[lbo-talk] Re: What the Ruling Class Want to Get: A Green Light

[lweiger at umich.edu]

> Yeah, they did that in the 30s, when capitalism looked to be imploding, the
> USSR was a mighty rival and the CP was organizing from Harlem to Alabama.
> Now, where's the crisis? Where's the troublesome rabble?
>
> Doug

This kind of talk drives me batty.  The business class fought the New Deal tooth
and nail.  They've been trying to get rid of it for the past 70 or so years. 
Earnest reformers like FDR do not cynically try to "save capitalism from
itself."  They see problems with the system and try to fix them, simple as
that.  Their efforts are nearly always opposed by ardent capitalists who like
the system as it is, thank you very much (i.e. the business class is oddly
unappreciative of efforts to "save capitalism from itself").

-- Luke