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" Liberals do not refer to property as a mere social construct." Excellent point. Liberals are de facto capitalists.
by harrumph 10y ago
" Liberals do not refer to property as a mere social construct."
Excellent point. Liberals are de facto capitalists.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoLiberals are capitalists with a heart. Social democrats are capitalists with a heart and a brain. And personally, I think social democracy worked pretty ok except for the fact that it required a pretty strict anti-socialism, which meant that when the '70s arrived and the elite decided to "restore growth" by clawing back every concession to the working class and the human heart that they'd ever made under social democracy, nobody could stop them.
- ArkyBeagle 10y agoI cannot imagine a single meaningful thing "the elites" could do to have a concession to the human heart. They best they can do is things like taking the boot of Jim Crow off the neck of people. That's not that far from the arsonist-fireman syndrome. Most of the concessions to the working class are still with us. Everything except jobs. And for a while, "restoring growth" worked. my hobby horse for why it stopped is low interest rates and low inflation.