> 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
A few readings. Thomas Ferguson, "Industrial Conflict and the Coming of the New Deal: The Triumph of Multinational Liberalism in America," in
Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds., The Rise and Fall of the
New Deal Order, 1930-1980 (1989), pp. 3-31. ( http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/12834.ctl Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systems.") I hear echos of the "corporate liberalism, " thesis in this thread, of Kolko, Weinstein, Martin J. Sklar. Sklar being the most sophisticated, http://www.h-net.msu.edu/~shgape/sklar2.html , "Capitalism and Socialism in the Emergence of Modern America: The Formative Era, 1890's-1916." Theories on the Great Depression Martin J. Sklar wrote an article for Radical America in 1969, where he emphasized the shift from the accumulation of capital to disaccumulation. http://www.southerndomains.com/SouthernBanks/p5.htm
http://www.h-net.org/~shgape/bibs/prog.html H-SHGAPE Bibliographical Essays:Progressivism
See Fred Block's critique, "Beyond Corporate Liberalism, " collected in his book on State theory from U.C. Press.
Ellis E. Hawley, "The Discovery and Study of 'Corporate Liberalism,'" Business History Review 52 (1978)
Libertarian fan of William A. Williams, Joseph Stromberg on corporate liberalism, http://www.blancmange.net/tmh/articles/strombrg.html
(Hmm. http://www.antiwar.com/orig/carson1.html ""Once a whore, always a whore." Horowitz, Chomsky, and the Neoconservative Ideology
"Old Rightists like Joseph Stromberg, besides preserving the memory of Taft, Buffet, and Garett, also make favorable reference to the writings of revisionist historians like Gabriel Kolko, W. A. Williams and James Weinstein in their analysis of "Corporate Liberalism" and the "Open Door Empire.")
Ex-marxist, Socialist Review editor, David Plotke, on American liberalism, "Building a Democratic Political Order : Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s."
Left-liberal Alan Brinkley on the rightward shift on New Deal during WWII, "The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War."
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Michael Pugliese