
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> Such is the current state of working class political consciousness in the
> US and other advanced capitalist countries.
Taking the heads of major trade unions as representing the state of class
consciousness?!!!
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I know this is SOMEWHAT off the subject for a Marxmail list -- having to do
with BOurgeois Economics --- but one of the great mysteries to me was WHY
the "party of the people" (HA!) the Democrats so quickly embraced "fiscal
responsibility" in the demonization of deficits ---
The Keynesian revoluti
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The Teamsters’ Sean (as in O’Brien) makes the UAW’s Shawn (as in Fain) look
like Big Bill Haywood by comparison. O’Brien, it will be recalled, won the
Teamsters’ presidency in 2021 with the support of the Teamsters for a
Democratic Union aga
The Tramsters’ Sean (as in O’Brien) makes the UAW’s Shawn (as in Fain) look
like Big Bill Haywood by comparison. O’Brien, it will be recalled. won the
Teamsters’ presidency in 2021 with the support of the Teamsters for a
Democratic Union against the candidate favoured by the pro-Hoffa establishm
Hello Charlie:
Interesting. Yes key trade unionists remain key props for Biden it seems.
Very difficult to gauge what proportion of their members agree with their views.
Once more without a viable left mass party - up a river without a paddle.
Anyway - Today's edition of the liberal Biden-cheerer
Does this look like "the rise of UAW President Shawn Fain has been met with
alarm in powerful corridors"?
--On April 10 this year, United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain attended a
state dinner Wednesday for Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
https://www.upi.com/News_Photos/view/upi/012c89
Sounds like b.s. The proffered evidence is "according to a source familiar with
the conversation" and an email by one of Fain's attorneys.
And note that none of this even attempts to refute the charges that Fain
punished union officials who questioned Fain's demand that his fiancee get UAW
mone
The UAW’s federal monitor twice pressured the union to back off its call
for Gaza ceasefire, then launched an investigation
*The rise of UAW President Shawn Fain has been met with alarm in powerful
corridors*
by Ryan Grim, Drop Site News, July 11, 2024
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/shock-documents
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