[PEN-L:1679] Re: Re: Social Democracy and Utopia

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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>Brad, who is this "we"? You and Truman? Harry S Truman (to whom "his"
>referred in my sentence) was no social democrat! He was a right-wing member
>of the New Deal coalition (which makes him sort of left wing by today's
>standards). I'm surprised that you want to put yourself in the same league
>with the mad bomber of Hiroshima.

I think Truman made a lot of big mistakes (Hiroshima among them), but did a
lot more things right.

It's hard to visit Seoul and then the DMZ (I've never been to Pyongyang),
or Taipei and then Beijing, or Berlin and then Minsk and not come away
feeling that we today owe a pretty big debt to Harry S Truman...

Brad DeLong