[lbo-talk] NYT: Party Gridlock in Washington Feeds Fear of a DebtCrisis

[Chris Doss]

I dunno Woj. If you look at a lot of rhetoric post-WWI, at least in the US and UK, there's a strong streak of about "the barbarous Hun." I have a 1920 US printing of Josiah Royce's "Lectures on the Philosophy of Idealism," and part of the preface is devoted to justifying why we should study the philosophy of the Hun, who as everybody knows is totally barbaric and warlike, capable of any atrocity and the sole party responsible for the Great War. Replace "Hegel" with "Heidegger" and it could have been written by James Heartfield. :) 

----- Original Message ----
From: Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com>

Prior to 1930, Germany was a social democracy (social democrats were getting
most of the votes) known for its high culture and civilization.  Nobody
could have predicted that in just a few years it would descend into utmost
barbarism, followed by nearly total destruction of its cultural legacy.
While I am not arguing that similar form of fascism is bound to descend on
the US, I also see a real possiblity of a movement that will wipe out what
most Americans take for granted today.  Social security could be one of may
casualties  of that movement.

Wojtek