{"id":9094,"date":"2020-02-23T20:27:19","date_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9094"},"modified":"2020-02-23T20:27:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-23T19:27:19","slug":"sweden-on-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9094","title":{"rendered":"Sweden on the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>What is so irritating about Varoufakis is not his radicality but his rational pragmatic modesty \u2014 if one looks closely at the proposals offered by Varoufakis, one cannot help noticing that they consist of measures which, forty years ago, were part of the standard moderate social-democratic agenda (in Sweden in the 1960s, the programme of the government was much more radical). It is a sad sign of our times that today you have to belong to a radical Left to advocate these same measures \u2014 a sign of dark times but also a chance for the Left to occupy the space that, decades ago, was that of the moderate Left centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Slavoj \u017di\u017eek,\u00a0<em>The Courage of Hopelessness<\/em>, (London: Penguin, 2018), 51-52.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is so irritating about Varoufakis is not his radicality but his rational pragmatic modesty \u2014 if one looks closely at the proposals offered by Varoufakis, one cannot help noticing that they consist of measures which, forty years ago, were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=9094\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}