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i do not see how the u.s. can be understood as a variant of social democracy.
maybe if you take off from the new deal and then use that to erase the implications of the post-reagan period, that is if you consider the ideological shift ushered into power under reagan, and the practical effects of that shift to be superficial. i do not know what grounds you could muster to justify that.
i see the u.s.--particularly now--as developing an alternative model---one that is self-defeating at the level of its understanding of the public, of public function, one that is dedicated to eliminating the feedback loops provided by organized dissent, one that tries to substitute consumption for political freedom and worse, one that blocks a serious look at the history of capitalism in general by trying to make it ideologically impossible. self-blinding, arrogant and self-defeating, the version of capitalism being elaborated around bushworld will not last long. i just do not know what will happen when it begins to implode as a function of its own incoherence.
and i am not sure that i want to be around to see it.
this for the reasons outlined in the previous post.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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