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New 'left-wing' think tank....

Smokeandsteam said:
Orientation to what? TUSC? For what purpose?
You aren't making sense.
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No not to TUSC. To being an independent forum for left ideas - including Labour lefts where they can contribute (and someone like McDonnell could make a major contribution) but not restricted to the aim of trying to buttress the position, and flesh out the agenda of, Ed Miliband. And less concern with the liberal left commentariat, and more grounded work on social policy, industrial strategy, economic alternatives etc. Obviously you need to think about how to get the results out there into the public domain - but it should develop an independent intellectual agenda.
 
articul8 said:
No not to TUSC. To being an independent forum for left ideas - including Labour lefts where they can contribute (and someone like McDonnell could make a major contribution) but not restricted to the aim of trying to buttress the position, and flesh out the agenda of, Ed Miliband. And less concern with the liberal left commentariat, and more grounded work on social policy, industrial strategy, economic alternatives etc. Obviously you need to think about how to get the results out there into the public domain - but it should develop an independent intellectual agenda.
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Just partly aiming to trying to buttress the position, and flesh out the agenda of, Ed Miliband then. How could my mum get involved in such a project?
 
butchersapron said:
Just partly aiming to trying to buttress the position, and flesh out the agenda of, Ed Miliband then. How could my mum get involved in such a project?
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The point is that that wouldn't be the driving force behind the project, even if it was the agenda of some of those involved. You and your mam both welcome .
 
articul8 said:
The point is that that wouldn't be the driving force behind the project, even if it was the agenda of some of those involved. You and your mam both welcome .
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How could she get involved in this open pluralistic adventure? Make the tea? Read what you write?
 
butchersapron said:
How could she get involved in this open pluralistic adventure? Make the tea? Read what you write?
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Well, it's important to re-think the think-tank model itself. Participatory, collective research and evaluation - widening involvement would all be desirable.
 
Unlikely, unless she has some special interest in participatory and democratic research methodologies - but the initial operating assumptions should be open to subsequent critique and contestation by the participants themselves.
 
articul8 said:
Unlikely, unless she has some special interest in participatory and democratic research methodologies - but the initial operating assumptions should be open to subsequent critique and contestation by the participants themselves.
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And you've just made sure by that waffle that they're not. Are you starting to get the point? You're not are you jurgen?
 
why aren't they? If you needed the advance assent from every participant before the whole project got on the road it would never happen. The key thing is that the parameters aren't unquestionable, they are provisional.
 
It's an attempt to get together some start players and publish reports, get noticed in the media. "Pluralism" means being broad - all the way from the labour left, to Old Labour
 
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