[lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right?

Chip Berlet c.berlet at publiceye.org
Fri Jul 23 19:47:07 PDT 2010


Yeats: "The Second Coming" :

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold...

The best lack all conviction, while the worst

Are full of passionate intensity.

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From: lbo-talk-bounces at lbo-talk.org on behalf of Doug Henwood Sent: Fri 7/23/2010 10:10 PM To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Are recessions better for the left or right?

On Jul 23, 2010, at 9:40 PM, Chip Berlet wrote:


> the center cannot hold (tip o' the hat to the Yeats poem)

As I've said before, Harold Bloom reads that passage as evidence of Yeats's fascist sympathies. I could quote the text, but I lost the book in the divorce.

Doug

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