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

[joanna bujes]

Luke, you're very young and you need to read more history. FDR most 
definitely tried and succeeded in saving capitalism
from itself and the capitalists were most definitely weeping on his 
carpet for a while.

Joanna

lweiger at umich.edu wrote:


>>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?
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>>Doug
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>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").
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>-- Luke
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