Socialism is in trouble, but some serious problems which provoked socialist theory remain. These do not have to do so much with the class war – which is remediable – as with the difficulties of establishing and maintaining an effective “social self” in an economic system which does not...

Few people believe that Marxists gave adequate reasons for the predicted collapse of capitalism. But can market economies and liberal democracies survive indefinitely? Their survival depends on the solution to at least two problems. Continued expansion must lead to depleted environments and...