Democrats Quote by Guy Standing

“Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.” quote by Guy Standing — Download Open image

“Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They deserve their defeats.”

Guy Standing

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings)

More by Guy Standing

“The ethical and philosophical justifications for basic income – social justice, freedom and economic security – have been well established. They are embedded in the Enlightenment values of all civilized societies and are clearly interrelated, ultimately resting on the sentiment of empathy. This is the emotion that separates the progressive mind from the reactionary one. Empathy derives from a strong…

Guy Standing

What we can say with confidence is that the technological revolution is worsening inequality, due mostly to mechanisms that limit free markets. It is…

Guy Standing

Image

“While there are reasons to be sceptical about the predicted technological dystopia that has prompted many high-tech plutocrats to come out in support of basic income, this may nevertheless be a strong factor in mobilizing public pressure and political action. Whether jobs are going to dry up or not, the march of the robots is undoubtedly accentuating insecurity and inequality.…

Guy Standing

“Selective paternalism, for those on low incomes or for other groups needing state assistance, is perhaps even worse than general paternalism, since the minority…

Guy Standing

Image

A democratically governed national fracking fund should be set up, perhaps similar to what Norway and Alaska have. Areas of drilling should be rented…

Guy Standing

Image

Many low-income people in the U.S.A. charged with a crime opt to plead guilty to a lesser offence because they cannot afford to go…

Guy Standing

Image

People in the precariat rely very heavily on money wages.

Guy Standing

Image

“Ironically, opponents of basic income on the grounds that it would lead to a dismantling of the welfare state tend to support some variant…

Guy Standing

Image

Globalisation began what should be called the Great Convergence, creating a globalising labour market in which wages in emerging market economies slowly converge with…

Guy Standing

Image

“Although reducing poverty, economic insecurity, malnutrition and ill-health should be the primary driving forces, an additional factor is the stress being placed on societies all over the world from distress and other forms of migration. A basic income system in impoverished and low-income communities in developing countries would surely encourage more people to stay in and (re)build their communities.”

Guy Standing

“The first basic income pilot in a developing country was implemented in the small Namibian village of Otjivero-Omitara in 2008–9, covering about 1,000 people.40 The study was carried out by the Namibian Basic Income Grant Coalition, with money raised from foundations and individual donations. Everyone in the village, including children but excluding over-sixties already receiving a social pension, was given…

Guy Standing

“Leaving aside instrumental reasons for supporting a basic income, the thrill lies in the potential to advance full freedom and social justice, and the values of work and leisure over the dictates of labour and consumption. The times they are a-changin’, sang Bob Dylan. And times do change the chances of success. As Thomas Paine so memorably put it in…

Guy Standing

Explore all 117 Guy Standing quotes

More Democrats quotes

I know of not one Republican candidate that would not appear publicly with Mitt Romney and I know many Democrats that don't even want…

Pete Sessions

Image

The Democrats in particular are do-nothing guys.

Peter George Peterson

Image

I think what Democrats need to do is they need to work for the country and make sure that not only the southern border…

Jon Tester

Image

We believe that there are aspects of border security that Democrats and Republicans can agree on.

Dick Durbin

Image

One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now…

Abdolkarim Soroush

Image

Democrats are holistically bad at politics. They don't know how to fight in the way Republicans do.

Rick Wilson

Image

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats…

Noam Chomsky