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On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 1:38 AM, Michael Smith <m...@smithbowen.net> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > 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/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ 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
