{"id":11581,"date":"2011-08-21T08:14:17","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T07:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=11581"},"modified":"2011-08-21T08:14:17","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T07:14:17","slug":"the-left-are-fighting-capitalisms-excess-and-some-have-been-doing-for-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/21\/the-left-are-fighting-capitalisms-excess-and-some-have-been-doing-for-for-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"The left are fighting capitalism&#8217;s excess &#8211; and some have been doing for for a long time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in the Observer this morning<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2011\/aug\/21\/ed-miliband-capitalism-rightwing-critics?INTCMP=SRCH\" target=\"_blank\"> Julian Coman says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Why are the failings of capitalism only being exposed by the right?<\/p>\n<p id=\"stand-first\">It used to be Labour that fought against the moral inadequacies of the free market. It must rediscover its voice.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, he's right that Labour has not made nearly enough noise on this issue.<\/p>\n<p>But some of us have been critiquing capitalism for some time. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxjustice.net\/cms\/front_content.php?idcatart=2\" target=\"_blank\">Tax Justice Network <\/a>has played an enormous role in this - so I'll claim a little credit for that.<\/p>\n<p>Then there's been the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.greennewdealgroup.org\/?page_id=2\" target=\"_blank\">Green New Deal\u00a0group<\/a> -\u00a0which\u00a0called the whole malaise\u00a0before\u00a0it happened and offered solutions before anyone thought they needed them, and again I'll claim a little credit.<\/p>\n<p>The critique has been there all right.<\/p>\n<p>Now Labour must\u00a0embrace\u00a0it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in the Observer this morning Julian Coman says: Why are the failings of capitalism only being exposed by the right? It used<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/08\/21\/the-left-are-fighting-capitalisms-excess-and-some-have-been-doing-for-for-a-long-time\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}