[lbo-talk] The First Time as Farce, the Second Time as Tragedy

[Michael Pugliese]

On Sat, 15 May 2004 12:20:12 -0500, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:


> The relative
superficiality of
transformation from the Hoover to the Roosevelt administrations, for
example, can be measured by the haste with which the latter began to
dismantle its one really _new_ element, the WPA. The process of
aborting/wrecking that great institution had alreay begun in the
creation of the PWA, before the war dissolved both.

   Cf. Alan Brinkley, "The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession 
and War (Knopf, 1995); and , "Liberalism and Its Discontents, " (Harvard, 
1998).

-- 
Michael Pugliese