Filipe Moura, social-democrata?

Os meus resultados no teste que é proposto por O Insurgente (façam-no vocês também):

#1 You are a social democrat. Like other socialists, you believe in a more economically equal society - but you have jettisoned any belief in the idea of the planned economy. You believe in a mixed economy, where the state provides certain key services and where the productivity of the market is harnessed for the good of society as a whole. Many social democrats are hard to distinguish from social liberals, and they share a tolerant social outlook.

#2 You are an ecologist or green. You believe that the single greatest challenge of our time is the threat to our natural environment, and you feel that radical action must be taken to protect it - whether in the enlightened self-interest of humanity (in the tradition of 'shallow ecologism') or, more radically, from the perspective of the ecosystem as a whole, without treating humans as the central species (deep ecologism).

#3 You are a classical socialist, believing in equality of outcome as a principle. This might mean greater equality (e.g. Old Labour), or as close to absolute equality as possible. However, you will believe in an extensive public sector, covering not just public services (transport, healthcare etc.) but probably also the 'commanding heights' of industry (e.g. iron and steel). Your views on personal morality will be reasonably tolerant, in general, but there is considerable variation within this political group.

#4 You are a communist. You believe, at least in theory, in absolute equality of income - and you oppose the whole capitalist system per se. You want to abolish the market economy and replace it with one in which the workers (usually meaning the state) control the building blocks of the economy. Your views on personal morality will vary; traditional communists tended to be more authoritarian, while modern "eurocommunists" tend to take a liberal line.

#5 You adhere to the Third Way. The Third Way is a fairly nebulous concept, but it rests on the idea of combining economic efficiency - i.e. a market economy with some intervention - with social responsibility. The focus is emphatically on the community as a whole, and not necessarily equality per se. Adherents of the Third Way range from moderate to conservative in their social views, and have recently been willing to take a "tough" line on a range of social issues.

#6 You are an anarcho-communist, aiming for a society without the state, based on small, decentralised groups living communally.

#7 You are a fascist. You combine a strong belief in the nation with authoritarian social values, and a willingness to impose your views upon others. You strongly oppose immigration, and are willing to take radical action to combat it.

#8 You are a social liberal. Like all liberals, you believe in individual freedom as a central objective - but you believe that lack of economic opportunity, education, healthcare etc. can be just as damaging to liberty as can an oppressive state. As a result, social liberals are generally the most outspoken defenders of human rights and civil liberties, and combine this with support for a mixed economy, with an enabling state providing public services to ensure that people's social rights as well as their civil liberties are upheld.

#9 You are a Christian democrat - or, in the UK, a "One Nation conservative"; in other words, although you share the usual conservative belief in stability and duty, you believe that such duties include a responsibility on the part of the better-off to help those who are less fortunate. You will be socially conservative, but in favour of a mixed economy where the state does have a role in providing public services. Christian democracy arose after World War II, succeeding more doctrinaire Catholic parties dating from the 1870s.

#10 You are a libertarian conservative. You hold that the free market is the best way of organising economic activity, but you combine this with adherence to more traditional social values of authority and duty.

#11 You are a market liberal. You adhere to the traditional liberal belief in freedom, and take this to mean negative rather than positive freedom - i.e. a slimmed-down state is the best guarantor of freedom. You will therefore support a laissez-faire economic policy, and you will be reasonably tolerant on the social front - though less emphatically so than social liberals.

#12 You are an anarcho-capitalist. Anarcho-capitalists take the Jeffersonian belief that "that government is best which governs least", and extend it - "that government is best which governs not at all". The theory of anarcho-capitalism is that the market can replace the state as a regulator of individual behaviour (resulting in private courts, private policing etc.).

Uma providência cautelar contra a demagogia ?

Como fui em viagem só hoje tive oportunidade de experimentar o célebre Tunel do Marquês.

Depois de todo o arraial à volta da "obra" estava à espera de algo tenebroso mas, em vez disso, deparei com um tunel arejado e bem sinalizado, com uma inclinação perfeitamente normal, de utilidade evidente.



Quando é que a política deixará de ser uma guerrilha em que vale tudo o que "entale" o adversário mesmo que prejudique o conjunto dos cidadãos ?

Alguém dizia há dias que os prejuízos resultantes dos embargos das obras deviam ser facturados ao cidadão Sá Fernandes. Eu sou mais comedido, quero apenas uma providência cautelar contra a demagogia.

