On Apr 2, 2010, at 2:23 PM, James Heartfield wrote:
> What made sense in the emergency conditions of the thirties and
> early forties, later became a barrier to capitalism. But that
> doesn't mean that it wasn't - however contradictory - an effective
> ruling class strategy at the time. After all, this was when
> America's global domination, economic and military, was established.
All true, but there was also a lot of agitation coming from within (strikes, the CP, fear of expropriation) and without (the USSR).
Doug