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posted on 24/6/2020 21:40"Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that the emergency has ushered in." - bitterblue
(From a Telegraph comment article re Covid)
Do the Labourites on here agree with the thrust of that comment? Are you ideologically at ease with state control of the individual?
Do the Labourites on here agree with the thrust of that comment? Are you ideologically at ease with state control of the individual?
- "Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that the emergency has ushered in." - bitterblue 24/6 21:40 (read 90 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 84 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 79 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 83 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 81 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 79 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 80 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 70 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 71 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 72 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 70 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 72 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 64 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 64 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 64 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 83 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 52 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 72 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 70 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 72 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 71 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 70 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 80 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 79 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 81 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 83 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 79 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 84 times)