[lbo-talk] Corey Robin on AJE on Bluestocking panel

Wojtek S wsoko52 at gmail.com
Wed Nov 16 09:04:57 PST 2011


"Most of the time you can rely on the IMF, but every now and then you have to send in the Marines."

[WS:] So which of the two gave us Social Security, the 40 hour work week, occupational safety, Brown v Board of Education, the Civil Rights Act, Fair Pay Act and the like?

Wojtek

On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
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> On Nov 15, 2011, at 8:20 PM, Bill Bartlett wrote:
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>> Arguments about to what extent the capitalist class rule by political repression miss the point. The ruling class do not need political dictatorship, they rule via economic dictatorship. Their rule is no less totalitarian for that.
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> "Most of the time you can rely on the IMF, but every now and then you have to send in the Marines."
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>  - Noam Chomsky to me, long ago
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