On 3/12/16 8:13 PM, Marv Gandall wrote: > We’ve been over this many times before - I can recall you more than > once enthusing about Canada’s New Democratic Party - but in my view > there is not a hair’s breadth of difference between those who today > describe themselves as left liberals or social democrats.
That's true but once it was not true. > > Their opposition to capitalism was rhetorical, and the crisis was > more severe and the working class more militant in Thomas’ time. Bear > in mind also he was competing with the Communist party in a working > class culture more attuned to anti-capitalist ideas and could afford > to be less constrained because he was farther removed from a serious > run for the presidency. Besides, can anyone doubt that were Thomas > were alive today, he would not be an enthusiastic supporter of > Sanders? Yeah, me. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list pen-l@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
