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Apropos The Nation:


    examples of intellectual and political bankruptcy: American
    liberalism
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"For examples of intellectual and political bankruptcy, one could hardly 
do better than peruse the pages of the /Nation/, the American liberal 
publication. An excellent starting-point would be the magazine’s ongoing 
series, “Reimagining Socialism.”

The collection of short essays by a variety of liberal and “left” 
commentators in the US, is a response to the breakdown of world 
capitalism and the discrediting of free market ideology, a phenomenon 
that even the mass media acknowledges. Popular hatred for the 
corporate-financial aristocracy is increasingly a fact of American daily 
life.

The /Nation/’s response is a pre-emptive effort to convince its readers 
that socialist revolution is impossible and the best of all possible 
worlds would be the emergence of mass reformist pressure on the Obama 
administration and the Democratic Party.

The series prompted a sardonic comment this week in Britain’s /Financial 
Times/, one of the more astute voices of bourgeois opinion. Columnist 
Michael Skapinker (”Dangers in a World of Disillusionment,” March 30) 
notes that “Oddly, those who should be rejoicing most at capitalism’s 
humbling are as lost as everyone else.” He observes that the /Nation/ 
“has now published an extensive series of essays called ‘Reimagining 
Socialism,’ in which one writer after another admits they cannot 
reimagine socialism.”

[...] via The /Nation/ and “socialism” 
<http://www.wsws.org/articles/2009/apr2009/pers-a02.shtml>.

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