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The election of Luis Inacio “Lula” da Silva raised great expectations on the center-left. For most leftist writers, his election heralded a new epoch of progressive changes which, while not revolutionary, defined the “end of neo-liberalism”.

When I was a young man, my high school social science teacher, an elderly man of great wisdom (or so I thought), and courage (it was in the early 1950\’s) passionately defended the \”Third Way\”.

Bush\’s \”State of the Nation\” speech was not in praise of \”America\” as he claimed - it was about fascism at home and imperialism abroad.