On 8/5/11 1:20 PM, Michael Meeropol wrote: > http://www.social-europe.eu/2011/08/obama-and-the-weimar-republic/ > > > The attached article by John Weeks continues to make parallels between > our situation in US today and the last days of Weimar in the 1920s and > 30s. I understand that the reason fascism succeeded was because there > was a strong left that the ruling class was afraid of --- > > However, I still think those Tea Party folks are scary enough for us to > be pretty scared as well.
John Weeks: "The agreement accepted by President Barack Obama to temporarily resolve the debt limit conflict revealed him, in the eyes of the Tea Party Republicans, as a weak opponent unable to match them in a straight fight, much as Heinrich Brüning, German Chancellor 1930-32, was viewed by the Nazis." This is silly. The Tea Party has not carried out any kinds of violence against working people in its entire history, for the simple reason that it was not necessary. The Weimar Republic was marked by civil war in the streets. In 2011, the streets of New York are marked by tourists, food vendors and people rushing off to work or going home. There has not been a militant strike in the USA for over a decade. The Wisconsin labor movement was basically demobilized by its Democratic Party leadership. This is not Germany in 1930. It is much more like the Gilded Age. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
