> Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> >Doug writes, " Dan argues, among other things, that the BoR and the rest
> >
> >of the U.S. constitutional structure has effectively demobilized
> >popular struggle:" Do you have a citation for this, or are you just
> >paraphrasing personal conversation?
>
> I've gotten a lot of it in personal conversation, but see also Dan
> Lazare's book, The Frozen Republic, and his piece "America the
> Undemocratic" in New Left Review #232.
>
He also had an article in Harper's in the last few months dealing explicitly with the 2nd (in which he argues that the gun nuts are right (and they are)), but also arguing that the whole damn things is fucked and we should scrap it and start over. That should happen right around the same time the Greenspan starts flying a red flag over the Fed.
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