Louis Proyect wrote: > > Jim D. wrote: > >Still, I don't see Obama as being more of a con man than any other > >establishment politician. > > Really? I thought that the latest revelations from the NY Times about > his decision to stay in Iraq rates him as big a con artist as LBJ.
I don't very often argue about the "Marxist" label, but I will here. The concept of "con man" applied to bourgeois politicians is non-Marxist, in fact anti-marxist. It is closely related to the conspiricism which Lou hates as much as I do. Obama is a capitalist politician, and a principled ones. The problem is with his principles, not with him personally. I have complained Carrol _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
