[Marxism] New Deal: Racism, and imperialism

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis Proyect lnp3 

You are evading my point, Charles.

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CB: No, I'm contradicting your "point". 

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 You are trying to rally people 
around a president who plans to escalate the war in Afghanistan and 
who has described himself as having no differences with John McCain 
over what to do with Hamas.
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CB: I'm supporting a President who shows enormous promise for making both 
domestic an foreign US policy better.

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 I don't care what Obama says or does 
about American workers, Black or white, as long as he has the blood 
of Afghan or Palestinian workers on his hands. 
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CB: Which he doesn't.   And your saying you don't care what he does about 
American workers is "reactionary".

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This, by the way, is 
exactly the same attitude I had toward the warmonger FDR who put the 
SWP leaders in prison for opposing WWII as an imperialist war.
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CB: So what ? Your position on FDR is politically incorrect , too.

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 When 
FDR was in cahoots with the Teamsters bureaucracy to silence them, 
guess who cheered FDR on. The CPUSA--the same group that got screwed 
for Smith Act violations 10 years later.

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CB: You are just chocked full of non-critical historical ditties.

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>CB: Well, but you aren't talking about the New Deal, which is what I 
>wrote about.
>
>Also, Obama doesn't have a reactionary foreign policy. Actually, he 
>has no foreign policy yet until he gets into office, but what he has 
>been saying is not reactionary.

You don't think it is reactionary to endorse the Israeli assault on 
Hamas? I guess we have different understandings of what a reactionary 
foreign policy amounts to.

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CB; Nope. Yes, we have different definitions of "reactionary" for sure.  Obama 
is not a reactionary.

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>CPUSA  Condemns Gaza Attacks
>Issued by the Communist Party,  USA
>12/29/2008

What good does it do to "make the record" when the CPUSA functions as 
the tail on Obama's kite. Here's what Obama's chief political adviser 
said yesterday:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/12/28/axelrod-obama-understands_n_153784.html
 

One of Barack Obama's chief spokesmen repeated on Sunday that it 
would be counterproductive for the president-elect to weigh too 
deeply into the crisis between Israel and Hamas while another 
commander-in-chief occupied the Oval Office.

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CB: So Obama didn't endorse the Israeli attack on Hamas. 

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But David Axelrod, appearing on CBS's Face the Nation, did reaffirm 
Obama's commitment to the "special relationship between the United 
States and Israel" in a way that suggested general sympathy for the 
Jewish state's actions.

Speaking a day after Israeli airstrikes, targeting and destroying 
Hamas facilities in Gaza, killed more than 275, Axelrod said the 
president-elect, from on-the-ground experience, understood the urge 
for retaliatory action.







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