Quotes from Geoffrey M. Hodgson

After two or more centuries of experimentation, socialists should be able to point to an alternative system that works, rather than comparing the actual world with an idealized system of their imagination.

We may be facing a generation of struggle to defend liberal democracy and human rights from authoritarian nationalism. There is a danger of a contraction of world trade and even of a major war. These threats make action more urgent. The Left is better equipped to win this struggle, as long as it understands and avoids the errors of its past.