Contemporary History - Università di Roma Tre.
I write about Internationalism, Social Democracy, (Euro)Communism, Cold War, European integration, Postwar Italy.
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New article out on @conteurohistory.bsky.social: "The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe" www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
These projects largely failed, but reconstructing their story can help illuminate enduring dilemmas about the reconciliation of social progress, global interdependence and ecological sustainability in an age of limits – such as our own.
Private consumption in the global North should be curbed, they argued, but social forms of consumption – public services, housing, healthcare... – should be preserved and expanded. And, crucially, this should go hand in hand with global redistribution and an environment-conscious economic agenda.
In the 1970s, amid stagflation and ecological alarm, figures like Sicco Mansholt, Enrico Berlinguer, Jacques Delors, Gunnar Myrdal and Jan Tinbergen argued for a politics of planned restraint.
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Before austerity became a byword for cuts and inequality, a generation of European left-wing thinkers tried to make it mean something radically different.
Michele Di Donato
The Left-Wing Case for Austerity: Planning and Consumption Restraint in 1970s Europe - Volume 35
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Sean Wilentz on Bob Dylan's biopic. Worth reading: paw.princeton.edu/article/sean...
