Ah, yes, the struggle for the soul of the Democratic party... Didn't Shakespeare write a play about that? Or Sophocles? Or someone?
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Carrol Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > **. . . .And the "progressives" will have a > better chance of prevailing.** > > The scare quotes around _progressive_ don't serve to save the word. I know > there are real difficulties in finding a substitute word, but it seems > increasingly clear to me that the word "progressive" cannot be purified of > the bourgeois delusion that Progress is structusred into hisotyr. And that > delusion cannot be separated from its supreme literary expression, > Kipling's > "The White Man's Burden." > > Carrol > > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l > -- Cheers, Tom Walker (Sandwichman)
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