Re: Nick Cohen on Thomas Frank

[andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen@xxxxxxxxx>]

So, your alternative is to talk about why we are
fucked and can't do anything? Because the country sure
as hell doesn't want socialist revolution, and under
foreseeably attainable circumstances won't be able to
have it anyway. So what exactly do you think we should
be doing? Don't tell me what we shouldn't be doing,
but what you think we should.

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

> At 9:30 PM -0700 9/13/04, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
> >So what's your alternative? Not to talk about
> people's economic interests?
>
> It's futile to look to the Democratic Party to
> return to the roots of
> the New Deal/Great Society shadow welfare state --
> first of all, it
> doesn't want to, and secondly, it can't.  The
> Democratic Party's
> change is part of the global politico-economic trend
> of capitalism,
> the trend that began in the mid-70s.  And the United
> States'
> international economic position is not what it once
> was -- it's now a
> net importer of capital.  That's the sort of things
> that I'd expect
> the Progressive Economists Network to analyze.
> --
> Yoshie
>
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