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

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Sat May 15 10:44:21 PDT 2004


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



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