[lbo-talk] RE: Activism

dredmond at efn.org dredmond at efn.org
Mon Feb 9 16:22:07 PST 2004


Quoting Brad Mayer <Bradley.Mayer at Sun.COM>:


> Because to have Social Democracy, a country must first organize itself
> something recognizable as Society.

My own theory is that the US never developed social democracy -- because it didn't need to. The US was the hegemonic economic power of the world-system from 1945-1985, and could afford to pursue a politics of Cold War military Keynesianism, which sent GIs to college, built vast amounts of tract housing, automobilized the country, rebuilt Western Europe and Japan, accelerated the budding consumer culture, and spawned the mass university system.

-- DRR



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