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		<title>DISPATCHES FROM THE HOWIE HAWKINS CAMPAIGN</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2010 06:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The following is a series of letters to the editor that has, over time, expressed the political awakening of 2010 that can happen with the Howie Hawkins for Governor campaign in New York.
As we enter into a new decade, we must understand the great ideological divergence that occurred in the past decade. A politics of [...]<br/>
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		<title>VIRAL DEMOCRACY AND ITS POSITIVE EFFECTS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 05:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autonomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[In order for democracy to be a positive force in a society, it must expand beyond a simple ritual of voting for representatives.
The nature of democracy is such that it can only be a force for good if it is practiced. And it must be practiced across the entire space that is set up by [...]<br/>
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		<title>LIBERTY IS NOT ENOUGH: THE ILLUMINATING CASE OF RAND PAUL</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 09:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[anarchism]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The recent statements of Rand Paul reveal the inherent limits of defining freedom as liberty, and the failure of containing libertarianism within conservatism.
When Rand Paul won the Republican Kentucky primary to become the candidate for U.S. Senate, it was assumed that it was a major victory for the Tea Party movement. A few days later [...]<br/>
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		<title>AUTONOMOUS SOLIDARITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 04:48:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comprehensiveness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[difference]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equivalence]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Autonomous solidarity is a form of association that can be truly an expression of justice as it balances freedom and equality.
A big question, that is not necessarily at the forefront of public debate, is whether autonomy or liberty is more important. Liberty can easily be defined as freedom from government tyranny, and obviously is quite [...]<br/>
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		<title>The Democrats, The Republicans, And The Tea Party</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:56:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Commentator</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[By Tom Siracuse:
The Republican Party is appealing to the prejudices of the white working class by supporting the &#8220;Tea Party&#8221;. They have encouraged these prejudices over many years but when they get into office, they temper their ultra right rhetoric and resemble the Democratic Party. It is not because the Republican Party is ignorant, crazy [...]<br/>
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		<title>TOO SMALL TO FAIL: A POLICY ALTERNATIVE TO THE BAILOUT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[capital ownership]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The inherent flaw of the bailout was that it did not address the structural flaws of the economy, which could be addressed by a non-corporate and community-based economic democracy.  
The economic crisis that occurred in September of 2008 initiated a mode of public policy that bridged two presidential administrations and two political parties. Commonly [...]<br/>
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		<title>THE STATE OF THE YEAR: THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION IN 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:19:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[2009]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[abundance]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Tea Party movement that emerged last year presents itself as the heart of America, and a true political alternative, but is in fact an atavistic force embedded within the American psyche.
The year 2009, the first year of the Obama administration, can be seen as the year where everything changed. It was the year where [...]<br/>
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		<title>AMENDING BUCKLEY VERSUS VALEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[corporations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[free speech]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The recent Supreme Court decision on the Citizens United case has granted freedom of speech to corporate entities, and there is a need to illustrate how the unequal distribution of money results in the unequal right to free speech using the lens of a past Supreme Court case. 
Any attempt to enact campaign finance reform [...]<br/>
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		<title>DEMOCRACY AND SUSTAINABILITY</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[apparent]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[democracy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dynamic equilibrium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[immanence]]></category>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A process toward democracy is also a process toward sustainability, and the two approaches support each other through an emphasis on immanent structures.
Democracy and sustainability have been two important elements within various leftist movements for at least the past twenty years. They have been addressed separately involving very vital issues of the environment and empowerment [...]<br/>
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		<title>UTOPIAN CAPITALISM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 04:16:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Darin Robbins</dc:creator>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The ideal of the free market obscures the reality of an economic system that perpetuates a strict division between worker and owner that also perpetuates systemic inequality. 
The nature of capitalism may have the appearance of an economic system used to express the freedom of the individual, but it is also a system that strives [...]<br/>
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