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

[Chris Doss]

It's still an improvement, i.e., progress. But Hegelian rather than Whig, I'll give you that.

--- On Thu, 11/6/08, Michael Smith <mjs at smithbowen.net> wrote:
> 
> This doesn't sound to my ear like the Whig narrative of
> linear
> progress, which would argue that the social conditions of
> bourgeois 
> society are a big improvement for everybody on those of
> feudal 
> society. Marx's view is more, well, dialectical. 
> 
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