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He may very well disagree with that assessment, but what I've always liked about OPOL's work and outlook is that it's so quintessentially American. There's that frontier radicalism, the populist narrative from the last two centuries, and that uniquely American demand that the system live up to the words and spirit of the constitution and the vision of the Founders.
Maybe I have him all wrong, that's possible. But OPOL's narrative to me seems more William Jennings Bryan's Cross of Gold than Karl Marx' Das Kapital.
Go fuck yourself, you pathetic keyboard anarchist.
by MBNYC on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 11:23:46 AM PDT
His work on the American Civil War, conducted while in New York, is among the best contemporary analysis.
by YellowDogBlue on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 12:16:43 PM PDT
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-- than just the Constitution, and I think OPOL displayed full well that he knows this...
"The freeway's concrete way won't show/ you where to run or how to go" -- Jorma Kaukonen
by Cassiodorus on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 12:19:00 PM PDT
My argument is that OPOL stands in a tradition of specifically American thought. But maybe I'm just seeing what I'm equipped to see, that's possible; and I'm sure OPOL himself will weigh in at some point.
by MBNYC on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 12:38:18 PM PDT
but also appreciate Cassiodorus' analysis. I find that his ideas particularly valuble when thinking about the future and how we might establish a truly sustainable system.
"The truth shall set you free - but first it'll piss you off." Gloria Steinem
Iraq Moratorium
by One Pissed Off Liberal on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 03:36:13 PM PDT
by Cassiodorus on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 03:38:25 PM PDT
this diary isn't really that much about Marx -- but I did like putting up that picture of hairy old Moor... thanks OPOL for emailing me the picture...
by Cassiodorus on Mon Sep 24, 2007 at 03:41:40 PM PDT
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