For George Monbiot, neoliberalism should best be understood as a “story”, one that was conveniently on offer at precisely the moment when the previous “story” – namely Keynesianism – fell to pieces in the mid-1970s. Facebook Twitter Pinterest ‘Monbiot’s hopeful, practical energy is precisely what the left needs.’ Photograph: Sam Friedrich for the GuardianThe grand global difficulties of neoliberalism are plain to see. Monbiot’s hopeful, practical energy is precisely what the left needs right now. If the left is to start a conversation about belonging, it needs to be confident that it can finish it. • Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis is published by Verso.

Source: The Guardian September 14, 2017 06:22 UTC