On May 11, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:
> Politically, it seems to me the Putin regime has played the same
> historical
> role in relation to emergent Russian capitalism as the TR
> administration in
> relation to the bucaneering US robber barons.
It's easy to forget the intense working class militancy that led the U.S. bourgeoisie into the progressive era. There were populists, socialists, and labor radicals who severely disturbed the peace, and TR & Co. were in large part a response to that. (I was just reading a history of the events surrounding the Ludlow massacre that brought that home.) There's nothing analogous in Russia.
Doug