[lbo-talk] The Nation and brain death

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 22 10:59:24 PST 2010


On Feb 22, 2010, at 1:04 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:


> Klein (or worse)
> may reach people that have never heard of Pinochet.

For sure. But this sort of thing can also lead to false nostalgias - the doomed attempt to recreate the world of 1955 or 1965. Aside from the fact that you couldn't do it, it also forgets that things weren't so great 40 or 50 years ago either. If you're going to write a 400 page book that purports to be some sort of history of capitalism, you should become somewhat familiar with the history of capitalism.

Doug



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