about lockdown etc - Gramsci.

So it is not an extreme example at all to ask you: Do you think the restrictions we were under in April and May were reasonable, i.e. state compulsion? Or should we have relied upon individuals "to make sensible choices"?

And what do you do when individuals make bad choices rather than sensible ones?

- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -

"Labour is ideologically at ease with the state control that the emergency has ushered in." - bitterblue 24/6 21:40 (read 11166 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 11381 times)
  - in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 11343 times)
    - And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 11621 times)
      - Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 11384 times)
        
        I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 11735 times)
        
        The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 11678 times)
        
        Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 11802 times)
        
        Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 11563 times)
        
        I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 11700 times)
        
        You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 11477 times)
        
        would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 11722 times)
        
        I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 11703 times)
        
        (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 11439 times)
        
        "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 11282 times)
        
        <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 10748 times)

posted on 25/6/2020 09:03I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci.

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