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Baraka_Guru · 06-02-2011, 08:21 AM

ace, there is no easy opposite. It generally would be any proponent of a mixed economy and a government system that supports to some extent social liberal policies. This is in response to the very idea that unregulated markets are a good idea, that labour exploitation is okay, that the environment only matters insofar to the maximal wealth that it can generate, etc.

I'm more or less a social democrat, which is one of the positions that would oppose neoliberalism. The idea that those with capital should have far-reaching power over society almost exclusively via their profit motive and their risk ignorance/aversion is abhorrent to me. This isn't a conscious power; it's a power that's both amoral and irrational.

It's not exactly the kind of thing well suited to govern a society, despite the fictional warnings you may have read in Atlas Shrugged. I prefer societies to be governed based on the principles of representative democracy, preferably a form untainted by the corruption of wealth.

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Baraka_Guru warrior bodhisattva Super Moderator Location: East-central Canada	ace, there is no easy opposite. It generally would be any proponent of a mixed economy and a government system that supports to some extent social liberal policies. This is in response to the very idea that unregulated markets are a good idea, that labour exploitation is okay, that the environment only matters insofar to the maximal wealth that it can generate, etc. I'm more or less a social democrat, which is one of the positions that would oppose neoliberalism. The idea that those with capital should have far-reaching power over society almost exclusively via their profit motive and their risk ignorance/aversion is abhorrent to me. This isn't a conscious power; it's a power that's both amoral and irrational. It's not exactly the kind of thing well suited to govern a society, despite the fictional warnings you may have read in Atlas Shrugged. I prefer societies to be governed based on the principles of representative democracy, preferably a form untainted by the corruption of wealth. __________________ Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing? —Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön Humankind cannot bear very much reality. —From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot Last edited by Baraka_Guru; 06-02-2011 at 08:26 AM..