Monday, October 6, 2008

The Nation

Progressives for Obama

By Tom Hayden, Bill Fletcher Jr., Danny Glover & Barbara Ehrenreich

We believe that Barack Obama's very biography reflects the positive potential of the globalization process that also contains such grave threats to our democracy when shaped only by the narrow interests of private corporations in an unregulated global marketplace. We should instead be globalizing the values of equality, a living wage and environmental sustainability in the new world order, not hoping our deepest concerns will be protected by trickle-down economics or charitable billionaires.

'The Communist Manifesto' Turns 160

By Barbara Ehrenreich

October 1, 2008

Marx predicted that capitalism would fall in a spirited, proactive, fashion: the workers, fed up with immiseration, would revolt, seize the "means of production" and insist on running the show themselves, that being the original, pre-Soviet, notion of socialism.

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