My surprise is that we have esentially been betrayed by the social democrats. It's not like they were already pursuing a third way between communism and capitalism (call it 'market socialism'), but after 1991 they've decided to sell us a 'third way' beteen social democracy and neoliberalism. The entire political spectrum has moved one notch to the economic right.

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman