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New Deal means The Courage to Conflict

by Steffen Lehndorff
What we can learn from Roosevelt's reform policies of the 1930s today
From 1929 onwards, as in many other capitalist countries, the US
economy plunged into disaster.2 Between 1929 and 1933, GDP
halved and unemployment rose eightfold to 12.8 million. This
equated to an unemployment rate of almost 25%.
The New Deal policy of the Roosevelt administration was an unprecedented socio-political reform project. The "New Deal" is therefore often used as a slogan, an advertising banner, but it is good for more. Looking at the interplay between government and social actors, their willingness to tread new ground, their ability to learn and their courage to challenge powerful interest groups in business, politics and the media is stimulating for all those who are thinking about how a radical turn towards climate protection can be implemented today.

“The media debates that paint the Green New Deal as either impossibly impractical or a recipe for tyranny just reinforce the sense of futility. But here’s the good news: The old New Deal faced almost precisely the same kinds of opposition — and it didn’t stop it for a minute.” (Naomi Klein)

to read the 98-page English edition, click on

https://www.vsa-verlag.de/uploads/media/VSA_Lehndorff_New_Deal_means_being_prepared_for_conflict_Web.pdf
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