tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post3657389110351870369..comments2023-08-20T11:07:28.396+01:00Comments on Freeborn John: Distorted capitalismPeter Risdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17792275403997179926noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-77039307166308071992008-01-13T13:29:00.000+00:002008-01-13T13:29:00.000+00:00In fact, that sounds rather similar to the modern ...In fact, that sounds rather similar to the modern Labour Party, though I hesitate to say so. Comparisons with Nazis are normally hysterical but it's certainly the case that the government reserves the right to interfere in whatever ways it chooses in the running of businesses. Their foci on issues like gender and maternity disguise this a bit.<BR/><BR/>However, there's no contradiction between state interference and capitalism.Peter Risdonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17792275403997179926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12471112.post-75575357538812775792008-01-13T12:55:00.000+00:002008-01-13T12:55:00.000+00:00"yet it was a mainly capitalist society": mm, but ..."yet it was a mainly capitalist society": mm, but didn't the Nazis decide that there was no need for their state to have nominal ownership of a business as long as they had the power to instruct it what to do? (It's a more intelligent variation of Socialism than our own Labour Party ever managed to devise.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com