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I am glad and honoured to talk today about the Left in Europe, and what is left of it. I would like to thank the French Socialist party in London, the Fabian Society and the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung for organizing this event. Before answering questions you may have about the current French political landscape, I would like [...]
In recent decades, the capitalist offensive in Sweden has had the ideological fire support of a neoliberal paradigm shaped by the dichotomy ‘nutritive and consumptive’ (‘närande och tärande’). By splitting the economy into a capitalist element putting money into the coffers and a governmental element that empties them, it became possible for the private sector to [...]
Two fundamental falsehoods about the neo-liberal economy need to be understood before we can go on and consider alternatives. First, the successful trajectory of the Anglo-American economies from the mid-1990s onwards was not based on their wholehearted embrace of the free market economy, but on their acceptance of unsustainable levels of private debt, much of [...]
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