The state and the growth of freedom
“It is a great mistake to associate the state and socialism with one another. Socialism is the central freedom movement of our time. Nothing prevents it from being so in the next century as well. Freedom is an ultimate goal, while the state is merely an instrument tied to a particular time and place for achieving that goal. In the twentieth century, the growth of freedom was connected above all to the advancement of equality, in which the role of the state was central. In the twenty-first century, liberation from the state begins.”
Pekka Korpinen, Director of the Labour Economic Research Institute, argues in his pamphlet that it is high time for the left to renew itself ideologically. And also to show how — in honour of the 200th anniversary of the French Revolution.
D.Soc.Sc. Pekka Korpinen is one of the leading economic experts of the left. He has worked as a researcher at the Stockholm Institute of International Economics and at Cambridge University, and as a board member at the World Bank in Washington. Korpinen’s earlier books include Socialist economic planning (eds. 1974), Crises and long cycles (1981), and Economic policy initiatives (1988). (AI translation)
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