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[James Baird]

>  If a section of 
> capital attempts a New Deal-style reform move (and
> even a hint of that has 
> yet to appear on the horizon), we may really find
> out if the New Deal 
> woulda "worked", or whether it would have been
> eventually overtaken by 
> escalating, if protracted, class struggle, before
> the whole process 
> was  short-circuited by the war - the reactionary,
> speeded up  savior of 
> capitalism.
> 

I've been reading a lot about FDR and the New Deal
lately.  The WPA, the FSA, the federal Writer's and
Theatre projects: it's like a glimpse into an
alternate America - where suddenly the powers of the
state are actually used for the benefit of the people,
where there was an actual sense in the air that things
could get better.  As one who came of age during it's
final dismantling in the Reagan era, it's pretty
inspiring stuff.

Makes me even more disgusted by all this Hollywood
nostalgia for WWII lately - whatever the neccessity of
stopping Nazism, you still wonder what could have been
if the bosses hadn't figured out they could get the
"good" things out of Keynesianism without all the
"bad" stuff...

Jim

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