[Marxism] Doug Henwood interview

["Charles Brown" <charlesb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Doug Henwood quote:

<It struck me recently, since Iâm working on
a book about the American ruling class, that one of the reasons
Roosevelt--and not just Franklin, but to a lesser extent Teddy--was
able
to act as a kind of perceived traitor to his class is that it takes
someone who comes from that class to have the nerve to betray it.
Someone like Obama, who comes from modest origins and believes in
meritocracy, is usually more eager to please the powerful and the
orthodox. As the German philosopher Adorno put it, you have to have
tradition in one[self] to hate it properly. I donât think he quite
has
it in him, and doesnât hate it properly.>

^^^
CB: Teddy Roosevelt didn't betray
 his class
very much. The emphasis should be
 on "perceived" , "deceiving" maybe.
However, some better
 examples of state leaders who were
 opponents of 
the ruling class - say Lenin,
Fidel, Lincoln, Chavez
 - are petit bourgeois,
not bourgeoisie. 



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