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item0078D 1086, 1087 1086 25 April 2005 Without Principle This remains a curiously "unprincipled" Election. I do not accuse our leaders of personally unprincipled, or devoid of moral sense. I am not a cynic, and I value the service which they provide, and the functions they perform. But no Party is appealing to any identifiable set of principles with which voters can identify.
The LibDems, by failing to assert any clear
"Liberal"
principles, are missing the greatest opportunity since WWI to assert the
primacy of European individualism, human rights, and the peaceful
resolution of conflict. And Labour, having abandoned
Each manifesto is an ad hoc list of political goodies strung inconsequentially together, like a badly organised supermarket shelf. No wonder the contest has descended into an unedifying tussle of "personalities", inspiring nobody.
I am convinced that the 21st century will see the emergence of societal forms, the world over, which rely critically on "state" organisation. The future lies with a modified European State model, not a US or Japanese model. Statist forms will become much more sophisticated and more flexible that the UK 1945 Welfare State, and they will not accept the vagaries and misdeeds of the corporate sector (which we too easily accept), crimes which destroy the dreams of billions and are the undoing of the poor. There is plenty of room for the articulation of socialist principle - and I am sure electorates the world over would respond. NB You have been surprisingly silent, in your response to this Website during this Election. Maybe that confirms that conventional voting patterns are winning out after all. Drop me a line
1087 25 April 2005 Wrong Decision
Benedict XVI is the wrong man for the job. Fundamentalism the world over has been strengthened by his appointment. The world needed a chance to turn away from fundamentalism. The world rightly regrets the dominance of the old Ayatollah Khomeini in Iran, surpassing that of elected Iranian governments. The fundamentalism of the American Right is already a profound threat to the peace of the world. The Iranian secret police is a dreaded force, comparable with any Inquisition. Whatever the specific truths may turn out to be, Al Quaida is powered by fundamentalism, religious fanaticism. Now we have our own religious fundamentalist leading the Catholic Church. It is a dark day, for a peaceful world. Fundamentalism means one thing. It is the elevation of human artefacts (i.e. doctrine") above our common humanity itself. It elevates male doctrine above the humanity of women. It elevates the sexuality of celibates above the experience of ordinary human beings.
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The Tories are pussyfooting around,
terrified of asserting their true "small State" principles, turning to
meretricious racist gimmicks to command attention.
any attempt to restate socialist values for
the next generation, stumbles from one pragmatic fix to another, without
the guide of any coherent principle.
Our
search must be for a deeper understanding of that common humanity.