Re: [Pen-l] Remember, the recession isn't all bad

[Doyle Saylor <doylesaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Greetings Economists,
On Dec 15, 2008, at 8:17 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:

> Yeah, before that the U.S. was a paradise for leftists.
>
> Really, this makes no sense at all.

Doyle;
Broadly speaking we know the labor movement of the thirties in the  
U.S. was much more robust than now.  The pressure that suppressed  
communists and socialists after WWII in the cold war affected the  
debate.  The sixties while powerful in some ways was not a strong left  
movement.  Not classed based.

In the sense of your response, when people entertain different  
perspectives it often is so - that neither can make sense of the  
other.  My mistake in the past was to see your view as antithetical to  
mine.  Instead of learning from the challenge.  I'm confident that my  
contention makes sense to many people, and that is a political force  
not economic force.  What I mean is hard times shape sentiments about  
what to do.  And an appeal to robust attitudes is more apt than as  
some say here waving their arms.
thanks,
Doyle Saylor
_______________________________________________
pen-l mailing list
pen-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l