So which will it be? The People's Front of Judea or the Judean People's Front? ;)) (with apologies to MPFC).

Tired old prose here Marko, you'd get laughed out of any serious forum if you put forth the arguments you roll out here.

Still, that is your right and I will fight for you to retain that right.

But seriously ...

Marko,

You say: "There can be no doubt that the leaders of the parliamentary Labor Party have abandoned the social contract in favour of pro corporate economic restructuring so that they may win elections in a corporate dominated society."

When you consider that 60% of the voters pay 10% of the taxes in this country, it is pretty obvious who runs the show. Of course the 60% are going to vote for expensive spending measures, particularly welfare related. And of course they are going to vote for proposals that tax the rich more, coz they think that they are not going to pay for it.

This reasoning applies to the Mining Tax. It applies especially to the Carbon Tax since Labour has designed the scheme so that the bulk of voters actually get compensation.

So we have a country with a tax and voting system that gives the majority of voters the right to impose tax and other imposts on the minority. Its easy to make "decisions" where others pay.

I wouldn't complain about it too much if I were you, mate.

Marko Beljac,

“Anarchism and the death of social democracy”

Social Democracy?

Never heard of it!

But then, there are so many absurdities concocted in Academia that another one doesn’t really matter.

I have to stop at this point for my incapacity to understand what you mean by ‘social democracy', but not before saying that I was twelve years old when I heard that Camillo Berneri and Francisco Barbieri were murdered in Barcelona at the order of Stalin himself.

The news was not in the paper nor did I hear it at church but from fishermen mending nets down the moorings.

It was 1934 and Fascism and murmur was in the air of my small hometown

I am with Herbert on this (though I would like to see a link to his figures if possible)

I read the article going, "what the hell"

"There can be no doubt that the leaders of the parliamentary Labor Party have abandoned the social contract in favour of pro corporate economic restructuring so that they may win elections in a corporate dominated society."

I can't agree with this and the taxation figures certainly don't support it, so this will be something you will have to explore more to convince me, because this bears NO reflection to what I see around me.

We're in a Voter dominated society, you can argue back and forward about how short sighted and entitlement driven voters are but that's another debate entirely.

The corporate sector eonomy has always been the feeding and breeding grounds of the Liberal/liberal domain so to say that labour is using it to secure public opiion is an amazing turn around.
Where the hell is the owner..the Liberal crowd?

socratease

"There can be no doubt that the leaders of the parliamentary Labor Party have abandoned the social contract in favour of pro corporate economic restructuring so that they may win elections in a corporate dominated society."

Completely agree with the writer. Just consider one thing. - the % of the working population now reduced to casual labour employment (47% of Australian work force) That's employment with NO benefits. No holiday pay, no sick pay, no....we are steadily going back in time. Child labour next?

I remember Barry Jones being concerned that we wouldn't know what to do with all our free time when technology took over. Now, we work longer hours than we did in 1930. Who could have imagined such an outcome. And all brought to you by the ALP - been selling us down the drain.

For the ALP hacks loitering - Bill Shorten was my local memeber - He is as thick as a brick but rat cunning.