Re: [Marxism] political eocnomy of a sell-out

[Philip Ferguson <philip.ferguson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis wrote:

>So entrenched were New Deal values that McGovern's loss to Nixon was
not 
seen as a mandate to carry out Thatcher/Reagan style cuts on the welfare

state. If anything, the U.S. has not seen a Democratic presidential 
candidate in recent years about whom the following could be said:

>"During Nixon's six years in office, social spending (adjusted for 
inflation) doubled. Nixon instituted vast new regulatory bodies: the 
Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health 
Agency, and the Consumer Products Safety Commission, among many others. 
Nixon issued the executive orders creating the affirmative action system

in federal hiring, and Nixon appointees on the Supreme Court wrote the 
opinions forcing affirmative action upon the private sector."

>The Financial Post (Toronto, Canada), April 23, 1994


In 1968 Nixon declared, "We are all Keynesians now".

And in the first couple of years of Nixon's administration, the
percentage of people in the US below the poverty line continued to fall.

Democratic presidential candidates in recent years, certainly from Bill
Clinton on, seem to generally stand to the right of Nixon on economic
and social policy and in roughly the same place in regards to US
imperialist interventions abroad.

Phil



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