Skip to main content

Diigo Home

Reconnecting Power and Politics | Social Europe Journal - The Diigo Meta page

www.social-europe.eu/...econnecting-power-and-politics - Cached - Annotated View

Gerhard Stoltz's personal annotations on this page

jrstoltz
Jrstoltz bookmarked on 2009-11-06 2009 society power politics europe ideology terminology media globalization control force economy
  • It is no wonder that voters have come to associate social democrats with the neoliberal policy of dismantling the communal frameworks of existential security, leaving individual men and women to manage their fates on their own, from their individual and mostly scarce and inadequate resources. There is now next to nothing to distinguish between the ‘left’ the ‘right’, in economic, or any other, policy.


  • Previously, the distinctive mark of social democracy was the belief that it is the duty of a community to protect all its members against the powerful forces that they are unable to resist as individuals.

  • Genuine powers – the powers that decide the range of life options and life chances available for most of our contemporaries – have evaporated from the nation-state into the global space.
  • who recently has managed better than social democrats in the pursuit of their goals against apparently overwhelming odds (recently renamed ‘public opinion polls’)?

This link has been bookmarked by 2 people . It was first bookmarked on 02 Nov 2009, by Mare BV.

  • 06 Nov 09
    jrstoltz
    Gerhard Stoltz

    2009 society power politics europe ideology terminology media globalization control force economy

    • It is no wonder that voters have come to associate social democrats with the neoliberal policy of dismantling the communal frameworks of existential security, leaving individual men and women to manage their fates on their own, from their individual and mostly scarce and inadequate resources. There is now next to nothing to distinguish between the ‘left’ the ‘right’, in economic, or any other, policy.


    • Previously, the distinctive mark of social democracy was the belief that it is the duty of a community to protect all its members against the powerful forces that they are unable to resist as individuals.

    • 2 more annotations...
  • 02 Nov 09
    marebv
    Mare BV

    "Previously, the distinctive mark of social democracy was the belief that it is the duty of a community to protect all its members against the powerful forces that they are unable to resist as individuals. And people’s hopes were pinned on the modern state for the carrying out of this task – a state powerful enough to force economic interests to respect the political will of the nation and the ethical principles of the national community. But nation-states are no longer sovereign in any aspects of common life on their own territory. Genuine powers – the powers that decide the range of life options and life chances available for most of our contemporaries – have evaporated from the nation-state into the global space. Politics, however, has remained local, and is no longer able to reach the powerful, let alone constrain them. We now have power freed from political supervision in the global space, and politics without power in the local space."

    bauman

Top Tags