The Market Can’t Save Us
From the cost of living crisis to climate chaos, our era is defined by enormous social challenges – and the private sector has shown it can’t solve them. It’s time for massive state intervention in the economy.
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Paolo Gerbaudo is a sociologist and author of The Great Recoil: Politics After Populism and Pandemic, out now from Verso.
From the cost of living crisis to climate chaos, our era is defined by enormous social challenges – and the private sector has shown it can’t solve them. It’s time for massive state intervention in the economy.
Today’s labour movement struggles to create leaders with the politics or influence needed to take us forward – to change that, we need to rejuvenate the workplace and community institutions which shaped yesterday’s fighters.