[lbo-talk] Talk Left, Walk Right

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Grant Lee grantlee at iinet.net.au, Tue Apr 27 09:20:33 PDT 2004:
>>My short entry on corrupt conservatives and neoliberals who talk 
>>left and walk right (borrowing the title of Patrick Bond's new 
>>book): "Talk Left, Walk Right," 
>><http://montages.blogspot.com/2004_04_01_montages_archive.html#108304110866702307>.
>
>Very interesting, although I disagree with the assumption that 
>populist/keynesian/welfarist programs --- essentially ameliorative 
>and aimed at damping down class conflict --- should be seen as more 
>left/progressive than neoliberalism.

"Overcoming the concept of 'progress' and overcoming the concept of 
'period of decline' are two sides of one and the same thing." -- 
Walter Benjamin, <a 
href="http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/BENARC.html">The Arcades 
Project,</a> trans. Howard Eiland and Kevin McLaughlin, Cambridge, MA 
and London, England: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 
1999, p. 460.
-- 
Yoshie

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