On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:16 PM, [email protected] wrote:
You've got a point. I guess the best Bonapartist is an aristocrat,
not an
arriviste.
I think I'm being dense here, but Napoleon Bonaparte was an arrivist
Corsican junior army officer (although subsequent Bonapartes and
Bonapartists were aristocrats of course).
I was making a joke about Roosevelt, not a historical point. Though
FDR's class origins probably had a lot to do with why he had the nerve
to be a (partial) class traitor. As Adorno said, you have to have
tradition in you to hate it properly. Not that FDR was Adorno, of
course.
Doug
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