I absolutely agree. It is always better to patch the holes in the roof than rip the whole thing off and leave everyone exposed while you build a new one. Especially since so far every attempt to build a brand new economic system by sudden revolution has ended up with something worse than what went before. I would never claim the western model of free-market capitalism was perfect, but that means it needs tweaking, not bulldozing.
Talking to you has given me heart though. In my anger and despair I was thinking that the roots of all left thinking lay in Marxism, and that thus all left thinking was at risk of falling back by a slippery slope into that evil ideology. But of course it does not - there is a much, much older and kinder tradition that comes directly from the Christian values of charity. If the moderate left who draw on that tradition can somehow rebuild the wall between themselves and the hard left, there is hope.
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Date: 2017-06-15 05:37 pm (UTC)Talking to you has given me heart though. In my anger and despair I was thinking that the roots of all left thinking lay in Marxism, and that thus all left thinking was at risk of falling back by a slippery slope into that evil ideology. But of course it does not - there is a much, much older and kinder tradition that comes directly from the Christian values of charity. If the moderate left who draw on that tradition can somehow rebuild the wall between themselves and the hard left, there is hope.