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What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy: Quarterly Essay 21

What's Left?: The Death of Social Democracy: Quarterly Essay 21

The Death of Social Democracy

by Clive Hamilton
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Publication Date: 01/03/2006

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According to Clive Hamilton the author of two recent Australian bestsellers, Growth Fetish and Affluenza - Australia needs a completely new politics built on the world as we find it. In his provocative new essay, he throws out a challenge to the party of social democracy, the Labor Party - to both its true believers on the left and its right-wing machine men. What s Left? shows how the world today has little in common with the world that spawned social democracy. We no longer have social classes in the same way, we are ever more individualistic, and the locus of power and of cultural change has shifted to the consumption sphere.Yet social democracy and the Labor Party in particular, operates in large part in a mental space that has failed to acknowledge these changes. Modern left and right are so alike because they both accept that the principal objective of politics is to stoke the economy and look after the interests of the wealth creators.
ISBN:
9781863951821
9781863951821
Category:
Constitution: government & the state
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-03-2006
Publisher:
Black Inc.
Country of origin:
Australia
Edition:
21st Edition
Pages:
144
Dimensions (mm):
235x168x8mm
Weight:
0.2kg
Clive Hamilton

Clive Hamilton AM is an Australian author and public intellectual.

His books include Growth Fetish, Silencing Dissent (with Sarah Maddison) and What Do We Want: The Story of Protest in Australia. He was for 14 years the executive director of The Australia Institute, a think tank he founded. For some years he has been professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.

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