[quote] it's
really ONLY possible to talk about progress coming from genuine sites
of countervailing power, which would be national states once they are
under left (or even centre-left) control...
Cheers, Patrick
[end quote]
COMMENT: I hope
it does not sound like hair splitting (as in Bill Clinton’s famous question
“what is _is_ ?”), but a definition of political-economic progress should, at
this day and age, include “green” (environmental) progress, instead of sticking
to a more traditional leftist concept of progress. Hans Ehrbar wrote in that
sense on pen-l a few weeks or months ago. You can count environmentalism as an
additional countervailing power to the status quo.
N'est-ce pas?
Gernot
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