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• • 25 Jun 08
  • 1:21 pm

  As a radical progressive I got a good laugh from Ken Brociner's essay. Ken, you haven't presented anything that progressives can learn from Obama. Obama says "we have to be careful not to slip into playing the game as it is customarily played," and then he goes to AIPAC and plays the game completely customarily and his flip-flop cave-in on Telecom Imunity is completely customary politics, just to name two examples. Ken, in case you didn't notice, Petraeus did betray the USA, and Sirota is right that Obama is keeping hush on important issues. Ken, Obama is the best choice among …

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• • 25 Jun 08
  • 1:27 pm

  You can't have a critical mass for change if you don't have a mass of criticism about what needs to be changed.

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• • 25 Jun 08
  • 2:04 pm

  Scorp, FYI, the fall of the Soviet Union had nothing to do with Marx or Socialism, neither of which were followed by the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union had followed Marx and Socialism it would not have engaged in the cold war and it would have had a viable economy.. Your honors in history seem to have been ill gotten gains.

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• • 09 Jul 08
  • 12:57 am

  Eric L. writes, "but I think we can all agree the party’s full spectrum is left of center," I'm not sure what this means because the party''s full spectrum is both right and left of center. Of course part of this discussion is dependent on how one defines "the center" As the center is defined by the right, then of course the Democrats are primarily left of center. But as the center is defined by progressives there are a great many Democrats are right of center. As for my claim that the USSR could have been successful if it had followed …

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• • 09 Jul 08
  • 2:08 pm

  I wrote a long response that was over the 4000 word limit and the program lost it all when it returned to the previous page. I'm not goint to write it again. I will just say that we have an entirely different view of reality and all four samples that you use in support of your "left of center" hypothesis are actually just as much examples that show the "right of center" aspects of the Democratic Party. A socialist idea is one that has for its context and orientation the affirmation of collective responsibility for the planet and society. Socialism is …

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