Why Labour needs to think about religion

Liberalism, as Michael Lind has argued, is under attack because it cannot deliver the promised self-correcting markets that provide for free and fair economic competition, political renewal and cultural reconciliation.

The malign reality is it consolidates winners, economic monopolies, politically entrenched divides, canyons of class, geography, education and cultural echo chambers where opposition is cancelled. 

The remedy is to dismantle concentrations of economic, political and cultural power and challenge meritocratic arguments that help reproduce them.

This might involve new anti-trust initiatives, attack on sites of monopoly political power, such as in universities, and confront woke culture

In terms of ‘postliberalism’, I get the frustrations with a liberalism conditioned by liberal economics and hyper-individualised identity politics; the production of economic monopolies, concentrated political constituencies and thought binaries.

But I would ask, are there other liberal traditions beyond both its modern and classical iterations worth excavating? 

For instance in the 1870s, the neo-classical revolution contracted economics into an individualised science of society.