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The rise of political nationalism in the early twenty-first century threatens to subsume the 'progressive dilemma' as identified by David Marquand. The labourist tradition is collapsing culturally, the liberal tradition intellectually. In the face of a new politics of nativism across Europe and America, the labour movement needs to put the debate over the progressive dilemma behind it and find a new source of philosophical inspiration in the English radical tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]