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

[Wojtek S]

[WS:] I guess that you can rationalize any current development by linking it
some real or imaginary element in the past, but that does not really
undermine what I am arguing.  My argument is that politics is a dynamic
process not a staged one, and under certain circumstances that process can
take quite unexpected turns.  This was to counter Marv's proposition that SS
is safe, because the ruling elites would not want to take the politcal risk
of taking it away.

Wojtek

On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>wrote:


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