On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 16:19:19 -0400 Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu>
writes:
> Doug:
> > Yeah, they've got the money, but we're supposed to have the people.
> > Last I checked, though, we don't.
>
> Last time the Left had the people in any significant numbers and the
> capital
> was on its knees was during the New Deal. They should have moved
> for the
> kill back then instead of letting the beast survive and grub itself
> on the
> WW2 profits.
I think that at the time the fear among the CPUSA was that if the New Deal had failed, then the oligarchy would have opted for fascism, so the Communists and other leftists worked to help make the New Deal a success.
> After McCarthy - it was mostly the elite driven
> progress in
> response to competition from the USSR. It is not that the Civil
> Rights and
> ant-war movement were unimportant, but that they would have not
> succeeded
> had it not been for the political support of the more enlightened
> parts of
> the oligarchy.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
>
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