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So with the disappearance of actual lobour (labor for us Americans) Labour is defunct and WE need a new political party to represent us.  Here's a thought.

Europe has the longer history.  Go back to the days of the wealthy/powerful living in castles and the rest of us poor schlubs ... well, you remember.

In college, early '70s I first read the term have/have-nots and I recognized my family as belonging to the have-nots, also ignorant as all hell, etc.  Rich vs. not-rich has been the game for hundreds of years, with the rich calling themselves Conservative, Republicans, Tories, whatever ... I guess calling yourself the Rich/Powerful/Fuck You Party would give it away.

We need a new Party which recognizes the ongoing class warfare and will actually DO something about it WITHOUT SELLING OUT (aka Democrats).

As Obama has demonstrated, with the INTERNET, IT CAN BE ACHIEVED!

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 06:13:22 AM EST
... more harnessing the power of the Internet to amplify a traditional "New Improved
Laundry Powder With More Sudsing Power" marketing campaign than for "recognizing class warfare and actually doing something about it".


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Sep 5th, 2008 at 05:28:34 PM EST
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True.  There are elements of the old left in Obama's campaign structure, though.  The real result of the Interwebz is that everything old is new again.  Instead of the ad-based campaigns of the '60s to the '90s -- the Mark Penn Era, I guess you could call it -- the emphasis is now back on organizing, as it was prior to television.

Still have to be patient.  Obama's just the first edition.  The netroots are still working the bugs out.

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Sep 9th, 2008 at 07:38:16 AM EST
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I don't see the Obama campaign as authored by the netroots, but it does offer some useful lessons for the first edition if we ever have a chance to publish it.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Tue Sep 9th, 2008 at 03:56:57 PM EST
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