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Howard SilvermanEconomically, Blond lays out three big areas of reform:
remoralize the market, relocalize the economy and recapitalize the poor.
This would mean passing zoning legislation to give small shopkeepers a
shot against the retail giants, reducing barriers to -
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over the past generation we have witnessed two revolutions, both of which liberated the individual and decimated local associations. First, there was a revolution from the left: a cultural revolution that displaced traditional manners and mores; a legal revolution that emphasized individual rights instead of responsibilities; a welfare revolution in which social workers displaced mutual aid societies and self-organized associations.
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Then there was the market revolution from the right. In the age of deregulation, giant chains like Wal-Mart decimated local shop owners. Global financial markets took over small banks, so that the local knowledge of a town banker was replaced by a manic herd of traders thousands of miles away. Unions withered.
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The free-market revolution didn’t create the pluralistic decentralized economy. It created a centralized financial monoculture, which requires a gigantic government to audit its activities. The effort to liberate individuals from repressive social constraints didn’t produce a flowering of freedom; it weakened families, increased out-of-wedlock births and turned neighbors into strangers.
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“The welfare state and the market state are now two defunct and mutually supporting failures.”
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“The project of radical transformative conservatism is nothing less than the restoration and creation of human association, and the elevation of society and the people who form it to their proper central and sovereign station.”
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remoralize the market, relocalize the economy and recapitalize the poor.
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Essentially, Blond would take a political culture that has been oriented around individual choice and replace it with one oriented around relationships and associations.
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America, too, is suffering a devastating crisis of authority. The only way to restore trust is from the local community on up.
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Emmanuel PrevilleA British Conservative explores the roots of crisis in the cultural and market revolutions, and how to rebuild trust from ground up.
Politics_Politique SHCA_ASCS UK_RU SocialPolicy_Politiquesociale for:onealb@parl.gc.ca
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Deb Steinkampdavid brooks
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19 Mar 10
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mezzo toscano"The free-market revolution didn’t create the pluralistic decentralized economy. It created a centralized financial monoculture, which requires a gigantic government to audit its activities. The effort to liberate individuals from repressive social constraints didn’t produce a flowering of freedom; it weakened families, increased out-of-wedlock births and turned neighbors into strangers."
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The free-market revolution didn’t create the pluralistic decentralized economy. It created a centralized financial monoculture, which requires a gigantic government to audit its activities. The effort to liberate individuals from repressive social constraints didn’t produce a flowering of freedom; it weakened families, increased out-of-wedlock births and turned neighbors into strangers. In Britain, you get a country with rising crime, and, as a result, four million security cameras.
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Elizabeth SnyderNYT op-ed on US a broken society. References mutual aid societies before the advent of the welfare state.
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neil vanceA British Conservative explores the roots of crisis in the cultural and market revolutions, and how to rebuild trust from ground up.
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