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Article: When the left is half right.(Clive Hamilton works on alienation and exploitation)
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- June 1, 2006
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CLIVE HAMILTON'S WORK as Director of the Australia Institute represents a species of leftist thinking with a millenarian and apocalyptic ancestry. His latest contribution is instructive--if not in the way he intends. In What's Left? The Death Of Social Democracy, published as Issue 21 of Quarterly Essay, he once again takes up themes he has pursued in a series of publications over recent years. These themes, in the Marxist tradition, are the emergence of new forms of "alienation and exploitation", and the ravages of the free market and the profit motive. They have robbed life of its meaning.
The remedies can only be the task of a new political party because, as ...