On Wednesday 18 May 2011 04:11 PM, salil tripathi wrote:
And yes, the City is capitalist, but the rest of UK isn't. And the political mood, as Americans describe UK politics, has always been that UK has two major parties - Conservatives, who are socialists, and Labour, who are Communists :-)
Recently had the (mis)fortune of explaining to a senior executive from News Corp that what he thinks of as 'left' and 'right' are anything but. All mainstream US politics are economically very much centre and right-of-centre. Gone are the days when "communist" was a bad word. Now even "socialist" is used to bludgeon people. Reminds me of: "Where is the party in opposition that has not been decried as communistic by its opponents in power? Where is the opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?".[1]
Oh, and welcome, Sidin! - Pranesh[1]: http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ch01.htm
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