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Louis Proyect wrote
Doug Henwood has a major article in the latest Harper's on Hilary
Clinton, which is behind a paywall. I'd advise one and all, at least if
you are in the USA, to pick it up at the newsstand and even consider
taking out a sub. I have been a Harper's subscriber since the early 80s
and really value it, warts and all. It has the guts to take on the
Democrats, something that the Nation is loath to do. Short of buying the
issue, this summary of Doug's article is useful:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/19/hillary-clinton-2016_n_6011954.html
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From this Huffington summary, I would say that yes, it's good to have
at least that much of the story, and it's good Henwood was able to get
it out there. But it's a hit piece about the personal development of one
of the power hungry. What is really needed is a succinct analysis, using
method and tools that Marx bequeathed, presented in a format and story
line that anyone would have to agree with, as to why "it's hard to find
any political substance," and as to why we get Clintons and Bushes and
Obamas and dynasties, and why she typifies a "pragmatic politician
motivated more by ambition than by principle." That sort of Marxist
analysis can be accessed online with some effort, but Harper's "liberal"
readership, like my friends in the light left "middle class" who hold
the balance of electoral sufferance, certainly isn't getting it from the
sources to which they subscribe. So they end up throwing up their hands
and in the towel. And go and vote again for the lesser evil. Or not. And
then there's the question calling for explanation as to why anyone would
any longer, with all the palpable evidence available after the
disillusionment in Obama's performance, still believe in that system of
parliamentary obfuscation, and every-four-year first past the post
bourgeois-created and prevailing-power-serving ritual.
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