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Social democracy and the problem of agency
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This essay is prompted by Renewal's issue on 'Futures for social democracy' (Vol 15 (2/3), 2007), specifically by three personal responses to it.
The first of these is that that the left (1) is not short of policies, both strategic and immediate. There is really now a cast-iron case that the market-centred policies of neoliberalism produce a society with a recurrent and intensifying social malaise. A left government should have little difficulty in preparing a shortlist of policies to ...
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