Beyond excellent! Everything in this article I am already aware of, but your writing is/was so well defined and articulate that I needed to give your piece a "Beyond excellent!" As to FDR's oil embargo of Japan, indeed, the real reason for the attack on Peral Harbor. In fact, it is a fact of history which Americans are rarely exposed. Go figure?
The one problem i have with it is the use of the phrase "Marxist class analysis"
Frankly, having been inundated for so long in so many fora with the Left/Right, Socialism/Capitalism binary - when each of those terms has so much baggage, winding up as trigger words and inviting so much controversy within which the substance of the actual subject at hand gets rather lost ...
I suggest that your post would have been quite complete and spot on without the use of that, IMO, extraneous and irrelevant term, why put it in there? Please explain how it fits, what it adds to your analysis .... I get that there must be an "economic analysis" - for me the "binary" of Greed/Sharing serves as well without the necessity of attaching someone's name to it ....
" ..... what are the choices that ‘independent’ voters have? That would be the Red Team or the Blue Team."
I think that is a good summary of our political predicament - either vote D/R or don't vote, because a vote for anyone else, unless they are on the ballot, won't count and the D/Rs, by design, have done their best to ensure that no one else will be on the ballot by passing ridiculously restrictive ballot access requirements ...
I think that is, or certainly should be, illegal ...
An idea stands if it accurately describes material conditions. Flak or no flak.
Hang in there.
Beyond excellent! Everything in this article I am already aware of, but your writing is/was so well defined and articulate that I needed to give your piece a "Beyond excellent!" As to FDR's oil embargo of Japan, indeed, the real reason for the attack on Peral Harbor. In fact, it is a fact of history which Americans are rarely exposed. Go figure?
I appreciate your writings a lot ...
This analysis is "right on"
The one problem i have with it is the use of the phrase "Marxist class analysis"
Frankly, having been inundated for so long in so many fora with the Left/Right, Socialism/Capitalism binary - when each of those terms has so much baggage, winding up as trigger words and inviting so much controversy within which the substance of the actual subject at hand gets rather lost ...
I suggest that your post would have been quite complete and spot on without the use of that, IMO, extraneous and irrelevant term, why put it in there? Please explain how it fits, what it adds to your analysis .... I get that there must be an "economic analysis" - for me the "binary" of Greed/Sharing serves as well without the necessity of attaching someone's name to it ....
Well-said, Rob. Especially the business about Israel.
I think this article is essential reading for helping us understand our political predicament in the United States.
" ..... what are the choices that ‘independent’ voters have? That would be the Red Team or the Blue Team."
I think that is a good summary of our political predicament - either vote D/R or don't vote, because a vote for anyone else, unless they are on the ballot, won't count and the D/Rs, by design, have done their best to ensure that no one else will be on the ballot by passing ridiculously restrictive ballot access requirements ...
I think that is, or certainly should be, illegal ...
The question is what can we do about it?
Erudite and persuasive as usual. Thx!
oops! you have the dates inverted; Eisenhower entered office in 1953 & exited with his farewell in 1961.
Thank you for the catch. I got the date from my initial research on the Eisenhower document. The error has been corrected.