Re: [Marxism] The Teixeira thesis

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Teixeira first propounded the thesis with co-author John Judis in The
> Emerging Democratic Majority, which appeared shortly before the US
> mid-term elections in 2002 – unfortunate timing, because these saw a
> sharp swing to the Republicans. But Teixeira says the election was an
> aberration resulting from the effects of 9/11, and a demographic
> analysis of the vote still points to the long-term ascendancy of the
> Democrats.

Judis is one of the most disgusting people around. He spent much of the 
1980s arguing for contra funding in the pages of The New Republic and In 
These Times. Teixeira is a senior official of the The Century 
Foundation, a Democratic Party think-tank with all sorts of evil people 
on the board, from Arthur Schlesinger Jr. to Hodding Carter III. I have 
no idea whether the Republicans or the Democrats will be the majority 
party 5 or 10 years from now. The issue before this forum is capitalism 
or socialism, however.

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