>As with a lot of the free-floating facetiousness on
>this board, I can only guess at the target here. Is it
>the foolish idea that the radical right's success owes
>to something other than its oligarch-friendly
>ideology? Like maybe strategy and tactics? Discipline?
>Certainly they'll have an easier time at grabbing
>power, but it doesn't explain the extent of the power
>they've grabbed nor the extent to which progressives
>have lost.
The ideology got massive assistance from its oligarch friendliness, for sure, but it wouldn't have gone anywhere if they (35 years ago I would have said "we") hadn't persisted in prosyletizing for what felt like a doomed struggle. In those days, Hayek was a relic and Marx seemed fresh. There's a point to what Cde Cox likes to call dorm room bull sessions.
Doug