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		<title>Libya and the Left</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE I’ve been putting off this post, waiting for the Libyan revolution to reach some kind of decisive conclusion to its military phase. But it looks like that could take a while: the game of “Where’s Muammar” may go on for a while, and in the worst case scenario his loyalists could mount a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remembering Gary Webb</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Six years ago today, journalist Gary Webb shot himself in the head. It ended the sad story of a man who should have been celebrated for his heroic work as an investigative reporter, but instead became a victim of the corrupt and fearful culture of mainstream journalism. We should remember him today, and take two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realignment Watch: The Tea Party&#8217;s False Dawn</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 18:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE Last Tuesday&#8217;s election results are depressing, but they were also more or less what everyone expected. So rather than rehash them, let&#8217;s embark on a bit of speculation instead. Beginning shortly after Barack Obama&#8217;s election, I wrote a series of posts in which I envisioned what would have to happen in order for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yes, You&#8217;re A Communist</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2010 15:44:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE Steven Johnson is the author of a new book on innovation called Where Good Ideas Come From. Johnson has written several other books about technology, and he is generally associated with the sort of politics you get in Wired magazine: optimistic about both technology and capitalism. But in a column in Sunday&#8217;s New [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Politics of Abundance</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/the-politics-of-abundance</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Oct 2010 19:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[austerity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[post-scarcity politics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The rhetoric of austerity is based on a lie: that we have suddenly entered a world of scarcity, in which there is less wealth for all and so we must all collectively suffer. But this is not a scarcity dictated by the material state of the world--it is not as if our factories have been destroyed by an asteroid, or our people wiped out by a plague. This scarcity is entirely a result of the dysfunction of the capitalist economy, in which idle resources confront unmet human need. We live in a world with greater material wealth than at any previous time in human history, which makes the idea of abundance  more important than ever. It falls to the left to insist that a higher standard of living is possible, if only we muster the political will to make it a reality.]]></description>
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		<title>Islamophobia and American Exceptionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 15:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[International]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE It&#8217;s often noted on the left that the political spectrum in Western Europe is shifted well to the left of that in America. Usually, people focus on the orientation toward social benefits and economic policy: even the right in Europe supports national health care, for example, while in the United States only the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>America&#8217;s National Pastime: Class Struggle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:34:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[baseball]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[class struggle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[politics of sports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unions]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE With the start of baseball season around the corner, I thought I&#8217;d get my Dave Zirin on and talk a little about the politics of sports. I&#8217;ve always thought that labor disputes in professional sports are a great litmus test that can be very revealing about someone&#8217;s general attitude toward labor and class. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Reform: Where do we Stand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 10:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[health care]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[left strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE Well, here we go. It looks like this Sunday, the Democrats will take their best shot at finally passing a health care reform bill. There&#8217;s been lots of anxious hemming and hawing on the left about this bill. We all agree that it&#8217;s pretty lousy, and pretty far from what we really want. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hipsters, Food Stamps, and the Politics of Resentment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:23:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE Recently, a friend of mine became the object of the Internet&#8217;s daily Two Minutes Hate. He had the misfortune of appearing in this story, which Salon.com chose to call &#8220;A Hipster on Food Stamps&#8221;. The article was basically about some college-educated but poor and underemployed people trying to eat decent, nutritious food while [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TV Review: &#8220;Undercover Boss&#8221; and the misfortune of labor</title>
		<link>http://theactivist.org/blog/tv-review-undercover-boss</link>
		<comments>http://theactivist.org/blog/tv-review-undercover-boss#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:35:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Frase</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[PETER FRASE &#8220;To be a productive worker is therefore not a piece of luck, but a misfortune.&#8221; &#8211;Marx, Capital &#8220;Are you a good team player/remember the boss is your best friend/kill your head.&#8221; &#8211;Born Against CBS chose to premiere their new reality show, &#8220;Undercover Boss&#8221;, after the Super Bowl, indicating that they expect big things [...]]]></description>
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