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Hi Michael I love words and so enjoyed your post a lot. There are of course other words which are crucial to the struggle at the moment. I have to get round to a proper study of David Mair's work *Ruling the Void.* I only know it through the Streeck article in NLR, from whom I learned that Mair put a lot of emphasis on the dialectic between the words *responsible *and* respon*sive. If you add a deal of political economy to the word *responsible* and understand that it is defined, largely by News Ltd, in the interests of capital, then one can understand, I believe, the decay of parliamentary democracy in the West. The capitalist class have succeeded, through intimidation and bribery, in convincing Western politicians that if they are *responsive* to the wishes of their members and the public, then they are not being *responsible* To get elected one has to signal to News Ltd that one is *responsible*. If one does not do that, one becomes *unelectable*. This is another key word, especially in the UK context, where the battle for the leadership of the Labour Party is being fought out on the terrain of electable or *unelectable*, at present. comradely Gary On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:22 AM, michael perelman via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Richard Parker coined the word "neglectorate" to describe the public's > alienation from the current dysfunctional political system. Now that > economists have, for the most part relegated John Maynard Keynes to the > dustbin of history, the term Dickenysian seems to be appropriate for the > present conditions, which are becoming increasingly similar to Charles > Dickens' portrayal of the world he lived in. The power of the bond market > in imposing its will on supposedly independent states, suggests that > bondage may be appropriate for expressing the power of capital. Finally, > we could describe the current economic system as Crapitalism, which treats > ordinary people as crap. > > -- > Michael Perelman > Economics Department > California State University > Chico, CA > 95929 > > 530 898 5321 > fax 530 898 5901 > http://michaelperelman.wordpress.com > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/gary.maclennan1%40gmail.com > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
