Word: adler
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Rachel Adler, a volunteer at Revolution Books and a supporter of the Revolutionary Communist Party, distinguishes her views from the "mainstream" socialism that Feltman supports...
...Where we're coming from is a fundamental critique of capitalism," Adler says. "The only thing that's going to push society forward is revolution...
...Adler, electing "reform" candidates to government is largely futile. "The fundamental problems in this country aren't going to be solved through politics," she says...
...Adler says she and other volunteers were greeted heroically at an information table they sponsored this summer at the Woodstock '94 concert, but interest from the general public is much rarer...
...pileup of confusions that those reforms might clear away is obvious from Adler's description of the 1989 lawsuit that Liggett & Myers, the giant tobacco company, brought against Brown & Williamson, a rival that Liggett accused of unfair competition. After an eight-month trial that hinged on notions like "predatory price discrimination" and "price-value submarkets," jurors had to rely on memory alone to recall testimony that filled 108 volumes. The judge's 81-page instructions gave them such helpful hints as this one: "You may wish to reject an inference of predatory intent if you find that a substantial motivation...