Comments on: The Left http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:48:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Guy Rundle http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39383 Guy Rundle Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:32:18 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39383 Niall Clugston - re markets, money and the Middle Ages. yes, that was precisely my point, you dimwit - made explicitly in the article. I said that money and markets existed before capitalism, but were constrained by culture. Capitalism reversed the relationship between economy and culture. The programme i laid out as a post-capitalist one abolishes neither property nor money, but it does set it within a framework of social control, and democratic action, witha conscious focus on decommodification. That is quite different to post war social democracy, which was run thru the state. Read the bloody article. Then. engage. typing.fingers.with.brain. Niall Clugston - re markets, money and the Middle Ages. yes, that was precisely my point, you dimwit - made explicitly in the article. I said that money and markets existed before capitalism, but were constrained by culture. Capitalism reversed the relationship between economy and culture.
The programme i laid out as a post-capitalist one abolishes neither property nor money, but it does set it within a framework of social control, and democratic action, witha conscious focus on decommodification. That is quite different to post war social democracy, which was run thru the state. Read the bloody article. Then. engage. typing.fingers.with.brain.

]]> By: bakerboy http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39381 bakerboy Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:24:29 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39381 Could I also say something about the unlovely Senator Ron Boswell. About 12 years ago, I hopped on a Qantaslink Bae 146 in Canberra to travel to Brisbane, took my seat in row 1 and there next to me was Boswell. I was doing some RAAF Reserve work at the time and was wearing my officer's uniform. Bowell didn't acknowledge me at all and spent the trip sleeping and snoring. From 25 years experience in the ADF and travelling by air, most people, particularly VIPs will introduce and chat with ADF personnel they're sitting near. I saw Boswell a couple of months ago in the pie shop at Wynnum in Brissy - he hasn't got any more beautiful! Ray Sanderson Could I also say something about the unlovely Senator Ron Boswell. About 12 years ago, I hopped on a Qantaslink Bae 146 in Canberra to travel to Brisbane, took my seat in row 1 and there next to me was Boswell. I was doing some RAAF Reserve work at the time and was wearing my officer’s uniform. Bowell didn’t acknowledge me at all and spent the trip sleeping and snoring. From 25 years experience in the ADF and travelling by air, most people, particularly VIPs will introduce and chat with ADF personnel they’re sitting near. I saw Boswell a couple of months ago in the pie shop at Wynnum in Brissy - he hasn’t got any more beautiful! Ray Sanderson

]]> By: Heathdon McGregor http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39344 Heathdon McGregor Wed, 30 Sep 2009 05:04:56 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39344 Dear Rebecca I couldn't find in the FAQs how many people were used and where they were sourced from. Couyld you please direct me to where I can find the answer. Dear Rebecca

I couldn’t find in the FAQs how many people were used and where they were sourced from. Couyld you please direct me to where I can find the answer.

]]> By: stephen martin http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39314 stephen martin Wed, 30 Sep 2009 03:39:11 +0000 http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/30/comments-corrections-clarifications-and-cckups-91/#comment-39314 Good for you Mitchell Holmes too many public servants forget that that's what they are - "Servants Of The Public". Good for you Mitchell Holmes too many public servants forget that that’s what they are - “Servants Of The Public”.

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