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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
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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.
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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA
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