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

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Thu Nov 6 05:43:56 PST 2008



> --- On Wed, 11/5/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
> >
> > Don't you think Marx believed in progress in some
> > sense?

The "some sense" is an important qualification. He doesn't seem to have believed in the kind of Whig idea of linear progress -- each stage an "improvement" on the last -- that most of our contemporary Pwogwessives continue to hold.



More information about the lbo-talk mailing list