[lbo-talk] Moving to the Right (Ike the liberal)

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Wed Nov 24 11:05:03 PST 2004


Doug wrote:


>[People who talk about how the Dems have moved right and how little
>difference between D&R remains should consider this excerpt from a
>post-election piece by Blanche Wiesen Cook. The rightward move of
>the Reps is the real shift in American politics.]

The real shift is that both the Republican and Democratic Parties have moved to the right on the class struggle front and that both have moved to the left on the social and cultural struggle front (concerning equality between genders, races, sexual orientations, etc.), in keeping with the economic shift (e.g., the end of the post-World War 2 boom, stagflation, intensification of international competition, etc.).

Yoshie



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