It's all one great big Liberal Conspiracy
2007-Nov-06, Tuesday 00:46![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Reasons why Mat should pay more attention to those messages he's got marked as "reply to when you've time"...
Liberal Conspiracy
That contributors list? That's a who's who of left-of-centre British blogging. Some I virtually always agree with, some I vehemently disagree with on most things. Suspect it'll be an interesting site. And I can pretty much guarantee that a fair few of the contributors will fail to understand Chris Dillow on more than one occasion. There are far too many people out there that think support for markets=right wing. Guys? It's the Tories that are supposed to be Stupid, remember? Except the liberal ones, who really ought to realise they're in the wrong party.
I barely have time to read my friends page, let alone comment, or update here. So why am I thinking of contributing to two super-blogs and maybe starting something else as well? Given the huge number of half-started projects on my to-do list...
Oh, wait, it's because I'm a lunatic. We knew that. Sleep? What is this sleep thing of which people speak?
Liberal Conspiracy
That contributors list? That's a who's who of left-of-centre British blogging. Some I virtually always agree with, some I vehemently disagree with on most things. Suspect it'll be an interesting site. And I can pretty much guarantee that a fair few of the contributors will fail to understand Chris Dillow on more than one occasion. There are far too many people out there that think support for markets=right wing. Guys? It's the Tories that are supposed to be Stupid, remember? Except the liberal ones, who really ought to realise they're in the wrong party.
I barely have time to read my friends page, let alone comment, or update here. So why am I thinking of contributing to two super-blogs and maybe starting something else as well? Given the huge number of half-started projects on my to-do list...
Oh, wait, it's because I'm a lunatic. We knew that. Sleep? What is this sleep thing of which people speak?
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Date: 2007-Nov-06, Tuesday 09:30 (UTC)Still, might be worth watching for the moment when those who find it hard to complete a sentence without using the word 'progressive' get into a row with Daniel Davies (http://d-squareddigest.blogspot.com/2006/12/i-shit-on-progressives-of-this-planet.html).
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Date: 2007-Nov-06, Tuesday 10:32 (UTC)But pretty sure DD and Chris would be on board in order to attempt to persuade "lefties" that a Liberal answer is best, and given that's also our shared position for most things, it'll be worth trying out, even if it's more than likely doomed to fail. Regardless, it's a nice idea for a project, and almost certainly more likely to succeed as a 'super blog' than CiF or The Sharpener.
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Date: 2007-Nov-06, Tuesday 10:13 (UTC)And if you're in favour of regulated markets, how is that different from the social democratic position?
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Date: 2007-Nov-06, Tuesday 15:22 (UTC)Assuming you mean the former, what the hell is a free market anyway? Something that exists in theory, that may well be theoretically neutral politically... but not something that exists in reality, surely? All markets in reality are political on every level, and they tend to favour the Right. The reason that real markets favour the Right is simply that they exist to serve the profit motive and provide capitalism with its dynamic, not to engender mutually-beneficial contracts between groups with differing interests. I mean, you could have a society with some kind of Potlatch system and I guess that would qualify as a left-wing market in some sense...
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Date: 2007-Nov-11, Sunday 12:59 (UTC)Otherwise I'll just have to use the RSS feed...
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