On 10 November 2011 10:29, Giulio Prisco <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:giulio@gmail.com">giulio@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I fear constructive discussion between people hormonally attached to<br>
their obsolete political memes is impossible and a waste of time for<br>
all.<br>
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I think dialogue between reasonable libertarians and socialists is<br>
possible, but dialogue between zealot gun-loving sociopaths who want<br>
freedom for their group and oppression for others, and zealot<br>
nanny-state control-freaks and thought cops who want to control the<br>
life and mind of others, is not.<br>
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We should build a new political system for reasonable free agents in a<br>
reasonable and open society. It is a very difficult task, but very<br>
worth.<br></blockquote><div><br><br>Yes - I agree. Tricky, but worth a shot. The tricky is to keep the meme, and the associated label, as simple as possible.<br><br>So... starting with what we have on the table:<br><br>The idea is that some part of the body politic has become malignant. Today, that part appears to be Capitalism. That doesn't mean that Capitalism is *necessarily* bad, or presuppose what we mean by Capitalism, but it does emphasise the idea "Something's wrong and we demand a solution to the problem".<br>
<br>Do we agree on this much, as a starting point?<br><br>I know that it's not radical enough for at least several people on this list, but let's try to go for a modest common point, at least to begin with, and see where that gets us...<br>
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