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Comments on: Blair the Marxist http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/ Trying to make a point Fri, 25 Jan 2008 12:21:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ibrahim http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-17761 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 07:43:55 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-17761 I though people “Love” blair giving him three consecutive victories to be the British prime minister

]]> By: Tim Worstall http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16939 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 17:09:12 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16939 Britblog Roundup #72…

Apologies if I don’t get too upset about the association result yesterday: the way the local Portugee was acting around here last night I’m rather glad I didn’t have to walk through a crowd of them if they’d lost. Still…

]]> By: Barneh http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16929 Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:08:43 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16929 The idea that Blair is Marxist is rather optimistic. I feel rather that he seeks to promote capitalism beyond its natural life, just like every other capitalist leader. I hope that you prove me wrong, but I’m afraid its rather wishful thinking.

]]> By: treborc http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16758 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:35:39 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16758 Sadly in China you complain about the sweat shops or low pay your not seen again, something Blair is looking into in case anyone says to much at the next conference.

It is easy for people to say look at China and Pakistan India, they have grasped the idea of the global market, sadly we grasped in about two hundred years ago and then lost it.

Now we are a country of shop keepers well not yet, we are becoming a country of shops workers.

Sadly Blair idea of IT is giving the USA billions and the USA saying sod him send him crap.

]]> By: Phil E http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16753 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:57:04 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16753 Apparently we’re being governed by Jim Davison.

“There are no such debates in China – at least, there are, but they’re all in Chinese and nobody can understand them! The Chinese alphabet, that’s something else, isn’t it? Only language where the ABC song has twenty verses. My theory is they can’t read half the letters themselves – that’s why they always make you order with the number! But seriously, I did read a paper on the Chinese government’s economic policy the other day – only trouble was, half an hour later I wanted to read another one! Thanks, you’ve been a great audience…”

]]> By: Backword Dave http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16751 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:39:05 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16751 Is now a good time for the old Chinese election joke?

]]> By: Justin http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16750 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 11:27:08 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16750 Luis: Is that what you’d call a rebalancing in favour of the victim? It’s a fair point, I suppose, although probably difficult to swallow if you’re at the sharp end.

When I was a computer programmer who was lazy/hated his job, I was very pleased to see that job handed over to the very nice Indian lads who’d flown halfway across the world to earn less than half I was being paid. Good riddance for me and good luck to them. That came as less of a consolation to the 40-something guy with three kids and nowhere to go, however.

Apologies for straying OT, Chris.

]]> By: Jamie K http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16747 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 10:46:24 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16747 “There are, I notice, no such debates in China.”

Actually, there are, and pretty extensive ones. I’ll refer you to Wang Chaohua’s One China, Many Paths if it’s the kind of thing that interests you.

More generally, isn’t the idea that you know exactly where the future is heading compatible with both religion and marxism? It’s also part of a wider positivist tradition – Comte, for instance, or Macaulay come to that and the general idea of whiggish history, namely that life improves as humans apply their rational selves to the development of political and economic resources.

There’s also the general self delusion of politicians – I want the world to be so, therefore it is so.

]]> By: Alex http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16746 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:52:55 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16746 I score you at 20 or so.

]]> By: dearieme http://sharpener.johnband.org/2006/06/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16745 Fri, 30 Jun 2006 09:31:50 +0000 http://www.thesharpener.net/2006/06/29/blair-the-marxist/#comment-16745 In his “A History of Fascism 1914-1945″ Payne gives a ‘Typological Description of Fascism’. I score Blair’s Labour at 9 out of 12. For comparison, I scored Thatcher’s Tories. They have 13 marks available, since anti-communism was still an issue in their time. I scored them at 3 out of 13. Neglecting the anti-communism issue, they score 2 out of 12. Versus, I repeat, Blair’s 9 out of 12. And this is about Fascism, not Nazism: no points were awarded for that nasty little whiff of Labur anti-semitism before the last election.

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