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> [Since the crash of 2008 and during the neoliberal retrenchment known as austerity, many commentators have muttered that the left is dead, watching social democrats in their timidity lose elections and respond by becoming ever more timid and neoliberal. They…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/guy-standing/since-the-crash-of-2008-and-during-the-neoliberal-retrenchment-known/)

[Guy Standing](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/guy-standing/)

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