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cosmo---i would see the nationalisation of the health care system in entirely different terms than you outline above....but i suspect that would carry us straight into a different thread.
i also understand democratic socialism in entirely different terms than you outline..another thread.
the basic dividing line is how you understand what the state does.
you can see it as extending the areas of life that are directly accountable to the public.
but to do that, you'd have to move away from attributing the left critique of state bureaucracy that was distorted and co-opted by the thatcherites and has now leaked into conservative discourse in the us as applying only to the state itself---private firms are bureaucracies as well--and stasticially speaking, the most important fiorms in the states are not small businesses, which tend to be more decentralized as a function of size.
so if you have bureaucracy either way.....
yet another thread.
as for viewpoint: well yes. but regardless of your political viewpoint, i still woudl think that moving outside the limitations of american media--particularly television--is a good thing, that reading papers and journals from other places serves to open up possibilities....and that thinking about what is happening in the states requires--absolutely requires--that you think about the place from viewpoints that are no soley embedded here.
and given that you are posting on this board, which is online, it follows that you can read other things online as well. all the papers i cited--and alot of other ones as well--are easily available.
just as easily as tfproject.
otherwise, you are in a strange position--if you are situated as a person entirely within a particular frame of reference, and that frame of reference moves, how would you know? unless the shift was sudden or violent, chances are you wouldnt, no?
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