Maurice Glasman

“…It is a beautiful book, a human book. There is suffering we can’t avoid, like death and love, but there is also suffering we can avoid like unemployment and famine, things that politics should protect us from by building a strong society, state and market. …The idea of the Glasman book then is that government should be able to run the state without the state becoming dominant. Market and states can both bully people, as can society (think about the Deep South in the 50s, for example). They all need to be strong to keep each other in check...”(Reviewed by James Purnell at www.fivebooks.com)



The full interview is available here: http://fivebooks.com/interviews/james-purnell-on-power-and-ideas… (mehr)