On Apr 30, 2008, at 5:36 PM, Patrick Bond wrote:
> So Doug,
> old friend, make an alliance here, not purist posturing.
Me:
> As I said in my review:
>
> "Using words like 'Friedmanite' and 'neoliberalism' is a way to avoid
> talking about capitalism in any systemic fashion. When Klein does
> address systemic issues, she professes that she’s not anticapitalist,
> but prefers a form of managed or welfare capitalism. It would be
> sectarian to say that managed or welfare capitalism isn’t better than
> what we’ve got now; it most certainly would be, especially in the
> U.S., where a single-payer healthcare system seems almost like a
> revolutionary impossibility. But it would be naive to think that we
> could get there without a political upsurge demanding an even more
> radical renovation, and evasive to deny that exploitation wouldn’t
> still exist under a regulated capitalism."
Is this "purist posturing"? Seems extremely hardheaded and realistic to me.
Doug