On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:59 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
On Jan 6, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
This assumes that the wishes of the big bourgeoisie get translated
into action automatically. I think that there is a certain autonomy
at work in the state as Poulantzas tried to explain. For Obama to
be effective, he would have to rise above the state in a
Bonapartist fashion but he simply lacks the psychological and
political makeup to move in that direction. He is no FDR, to say
the least.
You've got a point. I guess the best Bonapartist is an aristocrat,
not an arriviste.
But the Bonaparte family, all of them, were precisely arrivistes.
No genuine aristocrat has ever thought otherwise.
Shane Mage
This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos
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