The cerebral Ed Miliband attempts this week to impose his authority on Britain’s fractious Labour party as it comes to terms with opposition. What is his political philosophy? More broadly, what is an appropriate philosophy for a European party of the left in the post-socialist era? Do such parties have a continuing rationale? Their incapacity to formulate any coherent account of, or response to, the global financial crisis puts that question in sharp focus.
本週,在難以駕馭的英國工黨(Labour Party)向反對意見做出讓步時,以理智著稱的埃德•米勒班(Ed Miliband)試圖對之施以權威。他的政治哲學是什麼?更廣泛地來看,在後社會主義時代,什麼樣的政治哲學適合歐洲左翼政黨?這些政黨有始終如一的理論依據嗎?對於這場全球金融危機,它們既無法形成任何前後一致的認識,也不知如何應對,更是使這個問題備受關注。