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I believe Brad, you meant to say descent; descent into the minds of the liberal bourgeois whose only lens (blinders) are the battle between capitalist sects who aspire to power and who consider working people and the oppressed merely "society," the "economy," the "grass roots [who are being] used." I also believe, however [sorry, I am changing to a related subject not directly related to Brad or to Dennis], that "we" are way too incensed with Obama/Roosevelt/Clinton/Kennedy-ism. I am not sure we are thinking straight when we get ourselves so "spitting mad" that Obama seems so undeservedly popular. As could easily be predicted, the President is capitalism's best answer in a society so well prepared for the illusions of lesser-evil politics (it's not without accident that we have the education system that we have and how well it works to support capitalist rule). This makes the work of us "good folk" (yes, always remember that we are that) very difficult, and contrary to popular belief, the more radicalized the working class becomes, the harder it will get to bring our class (adopted or the one in which we reside) to accept its responsibility and its birthright. It is not easy to do what we hope to accomplish (just try sometime to pull on a seemingly red ripe apple from its tree sometime to illustrate the point). No matter how dark the night, or how far the horizon, just know and remember that the World's day will come, that apple will fall. We need to be ready to steer, we need build our class's confidence to apply itself enough to pick the fruit we've so badly needed for our sustenance. [sorry for the fruity and genetic metaphors, I hope I got across] Brad writes > Decent article by Krugman in which he at least locates the class (even > if he doesn't want to call it such) nature of identity politics and > the TP. I am getting a little bit annoyed by this liberal notion that > the big corporations are to blame and not capitalism though. Dennis' reply - What's "decent" about this article? It's typical liberal crap that the Republicans are the corporate party and the Democrats, however tentatively, stand up for " the common people" and are thus facing corporate wrath. The insurance and pharmaceutical corporations to name two are very pleased with Obama. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/mtomas3%40hotmail.com ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
