Re: "closet Keynsians"

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>> Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx> 02/02/00 04:26PM >>>
So what is really ailing the left today, he said, is not the end of
Communism but the end of that hope. It is not, in other words, that the
left has made peace with capitalism because (rightly or wrongly) it
associates socialism with the failed experiments of Communism. On the
contrary, the problem is that they associate socialism with the failed
experiment of a relatively humane capitalism.


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CB: Which is basically to say the reversal of the reforms of the New Deal, or 
the
defeat of the American variant of social democracy.

CB