Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 19:44:40 -0500
From: Yoshie Furuhashi <Furuhashi.1-AT-osu.edu>
Subject: Re: M-I: Jospin's compromise


John Gulick wrote (in a message forwarded by Rakesh):
>Please, it should not revolve
>around holding Jospin to his promise to create 700,000 new jobs. The
>recent pen-l discussion on overwork and consumerism should drive home
>how bankrupt neo-Keynesian measures such as this are, be they achieved
>via subsidies to capital, or via state-driven taxing and spending. (I
>should say parenthetically that I am impressed with the maturity and
>subtlety of red-green thought on this list lately, so rarely have I
>encountered eco-socialist ideas on this list in the past).

So what do red-green synthesizers on PEN-L have to say about this matter?
Maybe Rakesh can summarize what they said on PEN-L and report it to this
list?

>Like the anarcho-punk
>demonstrator's billboard in Amsterdam read, "get a life, not a job".
>Social democracy is dead. It was normatively bankrupt, and now it is
>pragmatically bankrupt, b/c the international market will no longer
>tolerate it, its standard-bearers will no longer defend it. Cutting-edge
>social movements, recognizing that it was normatively bankrupt and is now
>politically impracticable, have moved on to pressure for better things.

I agree that social democracy is bankrupt, but are social movements really
cutting-edge? What does it mean to say, "get a life, not a job"?

Yoshie




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