tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post116811427272114023..comments2024-03-25T07:51:47.758-04:00Comments on Thoughts On Economics: How To Argue Like A ReactionaryRobert Vienneauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14748118392842775431noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-67630115937617680712014-01-04T11:21:31.746-05:002014-01-04T11:21:31.746-05:00Good choices, including of my relative. I know I&#...Good choices, including of my relative. I know I'm late in posting this, but it gives me the advantage of pointing out that much Tea Party argument, if you can call it that, assumes that there's laissez-faire and socialism/communism, and that's it. So naturally Obama and now NYC's Di Blasio are s/c's. Sometimes the term is "soft communists." In this view the point of Ocare isn't health. It's about gaining control over everyone, shrinking their freedom and making them subservient to government. If rollerskating offered the Democrats the same chances, they'd be for that too. That's because they're tyrants, dictators and kleptocrats. If you think I'm exaggerating, listen to 30 minutes of conservative talk radio, like New York City's WNBC.Frank Popperhttp://policy.rutgers.edu/faculty/poppernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-1168246046016244332007-01-08T03:47:00.000-05:002007-01-08T03:47:00.000-05:00Thank you, that´s great material.Thank you, that´s great material.Michael Greineckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779846063984632110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-1168198035410813412007-01-07T14:27:00.000-05:002007-01-07T14:27:00.000-05:00Michael, thanks for the reading suggestion. I am a...Michael, thanks for the reading suggestion. I am already behind in my reading though. To help you get in the same position, let me point out that the Fall 2006 issue of the <I>Review of Radical Political Economics</I> has a couple of examinations of analytical Marxism.Robert Vienneauhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14748118392842775431noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26706564.post-1168184817092632352007-01-07T10:46:00.000-05:002007-01-07T10:46:00.000-05:00I think the best example of non-utopian thinking i...I think the best example of non-utopian thinking is <A HREF="http://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Social-Democracy-Studies-Marxism/dp/0521336562/sr=8-1/qid=1168184619/ref=sr_1_1/002-1037919-5047246?ie=UTF8&s=books" REL="nofollow">Capitalism and social democracy</A> by <A HREF="http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/politics/faculty/przeworski/przeworski_home.html" REL="nofollow">Adam Przeworski</A>.<BR/><BR/>It is the clearest work on the constraints leftist politics face politically.Michael Greineckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14779846063984632110noreply@blogger.com