You mean the DP has a soul to struggle over?

 

:->

 

There are some horrors beyond even Shakespeare; try Mrs. Norton in Mansfield
Park.

 

Carrol

 

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Subject: Re: [Pen-l] Mangabeira Unger's approach

 

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


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