Re: [Pen-l] Krugman critiques Obama stimulus plan

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 6, 2009, at 1:16 PM, dsquared@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> > You've got a point. I guess the best Bonapartist is an aristocrat,  
> > not  an
> > arriviste.
>
> I think I'm being dense here, but Napoleon Bonaparte was an arrivist  
> Corsican junior army officer (although subsequent Bonapartes and  
> Bonapartists were aristocrats of course).

I was making a joke about Roosevelt, not a historical point. Though  
FDR's class origins probably had a lot to do with why he had the nerve  
to be a (partial) class traitor. As Adorno said, you have to have  
tradition in you to hate it properly. Not that FDR was Adorno, of  
course.

Doug
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