Decline of American Power?

[Bradford DeLong]

>Carrol Cox wrote:
>
>>If the extravagances of the Bush Administration drive radicals back to
>>the embrace of an illusory "progressive wing" of the DP there will be no
>>resistance to the next offensive of capital either.
>
>It's an empirical fact that a liberal government makes it easier to 
>do radical politics. It's generally less repressive and less likely 
>to scare the working class and dissidents, but very limited in the 
>good things it can do, which makes the limits of the system much 
>clearer. It's no accident, as the vulgar Marxists used to say, that 
>the movements of the 1960s and the "Seattle" movement happened with 
>Dems in the White House. That doesn't mean you have to campaign for 
>the fuckers.
>
>Doug

It would if you wanted to get anything accomplished...

Brad DeLong