[lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers

Chris Doss lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com
Fri Apr 2 12:15:29 PDT 2010


Wasn't the US's rise to power much more a result of Europe's self-immolation in the war than particular policies of FDR?

----- Original Message ---- From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Sent: Fri, April 2, 2010 10:34:26 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Mitchel's interview with two Platypus organizers

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).

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