Weekly Worker 443 - Towards a Socialist Alliance Party! In this week's Weekly Worker, paper of the Communist Party of Great Britain; SACP Rebellion Held last...
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Edward TJ Brown
EdwardTJBrown
Aug 1, 2002 9:07 pm
I find Communism and Socialism to be filled with the same basic problems as Libertarinaism. I do not enjoy getting e-mails promoting Communist and Socialist...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 1, 2002 9:31 pm
Just did something I haven't done in a while--picked through some of the garbage that is the Media Research Center. Found this interesting tidbit in their...
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Paul T
drpault125
Aug 2, 2002 2:45 am
... Wow, nice job there, Jeremy. I'll tell you, these conservatives (and I will lump libertarians in there, too, because the "liberal media" complaint is a...
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Paul T
drpault125
Aug 2, 2002 3:41 am
... Edward, I'm too much of a political novice to ask any intelligent questions on the matter, but I can't see how one could be against Socialism AND ...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 2, 2002 4:18 am
... ___ Real libertarianism has nothing to do with the ideological sickness that calls itself "libertarianism" in the U.S. these days. The latter came about...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 2, 2002 5:43 am
Chapter 1,337,892,014 Caspar Weinberger spending several hours today at the Iraq hearings. As I'm writing this, there he sits on the C-Span repeat--one of the...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 2, 2002 7:05 am
Well, it seems I'm not alone in considering the hearings this week on Iraq to be a total sham. Immediately after Slimeberger finished his "testimony," C-Span...
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Edward TJ Brown
EdwardTJBrown
Aug 2, 2002 3:18 pm
Jeremy Libertarinaism is not "screw social responsibility and every one else." Individual libertarians may beliee in social responsibility but they are weary...
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Edward TJ Brown
EdwardTJBrown
Aug 2, 2002 3:25 pm
Progressive Libertarinaism is a fairly new philosophy and has yet to develop a clear set of principles. I guess you could call it an attempt of modern liberals...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 2, 2002 4:53 pm
... ___ It simply pretends no one else exists. It has no meaning outside of a world in which every individual human being lives on an island as a wholly...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 2, 2002 4:57 pm
... ___ Classical liberals are, in no sense, related to the creatures that parade under the name "libertarian" in the U.S. today....
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Chuck Kincy
cpk1971
Aug 2, 2002 11:25 pm
From: "Edward TJ Brown" <edwardtjbrown@...> ... Not true since about 1970. Now it's basically government control of well-defined public goods, which...
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Jonathan Hammond
dmlaenker
Aug 3, 2002 1:49 am
--On Friday, August 02, 2002 2:45 AM +0000 Paul T <mr_utopia@...> ... I'm not sure if I'm out of line by asking, but would Wendell Cox serve as ...
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lightonliberty@...
lightonliber...
Aug 3, 2002 11:24 am
In the last 19 months the Libertarian Party has lost approximately 30% of it's membership, about 8,000 members have refused to renew their membership. Kevin...
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Larry Bernard
karasothb
Aug 3, 2002 11:31 am
I plan to write a nasty letter as to why i am refusing mine ... Larry Once he changes his voter registration will make it offical ... From:...
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Paul T
drpault125
Aug 3, 2002 1:07 pm
... In all honesty, I'm not familiar with him, but an intitial Internet search shows that he seems to be some type of free-lance consultant who writes columns...
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Paul T
drpault125
Aug 3, 2002 2:05 pm
... I also caught Soctt Ritter on Politically Incorrect, where he was talking about these points (as well as expressing concerns about the unconstitutional...
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Edward TJ Brown
EdwardTJBrown
Aug 3, 2002 4:56 pm
Chuck I thought I explained latter on in my post that their was a move in western European socites among middle class socialists to develop "democratic...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 3, 2002 10:16 pm
... ___ The info I referenced above is uncontested by anyone who was involved. Those in the administration leave out those crucial factoids, however, in an...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 3, 2002 10:17 pm
... ___ Democratic socialism goes all the way back to the time of Marx. It's always been the predominant strain of socialism in the United States, and has, for...
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gromit_rwg
Aug 4, 2002 7:38 pm
... Jeremy, I think you're basically preaching to the converted around here. God I hope so, at least. My own eyes have long since glazed over. I have to tell...
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gromit_rwg
Aug 4, 2002 7:45 pm
... Edward, are you familiar with Chomsky's ideas? Would you say he's a progressive libertarian as you conceive of such? BTW I wouldn't go along with the idea...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 4, 2002 11:30 pm
... ___ In the last two days, I've discovered that's a lot more fun than trying to make MP3s into audio CDs! It makes me glad I don't have any children. ... ...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 5, 2002 4:13 am
... ___ Here's a typically (and fundamentally) wrong-headed response to that leak from a member of the press (with some notes of my own added): Battle of the...
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gromit_rwg
Aug 5, 2002 12:17 pm
... BTW I just saw Wag The Dog over the weekend. I dind't realize, before borrowing the tape, that is was a comedy. Actually, I found it fairly boring overall....
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 5, 2002 6:20 pm
... ___ It's a lousy movie with a few great moments (courtesy of Mamet). Dustin Hoffman totally sucked (though, admittedly, it was a shitty character). Dennis...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 6, 2002 4:56 am
By now, you've probably all heard about the Philadelphia case where the cretinous judge issued an injuction against a lady seeking an abortion because the...
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jeremy riddle
jriddle10
Aug 6, 2002 5:14 am
Also in the abortion story vein, a story that takes on a new resonance with the inauguration of the "War On Terrorism": Geraldo Rivera was sued by a dimwitted...
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Eric Jones
lpsux
Aug 6, 2002 3:01 pm
Caught some news stories that the LP in MD have submitted signatures to get a governors candidate on the ballot. Anyone else hear about it? ...