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Single Idea 23140
[filed under theme 24. Political Theory / D. Ideologies / 11. Capitalism
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Full Idea
It is the drive for growth, not capitalism in particular, that makes environmental disasters happen. Those caused by the command economics of Eastern Europe were far greater than even the worst known in Western Europe.
Gist of Idea
Environmental disasters result not from capitalism, but from a general drive for growth
Source
Adam Gopnik (A Thousand Small Sanities [2019], 3)
Book Ref
Gopnik,Adam: 'A Thousand Small Sanities' [riverrun 2019], p.170
A Reaction
So the next question is whether you can have capitalism without a drive for growth. I would have thought not, given the role recycled profit plays in driving capitalism. Command economies are more easily swept away.
The
19 ideas
from Adam Gopnik
23128
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The opposite of liberalism is dogmatism
[Gopnik]
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23125
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Most good social changes are incremental, rather than revolutionary
[Gopnik]
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23126
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Conservatives often want peace, prosperity and tolerance, but not social fairness
[Gopnik]
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23124
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Liberal community is not blood ties or tradition, but shared choices, and sympathy for the losers
[Gopnik]
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23127
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Liberal community includes flight from the family, into energetic reforming groups
[Gopnik]
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23132
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Conservatives believe obedience and rank are essential to social order
[Gopnik]
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23129
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Right-wingers attack liberal faith in reason, left-wingers attack its faith in reform
[Gopnik]
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23133
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Cosmopolitan liberals lack national loyalty, and welcome excessive immigration
[Gopnik]
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23130
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Popular imperialism gives the poor the belief that their acts have world historical meaning
[Gopnik]
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23131
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Patriots love their place, but nationalists have a paranoid ethnic hostility
[Gopnik]
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23136
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Liberal free speech is actually paid speech
[Gopnik]
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23134
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A 'free' society implies a free market, which always produces predatory capitalism and inequalities
[Gopnik]
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23139
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Liberalism's attempt to be neutral and colour-blind erases cultural identities
[Gopnik]
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23135
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Classic Marxists see liberalism as the ideology of the bourgeoisie
[Gopnik]
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23140
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Environmental disasters result not from capitalism, but from a general drive for growth
[Gopnik]
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23138
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Modern left-wingers criticise liberalism's control of culture
[Gopnik]
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23142
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People are fallible, so liberalism tries to distribute power
[Gopnik]
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23143
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Liberals have tried very hard to build a conscience into their institutions
[Gopnik]
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23141
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Left-wingers are inconsistent in their essentialist descriptions of social groups
[Gopnik]
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