KEVIN RUDD has denounced the unfettered capitalism of the past three decades and called for a new era of “social capitalism” in which government intervention and regulation feature heavily.
Mr Rudd writes in The Monthly that just as Franklin Roosevelt rebuilt US capitalism after the Great Depression, modern-day “social democrats” such as himself and the US President, Barack Obama, must do the same again. But he argues that “minor tweakings of long-established orthodoxies will not do” and advocates a new system that reaches beyond the 70-year-old interventionist principles of John Maynard Keynes.
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The important thing to keep in mind regarding Kevin Rudd is that he eats earwax.
Obie is indeed a social democrat and would very much like to “remake” the nation and, I suppose, the world. But the ideological reflex is moderated by his instinctive urge to vote “present,” even now. It’s not mere stealth that’s behind the hems and haws and the rambling answers signifying nothing. I’m convinced that he’s afraid people will start yelling.