Será pedir muito ?

Resumo da minha jornada de protesto

A manife dos precários começava na Alameda D. Afonso Henriques, mas eu decidi começar por passar pela Alameda da Universidade de Lisboa. Estava tudo animado, apesar da chuva, com stands de diversas origens. Destaques para a gastronomia na Casa do Alentejo e na Associação de Amizade Portugal-Cuba.
Os trabalhadores protestam contra a globalização, mas a música que dá o tom é o Manu Chao. Já fui a manifestações em três países diferentes, e nos últimos anos é sempre ao som do Manu Chao. Mais global não poderia ser.
Percorro a Av. do Brasil e a Av. de Roma em busca da manifestação geral, que vinha do estádio 1º de Maio.
Havia na manifestação um sector de trabalhadores do Bloco de Esquerda (com símbolo do partido e tudo). Havia ainda um carro do PCP parado fora da manifestação, que tocava o hino do partido enquanto eram distribuídos folhetos da Festa do Avante! 2007. Tudo isto... à porta do Hospital Júlio de Matos.
A ABIC (bolseiros de investigação científica) vinha à cabeça. Os trabalhadores precários vinham mesmo no fim. Não sei qual terá sido a origem desta separação, uma vez que os bolseiros são também precários e era para ter vindo tudo junto. Espero que não tenha havido sectarismo. Deixei-me estar junto aos precários. Também lá havia cientistas.
No regresso à Alameda da Universidade, a música tinha sido substituída por palavras de ordem como "com políticas de direita o país não se endireita", "flexisegurança para o capital encher a pança", "greve geral contra o que está mal", "Sócrates escuta, o povo está em luta". Tudo repetido quatro vezes por um homem e uma mulher de voz mais esganiçada que a Daniela Ruah. Achei que era demais para mim e vim-me embora, com saudades do Manu Chao.

Inglês Técnico

Não há nada como uma piada para voltarmos à terra depois das comemorações do 25A e do 1ºM.

How to Hate the Working Classes

Dressed like that you're gonna get roughed up
You're like a benefit scrounger in a fun pub
I'll meet you on the corner of Amherst Road
Let's start a party of our own
The stupid years we spent together
We had pet names for each other
Since we stopped talking years and years ago
Let's start a party of our own
I'm on a mission for the masses
How to hate the working classes
And everybody that we ever knew
Let's start a party, just we two
The bloody rain, the bloody dogs,
This bloody town's gone to the dogs
And everybody's gay, the straight boys know
Let's start a party of our own
Where everyone we've ever loved
And everyone we've ever fucked
Will collect their interest in eternity
Not deposit, no return; invest in me
I need a holiday in heaven
The working classes and how to hate them
Everybody that we've ever known
Let's start a party of our own
Let's start a party of our own
I need a holiday in heaven
I need a holiday.

(Luke Haines, «How to Hate the Working Classes». O triplo álbum Luke Haines is Dead é uma recolha de a-sides, b-sides, out-takes, sessões de rádio e raridades. Está disponível na Amazon, pelo mesmo preço de um pacote de cacau Praline. Luke Haines, felizmente, não está morto.)

"If it was a boxing match it would have been stopped because it was too boring"

«(...) the football remained loveless, full of sour faces and dour tactics. It is, of course, hard to enjoy playing under this pressure - gravity always wins - but the likes of Ronaldinho manage to show their teeth from time to time. The only teeth on show here were those being pulled by unfortunate neutrals. It all evoked the famous headline after the dire draw between Ireland and England at Italia 90: 'No Football Please, We're British'. While there was glory and spoils for the victors, anyone with a knowledge of football knows that this rudimentary nonsense is spoiling the game.»

(Rob Smyth, no The Guardian, sobre o bonito jogo desta noite. A meio da segunda parte, um insecto veio pousar no parapeito da minha janela. O insecto era esverdeado e tinha dois pares de asinhas translúcidas. Creio que era uma libélula. Esteve ali no parapeito da minha janela. A tinta por baixo do parapeito da minha janela está a lascar. Vou ter de resolver isto.)

Guerra dos sexos ou defesa do trabalhador?

Dedicados a todos os trabalhadores e trabalhadoras. Protejam-se dos patrões e exploradores, mas tenham também cautela com os vossos patrões supostamente "progressistas" que estão mais interessados na "causa" em geral do que em vocês em concreto. Nunca sejam usados como um objecto!