Re: [Marxism] New Deal or Popular Front

[Adam Richmond <adambrichmond@xxxxxxxxx>]

As a political personality resembles neither FDR or Blum. Ethnically is an 
outsider, like Blum, to the ethnic base of the ruling elite but the similarity 
ends.

Leon Blum was socialist and the leader of a working class political party.   
Blum was politicized by the Dreyfus affair and represented a breakthrough of 
sorts against French anti-Jewish sentiment. 

If Jesse Jackson became a socialist and then became president, it would be a 
closer match.  Obama is notable for his distance from the civil rights movement 
and his pro-capitalist commitment.  





--- On Sat, 12/27/08, abu hartal <abuhartal@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: abu hartal <abuhartal@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Marxism] New Deal or Popular Front
> To: "Adam Richmond" <adambrichmond@xxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008, 3:54 PM
> Perhaps Obama better compares to Leon Blum than FDR
> 1)first ethnic outsider elected PM/President
> 2) supporter of some progressive legislation
> 3) guided by an underconsumptionist theory of economic
> crisis, he could not 
> not solve the crisis. 
> 4) anemically supportive of worker sit ins
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