Greetings Economists,
On Oct 13, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
in this case, white working class women, overcoming their
ingrained racial prejudices, moving towards Obama. Narrowing the
racial
divide within the white working class seems to me to be the essential
precondition for further political advance in the US, regardless of
how an
Obama adminstration performs. I don't think dismissal or scorn of
such
movement is warranted.
Doyle;
I don't dismiss these changes. They demonstrate how crises can
rapidly shift the political landscape.
But it is also cosmetic. The real changes to the base of U.S. power
which might happen in a reformist era are significant cut backs to
military role in the U.S. due to involuntary shifts in economic power
relations on the global scale. They would not really challenge
capitalism on the global scale, but could be reforms that actually
advance working class agendas. And Obama making them happen would go
a very long way to end the kind of racism we are familiar with here in
the U.S.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
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