Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[Carl Remick <carlremick@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> I am not sure I read Frank as saying that liberals and
> Democrat should not be bothered to defend their
> favored social issues, like women's equality, abortion
> rights, gay liberation. That's not how I read the book
> at all.
>
> Rather, I say Frank's point as being that the Dems
> should _also_ get back to their New Deal-Great Society
> roots on economic issues, and play this up. Don't
> Marxists agree with this idea?

I agree with your view about What's the Matter With Kansas?, AN, and I hope
LP will reply at some point.  I would welcome hearing a Marxist explanation
for the great mystery that Frank identifies -- that Kansans (and US'ers in
general) seem to be driven by phony-baloney social issues to the virtual
exclusion of being concerned about economic reality.  How *can* sheer
fantasy trump material fact that way?

Carl