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	<title>The Activist &#187; Chris Maisano</title>
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		<title>Cuomo&#8217;s Class Mobilization</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 15:04:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO Many of the most interesting &#8211; and from a left perspective, most disturbing &#8211; developments in U.S. politics today are occurring at the state level. As the excellent Center for Budget and Policy Priorities has documented, the aftermath of the recession wrought by the financial crisis has plunged virtually every U.S. state into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Revisiting &#8220;Letter to the New Left&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:52:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO C. Wright Mills died in 1962 at age 45, from the last of a string of heart attacks. The author of such enduring classics as The Power Elite, White Collar, The New Men of Power, and The Sociological Imagination, he was one of the world&#8217;s foremost social scientists as well as the leading [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Twilight of Capitalism?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Enigma of Capital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO In recent years, radical geographer David Harvey has emerged as one of the leading theorists and popularizers of Marxian political economy in the English-speaking world. In books such as The New Imperialism and A Brief History of Neoliberalism, as well as his popular online courses in Volume I of Marx&#8217;s Capital, Harvey has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the Legitimacy Crisis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO In her excellent 2003 book Forces of Labor, Beverly Silver discerns within the history of capitalism an ongoing tension between the system&#8217;s simultaneous need for both profitability and legitimacy. That is, it needs to ensure that capital can squeeze as much value as possible out of the workers while making sure that it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideology Über Alles</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 18:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO An interesting study on Americans&#8217; attitudes regarding inequality and wealth distribution has been making the rounds recently. It highlights once again the ideology problem that plagues any attempt to reconstruct left/social democratic/socialist/whatever politics in the U.S. The researchers asked survey respondents to choose between three unlabeled pie charts representing the social structures of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WFP Agonistes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:12:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO This post may be of little interest to readers living outside the state of New York. But for those of us who live inside, the Working Families Party (WFP) endorsement of anti-union, pro-austerity Democrat Andrew Cuomo was a source of considerable controversy within left circles in the weeks leading up to yesterday&#8217;s elections. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stimulating Stupidity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:49:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO In September, Los Angeles Controller Wendy Greuel issued a report on the job creating impact of the Obama administration&#8217;s stimulus package in that city. The news wasn&#8217;t very good. L.A. has received $111 million from the federal government under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), but to date the money has created [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Labor&#8217;s Double Bind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO Last year, an illuminating article in the New York Times compared the European labor movement&#8217;s willingness to engage in militant street protest with the U.S. labor movement&#8217;s almost exclusive reliance on electoral and legislative maneuvering to attain its goals. Accompanying the article were two photos: one of workers in France&#8217;s Confédération Générale du [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rethinking Work In a Time of Crisis</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/rethinking-work-in-a-time-of-crisis</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO As another Labor Day passes us by, it&#8217;s worth taking stock of the state of the U.S. working class. It is, in a word, grim. Washington Post columnist and DSA Vice Chair Harold Meyerson sums things up rather neatly: Only a purblind ideologue could miss the pattern here. American employers &#8212; more than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;This Is A Checkpoint!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/this-is-a-checkpoint</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Maisano</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Islam]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHRIS MAISANO When I first read about how Michael Enright nearly murdered New York City cab driver Ahmed Sharif simply because he is Muslim, I immediately assumed that the hysterical campaign against the Park51 &#8220;Ground Zero Mosque&#8221; had resulted in the kind of violent act it seemed it would inevitably produce. Over the last few [...]]]></description>
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