tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post5115946659093124126..comments2024-03-26T15:19:23.091-07:00Comments on false dichotomy by charles davis: Conservatism: the heart of progressive reformCharles Davishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-4759822977474292282010-04-09T08:54:27.477-07:002010-04-09T08:54:27.477-07:00"The spectacular failure of reform efforts to..."The spectacular failure of reform efforts to arrest the trend toward ever-greater concentration of power and money in the hands of a few beckons us to contemplate a more holistic solution to the problem of the state and the influence of capital, but one that, as Thoreau would put it, can only be considered when the masses are prepared for it, when people come to grasp that they can get along just fine without the charlatans and hucksters who claim to represent them -- when violence and power come to be abhorred, not worshiped."<br /><br /><br />Hear, hear! Beautiful, I love it.<br /><br />It's mind-boggling to me that we haven't hit the tipping point with "the masses" yet, considering the things that have happened in the last decade and, more recently, in the last 2 years.Andromedahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05339939069458146288noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-88477127364505969652010-03-05T11:10:40.906-08:002010-03-05T11:10:40.906-08:00"Teddy Roosevelt was by any measure a monstro..."Teddy Roosevelt was by any measure a monstrous buffoon, an avowed racist and imperialist who saw war as a societal tonic -- only for the victor, presumably -- and fervently believed in American exceptionalism, empire and the flaunting of military might as the path to national greatness"<br />that patch of prose<br />needs no apology <br /><br />owen paineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-48062333130148601332010-03-05T09:23:46.124-08:002010-03-05T09:23:46.124-08:00To recap: I'm a poor man's Howard Zinn wit...To recap: I'm a poor man's Howard Zinn with a writing style akin to that of a hyperactive bird.<br /><br />But, as I tell myself every morning, at least I'm not Kai Ryssdall.Charles Davishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06005070529766546097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-11244357855385881412010-03-05T08:58:08.287-08:002010-03-05T08:58:08.287-08:00i think you conflate tr's muscular saxonism
wi...i think you conflate tr's muscular saxonism<br />with its made in bourgeois genteel conditions<br /> with say taft's corporate lawyer<br />take <br /><br />the two are both not matgan<br />nor likely to delight in morgan <br />the shared values are to a larger looser constellation of must do list items<br />we dwarf marximists <br />call <br />the duties of a class hegemonist<br /><br />time for all good burgers<br /> to come to aid of their class <br />may muster fairly disperate if not desperate souls <br />no ??<br /><br />btw you write like a humming bird<br /><br /> god's speed <br /><br /><br />ps<br />if you must go npr <br /> stay off market place <br /><br />owen paineAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9339045.post-38095317035470969052010-03-02T16:03:52.315-08:002010-03-02T16:03:52.315-08:00Have you been reading Zinn lately? His chapter on ...Have you been reading Zinn lately? His chapter on the Socialist experiement (ch. 8? 9?) discusses this very point about Roosevelt, progressivism, and the real levers behind the reforms.<br /><br />Either way, well said. I'm in total agreement.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01478727886919764431noreply@blogger.com