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Enough!

Preface to the 2006 - updated edition

The original version of Enough – a socialist bites back is, in the facts it cites, without doubt outdated. It sketches out, after all, the political and social reality of ten years ago. Since then a great deal has happened. In my own country, the coalition of the arrogant, between social democrats and liberals, after eight years in power, perished before an unprecedented popular protest at the elections of 2002. These elections were dominated by the dramatic rise and fall of the political phenomenon that was Pim Fortuyn. Since then the Netherlands has been governed by an unadulterated right-wing coalition which has married economic neoliberalism to ideological neoconservatism, as has been the case in so many other countries. World-wide neoliberalism's dominion has been both widened and deepened – yet this has also conjured up opposing forces, from reactionary fundamentalist terrorism to youthful and enthusiastic alternative-globalism. To ensure that this book is more than just a historical document, I have, at the publisher's request, added three new chapters (11, 12 and 13) to the original ten. In these new sections I go into new phenomena and draw conclusions. These are of course based on my own estimations, but I hope that many will feel that they can share them.
The translation into English of the new chapters was done once more by Steve McGiffen, whom I owe many thanks.

Jan Marijnissen, Oss, 2006

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“Enough” Contents:

• Index
• Preface
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 The wondrous rebirth of liberalism
• Chapter 2 The death of social democracy
• Chapter 3 The disempowerment of the people
• Chapter 4 Poverty in the midst of plenty
• Chapter 5 The assault of the market
• Chapter 6 The unbearable lightness of commerce
• Chapter 7 A question of civilisation
• Chapter 8 The United States of Europe
• Chapter 9 The spectre of the world market
• Chapter 10 The inevitability of an alternative
• Preface to the 2006 - updated edition
• Chapter 11 Ten years later, in the Netherlands
• Chapter 12 2006: Another world is possible
• Chapter 13 New optimism