[lbo-talk] Dems Grovel Before Reagan II

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue May 6 10:36:30 PDT 2003


Brad Mayer wrote:


>The neocons behind Bush think they're pulling a 'preventive' Reagan
>II. Imagine
>that Reagan became president, not in 1980, but in 1970, at the
>beginning of the
>last decade-long political-economic crisis of US hegemony (actually, Reagan
>became Governor of California in 1968). Recall that neoconservativism first
>developed in reaction to the radicalism of "the Sixties". What the
>neocons wat
>to prevent is a _renewed_ growth of radicalism in the face of the present
>crisis, in an attempt to 'not make the same mistake twice'. That's the real
>political meaning of 'prevention'.

How do you know that?

Doug



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