[Peace-discuss] Article from TruthOut.

[Morton K. Brussel]

Sounds like 'twas written by a Democratic Party publicist. No mention  
of imperialism, militarism, corporatism, savage capitalism, etc.,  
here. It says "vote Democratic" and all will be better…

--mkb


On Oct 30, 2007, at 2:37 PM, Laurie Solomon wrote:

> The article below obtained from Truthout may be of interest to some  
> and may furnish a basis for optimism for some (which I believe to  
> be false optimism at best and not very realistic).  In reading it,  
> I found myself asking of the comparative analysis if this was not  
> what was being suggested in one form or another back in the sixties  
> about how it was the advent of a new progressive era that would  
> lead to revolution and a major change in society and culture,  
> bringing new peace, freedom, and justice.
>
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>
> Here we are in the 2000’s. There has been change but toward the  
> conservative end of the spectrum in response to the 1960’s.  One  
> has to wonder if the reaction to the current conservative trends  
> will not be a “progressive” reaction that at best will bring us  
> back to what things were in the more progressive past but not  
> anywhere near a revolution or even a new progressive era the  
> extends any earlier progressive eras.
>
>
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>
>
> The 50-Year Strategy: A New Progressive Era (No, Really!) http:// 
> www.truthout.org/docs_2006/103007D.shtml
>
> Simon Rosenberg and Peter Leyden, reporting for Mother Jones, ask,  
> "Beyond '08: Can progressives play for keeps?"
>
>
>
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