You mean the DP has a soul to struggle over?
:-> There are some horrors beyond even Shakespeare; try Mrs. Norton in Mansfield Park. Carrol _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Walker Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 11:48 AM To: Progressive Economics Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Mangabeira Unger's approach Ah, yes, the struggle for the soul of the Democratic party... Didn't Shakespeare write a play about that? Or Sophocles? Or someone? On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: **. . . .And the "progressives" will have a better chance of prevailing.** The scare quotes around _progressive_ don't serve to save the word. I know there are real difficulties in finding a substitute word, but it seems increasingly clear to me that the word "progressive" cannot be purified of the bourgeois delusion that Progress is structusred into hisotyr. And that delusion cannot be separated from its supreme literary expression, Kipling's "The White Man's Burden." Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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