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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