For a Progressive and Democratic New World Order

Abstract

The page of the post-World War II era has been turned, but this is not simply ‘due to the end of the Cold War’. The transformation is defined by the collapse of the three societal models that shaped the life and struggles of the postwar period (1945–80): the welfare state of the developed capitalist West, Sovietism, and the projects of national liberation in the Third World countries. A ‘return’ to these models is impossible, and the desire for such a return is little more than the expression of a helpless nostalgia on the part of groups that have, in any case, largely lost their capacity to act. At the same time, the developments we have experienced over the past 15 years are not acceptable, because in our view the economy must be made to serve the people, and not the other way round.