Re: [Marxism] New Deal or Popular Front

[Shane Mage <shmage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Dec 27, 2008, at 9:35 PM, Adam Richmond wrote:

> 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.


Obama, the providential leader, is nothing like Blum: but he has  
something in common with an ethnically much further (Corsican)  
outsider (and his nephew) who at  moments of great crisis gained power  
in France with overwhelming popular support. The first  used that  
power (which put them "above" politics and "above" classes) to secure  
and the second to reinstate the power of the big bourgeoisie.  The  
first left France with a tradition of  professional public  
administration and the second with a tradition of state capitalism-- 
two traditions painfully absent in Obama's USA.


Shane Mage

> This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
> always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
> kindling in measures and going out in measures."
>
> Herakleitos of Ephesos

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