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In response to a Guardian article, "Davos 07: a rejection of 'Daily Mailism'" by London's Major, Ken Livingstone, who reporting (blogging) from Davos.
Link to
article and thread at
The Guardian.
Quoting
some of Ken's blog: "If Britain
is to thrive and prosper in this new
world economy, . . . it requires
international movement of labour
rather than hysteria against
immigrants; it requires increasing
interaction of culture, not attempts
to shut out 'the foreign' . . . . .
People . . . have an increasingly
common life experience. . . . The life
of a young person in London, or New
York, or Shanghai, or Paris is
increasingly similar in many of its
concerns".
And, under
the conditions of globalization, what
happens to ethnic and cultural
DIVERSITY and to REAL communities,
both of which develop over generations
(centuries and millennia!)?
I'll tell
you what happens: they go down the
drain! And what we get is one mass of
more-or-less homogenous humanity!
That, presumably, is what warms Ken's
"state-socialist" heart: 100's, 1000's
of millions of producers and
consumers, all much the same, whether
"in London, or New York, or Shanghai,
or Paris", and all in awe and
admiration of their great,
Ken-like, leaders.
Ken is a
classic example of the LEFT allying
itself with CAPITALISM, each in
pursuit of its own particular,
dumb-animal rather than
enlightened, self-interests.
At least
the capitalists make no bones about
whose interests they have at heart:
their own, of course (making money).
While Ken and his mates would have us
believe they are altruistically
pursuing the interests of a
"progressive" and enlightened
humanity; which they no doubt believe
themselves - making them a bigger
threat than the capitalists, who are
at least aware of where their motives
and self-interests come from.
If we
really had to choose between Ken'ism
and "Daily Mailism" our situation
would be bleak indeed. But we don't.
There ARE other ALTERNATIVES, one of
which I'm working on at
http://www.spaceship-earth.org
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