[Marxism] New School heavy backs Kerry

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE OTHER LEADING BRAND
"Many major Kerry donors actually give more to Bush," according to a 
recent article in the NY Times. The big money and Democratic National 
Committee (DNC) political support lining up behind Kerry are 
interesting. One that caught my eye was: "past Kerry donor Bernard 
Schwartz, chairman of Loral Space and Communications—the tenth leading 
donor to the Democratic Party, giving $5.3 million over the years."

Now from an old New School for Social Research point of view—for those 
of you acquainted with one of NYC's historic "Left institutions"—the 
Schwartz/Kerry connection is ominous. The New School University (as it 
has now been sanitized) has its own Schwartz dilemma. But this time it's 
not with John Kerry, the war "hero," but Bob Kerrey, the war criminal 
and incongruous president of the New School. Schwartz has given bundles 
to the economics department and the Center for Economic Policy Analysis 
(CEPA) and has funded a lecture series on which he and Bob Kerrey 
collaborate very closely.

The Schwartz funded Program on Markets, Equality and Democracy at CEPA 
has a mission to promote "constructive capitalism." This is the slogan 
of the other leading brand. The Democratic Party wants to contrast its 
Kerry/Kerrey/Schwartz/and-so-on vision with the escalating anarchy of 
the Bush administration. This is crap that ignores the debilitating 
secular tendencies of capitalism and the realities of rising global 
poverty and inequality.

Sara Burke | 3.10.2004 | 4:43pm

full: http://www.glovesoff.org/

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