The New Reckoning: Capitalism, States and CitizensISBN: 978-0-7456-1744-2
Hardcover
232 pages
December 1997, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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In these timely essays, David Marquand challenges the
fashionable amnesia of the 1990s and addresses the crucial
questions raised by the capitalist renaissance which has followed
the collapse of Communism and the end of the cold war. In this
bewildering new world, which is at the same time an
all-too-familiar old world, how can the values of social solidarity
and democratic citizenship be realized? Granted that socialism is
no longer with us, does it have anything to say from beyond the
grave?
How is socialism's great antagonist, liberalism, faring in this new world, and what are the prospects of an accommodation between the two? Where does the new medievalism of contemporary Europe fit in? How do the special peculiarities of the British state, the identity it embodies and the political economy over which it presides relate to those wider issues? What room for maneuver do they give the British left? These questions make up the agenda for The New Reckoning.