{"id":8260,"date":"2021-06-07T17:03:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-07T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dpz.medienlabor-hosting.de\/?post_type=publication&p=8260"},"modified":"2022-11-22T11:43:26","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T10:43:26","slug":"how-can-the-2020s-be-a-progressive-decade-action-paper","status":"publish","type":"publication","link":"https:\/\/www.progressives-zentrum.org\/en\/publication\/how-can-the-2020s-be-a-progressive-decade-action-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"How can the 2020s be a progressive decade? \u2013 Action Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Geoff Mulgan argues that progressive politics has to offer practical policies for the present, but also guidance for the more ambitious, longer-term transitions that are currently developing. Both approaches to politics are necessary and will play important roles in implementing progressive policy in the future.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In recent years progressives have been embattled. In many countries they have clung to a shrinking centre-ground \u2013 often defending globalisation despite its evident failings, uncertain how to respond to new patterns of inequality, struggling to address threatened feelings of belonging, and squeezed into a defence of past achievements against attacks rather than offering much vision of the future.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The result has been a narrowing of ambition and an emotional hollowing out that has left progressive parties cool, technocratic and unexciting and without either a compelling explanation of the present or a roadmap for the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So the future is open, not determined, and the COVID crisis should have made things easier. But there is no guarantee that left-of-centre parties will benefit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Action Paper suggests three different ways to respond:<\/p>\n\n\n\n