Erhard Eppler
Erhard Eppler is a former German Minister for International Development and a well known public intellectual and social democratic thinker.
The Future of Social Democracy is European
Social Democracy has always been an idea and a strategy of social change. As a progressive movement it has always been on the offensive. When in the 1980s market-radical theories, supported by neo-conservatives and neo-liberals, began to dominate public opinion, the defensive mechanisms of social democracy proved to be rather poor. There was scattered resistance, [...]
Capitalism and Christian Ethics
I. As recently as 2003, in a – purportedly critical – introduction to neoliberalism, we read the following: “The left/socialist and church-based critiques of neoliberalism are in agreement that the market encourages a ‘destructive egoism’. Resistant to learning, the churches cultivate the idea of the fundamentally good, socially responsible individual, and look with biblical [...]
