Re: [Pen-l] James Petras on Obama

To: Progressive Economics <pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Pen-l] James Petras on Obama
From: Carrol Cox <cbcox@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 18:53:03 -0600

Louis Proyect wrote:
> 
> Jim D. wrote:
> >Still, I don't see Obama as being more of a con man than any other
> >establishment politician.
> 
> Really? I thought that the latest revelations from the NY Times about
> his decision to stay in Iraq rates him as big a con artist as LBJ.

I don't very often argue about the "Marxist" label, but I will here. The
concept of "con man" applied to bourgeois politicians is non-Marxist, in
fact anti-marxist. It is closely related to the conspiricism which Lou
hates as much as I do.

Obama is a capitalist politician, and a principled ones. The problem is
with his principles, not with him personally. I have complained 

Carrol

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