tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post7532647664259343978..comments2023-08-31T15:14:58.287-07:00Comments on London Green Left Blog: Everything is political. Can we please stop f**king pretending that it isn’t!Mike Shaughnessyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16796480031110991460noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-17630248387579429142018-12-22T04:01:25.196-08:002018-12-22T04:01:25.196-08:00Agreed, but we need to concentrate on shared ideol...Agreed, but we need to concentrate on shared ideology and not let any differences delay improvement. Marxists argue with Trotskyists in the gutter while the Tories laugh in their palaces.<br />bonrathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032023938215073862noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2440117683736860632.post-55690959299056946372018-12-21T13:36:42.038-08:002018-12-21T13:36:42.038-08:00"After 40 years of neoliberalism, what the ca..."After 40 years of neoliberalism, what the campaign is failing to recognise is that it’s right a wing ideology itself that we are fighting here." - I whole heartedly agree with the overall point you're making here, Jim. As you say, fighting a hospital closure, for example, has to be put into the frame-of-reference of the preceding 40 years of neoliberal hegemony. The question for me is what kind of green-left consensus we can start to build. We need, for example, to square the circle between an anti-austerity stance (which would encourage reflating the economy, thus creating jobs and wealth) with commitments to environmental sustainability and undermining the power of private capital. There are many interesting perspectives out there (such as Modern Monetary Theory, market socialism, wage-earner funds, green new deal) but perhaps we on the green-left are ideologically conflicted? Do we believe in: reflation? nationalisation? citizens' income? a role for the market? negative growth? "sustainable development"? These are the kinds of discussions that are necessary, in my view, as foundations for an effective counter-hegemonic project. LaurenceAnonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07795339788208975788noreply@blogger.com