Kudos for your work and mention of Kelso

[Norman Kurland <thirdway@cesj.org>]

Dear Don Jamison,

Congratulations for getting funds for your Vermont Employee Ownership
Center.  Perhaps the Green Mountain State will be the launchpad for the
Second American Revolution.  It's going to happen somewhere and why not
Vermont.

I was impressed that you mentioned Kelso and his first book with
Mortimer Adler.  While Kelso deserves enormous credit for inventing the
ESOP, his vision was far broader than ownership for workers, as you will
see from reading his first two books with Mortimer Adler, especially
Chapter 5 on "Economic Rights and Economic Justice."  You can download
both books free in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format from the web site of the
Kelso Institute at http://www.kelsoinstitute.org.  I suggest you start
by reading the Preface by Adler and then Chapter 5 of "The Capitalist
Manifesto."

For a matrix comparing the traditional capitalism (a term Kelso and
Adler should have avoided), traditional socialism, and what some of us
call the "Just Third Way", please click on
http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/comparison3rdway.htm.  I'd be interested in
whether you think it is useful in selling your philosophy to Vermonters
across the ideological spectrum.

Since you mention Senator Long's support of Kelso's ideas, you might
also be interested in the history behind that meeting.  Please click on
http://www.cesj.org/thirdway/history3rd/kelsomeetslong.htm
This background may also help you in your work.

Regards,

Norm Kurland
Center for Economic and Social Justice
Web site: http://www.cesj.org