tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post1033475467224771870..comments2024-03-27T09:14:27.496+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Keir Starmer vs CoronavirusPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-64677391124289843662020-03-19T15:22:43.848+00:002020-03-19T15:22:43.848+00:00Keir Starmer will win, and he will quite possibly ...Keir Starmer will win, and he will quite possibly win the next GE. He may also become less dull and more inspiring. Can he do some good as a future PM? - Yes. Will he change the structure society or of inequality?- No. The thing is I think everyone knows this whether they are voting for him or not. Hope he becomes a bit more inspiring though. He might. As is the norm lots of advice and help will be given. Enjoyed the article.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-61562701063288095752020-03-19T10:39:34.047+00:002020-03-19T10:39:34.047+00:00the tired old assumption that, despite what the To...<i>the tired old assumption that, despite what the Tories do and the damage they inflict, in the end they're wrong and misinformed and a good bit of evidence and argumentation is going to make them see the light.</i><br /><br />So much this. As if Corbyn didn't "go high" <b>enough</b>; as if Brown and Miliband didn't put enough trust in the good faith of the Right.<br /><br />There is still a working class and it still has enemies. Viewed in that perspective, Starmer's capitulating before he's begun.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-55731302623896515702020-03-19T08:47:26.273+00:002020-03-19T08:47:26.273+00:00Have you read Paul Mason's latest?
"What...Have you read Paul Mason's latest?<br /><br />"What we need, both in the physical fight to stop the virus and the economic fight to stop financial contagion, is the very thing successive governments have destroyed and disavowed: a plan. Keir Starmer suggests the fight against the virus should be actively co-ordinated by the Civil Contingencies Secretariat. Do you know what that is? Nope, because it’s become a dormant function of government in the free-market era, when all problems were assumed to be controllable by market mechanisms, or through government tweaks. But Starmer is right: we need to activate the functions of the state, just as other countries have done, where necessary ordering – not requesting – behavioural change. "<br /><br />"Like it or not, we are going to end up with a heavily state-backed economy, with the government directing the private sector and ensuring everyone has enough to live on: the sooner we accept that, and a generation of neoliberal-trained politicians learns how to perform this role, the better."<br /><br />https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/economy/2020/03/coronavirus-crisis-economic-collapse-capitalism<br /><br />All that is solid........Dialectician1noreply@blogger.com