Re: More future just arrived.
- From: Randolph Fritz <randolph@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 16:33:06 +0000 (UTC)
On 2007-10-31, David Friedman <ddfr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <slrnfiestl.in0.randolph@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Randolph Fritz <randolph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I suspect that if what Randolph means by "leftist" is "fitting the views
of the leftmost third of the population," he is wrong--not because I
listen to the media but because the media are in the business of
attracting listeners. But I also suspect, perhaps mistakenly, that he,
like me, implicitly lets his view of what views are correct influence
the way in which he uses terms such as "leftist."
Actually, I reference my ideas of left to the global political
spectrum; the US center, even, is probably to right of the moderate
conservatives of Western Europe.
And how do you fit the population of India and China into this model?
It fits moderately well; at least as well as it can fit in a
third-world country. Leftist politics do well in many third-world
countries, apparently because they have real class systems still.
China, of course, is still nominally Communist, though in actuality
"state capitalism" is probably a more accurate description;
libertarian it is not.
Randolph
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