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From coronavirus to race to the economy, Wisconsin is a microcosm of the forces roiling America - The Washington Post
From coronavirus to race to the economy, Wisconsin is a microcosm of the forces roiling America
An early voting sign encourages Milwaukee
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From coronavirus to race to the economy, Wisconsin is a microcosm of the forces roiling America
An early voting sign encourages Milwaukee
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Louis Proyect
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Christian Lorentzen | Tawdry Season in America · LRB 24 October 2020
Hunter Biden’s business career, such as it is, is another matter. Whether or not there has been a quid pro quo – in Ukraine, China, Russia or anywhere else – there is the
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Hunter Biden’s business career, such as it is, is another matter. Whether or not there has been a quid pro quo – in Ukraine, China, Russia or anywhere else – there is the
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Louis Proyect
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On the Vote: Emma Goldman and Women’s Suffrage - Los Angeles Review of Books
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-vote-emma-goldman-and-womens-suffrage/
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https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-the-vote-emma-goldman-and-womens-suffrage/
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Louis Proyect
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A people’s guide to capitalism – Michael Roberts Blog
It is not easy explaining relatively complex ideas in a simple and clear manner. Ask any teacher. It’s a skill lacking in many. Hadas Thier has brilliantly succeeded in that
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It is not easy explaining relatively complex ideas in a simple and clear manner. Ask any teacher. It’s a skill lacking in many. Hadas Thier has brilliantly succeeded in that
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Louis Proyect
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#2865
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Re: Malcolm X's meeting with the KKK
I think it is, to put it diplomatically, strange that such a story is brought up now - nearly seven decades after it supposedly happened. Of course, the real reason for publishing
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I think it is, to put it diplomatically, strange that such a story is brought up now - nearly seven decades after it supposedly happened. Of course, the real reason for publishing
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RKOB
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
Oh, right. Independent working class action. Just what we need. Have to reread Trotsky on worker's militias.
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Oh, right. Independent working class action. Just what we need. Have to reread Trotsky on worker's militias.
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Louis Proyect
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
So is their start in the GP a stepping stone or a misstep. If it's a cynical career move then David's right but I would have thought most likely the latter. That they ditch their principles because
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So is their start in the GP a stepping stone or a misstep. If it's a cynical career move then David's right but I would have thought most likely the latter. That they ditch their principles because
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John Edmundson
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Revolution in Sudan: Where to now? (Green Left)
https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/revolution-sudan-where-now
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https://www.greenleft.org.au/content/revolution-sudan-where-now
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Chris Slee
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
This is very common. The "career" is just that, an electoralist perspective of being reelected. It is not about the money (weird Louis would even say that). They leave the GP and then run as Dems for
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This is very common. The "career" is just that, an electoralist perspective of being reelected. It is not about the money (weird Louis would even say that). They leave the GP and then run as Dems for
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David Walters
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H-Net Review [H-Nationalism]: Butler on Mathisen, 'The Loyal Republic: Traitors, Slaves, and the Remaking of Citizenship in Civil War America'
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Best regards,
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Subscribe to the Washington Babylon newsletter via https://washingtonbabylon.com/newsletter/
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Andrew Stewart
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
replying to Louis Proyect -- David Walters wrote about Green Party politicians, not merely Green Party elected officials. One example is the career of United States Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
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replying to Louis Proyect -- David Walters wrote about Green Party politicians, not merely Green Party elected officials. One example is the career of United States Senator Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona.
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Alan Ginsberg
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Re: Malcolm X's meeting with the KKK
I think there is a reference in one of the biographies of M.L. King to this meeting based on FBI files ---- I remember a mention of the "fact" (not confirmed in this article) that Malcolm said to the
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I think there is a reference in one of the biographies of M.L. King to this meeting based on FBI files ---- I remember a mention of the "fact" (not confirmed in this article) that Malcolm said to the
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Michael Meeropol
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Triple Crisis in the Anthropocene Ocean, Part Three: The Heat of 3.6 Billion Atom Bombs
https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/10/24/triple-crisis-in-the-anthropocene-ocean-part-three-the-heat-of-3-6-billion-atom-bombs/
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https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/10/24/triple-crisis-in-the-anthropocene-ocean-part-three-the-heat-of-3-6-billion-atom-bombs/
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Louis Proyect
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
What are you talking about? That they have become elected to some city council? If that's the career that you are talking about, I am all for it. But if you are really interested
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What are you talking about? That they have become elected to some city council? If that's the career that you are talking about, I am all for it. But if you are really interested
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Louis Proyect
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
Seems you are ignorant of the local GP candidates career trajectories over the last 20 years. You think the GP pops up ever 4 years to a useless Presidential run? Jeeezzeee...!!! You need to get out
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Seems you are ignorant of the local GP candidates career trajectories over the last 20 years. You think the GP pops up ever 4 years to a useless Presidential run? Jeeezzeee...!!! You need to get out
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David Walters
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
Career out of electoral politics? Oh right. Can't wait for Vanity Fair to do a profile on Howie Hawkins.
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Career out of electoral politics? Oh right. Can't wait for Vanity Fair to do a profile on Howie Hawkins.
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Louis Proyect
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
A few comments. First an error: "...the CIA foiled a right-wing plan to kidnap the Governor of Michigan..." No, it was the FBI, not the CIA. Everyone should know that so it's strange you'd see this
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A few comments. First an error: "...the CIA foiled a right-wing plan to kidnap the Governor of Michigan..." No, it was the FBI, not the CIA. Everyone should know that so it's strange you'd see this
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David Walters
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Re: A Socialist Agenda for the 2020 Elections
I like Left Voice a lot but they don't understand the importance of the Green Party. Plus, their characterization of it is flawed:
"The Green Party, a multi-class party, cannot do
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I like Left Voice a lot but they don't understand the importance of the Green Party. Plus, their characterization of it is flawed:
"The Green Party, a multi-class party, cannot do
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Louis Proyect
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Malcolm X's meeting with the KKK
excerpted from Les Payne's recently published bio, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/24/malcolm-x-biography-ku-klux-klan-meeting-431657
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excerpted from Les Payne's recently published bio, The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/10/24/malcolm-x-biography-ku-klux-klan-meeting-431657
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Alan Ginsberg
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The Right to Repair
The idea of "right to repair" is key to the degrowth movement. In Richard Smith's "China's Engine to Environmental Collapse", he makes a big point of this especially when it comes
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The idea of "right to repair" is key to the degrowth movement. In Richard Smith's "China's Engine to Environmental Collapse", he makes a big point of this especially when it comes
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Louis Proyect
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