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Originally Posted by DemolitionRed
I'm going to make an attempt one more time but so far this morning, this site is losing my posts as I click 'post'
@Joeysteele, I have so much more to say but this is a test run for now.
What we have to ask ourselves is, can capitalism and democracy work together? I believe they very much can; we only have to look towards the Nordic countries to see how one compliments the other.
Democracy is a socialist ideal and capitalism is merely something that compliments that ideal in our modern age. The reason it doesn't work in Britain, though our government would have us believe it works quite splendidly, is because our government (I'm talking past and present and not just the conservatives) wanted the biggest piece of the pie.
Blair was just part of the big experiment. An ideal that was seeded by Friedrich von Hayek, a philosophic-economist back in the 40s. Its an ideal that should never of taken off because its artificial and constricts democracy. Thatcher was a dedicated follower of von Hayek and so was Blair, in fact Blair was determined to make as much of a mark on the Neo-liberal revolution as Thatcher did. Thatcher was hailed a hero of her time because she was the birth of a new and exciting ideals.
The birth of Neo-liberalism was hugely beneficial to individuals but then, that’s what NL is, its individual and not inclusive and thus creates (in the long term) a very unequal society by implementing radical exclusion.
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I have always felt the 2 can work together as long as those advocating the 2 separate ideals do not try to scupper the other.
I agree and therefore have nothing to add to the bit I have put in bold of your post above.
That post and other posts from you I have to add, that I always find really interesting to read and also learn from too.