Oh I agree again - I didn’t mean to imply an equivalence between capitalism and communism but rather between Alan’s understandable complaint that we are not doing capitalism properly, and the perenni… (View Post)

Entirely agree but the sentiment does have the same whiff about it as those modern day communists who say that we just need to implement Marx’s ideas properly. (View Post)

No I agree with you. If I were elected leader of the Labour Party after Corbyn and wanted to return it to power, I’d have tried to do almost exactly what SKS has done. It is truly astonishing that we… (View Post)

And I think we have to ask why. We as human beings are not suddenly more avaricious by nature. Instead we have a society and culture that, I would argue, is striving against our natures to feed a bea… (View Post)

David Aaronovitch made a similar point in the excellent recent podcast series ‘Eight Years Hard Labour’ (thoroughly recommended). He quoted an anti-Corbyn Labour MP saying (I’m paraphrasing): if Corb… (View Post)