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The late historian Tony Judt did not contribute to this volume, but the defense of social democracy he mounted in his final book Ill Fares the Land also reflects this crucial shortcoming of contemporary conceptualizations of the political crisis that afflicts the centerleft. ” He traced the roots of this putatively discursive problem to the New Left: “The young radicals would never have described their purposes in such a way, but it was the distinction between praiseworthy private freedoms and irritating public constraints which most exercised their emotions.
A Promise” sees him talking to a sick friend forced into the workforce 37 J A C O B I N • S P R I N G 2012 by new active labor market policies that are perhaps a bit too active. On first listen, “Waiting for Kirsten” seems like little more than a good-natured tale of drunkenly stalking the actress Kirsten Dunst during a recent visit to Lekman’s native Göteborg. But underneath the song’s glossy pop veneer lies his real concern: a defense of the venerable principles of social-democratic solidarity that made Sweden “Sweden”: ’Cause times are changing, Kirsten: Göta Älv is slowly reversing; They turned a youth center into a casino; They drew a swastika in your cappuccino.