posted on 25/6/2020 13:56"a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci.
I imagine most people, let alone Labour members, believe something fairly close to:
we should be sufficiently free to act in a way that may affect ourselves, even adversely, but that a democatic state should intervene with laws and regulations when the individual's actions impinge negatively on the wellbeing or opportunity granted to all, or other, citizens.
You and I might even agree on the above.
But it is very general indeed. Which makes it all the more useful to make more granular by use of examples. This is what we are doing.
You said this was in the context of the pandemic and government's actions - you introduced this to the discussion
You said your idea was that the lockdown had been too restrictive in some way,
I said I was happy with the measures
I am interested, as are other readers I am sure, as to which measures you did not like and why.
So tell us.
- “The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - George Orwell -
we should be sufficiently free to act in a way that may affect ourselves, even adversely, but that a democatic state should intervene with laws and regulations when the individual's actions impinge negatively on the wellbeing or opportunity granted to all, or other, citizens.
You and I might even agree on the above.
But it is very general indeed. Which makes it all the more useful to make more granular by use of examples. This is what we are doing.
You said this was in the context of the pandemic and government's actions - you introduced this to the discussion
You said your idea was that the lockdown had been too restrictive in some way,
I said I was happy with the measures
I am interested, as are other readers I am sure, as to which measures you did not like and why.
So tell us.
- “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 12529 times, 16 posts in thread)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12737 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12691 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13007 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12745 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13112 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13010 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13161 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12911 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13110 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12896 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13112 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13086 times)
- (hasty title edit) your post makes sense now ;-) - Nicolae 25/6 14:55 (read 12789 times)
- I don't think you're right there - Gramsci. 25/6 14:25 (read 13086 times)
- "a higher rather than lower level of governmental control over the individual citizen" = the libertarian continuum - Gramsci. 25/6 13:56 (read 12629 times)
- <tumbleweed> from bitterblue - Gramsci. 26/6 19:07 (read 12040 times)
- would it be unfair to say... - Nicolae 25/6 14:00 (read 13112 times)
- You misunderstand my initial post, - bitterblue 25/6 12:54 (read 12896 times)
- I thought we were comparing our appetite for libertarianism. So - Gramsci. 25/6 11:29 (read 13110 times)
- Quelle surprise! - bitterblue 25/6 10:47 (read 12911 times)
- Which aspects of the lockdown were too severe for you? Nt - Gramsci. 25/6 10:09 (read 13161 times)
- The reference I made to extreme examples - bitterblue 25/6 09:18 (read 13010 times)
- I am assuming that the Telegraph article you mentioned at the start is topical/about lockdown etc - Gramsci. 25/6 09:03 (read 13112 times)
- Hard cases make bad law, as the saying goes - bitterblue 25/6 08:36 (read 12745 times)
- And your view? The restrictions that we were under in April and May - Gramsci. 25/6 08:09 (read 13007 times)
- in the context of the article - bitterblue 25/6 07:28 (read 12691 times)
- What does "state control of the individual" mean? - Gramsci. 24/6 22:57 (read 12737 times)