Are the NDP merely liberals in a bit of a rush? Team Advantage examines Gary Teeple’s 1972 essay, ‘Liberals in a hurry’: socialism and the CCF-NDP. What role does the Fabian Society have in shaping the thought of the CCF, and later, the NDP? Can real socialist change be made through technocratic changes or parliamentary methods? Is moralizing about capitalism’s ill effects a useful way of bringing about political change?

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Further reading:
Teeple, Gary. “‘Liberals in a hurry’: socialism and the CCF-NDP.” Capitalism and the National Question in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 1972. 229-250.