Re: Deciding the future course of action

[echarp <emmanuel.charpentier(at)free.fr>]

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:19:55AM -0500, M. Kolar wrote:
> echarp wrote:
> > Where do you get that democratically minded people are mostly
> > economically left?
>
> Real democracy would be possible only if there are equal opportunities for
> all in all spheres of human life, including economy. To realize this, you
> have to have some sort of "leftist" economy - see e.g. the project of mixed
> economy from the link in my previous mailing.

What is "left" to you?

To me, economic orientations and social freedom are two /mostly/
orthogonal matters.

Of course they do interact, but people could democratically choose a
"right" policy or just as well a "left" one (whatever left and right
exactly are).

> "Left" dost not mean at all what existed in Eastern Europe till 1990, that
> was at best a caricature of a left economy, essentially it was an
> absolute-monopoly (statist) variation of capitalist economy.

It was definitely a statist system, same as now really. Both completely
contrary to liberalism and/or anarchism.

echarp - http://leparlement.org