Neoliberalism’s Failure and What the Left Must Do
2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecturer Grace Blakeley sits down with Luke Savage in for a conversation on the failures of neoliberal capitalism and what the left must do if it is to win the working-class.
Democratic Socialism
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Genuine Democracy in an Age of Hyper-Individualism – 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture
The 2025 Ellen Meiksins Wood Lecture was delivered by Grace Blakeley, illustrating why neoliberal capitalism has overruled democracy and why we must organize to take back democratic power for the working-class.
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Which Future For Social Democracy?
Ed Broadbent’s rich vision of democratic equality can and should continue to be our compass in this era of uncertainty and crisis. A barren technocratic liberalism may be ill-equipped to carry this out — but democratic socialism can.
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Contemporary Prospects for Social Democracy
The underlying dilemma of social democracy in the twenty-first century is that neoliberalism has failed while a coherent alternative has yet to be fully developed and embraced by most social democratic parties.
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Social Democracy from the Golden Age to the Great Recession
The Golden Age was marked by very strong economic growth and by close to full employment, resulting in steadily rising real wages and the expansion of the fiscal base needed to finance the growing welfare state.
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Social Democracy from the Gilded Age to the Golden Age
By the inter-war period, social democracy had emerged in Canada as a more or less coherent ideological and political force.
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What is social democracy?
Social democracy was not only about the welfare state and public services and expanding social rights, but also about regulated capitalism, economic democracy, or even transcendence of capitalism as an economic system.
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Embers of the Mass Party: Membership and Democracy
What if the CCF-NDP’s history as a mass party and a democratic, membership-based movement for a better world is in fact its unique strength in Canadian politics?
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Seeking Social Democracy Live: Ed Broadbent, Frances Abele, Jonathan Sas and Luke Savage
Ed Broadbent and his co-authors spoke at the Toronto Reference Library to launch their new book on Canadian social democracy.
