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Can social democracy be a goal in itself, and not just a means to some other end? ‘I have not moved to the left, it’s the world that has shifted to the right’, said a Norwegian conservative politician some years ago, commenting on his seemingly leftist stance after retirement. And this shift to the right [...]
Utopianism is a necessary part of our rethinking of social democracy. Almost exactly twenty years ago the Berlin wall came crashing down on ‘actually existing socialism’ in Eastern Europe. Some commentators on the political right were quick to announce the ‘end of history’ and the ever-lasting triumph of the liberal-capitalist order: the end of the [...]
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