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Ghost Dog

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1. In fact, Labour is a center-left party now, being generous

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Thu Sep 5, 2019, 02:54 PM

Sep 2019

(it was more center-right for its neoliberalism under Blair), with Mr. Corbyn coming from the left wing of it. The real far-left is quite a long way further left than that.

We are talking mixed-economy democratic socialism, with planning and plans as well as well-regulated markets, not instead of them, rather than the current neoliberal far-right laissez-faire easily-corrupt cronyism usually promoted by The Economist's editorial line.

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In fact, Labour is a center-left party now, being generous Ghost Dog Sep 2019 #1