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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social |
Timid measures of the kind Labour proposes won't stop the rise of a new oligarchy. Instead we need a political and economic programme of the kind that General MacArthur oversaw in Japan.
This week's column.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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HpR
@kairos.social
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Democracy ≠ elections*;
Democracy = random selection www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CY...
*) that lead to oligarchy
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pete windle
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To what extent do you think this is made possible by the now-international nature of oligarchy? Capital can just up sticks and shell us from the next country over, to an extent. In the scope one country your proposal is an extreme outside possibility, but coordinated world wide? Even harder.
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Tracy Jacobs
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Are the Labour front bench corruptible, I wonder?
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Glenn Ashton 310ppm
@ekogaia.bsky.social
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Really enjoyed your book: managed to pick up a signed copy in Foyles. Hope it's in paperback soon. Everyone needs to read it. We need to dissemble the neo-liberal oligarchy. Pronto. Starmer's Labour isn't going to change anything meaningful. Unless we force it to.
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George Monbiot
@georgemonbiot.bsky.social
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The lessons from history I discuss are hard and unpalatable. But unless we learn from them, the arc of the moral universe will keep bending towards injustice. The default state of political systems is oligarchy, and fierce resistance is needed to arrest its resurgence.
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Timlagor
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They're actively working to *enable* the oligarchy They aren't "timid" -they're opposed.
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Doug Eacho
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MacArthur ruled like a king, protected the Emperor, and purged tens of thousands of leftists from civil society. The economic reforms of 1945-52 had US support but were led by Japanese communists, and we would do better to admire them than their fickle occupier.
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