Leo Panitch obituary
by Colin Leys from World news | The Guardian on (#5CVJ7)
Canadian academic whose work on democratic socialism had an impact across the globe
Leo Panitch, who has died aged 75 from Covid-19, shortly after being diagnosed with cancer, was a Canadian researcher, teacher and public intellectual whose work had a profound impact on the thinking of democratic socialists in several continents, not least in the UK.
He worked on two main questions: could social democratic parties become capable of transforming capitalist societies rather than just periodically managing them? And what did globalisation mean for socialists facing that challenge - was it really the end of the nation state, as received opinion held?
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