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I guess I support FDR on that (none / 0)

but I would not call it "class solidarity", just pragmatism. Results speak for themselves. He created and nurtured the mass middle class, and built infrasturcture that lasts to this day (or is just beginning to get frayed now, after years of neglect).

Would communism have been better than what he achieved? Allow me to be skeptical.

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes

by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Mon Aug 6th, 2007 at 07:05:47 AM EST
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Re: I guess I support FDR on that (none / 1)

Is the alternative to prosecuting coup-makers communism?

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon Aug 6th, 2007 at 10:00:34 AM EST
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Re: I guess I support FDR on that (4.00 / 2)

Blah, that went wrong.

I meant: Is the alternative - prosecuting coup-makers - communism?

Sure there was an element of pragmatism, but this pragmatic response to would-be dictators are so much more common in response to coup-makers that are within the elite, then when it comes to revolutionaries that comes from outside the elite. So I agree with the assessment that it is class solidarity at work.

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by A swedish kind of death on Mon Aug 6th, 2007 at 10:06:41 AM EST
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