Showing posts with label Phillip Blond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Phillip Blond. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Rise of the red Tories

This is an important article by Phillip Blond, an English writer who proposes a communitarian alternative to Labour's statism and the Tories' free market neoliberalism, both of which, he argues, lead to a hypertrophied state and atomized individuals.

Here is the lead-in: The crisis is an opportunity to sweep away the rotten postwar settlement of British politics. Labour is moribund. But David Cameron has a chance to develop a "red Tory" communitarianism, socially conservative but sceptical of neoliberal economics

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