[lbo-talk] Garry Wills does nice short summary of RS article

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 25 13:25:47 PDT 2010


On Jun 25, 2010, at 4:17 PM, Eric Beck wrote:


> Dennis' question is a good one, not just because of its immediate
> content but because it says we should look about what's actually
> happened rather than at elites' ideologies. Trying to describe what's
> happened by divining the aims of "US planning" and "central planners"
> -- which are comically corny phrases in 2010 -- guarantees you end up
> with a very partial description.

The declarations about the planners' intentions are typically uttered with no supporting evidence, aside maybe from a quote that Chomsky likes from a 50-year-old document. I don't know, maybe they're right, but it'd be nice to have a quote from a participant or something.

Doug



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