The death and life of the center-left

中左翼的兴衰

LSE: Public lectures and events

2025-05-07

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Contributor(s): Will Hutton, Professor Robert Kuttner, Professor Stephanie J. Rickard | Since the 1990s, progressive parties have tended to combine globalist neoliberal policies with avant-garde social views. Life steadily became more precarious for large numbers of working people, who lost confidence in traditional left-of-center parties. Economically stressed and culturally conservative lower- and middle-income voters found themselves no political champion and turned increasingly to the nationalist, authoritarian right. This trend is in drastic contrast to the economics of the postwar boom, when the center-left and center-right shared basic assumptions about how to manage and regulate capitalism. Global trade and migration expanded at a socially bearable pace that did not undermine national social contracts. The politics of that era produced economic security for ordinary people and strengthened democratic institutions. With the loss of confidence in both center-left parties and in democracy itself, what is a conceivable road back to building a society that is both dynamic and secure, and that restores a believable center-left?

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Right.
Good evening, everybody.
Sorry for the slightly late start.
One of our speakers is stuck in London traffic and not an unusual event.
But he will be arriving, Wilhelm will be arriving,
hopefully we'll just be able to slot into the discussion.
So, good evening, welcome to the LSE.
My name is Jonathan Hopkin, I'm a professor in the European Institute here,
and I'm chairing this, what promises to be a very interesting discussion.
So, obviously the title of the talk, Death and Life of the Centre-Left.
It's kind of every conversation I've had as an academic in the last 30 years, really.
But it's a really interesting time to be talking about this,
and we have some fantastic speakers to shed some light on where the center-left is going.
So first speaker will be Robert Kuttner,
who is co-founder and co-editor of the American Prospect magazine.
He was also a columnist for Businessweek and the Boston Globe.
He's the founder of the Economic Policy Institute and serves on its board and is author of multiple books about the global political economy and American politics and progressive politics.
There is no time to name them all.

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