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And, therefore?, that the Soc-Dem would not view the economic disastrous as being as economically disastrous as it would be, but merely as being less then ideal?

I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Fri Sep 16th, 2011 at 12:30:04 PM EST
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Not even that. They are going to think that disastrous economic policies are economically beneficial. The SocDems and SocLibs differ only on their willingness to trade equity for efficiency, not in the degree to which they accept the existence of this fantasy-based trade-off in the first place.

- Jake

Friends come and go. Enemies accumulate.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Fri Sep 16th, 2011 at 05:02:41 PM EST
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That does make "concessions to [purely imaginary] economic effectiveness" depressingly likely.


I've been accused of being a Marxist, yet while Harpo's my favourite, it's Groucho I'm always quoting. Odd, that.
by BruceMcF (agila61 at netscape dot net) on Sat Sep 17th, 2011 at 12:06:57 AM EST
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