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Here is an article in the Guardian comparing Biden to Brezhnev. On the purely individual level, the comparison is very apt. "The ailing Brezhnev" as the article puts it and the senile Biden. As was Brezhnev, "Biden has effectively been the campaigner against structural reform: rather than articulating where he thinks the left flank’s analysis fails, he chooses to criticise their solutions as unworkable or unelectable. He was being honest when he told rich donors <https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/joe-biden-wont-demonize-the-rich_n_5d09ac63e4b0f7b74428e4c6?ri18n=true> “nothing would fundamentally change” if he were elected president." I don't think that the economic and social system in the US is threatened with being washed away, but a superstorm similar to what washed over the old Soviet Union does threaten. In that sense, this article is similar to the one of David Brooks that I posted yesterday. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/mar/06/biden-soviet-russia-status-quo-democratic-ussr?fbclid=IwAR0MN4tTnu0KKaRErs6qV5ELI7vdrHtgvff1FVhzKFHbmpbqSsJ9uIXEwiA John Reimann -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ 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
