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ar-22557	Fodor, Matt	Seeking Social Democracy: Seven Decades in the Fight for Equality	2024	4	.pdf	application/pdf	2004	69	44	The 1990s saw the emergence of Third Way social democracy, and Broadbent is highly critical of European social democratic leaders such as Tony Blair and Gerhard Schroder who pursued the “neoliberal project” and “led governments that introduced privatization and expanded the role of markets in areas that had been previously carved out of the market in the struggle for social rights.” But the prospects for egalitarian social democracy appear bleak a generation after the Third Way was officially declared; as historian Donald Sassoon put it in his recent book, Morbid Symptoms, “[t]raditional social democracy…has been comprehensively defeated almost everywhere…Most social democratic parties sooner or later embraced a policy of austerity, allowed wages to stagnate and inequalities to increase, and privatised services to an extent unimaginable thirty years ago.”	cache/ar-22557.pdf	txt/ar-22557.txt