I didn't get your last post when you complained about people equating markets with the right wing, and I don't get this one. What sort of markets? Free markets? Regulated markets? Globalised markets? Internal markets? Flea markets?
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-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...