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the Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined by Ed Ruxby to discuss reform, revolution

and the question of how the left should relate to the state.

You can listen to the podcast on SoundCloud, iTunes and ACAST, and you can also follow the pod on both Facebook and Twitter, at poll theory other. Ed is a tutor in politics at Ruskin College

in Oxford, and he's currently working on a book entitled Taking Power, Reform Revolution and Socialist Strategy.

In January, the journal Critique published an article by Ed that form the basis of our discussion.

It's entitled Structural Reform and the Problem of Socialist Strategy Today.

You can also follow Ed on Twitter.

He's at Ed Rooksby.

Your article for critique centres on the questions to how we might go beyond merely

reforming capitalism and moving instead towards a rupture with the system that would enable

the establishment of socialism.

Before we go into the details of that question, I wonder if you could say something as to

why you think it is insufficient and undesirable to fix social democracy as the

limit of our political horizon? Well, social democracy, in my view, is inherently limited and not

enough. So I'm not at all hostile to social democracy. In fact, under post-war conditions, it was extremely successful, made a lot of people's

lives much better. But the core problem for it is that, for me, it's based on the mitigation

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