John Craig
Associate
John is Director of The Innovation Exchange, which works to grow innovation from the third sector
at 9:19am
on Wednesday, 21st December 2005
Antipolitics keeps me awake at night and so I am much cheered by this article from David Miliband and Douglas Alexander, which critiques Cameron's attempt to make politics 'a choice between competing management consultants, not competing visions of the good society'. It's striking that the first leader of a major party to have drawn his wages solely from politics should be so keen to attack the very idea of it.
Cameron deserves credit from the optimism he has returned to politics, and for that reason antipolitics is unworthy of him. In Marx's suggestion that we replace politics with 'the administration of things', history teaches us to sniff oppression. When we hear that politics is the 'rule of stupidity, of mediocrity, of half-heartedness, of cowardice, of weakness, and of inadequacy', we know it's Hitler speaking. It's that simple - politics saves lives. If Cameron continues to draw on powerful ideas of noblesse oblige, this will only get harder to remember.
Antipolitics keeps me awake at night and so I am much cheered by this article from David Miliband and Douglas Alexander, which critiques Cameron's attempt to make politics 'a choice between competing management consultants, not competing visions of the good society'. It's striking that the first leader of a major party to have drawn his wages solely from politics should be so keen to attack the very idea of it.
Cameron deserves credit from the optimism he has returned to politics, and for that reason antipolitics is unworthy of him. In Marx's suggestion that we replace politics with 'the administration of things', history teaches us to sniff oppression. When we hear that politics is the 'rule of stupidity, of mediocrity, of half-heartedness, of cowardice, of weakness, and of inadequacy', we know it's Hitler speaking. It's that simple - politics saves lives. If Cameron continues to draw on powerful ideas of noblesse oblige, this will only get harder to remember.
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