On 8/4/20 1:16 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:
Rupert Murdoch’s NY Post made a splash on July 24 with an article titled
“de Blasio quotes Karl Marx in WNYC radio interview”. This red-baiting
exercise begins:
First it was Che Guevara — now it’s Karl Marx!
Mayor Bill de Blasio reached back to his salad days as a young
radical to quote the father of communism on Friday.
As for the source of the Karl Marx quote, during the course of an
interview, NPR’s Brian Lehrer asked de Blasio to comment on a Politico
article that made the mayor sound like a fire-breathing radical. Instead
of “reaching out now to business leaders in the city” for help with
various problems, he shut the door on this possibility by focusing on
“inequality and wanting to raise taxes on the wealthiest New Yorkers and
things like that.
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2020/08/04/mayor-de-blasios-doublethinking-on-karl-marx/
A comment from Mike Tormey on my de Blasio post. I was on the other side
of a bitter faction fight in Boston in the early 70s led by Peter
Camejo. I have patched things up with all my old nemeses, including
Mike. That's what so great about the net, a permanent reunion of lost souls.
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Mike:
Possibly, one of Karl Marx’s shirttail relatives, one Julius Groucho
Marx inadvertently summed up Bill de Blasio best when he opined “Those
are my principles if you don’t like them … well I have others”.
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