Oh brother. LDT says the same thing that Cox has said a million times about bourgeois democracy and fascism. Thought it ironic neo-post-maoist Carrol echoes Trotsky.
-- Michael Pugliese, starting a reading group to dissect, "Trotskyism: Counter-Revolution In Disguise, " by M.J. Olgin, circa '35. After that we'll read Carl Davidson, "Left in Form, Right in Essence: Trotskyism: A new debate over old issues." http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/critiques/guardian/pt01.htm
American imperialism has been made plausible and attractive in part by the insistence that it is not imperialistic. Harold Innis, 1948 http://www.monthlyreview.org/sr2004.htm