I agree totally w/what Julio & Doug have just said. I think LP gives Clinton too much credit. He had the luck to come into the 96 election with the dot-com bubble (n.b., 'Contours of Descent' by Bob Pollin). So his policies didn't 'work' in any positive sense.
Centrist shit doesn't work in this kind of crisis; it's toxic, actually. I wouldn't bet against a meltdown today, except for a relatively short time period. On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12/10/2010 11:15 AM, Doug Henwood wrote: > > > He comes from the school of thought that Adolph Reed once > > characterized as believing that if you just got all the smart > > people together on the Vineyard, they could solve everything. > > His basic problem is that this does not work in a period of deep > crisis. And let's face it, comrades, this is a time when Mark > Jones's bet with Max would be a lot more timely than when it was made. > > This kind of narrow technocratic, centrist approach "worked" for > Clinton because the US economy was a lot healthier than it is > today. Obama's proposals are so out of whack with reality that > they fool nobody, except the dwindling soft left cult around him. > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l >
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