Dancing to the same old tune

It is quite unbelievable that Cameron, backed up by his palliative coalition partners Clegg and Cable is somehow getting away with pushing through a nakedly ideological assault upon the public sector and the state given that he couldn’t even secure an overall majority in the 2010 General Election. Seriously the man was up against a [...]

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Political Tautology

I know that technically the phrase Aspirational Socialism is not actually a tautology in itself, at the strictest level of linguistics Aspiration and Socialism are indeed two different semantic items and putting them together doesn’t result in a tautology. In its loosest sense Aspiration is hope or perhaps ambition, maybe optimism or positivity of outlook. [...]

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Just stick it to ‘em

The sorry saga that is American health care reform has of course see the magical, mythical ‘Left’ transform the great and free states of America into nothing more than a moribund Communist bloc, next we’ll see red tanks rolling down Wall Street demanding that vast amounts of public money be taken from the banks and [...]

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Class, my friend, is dead

I had my relatively laid back feelings toward class issues kicked back into touch again by the ongoing saga that is a fellow student in one of my lessons who was privileged enough to attend a private boarding school before somehow ending up in the same boat as the rest of us poor common people [...]

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Busy start to the New Year

Is it just me or is the news jam packed with murder cases right now? Everytime I look at the BBC news website there is a new case, today some chap got shot in the head as he drove through Merseyside in his Landrover. I mean 4×4′s and their drivers annoy me but there is [...]

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Theres a thought huh?

I read in the Independent that the traditional soup run may be banned in some London boroughs due to the fact that when homeless people queue up to get a serving of hot food it constitutes a ‘public order issue’. Now for a start just where the hell do these people get off? if the ban is [...]

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The Nightwatchman state

In my attempts to reconcile my slightly Anarchic desires with the idea of state socialism I have come across an interesting and little discussed concept decribed in the title of this post. The idea of Minarchism is one based around a form of deontological arguments which determine that a state should be restricted to minimal [...]

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Renationalisation and Elected Chiefs.

I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation. I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising [...]

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Question?

How would we go about applying libertarianism to Socialism, given that due to history many people seem to labour under some major misconceptions about both. I’m thinking now back to the idea that was popularized by John Major, the interim primeminister in the void between Thatcherism and Blairism. He wanted to create a classless society, [...]

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State capitilism

The examples of the USSR, China and Cuba have been widely upheld as the failure of Socialism and all its precepts, as a result most modern ‘socialist’ parties have abandoned their plans for social reform and taken a more Laissez-Faire attitude toward managing Capitalist society as best they can, without ever seriously challenging the status [...]

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