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To the Varoufakises and the Masons who are hell-bent on maintaining/saving international liberalism Capitalism's noisiest enemies are now on the right
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On current exchange rates, Britain is the world’s fifth-largest economy, but no one seriously believes it produces more goods and services than India, Brazil or Indonesia. The UK’s prosperity level is not even in the top 15 per cent of IMF members. The US, Germany and France are far ahead of Britain in the  productivity league table and output per head and per worker does not even match that of Italy. Spending on public services is severely strained: at 39 per cent of national income, it is 5 percentage points below that of Germany.  Britain's economy: how strong is it?
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"To save the system, the gains of the 1930s had to be rolled back. They were rolled back. Of course, Keynesians and their supporters never fail to place the blame for this on Reagan, Thatcher, and neoliberalism, but th ey themselves bear most of the responsibility. The policies they advocated and implemented failed in the end and, because they failed, new people and new ideas naturally came along to replace them and fix the mess. Moreover, the Keynesianism that dominated the left helped to demobilize working people—by encouraging them to trust Keynesian politicians, policies, and doctrines as well the leaders of their unions, instead of trusting their own ability to run their lives themselves and re-establish society on new, human foundations. As a result, the new people and ideas that came along were reactionary ones." — Andrew Kliman
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The European Economic Community "which made May Day into a public holiday was a body composed not, in spite of Mrs Thatcher's views on the subject, of socialist but of predominantly anti-socialist governments. Western official May Days were recognitions of the need to come to terms with the tradition of the unofficial May Days and to detach it from labour movements, class consciousness and class struggle. But how did it come about that this tradition was so strong that even its enemies thought they had to take it over, even when, like Hitler, Franco and Petain, they destroyed the socialist labour movement?" (My emphasis ) Birth of a holiday
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