I seem to be upsetting left wing anarchists as well as the usual right wing trolls at the moment.
I must be doing something right.
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I think the “I’m doing something right” because I’m being attached by the left and the right is lazy, and the excuse most often used by the BBC and does nothing to justify whether the argument you make based on the available evidence is actually sensible or valid.
Kevin
Well why not instead of relying on that defence don;t you sau whether the 2 million or so words on this blog are sensible or valid? You can’t say I haven’t presented an opinion or two
I very often think that what you say is sensible and valid and that you make the effort to back it up with evidence and I regularly agree with what you are saying.
But justifying your work on the basis that you are being attacked by left and right is content free because you can still be right or wrong and be attacked by both sides or not. It doesn’t add anything to the debate and it doesn’t add any evidence.
I’m probably being more critical of you because I like what your trying to do, and the effort and intellect you are putting into it. So cheap shots like this dissapoint.
Ok – point taken.
But sometimes this is about politics
And when you spend much of your life enduring the madness of the right wishing to portray someone in the social democratic tradition as extreme left wing there is occasional comfort in finding that you haven’t appeased those who think themselves much further to the left as well – as has happened, but not on the blog, of late
So if that political comment is unedifying I apologise to you. All it did really show was an interest in the foibles of the consequences of trying to present what was once considered a thoroughly centre ground position – which is belief in a mixed economy and welfare state
I’m a left anarchist and not upset. Is it because they think the state should be abolished? In the very long term i agree but in the meantime it needs to strengthened to control private capital (and changed to make it more democratic). Think it’s only people who want a revolution right now who would be upset? I’m looking forward to getting my copy of your book!
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head
Or maybe it’s because I am a statist – which clearly I am
Hi Richard –
State as opposed to Church, you mean? If not opposed to Church, what do you see the State opposed to?
Just interested, many thanks for any comments on the theme!
I genuinely am not sure what you are asking
Sorry
Isn’t politics about avoiding violence in plural,diversified societies by discussion , rather than by putting on ideological straight jackets?
I would hope so
I fear there remain those, almost entirely on the right who think aggression better
Perhaps the multimillionaire who said “only poor people pay taxes” let slip the truth. I watched a video by the renegade economist in which he showed that if you owned a house worth one million or more any tax you paid on a decent income were off-set by tax free growth of the one million pound house. Perhaps the biggest tax that hits that hits the poor disproportionately is the inflation tax. The interest on massive government debt is collected by the higher prices of goods that ordinary people use.
that assumes the house grows in value (housing market isnt exactly booming) – and besides, everyone gets tax free capital gain on their main house, so you could surely apply that logic to every home owner?
house prices rise partially due to deterioration in purchasing power of fiat money,
The US dollar has lost about 95% of its purchasing power since the creation of the federal reserve