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{{QB|"It has taken me more than 30 years as a journalist to ask myself this question, but this week I find that I must: is the Left right after all? You see, one of the great arguments of the Left is that what the Right calls “the free market” is actually a set-up. The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. [[Party politics|Democratic politics]], which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything."<br/><br/> | {{QB|"It has taken me more than 30 years as a journalist to ask myself this question, but this week I find that I must: is the Left right after all? You see, one of the great arguments of the Left is that what the Right calls “the free market” is actually a set-up. The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. [[Party politics|Democratic politics]], which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything."<br/><br/> | ||
| − | [[Charles Moore]], former editor of [[The Spectator]], | + | [[Charles Moore]], former editor of ''[[The Spectator]]'', ''[[The Sunday Telegraph]]'' and ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.<ref>{{Lobster|62|Robin Ramsay}}</ref>}} |
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Revision as of 12:17, 18 October 2015
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"It has taken me more than 30 years as a journalist to ask myself this question, but this week I find that I must: is the Left right after all? You see, one of the great arguments of the Left is that what the Right calls “the free market” is actually a set-up. The rich run a global system that allows them to accumulate capital and pay the lowest possible price for labour. The freedom that results applies only to them. The many simply have to work harder, in conditions that grow ever more insecure, to enrich the few. Democratic politics, which purports to enrich the many, is actually in the pocket of those bankers, media barons and other moguls who run and own everything."
Charles Moore, former editor of The Spectator, The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph.[1]
Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archer Daniels-Midland | “The competitor is our friend and the customer is our enemy....There isn't one grain of anything in the world that is sold in a free market. Not one! The only place you see a free market is in the speeches of politicians. People who are not in the Midwest do not understand that this is a socialist country."” | Dwayne Andreas | 1995 |
| Financial system | “The key master lie is this one:- that the politically-imposed (not economically-) the politically-imposed global corporate system calling itself the "global free market", that that politically-imposed global corporate system equals the "free market" equals democracy equals a solution to poverty.” | John McMurtry | 2001 |
References
- ↑ Lobster Magazine, Issue #62, Robin Ramsay
