@DanadasGrau
This was my reply on Richard's blog at the time:

Me too, in a way. I was active in the UK Labour Party in the 90s and very involved personally in the ‘New Labour’ project – actively opposing ‘Militant’ – and in many ways I haven’t changed – still believe in a mixed economy, etc…

But I too have found myself on the left – partly because the political centre has moved right, but also I have to admit that I have moved, principally because emerging awareness of climate-ecological breakdown has to my mind made it simply rational to advocate more fundamental. and faster change.

Political feelings in the 90s were dominated by the collapse of the planned economy models in Eastern Europe. For most of us, New Labour was not primarily about moving to the right – it was about moving away from Morrisonian nationalisation towards anti-capitalist but market-oriented solutions like social enterprise: if market economies really out-performed planned economies, then make the market work ‘for the many, not the few’ (as the New Labour Clause 4 revision actually said – a revision, I argued, and would still argue, that moved it not so much rightwards, but away from the old statism).

But the political context is now very different. Events like the 2008 crash have shown that capitalism doesn’t work any better than planned economies; the rise of China (by conventional economic standards) and analyses like those of Ha-Joon Chang have shown that radical government intervention actually works rather better than ‘free markets’, and moreover, our increasing understanding of impending climate-ecological breakdown makes controlling capitalism and rethinking economic growth essential.

I’ve moved too, but I think our most urgent challenge is to explore new ways of reaching consensus on where we are, so that we can move at pace towards better fitting into where thermodynamic reality is taking us.

No signs of that from Westminster yet

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Had a similar experience recently, although it wasn’t with a total internet stranger.

A college friend of mine who is on a group chat mentioned one of his regrets was getting rid of his copy of a quirky old TSR RPG called “Star Frontiers”.

Turns out I had a copy, so I sent it to him as a surprise!

This was the most wholesome thing I read in days!

Thanks Vee, for sharing!

I was at the Main Street cafe a while back, and there were some yeehawdists at the table behind me going off about how Mexicans were taking their jobs, and I turned around and said, “Son, I know five farms that need help right now. I can make a phone call and you can be in the field in an hour. Now, bring a hat, it’s hot out here in the sun all day. And gloves, those plants will tear you up. To make minimum wage, you’ll have to hustle, you get paid by the bushel. You wanna finish lunch and go pick some maters, or you wanna shut the fuck up so I can eat my chicken fried steak in peace?”

They shut the fuck up. Silence until they left. And the cook sent me a peach cobbler. 🥳

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gratuluję tekstu!

I podrzucam, bo nie widzę wzmianek:

Skolonizowani przez Microsoft:
newsweek.pl/biznes/microsoft-k…

Tekst sprzed !dekady, ale idę o zakład, że Ministerstwo Cyfryzacji dalej nie wie, ile Polska wydaje na oprogramowanie Microsoftu.

Szkoły w Jaworznie przechodziły na Linuksa już ponad dekadę temu:
dobreprogramy.pl/wioo-w-jaworz…

dobreprogramy

Na przełomie czerwca i lipca 2009 roku władzemiasta Jaworzno zdecydowały, że na wszystkich komputerach wszkołach zainst…

^{Redakcja (dobreprogramy)}

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