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...20009 CHARLES PETERS Editor The Washington Monthly _9 ' The author r e p l i e s : The outcome of a conference is often more telling than an index of its sponsoring publication, especially when the gathering is as portentiously billed and star-studded as was the neoliberal affair...
...I just don't think Charlie Peters's fairmindedness will translate to political will -- that is, to real sacrifices by the wealthy and to serious moves toward worker control -- as long as he and others keep striking an illusory "balance" between the sins of the poor and the sins of the rich, the abuses of unions and the abuses of corporations...
...In these protests we demanded the immediate release of the imprisoned...
...To the Editors: At one point in his report about The Washington Monthly's Conference on Neoliberalism ["A Class Act," Nov...
...When Sleeper says we aren't interested in economic democracy, he ignotes our long advocacy of worker ownership -- Walter Bish of th~ Weirton Steelworkers Union was one of the panelists at the conference -- and our long record of criticism of welfare for the rich...
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...Probable result, when push comes to shove: labor discipline and crackdowns on programs for the poor, but only token moves toward productive investment and progressive taxation...
...The former in each case are more visible and vulnerable to political censure because the latter inhere in the established power relationships within which most of us pattern our daily lives, our search for security, and, all too often, our quest for meaning...
...First, we don't think "labor discipline" .will do the job alone...
...We think managers and stockholders are going to have to make sacrifices, too...
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...As for economic democracy, Walter Bish's contribution was minimal, and so was the attention accorded it...
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...18], Jim Sleeper says neoliberals think Western capitalism can end unemployment through labor discipline and asks, isn't "the nature of corporate investment, distorted by a variety of factors, including what Robert Reich calls the 'paper entrepreneurialism' of mergers, more to blame...
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...Maneli reported on a lecture at the Polish . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Commonweal: 66...
...What with Peters plugging his "Neoliberal's Manifesto, I can't resist mentioning an extension of these remarks of mine in the upcoming spring issue of the quarterly Dissent, available in April...
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...In 1980 The Washington Monthly published Reich's "Pie Slicers vs...
...it goes without saying that a scholarly institution which continues the tradition of the Polish Academy of Sciences (founded in 1816) and of American (Continued on page 95) gill I I II I Commonweal is indexed in Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, Catholic Periodical Index, index of American Periodical Verse, Book Review Digest and Book Review Index...
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...A variety of views have been expressed in those lectures, views often adverse to our own oplmon...
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...Piotr Taras, Professor at the Catholic University of Lublin, Poland, in which the latter attacked KOR,whose leaders have been imprisoned in Poland, in an emotional way, using, according to Professor Maneli, biased arguments, not corroborated by facts...
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...There I saw more genuine alarm about the excesses of welfare for the poor than about the phenomenal growth of welfare for the rich, though the latter is surely more corrosive of the kind of society neoliberals want, if only because it does so much to engender the former...
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...In this connection it should be first of all stated that the Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America has several times issued protests against the arrests of Solidarity leaders, particularly KOR members...
...I think neoliberals want national consensus and comity too desperately to let themselves stand outside those established power relationships long enough to challenge them as a democratic movement really must...
...If you want to learn what we're really about, we can send you a copy of "A Neoliberal's Manifesto...
...We began our attack on mergers as early as 1979 with Thomas Redburn's "The Merger Mania" (February 1979), lwhich said, "Businessmen are spending their capital buying each other out, which neither creates jobs nor boosts productivity...
...Pie Enlargers," calling for policies that specifically encourage investments in new plants and new jobs instead of giving equal encouragement to unproductive trading in existing assets...
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...Taras, the Polish Institute, a Polish-American scholarly institution, cannot censor lectures in advance of delivery...
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...And continued the attack through Joseph Nocera's "The Merger Mongers," published in December of last year...
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...And we think the government must redirect its economic influence...
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