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My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island.

The world we live in today was made possible by the neoliberalization of historically left parties.

Why that happened is what sociologist Stephanie Mudge examines in her monumental book,

Leftism Reinvented, Western parties from socialism to neoliberalism. It traces the long history of the UK's

Labor Party, the Swedish Social Democratic Party or SAP, the Social Democratic Party of Germany,

or SPD, and even our very own United States Democratic Party. To understand why these parties became neoliberalized,

however, she first examines how these parties in all cases but the Democratic Party founded as

thoroughly socialist parties, how they made the switch from socialism to Keynesianism in the mid-20th century.

And what she found out might surprise you.

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