Saturday, March 20, 2010
Society is Broken, comments about a piece by David Brooks.
I must first state that I am pleasantly surprised to read such a favourable assessment of current social conditions. While Mr. Blond might not know it, his prescription is exactly what libertarian socialism is all about. Which is mutual aid, and workers having a share of the market, and profits, at the there places of employment. Specificly this refers to mutualism. There are other forms of libertarian socialism that do not feature a market economy. Like for example anarcho-communism, which has a gift economy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gift_economy, in which goods and services are distributed free of charge. I tend to view myself as being a philosophical anarchist without adjectives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_without_adjectives . So I do not personally favour any one socio-economic system over another. But if a presumabley red Tory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Tory, like Phillip Blond starts espousing left-libertarian views, perhaps we should somewhat reassess our political allegiances, and support at least some self proclaimed conservatives.
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Last night while in an anarchist chatroom, the subject of "Red Tories" came up. Their opinion -- and the two most active discussers were Canadians --- was that the label is only a casual rebranding of conservatives who want to seem progressive.
I don't know about that, but living in the US it seems a novelty that politicans want to seem more liberal. Here they spend their time ensuring the public they're good traditionalists.
I'm smellincoffee from the Association of Ex-Pentecostals, by the way. :)
Ok. Nice to see you post here. I do recognise your username. It's interesting that we seem to have similar political interests. On the subject of red tories. While I do find it to be a positive developement that traditionalists are focusing on matters of social justice, there potential society may just simply turn out to be communitarian, rather than democraticly socialist. I know that there are traditionalist Catholics who are distributists, as well as old right agrarians. So I fear that some people, might be not only anti-capitalist, but anti-democratic as well. Like for instance certain dominionists, and/or Islamists. But I still also choose to be hopefully optimistic about the prospects for progressive social change.
Here was the opinion piece I was referring to in the original post . http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/opinion/19brooks.html
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