Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

So what's your alternative? Not to talk about people's
economic interests?

--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> At 12:47 PM -0700 9/13/04, andie nachgeborenen
> wrote:
> >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?
>
> We are not in the midst of a great depression, nor
> are we at the
> height of a post-war economic boom.  Our economic
> conditions are so
> different from both extremes.
>
> In general, both social democracy and socialism of
> old-fashioned
> kinds began to die in the mid-70s, not just in the
> United States,
> much less just in Kansas.
>
> Does Frank pay attention to global economic and
> political trends?
> --
> Yoshie
>
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