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Thanks again for adding to the discussion.
Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer This will be my last post on Brown Cafe. Dave.
Thanks again for adding to the discussion.
Originally Posted by UpstateNYUPSer This will be my last post on Brown Cafe. Dave.
Apparently you are anti-humor !!!Thanks again for adding to the discussion.
Apparently you are anti-humor !!!
Actually I'm not--I totally think that you are a joke. Dave.
Walling argued (as did the Distributist Hilaire Belloc in “The Servile State”) that state socialist parties like the Social Democrats and Fabians were being coopted into the service of capital. Democratic socialist movements would by and large give up on the herculean political task of actually seizing control of industry, and would instead choose to leave the industry in capitalist hands while regulating it “in the popular interest.”
In practice, those “progressive” regulations would serve mainly to stabilize the economy in the long-term interests of big business, and use a minimalist welfare state and labor regulations to clean up the worst (and most politically destabilizing) forms of destitution left by the capitalists. As Belloc put it, if only the Fabians’ lust to manage and regiment the underclass were satisfied, they would be quite accommodating about capitalist ownership. So the de facto role of the “democratic socialist” state would be to oversee the economy on behalf of big business.