[lbo-talk] US workers in 2010 as compared to German workers in the 1930s

c b cb31450 at gmail.com
Mon Aug 30 09:28:50 PDT 2010


Eric Beck

The comparisons make good for good wonkery, but the lessons you can draw from it would be completely spurious. Unless you think history is merely the repetition of the same.

^^^^^ CB: Is there any value for the present in studying history ? Is it that we can draw no lessons from history ? Is scholarly discipline of history sort of like astrology or tarot ? Maybe the American people are right in their intellectual style of historical amnesia and living entirely in the present.

Maybe the world is as Heraclitus had it.



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