[lbo-talk] Dean: transformative?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Oct 21 10:34:07 PDT 2003


Michael Dawson -PSU wrote:


>Here's the key quote on what Dean's "transforming":
>
>"Dean is showing how the Democratic Party can become 'a party that can
>transcend our interest groups, and that a candidate can get elected
>without owing anyone anything,' Rosenberg said."

In other words, the DLC reinvented as a quasi-mass movement?

Nathan talks up Dean's pro-labor rhetoric, but if he doesn't owe anyone anything, then how could labor trust him? Politics is always a little bit about empty signifiers, but this one is emptier and signifies less than the usual.

Doug



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