On the surface, metamodern politics and the Nordic ideology, with its Green Social Liberalism 2.0 and the vision of the listening society and a vast expansion of welfare into the social-psychological realms of life, might look like a far-left project. And, in many ways, it is. We are, after all, looking to dramatically increase the quality of welfare that each citizen enjoys. But note that we have not said anything about how, through which mechanisms, such a development takes place: by democratically controlled state bureaucracy, by market solutions or the civil sphere (or, more likely, by
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