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Article: Our kind of Marxist: an interview with Staughton Lynd. (Interview)
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- April 1, 1994
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This is an excerpt from an interview with Staughton Lynd that appeared in The Progressive (February, 1994). It is reprinted with permission. The interviewer was Jane Slaughter, the director 0fLabor Notes.--The Editors
Q: And the final thing you're working on?
Lynd: Finally, there's the question of creating jobs. I've just become possessed by the hypocrisy of the Clinton Administration's jobs rhetoric. I believe we're in a period like the early 1960s. You have a Democratic President who makes idealistic and compassionate noises. This guy was elected to create jobs. But in reality, his program is to help corporations cut jobs. The profit-maximizing ...