Lootman wrote:A paid up socialist does not really believe in private wealth, free markets or for-profit enterprises at all. Or if they do they are only fans of small businesses whilst wanting the major companies nationalised. They see wealth as an obscenity and something to be confiscated.
I suggest doing some serious political research if you think that is anti-business. I'd start with the Anarchist government of Catalonia and their anarcho-syndics. Of course we do know that they were forcefully ousted by the "pro-business" fascists. I'd follow that up by reading "Homage to Catalonia", by a man famous for his warning books about the dangers of socialism taken to the extreme. Their basic view is that business should be there to support the working "man". Hence they are PRO-business. It's just who gets the benefit of business that differs.
In the words of an American, talking about the early soviet union, "I have seen the future and it works". Well it didn't, but that may be due to the way that it evolved. Arguably central planning was the issue, sounds a bit like what our current government seems to be trying.
servodude wrote:I'm really surprised he'd never heard of Keynes; though there do seem to be plenty that pretend he didn't identify as a socialist!
In the same way a similar tranche pretend the suffragettes weren't self avowed terrorists
Err, you do know that they were actually friends, despite public disagreements on their shared subject.
Keynes befriended Hayek during the war, and it was he who proposed him for a fellowship of the British Academy in 1944. He made an unforgettable personal impression on Hayek – ‘the magnetism of the brilliant conversationalist with his wide range of interests and bewitching voice.’
https://socialdemocracy21stcentury.blog ... k-and.htmlSince we have wandered well and truelly off topic, I though that I'd post this link to a rap battle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk