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As you have noticed this article is not r...@Rrogr:<br /><br />As you have noticed this article is not really about socialism or any alternative economic system. Instead it seeks to address current mainstream debates about our economic predicament, arguing that the right response, from an economic management perspective, as well as a principled one, is a shift towards a more equal society. It's therefore an argument that the centre-left could hopefully use. We agree, however, that there are other questions to be asked about the viability of capitalism, including from the ecological perspective that you bring up. But that's another topic.Timnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6920488656220463337.post-20716880540779164052010-03-09T10:07:30.344+11:002010-03-09T10:07:30.344+11:00That this article has no socialist content need no...That this article has no socialist content need not affect its merits, but as socialism is a progressive philosophy its absence implies that any policy suggestions that it may contain are, to a socialist, likely to be of limited value.<br /><br />Any view “that the key to restoring demand, and therefore to sustainable recovery, is the creation of an economically fairer society” will be noted by socialists, amongst others, as denying the increasingly obvious conflict between the capitalist desire to “restore demand” (to ensure that the rate of change of economic activity remains positive, as well as to postpone the next crisis of overproduction) and the socialist/environmentalist belief that “sustainable recovery” means ecological and intergenerational sustainability. <br /><br />Unlike Marx for communism, capitalist economists gave rarely said just what purpose endless economic growth is supposed to serve. Given the sophisticated manipulation by profit-seekers of consumer psychology, it can hardly be said that people are exercising free will. Nor have they ever explained how any real system can have infinite exponential growth. Further, a socialist would expect an economically fairer society to be a more just and more well-rounded society - something desirable in its own right whatever the consequences for economic growth.<br /><br />A socialist would have no difficulty in accepting that “… in the long term, we may face questions about the viability of our current financial system as a tool for managing ageing societies with increasingly saturated consumer markets.” A socialist would believe not only in the inappropriateness of the current financial system for that purpose, but also that peak oil, peak commodities, peak water, peak food and climate change may in fact have just as substantial an impact on our society.<br /><br />We thus rediscover the inherent inequalities in capitalist society (both those of the inequality of various groups at any one time, and inequalities arising from the boom and bust of the capitalist economic cycle). Taken over a long period, the state socialist economies did relatively well. <br /><br />It is impossible for today’s global population to enjoy First World living standards without provoking severe resource shortages and ruining the environment beyond repair. Far from any “Golden Age”, we are much more likely to see regional wars over resources. Taking measures to avoid that - with fairness - needs to be the prime aim of progressive people. <br /><br />One difficulty is that many people – including too many self-proclaimed leftists – are strangers to principle, and worse, share a community of interest with other unprincipled people in silencing principled critics. Note the ruthlessness and selective and self-serving messages of the anti-global-warming apparatchiki. It is important that we change that culture.Rrogrnoreply@blogger.com