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This Monthly Review article Louis linked was written by a fine historian, one not teaching in the higher reaches or academe and one who is ardently a left-winger--Chad Pearson. Among the liberal historians he criticizes for their lukewarm or hostile view of left historians and their ideological commitment to the New Deal, the labor movement (excluding the Reds), and the Democratic Party is Nancy MacLean, whose book, Democracy in Chains, has been praised to the skies. It is curious that no one except Chad, has, to my knowledge, pointed out Maclean's high praise for Brandeis and Oliver Wendell Holmes, despite their rather checkered past and often ardent support for labor's enemies. The entire article by Chad is worth a read. MacLean seems to believe that the neoliberal project, which she associates with economist, James Buchanan, and the Koch Brothers, ignoring the long, long history of often violently anti-labor scoundrels on the far right and the complicity of people like Brandeis and Holmes. Yet to hear MacLean's champions, you would think she is a died-in-the-wool Marxist. Hasn't democracy always been in chains here? Often literally, for that matter. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
