tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post6701415964912260926..comments2023-12-29T18:13:21.495-06:00Comments on pink scare: Do Democrats and Republicans Have Utterly Different Goals? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-17483592295666086432011-04-18T20:16:53.190-05:002011-04-18T20:16:53.190-05:00I agree that he's more conservative, but he...I agree that he's more conservative, but he's the best man we have right now.JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-33150572318409658692011-04-16T21:39:56.906-05:002011-04-16T21:39:56.906-05:00Krugman is, you might say, "the last liberal&...Krugman is, you might say, "the last liberal". To some extent, he is concerned with inequality, workers rights, democracy, social justice, and so forth. But he's a liberal. He basically accepts the framework of electoralism, lesser-evilism, and the Democratic Party as the only possible way forward politically speaking. He doesn't acknowledge that even his modest social democratic political ideals cannot be won by way of the Democrats. <br /><br />I, on the other hand, have never been shy about rejecting all of that. I have tried to consistently put forward a socialist perspective in the posts that I write. If I quote Krugman, it's because not everything he says is false. His politics have certain limitations, and his analysis often bears these out, but sometimes he puts forward analyses that I think are useful to those on the Left. If I quote his op/ed pieces, it's not to endorse the entirety of what he writes. <br /><br />So I don't think my appraisal of his writing is as simple as "like or dislike", "yay or nay". I'm a socialist and Krugman is a liberal. I suppose you could more or less spin out of that simple fact what I think of his work. It would be ultra-left in my view to dismiss everything he says simply because of his liberal perspective. Left-liberal politics are, in my estimation, internally conflicting and ultimately marred with contradictions. Making those evident and using them as leverage to argue for more ambitious political goals is, it seems to me, an important task of the Left.thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05268192967377248928noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6058072377999486184.post-22045867549668029512011-04-16T15:05:44.112-05:002011-04-16T15:05:44.112-05:00I thought you all liked Krugman. Now you're tu...I thought you all liked Krugman. Now you're turning into this guy who has made pretty contradicting conclusions from his columns:<br />http://attempter.wordpress.com/tag/krugman/JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.com