Article: New labour and post-Fordist ideology: inherent contradictions?(Commentary)

'We have abandoned ideology. We simply do what works.' New Labour has made a virtue out of regularly claiming that it has no ideological or philosophical agenda. It has forsaken the politics of the redistributive Left and given the appearance of having deserted the centralizing policies of post-war Labourism. Supposedly, it now solves problems without the burden of 'first principles', philosophical aim or predetermined outcome. Supposedly, its foggy 'third way' does not favour Left over Right or the weak over the powerful. We all know better than that, though, don't we? New Labour does have an ideology; it has simply stopped talking about it. But then post-Fordist ...

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