tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post6281738108345653400..comments2023-11-22T01:14:54.298-08:00Comments on amor mundi: To Declare Oneself Beyond Left And Right Is Almost Always To Disavow One Is On The RightDale Carricohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-3849734986940823562015-01-05T14:14:29.638-08:002015-01-05T14:14:29.638-08:00People who speak of a "separation of economy ...People who speak of a "separation of economy and state" presumably don't believe in macroeconomics? It would be like saying that flat-earthers are on the lower right quadrant of the geology compass. I personally think the metaphor of the <a href="http://amormundi.blogspot.com/2013/06/the-mixed-economy-isnt-mix-it-is-ideal.html" rel="nofollow">mixed economy</a> has done a lot of damage to sense.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-82440080833195761042015-01-05T13:34:23.130-08:002015-01-05T13:34:23.130-08:00Usually when people say they're "conserva...Usually when people say they're "conservative on economic issues, liberal on social issues," what they mean is that they want social issues to be considered non-political issues. Those conservatives who call themselves "independents" won't even give that much; saying they'd pass social issues to the states. The position of these lower-right quadrant (of political compass) folks on economics, of course, is "separation of economy and state," which means zero tolerance for subsidy, regulation, or elements of mixed economy. Relative to the left, they inevitably take a lot more than they give.Lorrainehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13567383019731167967noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-80987571698042650972015-01-04T22:27:13.950-08:002015-01-04T22:27:13.950-08:00The Reddit comment line about asking the working c...The Reddit comment line about asking the working class "to accept SLACK" reminds me of the Church of the Subgenius.<br /><br />Who wouldn't want slack? <br /><br />Chad Lotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07532435215151055258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-7086949798835903032015-01-03T15:38:28.065-08:002015-01-03T15:38:28.065-08:00You are right about this, and the ethnic/nationali...You are right about this, and the ethnic/nationalist pan-movements preceding the rise of fascism and providing rationales for racist imperial systems did the same (for which, read Arendt, Said, Gilroy). The norms and forms of marketing discourse that have suffused the public life of mass-mediated extractive-industrial corporate-military capitalism since the late 19C (setting the stage for the second 30 years war of WW1&2 and its neoliberal late/post-modern aftermath) are all about repackaging old assumptions, aspirations, and commodities as novelties... which leads us right into the critique of futurology that usually preoccupies my work and this blog.Dale Carricohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02811055279887722298noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5956838.post-65491174078621502912015-01-03T08:21:00.855-08:002015-01-03T08:21:00.855-08:00It is always funny how people who claim that there...It is always funny how people who claim that there is such a thing as "beyond left and right" ignores the history behind people claiming. Especially the first ones to claim to be beyond left and right, Fascism and Nazism. Obvisiously they were not beyond left and right because they were recruiting from and helping right wing interests and perpetuating class/plutocratic rule of course in a some what changed form.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05812503574018469872noreply@blogger.com