On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:31 AM, Louis Proyect <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (A useful Marxist analysis, but I have to disagree on La Botz's claim that > Obama is capable of being a "Rooseveltian figure".
Perhaps he meant it in an 18th Brumairian sort of way. "The tradition of all dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brains of the living. And just as they seem to be occupied with revolutionizing themselves and things, creating something that did not exist before, precisely in such epochs of revolutionary crisis they anxiously conjure up the spirits of the past to their service, borrowing from them names, battle slogans, and costumes in order to present this new scene in world history in time-honored disguise and borrowed language. Thus Luther put on the mask of the Apostle Paul..." ...and Obama, the mask of FDR? -- Sandwichman _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
