Wednesday, March 29, 2017

The wisdom of historian Doris Kearns Goodwin on " Our Times "

Socialist criticism of historian Goodwin
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  "  And it was a time of demagoguery and populism, but luckily for the country,
much of that energy got channeled through Teddy Roosevelt and the
Progressive movement... "]


There was a a guy, a passionate socialist, named Eugene V. Debs- self described as an " American Bolshevik -" who scared the capitalist ruling class into those- back then- very significant reforms. With the help of a mass socialist movement !

But if History can be rationally explained , how can ANY nation imagine itself exceptional - no matter how wonderful and progressive ?

Does Doris Kearns Goodwin imagine that Hillary Clinton was going in the direction of historical progress ? " Wall St. Hillary ", " Hawk Hillary ", " Corrupt Hillary " ?

The American capitalist class- which patronizes liberal historians- needs endless assurance that it must be around forever. But only CHANGE is eternal on this side of paradise.


A scent of mindless approval for US militarism here ? What did Trump " having no military experience " signify for the American historian Doris Goodwin : a reluctance to start World War III with nuclear power Russia ?

Indeed ,it was Hillary Clinton who had the visible support of the CIA and the Pentagon- these quintessential " progressive " American institutions.

[ The CIA also patronizes university scholars ]

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Goodwin a little over-impressed perhaps ?

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