tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post539630155538449847..comments2024-03-27T06:56:10.255+00:00Comments on Broad Oak Magazine: A crisis of democracy, not of capitalismUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-53602533734557764082008-09-26T20:26:00.000+01:002008-09-26T20:26:00.000+01:00Dunno. What I remember most clearly was laughing ...Dunno. What I remember most clearly was laughing at the obvious attempt to recruit one economist for every day of the year, and failing.<BR/><BR/>PS site still jittery.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-5529108886673757882008-09-26T20:19:00.000+01:002008-09-26T20:19:00.000+01:00Hazily, DM. Are they the same crowd who said Calif...Hazily, DM. Are they the same crowd who said California's economy would collapse if Proposition 13 was passed?Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-39948562432926172422008-09-26T19:39:00.000+01:002008-09-26T19:39:00.000+01:00Here's another thing to the Yanks' credit. Their ...Here's another thing to the Yanks' credit. Their bunch of economists who've written to their government are broadly right. Remember the 364 duds who wrote rubbish to Thatcher?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-33638318965424033662008-09-26T16:42:00.000+01:002008-09-26T16:42:00.000+01:00Thank you, HG, nice to see another who will give t...Thank you, HG, nice to see another who will give the Americans their due.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-3509541219823397192008-09-26T13:03:00.000+01:002008-09-26T13:03:00.000+01:00There may have been a tendency to think of capital...There may have been a tendency to think of capitalism as a monolithic system. There has been such a tendency to think this of the Soviet economic system when actually it transformed and responded reasonably effectively for quite a long time.<BR/><BR/>At the moment social market capitalism is probably being quite successful in continental Europe, and hyper-liberal capitalism is having a really bad time outside. Democracy tends to go with market capitalism. So yes, democracy is getting a battering but it isn't just due to a particular capitalist form collapse. It's due to having a democratic tendency to dump failing rulers who don't want to go. It's entirely political (unless you're of a Marxist persuasion and believe in sub-structures generating super-structure etc., of course.)<BR/><BR/>Credit where it's due. For lots of Americans democracy does shine brightly and is worth personal and social sacrifice. That's what's particularly dispiriting about the bahaviour of the wider Labour movement and its members.hatfield girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12673905475452420002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-57858008390642260532008-09-26T11:36:00.000+01:002008-09-26T11:36:00.000+01:00Sorry, maybe it's the Outbrain stuff I addfed ...Sorry, maybe it's the Outbrain stuff I addfed - the rating & suggestions widget. I may remove it.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09410040031410954403noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5524682876220396502.post-25714242458528955372008-09-26T09:10:00.000+01:002008-09-26T09:10:00.000+01:00This blog keeps crashing my browser.This blog keeps crashing my browser.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com