From: Michael Perelman (michael@ECST.CSUCHICO.EDU)
Date: Thu Mar 20 2003 - 17:38:28 EST
I only heard him a couple of times on KPFA. He did not discuss the material you mention -- just that the old English aristocractic influences without the Puritanical caveats came with the cotton from the deep South to Texas. I could not defend a book that I did not read. On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 02:31:01PM -0800, Rakesh Bhandari wrote: > >I don't know if the ruling class has split; I just noted the potential for > >a split. I hope that it comes to pass. > >-- > > But Michael I don't see why Lind or anyone else accepts at face value > Bush's self-representation as a good ole, Southern boy who represents > the (very) old economy and truly likes pork rinds. This is the image > which Bush and Karl Rove have attempted to project to maintain his > electoral base in the South and the Far West. To think that Bush is > running Dell and Boeing into the ground for cattle ranches and Texas > oil patches is farcical. > Michael Lind is now only now making a political theory out of Bush's > cynical image making and thus giving credence to one of Bush's key > electoral weapons. Why the alarm bells do not go off every time Lind > writes or says something is beyond me. He has already engaged in > immigrant bashing and a pernicious nativism, Listian neo mercantilism > and a virulent and anti-third world economic nationalism, and war > mongering (in the case of Vietnam). > So I don't see why you and the Nation magazine take this demagogue seriously. > Rakesh > > > > >Michael Perelman > >Economics Department > >California State University > >Chico, CA 95929 > > > >Tel. 530-898-5321 > >E-Mail michael@ecst.csuchico.edu > -- Michael Perelman Economics Department California State University Chico, CA 95929 Tel. 530-898-5321 E-Mail michael@ecst.csuchico.edu
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