On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 1:35 PM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > raghu wrote: >> The Democratic Party after all, did deliver the New Deal and Civil >> Rights - achievements that are still substantially intact even after >> the setbacks of the last 30 years. > > The DP implemented the New Deal and Civil Rights, but only because > mass popular movements pressured them to do so, as did social > disorder.
So what? The point is the mass popular movements were able to use the DP as a vehicle for change. If they had Obama instead of FDR do you think the New Deal would have happened? > The DP leadership also carefully limited and shaped the New > Deal and Civil Rights to make sure that they didn't hurt vested > interests (unless absolutely necessary) and didn't make the mass > popular movements stronger. You can always tell a version of this story where any progressive step short of revolution can be interpreted as really being in the long-term interests of the elite. It is a meaningless exercise that proves nothing. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
