No class. No populism either (the many v. the few). He was in the bring us together/we are one people mode.
I keep going back to the funny fake obama web ad, during some worrying days of the campaign, with the huge headline "Chill the fuck out, I got this." HE UNDERSTANDS (BOURGEOIS) POLITICS BETTER THAN WE DO. I think it will pay to remember that. On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > Max: >> Obama did a speech on Lincoln last night in Springfield that was a >> poem to the tradition of American collective action. > > did he mention the class dimension? Collective action by capitalists > isn't especially pretty. > -- > Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own > way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
