Lost property: What the Third Way lacks

@article{Pierson2005LostPW,
  title={Lost property: What the Third Way lacks},
  author={Christopher Pierson},
  journal={Journal of Political Ideologies},
  year={2005},
  volume={10},
  pages={145 - 163}
}
The Third Way has been widely represented by its advocates as an opportunity to allow a progressive and ethical liberal-socialism to re-emerge from beneath the dead hand of a failed statist socialism (of both east and west). It is shown that this story rests upon a systematic misrepresentation of the appropriate intellectual history of the reformist left in Britain in the first half of the twentieth century and reveals the echoing silence on the central question of property that lies at the… 
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