Brad, Oskar, Noam

[Seth Ackerman]

True. But Chomsky's point was to show the rather monolithic opposition
to those social democratic policies among U.S. policymakers and pundits.
Accidental and transitory agreement between the two sides for short-term
tactical reasons are -- as others on this list would say -- on a lower
level of abstraction. 

(Also, as someone who follows press coverage of this stuff pretty
closely, I have to say that mainstream opposition to European social
democracy comes pretty close to 100%, especially in the last few years.)


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Brad De Long [SMTP:delong at econ.Berkeley.EDU]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 18, 1999 3:56 PM
> To:	lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
> Subject:	Re: Brad, Oskar, Noam
> 
> 
> Oh, Bob Rubin's not a social democrat by any means, and Oskar
> Lafontaine is...
> 
> But I don't think anyone reading Chomsky's article would realize that
> Rubin
> would "like to see [European] interest rates a few notches lower..."
> and
> had been publicly calling for the same changes in European monetary
> policy
> that Lafontaine was...
> 
> 
> Brad DeLong
>