Mike Davis's Critical Support for Nader

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

> (This appears in the British SWP magazine Socialist Review at:
> http://www.socialistreview.org.uk/article.php?articlenumber=8930. It
> is similar to an article that appeared on tomdispatch.com a month
> ago, but contains critical support of Ralph Nader, something that
> was absent in the earlier article.)
<snip>
> At this point, only the Nader campaign genuinely offers political
> space to demand the US out of Iraq and to contest Washington's
> broader interventionist agenda. Only Nader is likely to press the
> attack on the corporate puppeteers of both political parties.
>
> At the same time, it would be utopian to expect Nader - an
> old-fashioned progressive who has just won the endorsement of the
> former Perot voters and Jesse Ventura supporters in the Reform Party
> - to offer a coherent critique of the brave new world being
> fashioned in the twilight of cheap oil. That's a job description for
> socialists.

That's interesting.  Was Davis' critical support for Nader edited out
by tomdispatch.com or was it his own decision?
--
Yoshie

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