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    Stretching the word “neoliberal” to cover people as different as Deng Xiaoping and Donald Trump has turned it

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Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Karl Marx was born on 5 May 1818. He was one of the greatest social scientists

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    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Bernie Sanders campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination in the US in 2015-2016. In

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But it does not deserve to be there   Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Despite the disastrous record of self-described “socialist”

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  Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Although education is not a public good, there are good reasons why the state should support

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  Geoffrey M. Hodgson   If you wish to cultivate an image of being principled and politically pure, then avoidance

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  Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Ken Loach was a prominent celebrity at the 2017 Labour Party conference, being photographed in the

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    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   I was born in 1946. I lived in a council house until I was

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    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   Many people still call themselves socialists. But rarely is it made clear what they

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    Geoffrey M. Hodgson   In terms of basic assumptions, Marxism has more in common with some prominent versions

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