MASS LBP hosts "Building the Big Society: An evening with Phillip Blond"

3rd & 7 37yd

Moderator asks panel, "what is appropriate role for the state?"

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:25:37 AM
Himmelfarb: real problem is that the evidence is not in Blond's favour. Medicare, early childcare can't be devolved to community and still work as well.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:27:41 AM
DiNovo: we need participatory democracy and eliminate first past the post.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:28:37 AM
When we talk Cuts, they move the State budget to where it was in 2008; not really a #Tory Revolution. #BigSociety #guardian #uncut #26March

by SophieHuntsmanN via twitter 3/29/2011 1:34:18 AM
Alexander: we in Canada have huge assets thatc an be tapped.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:35:46 AM
Blond asked to wrap up in 20 seconds. Here goes: what came first? Were ppl born into he state? Did they emerge from the cave into the state? The state is the product of setting civil society.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:36:51 AM
Blond: what breaks the state is the notion of the free rider. Denmark seeing roll back of he welfare state because it didn't expand to include new migrants. Need mutual support.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:38:09 AM
You can only have a strong state with a strong civil society; need society to tackle the free-rider problem in welfare states. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 1:38:18 AM
Blond: it still seems to me that something is lost to Canada with the absence of Red Toryism

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:39:05 AM
Blond fears reductively neoliberal, reductively authoritarian conservativism dominant in Canada. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 1:39:36 AM
Blond: He's never heard that the left believes in society. Focus has always been on the state.

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:40:22 AM
In conclusion, Blond says, " the Big Society came first!"

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:41:07 AM
Blond hears the Left losing belief in society while defending the state lost recognition that society is the basis of socialism. #bigsociety

by Mark Kuznicki via twitter 3/29/2011 1:41:26 AM
Thank you to all! Next MASS talk is Monday. Check out masslpb.com

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:41:51 AM
Goodnight and thanks for following!

by AlisonLoat via mobile 3/29/2011 1:42:04 AM
@remarkk agree, but #bigsociety is a retread of the #thirdway, and how well did that work out? Little real innovation in NGOs (yet) either

by TOjohnw via twitter 3/29/2011 2:08:04 AM
home from the #bigsociety talk, and full of lots of big ideas about how we could be doing things so that we're all living better.

by joshnamaharaj via twitter 3/29/2011 2:15:53 AM
P.S. Thanks to @masslpb (www.masslpb.com) for organizing.

by AlisonLoat 3/29/2011 7:44:23 PM
P.P.S. For a more complete read of Alex Himmelfarb's critique, please visit his website: afhimelfarb.wordpress.com

by AlisonLoat 3/29/2011 7:45:39 PM

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