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On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 10:06:45 -0400 Louis Proyect <l...@panix.com> wrote: > > The assertion that "the bourgeois prefers democratic forms" is, of > > course, received wisdom, but do we have any real evidentiary basis > > for believing it? > > Yes, you can read about how the German bourgeoisie only turned to > Hitler when all other options failed. I recommend William Shirer's > history, as well as Daniel Guerin's more Marxist-oriented work. Point taken. But I wonder whether we don't suffer sometimes from 1930/1930 vision: -- the events of the 30s are taken as normative and definitory. The abrupt turn to Fascism then does look very much like a response to crisis. The phenomenon I think in see in process now is perhaps a bit different -- it has gradualist, incremental, statistical dynamics rather than catastrophist ones. -- Michael Smith m...@smithbowen.net http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com http://cars-suck.org "Everyone has his favorite passage from the Theodosian Code." -- M I Finley ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
