From: Jim Devine
c b wrote: > From: Jim Devine <[email protected]> > > > it's a mistake to blame Reagan. (If we want to blame any single > individual, > ^^^^ > CB: Truly. Thus Reagan _Revolution_ or Reagan_ism_. so a better name would be Volckerism, after the Carter appointee. In the US, the neoliberal policy revolution started in August of 1979, with Volcker's resistible rise to run the Federal Reserve. ^^^^ CB: No. Reagan and his minions established many more aspects of Reaganism than Volcker's interest rate hike. Even economically, Volcker didn't do "supply-side" and deficit hawk cuts of welfare. But critical in Reaganism is the whole political, cultural and ideological change. Volcker played a relatively small role in the whole of Reaganism compared to Reagan. The effort to make Carter as responsible for Reaganism as Reagan in order to establish the Dem are no different than Reps is Political Peter Panism, ultra-left nonsense. ^^^^^ Face it, neoliberalism is a bipartisan movement. That of course does not say that it's a conspiracy of some sort or that all neoliberals believe in exactly the same thing. One can point to the left and right wings of neoliberalism... ^^^^^^^ CB: Yeah, but the Republicans play the lead role. The left wing puts up some resistence - face that. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
