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U. Cal/Berkeley economist Brad DeLong was an ubiquitous figure on PEN-L 15 years or so ago, generally taking the position that capitalism was better than capitalism. Like Steven Pinker, he argued that we had it better than ever, thanks to free markets and bourgeois democracy. Like Francis Fukuyama, he has become disillusioned in recent years, mostly because capitalism is sputtering. He says, "Our current bunch of leftists are wonderful people, as far as leftists in the past are concerned. They’re social democrats, they’re very strong believers in democracy. They’re very strong believers in fair distribution of wealth. They could use a little more education about what is likely to work and what is not. But they’re people who we’re very, very lucky to have on our side."
Interesting. https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/4/18246381/democrats-clinton-sanders-left-brad-delong _________________________________________________________ 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
