Gotta agree with some of the other commenters--there's a dance in the old dame yet. Social democracy became disreputable in the 1970's and 1980's. It is not yet in power, but is no longer disreputable. The Warren-Khan faction of the Democratic party is crafting a usable re-legitimating discourse for social democracy. Academia is some…
Gotta agree with some of the other commenters--there's a dance in the old dame yet. Social democracy became disreputable in the 1970's and 1980's. It is not yet in power, but is no longer disreputable. The Warren-Khan faction of the Democratic party is crafting a usable re-legitimating discourse for social democracy. Academia is somewhat ahead of the prestige press, but the latter will likely follow, and with it, the Overton Window. This is a task for decades, not years.
Gotta agree with some of the other commenters--there's a dance in the old dame yet. Social democracy became disreputable in the 1970's and 1980's. It is not yet in power, but is no longer disreputable. The Warren-Khan faction of the Democratic party is crafting a usable re-legitimating discourse for social democracy. Academia is somewhat ahead of the prestige press, but the latter will likely follow, and with it, the Overton Window. This is a task for decades, not years.
but the underlying forces-of-production are so different from what they were in the age of social democracy...