What should the left propose

They would also give greater reality to the central teaching of democracy: faith in the constructive genius of ordinary men and women. For Unger, a programmatic argument is not a blueprint; it marks a direction and explores next steps. He explores the form this direction could take in the European social democracies, in the United States, in the developing countries, and in the contest over the reform of globalization.

He shows how the Left in power can do more than use compensatory redistribution to sugarcoat economic inequality, and how it can make good on its ideals without reaffirming a discredited commitment to governmental control of the economy. Start earning points for buying books! Uplift Native American Stories. Add to Bookshelf. Category: Politics. Mar 17, ISBN Add to Cart. Buy from Other Retailers:. Hardcover —. About What Should the Left Propose? Also by Roberto Mangabeira Unger.

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Document Type: Essay. Length: 2, words. Lexile Measure: L. Rather than resist economic and social change, he argues, the Left should drive "the permanent creation of the new" by championing New Economy managerial techniques of cooperative innovation, promoting state support for small entrepreneurship and venture capital formation and exploring "experimental" forms of markets, property and contract.

Properly guided by "high-energy" politics, he insists, such initiatives can enhance equality, security, social solidarity and returns to labor, broaden opportunity, usher in "the divinization of humanity" and bestow on the individual "a more god-like self. Many of his proposals, like privatizating social services or making everyone hold a second job in the "caring economy" tending to the old, the young, the sick, the poor or the desperate no, family members don't count , are ill thought-out.

Still, he offers an incisive critique of social and economic discontents, one that turns traditional Marxist formulations on their heads "we All rights reserved.

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