[lbo-talk] Obama picks Rahm Emanuel, free trade fanatic & welfare "reformer"

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Wed Nov 5 18:48:00 PST 2008


Three terms creep to the "left." Wow. Progress.

Three terms creep back to the right! Wow. We've got work to do.

Three terms creep back to the "left."

The fallacy Progress! That is almost as destructive a part of bourgeois ideology as that of the isolated -- abstract -- individual. The insane idea that history progresses.

Capitalism exploded on the world and convninced everyone that it was a "natural" PROGRESS from an earlier barbarianism. (Hence the false idea of the "Middle Ages" which Jeffrey & C.G.E. have mocked.)

Change comes in jumps or it doesn't come at all. The change that comes from slow steps always erodes.

Carrol



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