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Re: [Pen-l] OpenLeft: Should We Be Surprised?
- To: "Progressive Economics" <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [Pen-l] OpenLeft: Should We Be Surprised?
- From: "Jim Devine" <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 07:49:04 -0800
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Ravi:
> Among the left leaning blogs, one site that I find more honest and intelligent is the somewhat recent "OpenLeft" -- for one thing, adopting "Left" in their name demonstrates a stronger spine than less confrontational terms like "progressives" that have become all the rage.
CB:
> Hey if they get a really strong spine that might say "Marxist" or even stronger spine "Communist".<
Why not go further, to call themselves revolutionary democratic
socialists, feminists, and anti-racists? Opposed to _all_ oppression,
not just capitalist oppression.
--
Jim Devine / "Nobody told me there'd be days like these / Strange
days indeed -- most peculiar, mama." -- JL.
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