Doug Henwood wrote:
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> Shouldn't part of the task of a left in such a period be to point
> out that the change might not be as radical as it looks to some? To
> misread Volcker as another neolib/dereg'er would be to miss that.
Sure, if there were a left to do the pointing and some core agitational point to draw an audience into the tent to listen.
But even then, discussions of the precise ideolgoical contours of a person not that well known outside inner circles of leftists and policy wonks seems an awful waste of energy. The material could be saved for use in graduate seminars a half century or so from now.
Carrol