The Old Is Dying and the New Cannot Be Born: From Progressive Neoliberalism to Trump and Beyond

Neoliberalism is fracturing, but what will emerge in its wake?

Across the globe politics as usual are being rejected and faith in neoliberalism is fracturing beyond repair.

Leading political theorist Nancy Fraser, in conversation with Jacobin publisher Bhaskar Sunkara, dissects neoliberalism's current crisis and argues that we might wrest new futures from its ruins.

The global political, ecological, economic, and social breakdown - symbolised, but not caused, by Trump's election - has destroyed faith that neoliberal capitalism is beneficial to the majority.

Fraser explores how this faith was built through the late 20th century by balancing two central tenets: recognition (who deserves rights) and distribution (who deserves income).