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Katrina Forrester on the questions of liberty, equality and how capitalism structures politics, life and how we think about ourselves and the others
04 May 2021Politics
Socialist visions of a Green New Deal abound, but political roadmaps for their realization seem to have been foreclosed. After the electoral defeats of Corbyn and Sanders, and the fracturing of the climate movement in the Global North following its apex in the autumn of 2019, this disjuncture is starker than ever. From it, a range of dilemmas arise. Foremost among them is how socialists should conceive of the Green New Deal now that its precondition, the prospect of administering the state, has receded into the distance; and how the left can reconcile the ‘long game’ of democratic socialism with the urgency of the climate timeline. To address these questions, a preliminary look at the two main iterations of the GND – British and American – is necessary.
Praise for
The Next Shift
“How the health-care industry replaced manufacturing while downgrading the quality of American middle-class life, furthering inequality, and fueling political bitter divisions is the welcome subject of Gabriel Winant’s
The Next Shift . . . Winant weaves together a convincing argument that this downward mobility has been driven by a gendered and racist political economy that values many things from retiree health care to CEO pay more than care work by women and people of color.” John W. Miller,
Democracy
“Beautifully written, extensively researched, and sharply argued,
The Next Shift offers a new way to think about the transformations often grouped together under the rubric of ‘neoliberalism.’ Winant sees deindustrialization not simply as a story of decline, but a story of the rise of a new kind of working class.” Kimberly Phillips-Fein, author of
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