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When Lehman Brothers collapsed in October 2008, and the British and US governments chose to nationalize swathes of their domestic banking systems, politicians on both sides of the Atlantic openly spoke about how close we had come to the end of capitalism itself. That didn't come to pass, as we now know, but it was those events and the disaffection they generated which led to the emergence of Corbyn-mania as much as the rise of the SNP and UKIP, and radical social movements and political parties—both left and right—across Europe.For a generation that has only known neoliberalism—an economic model based on low wages, weak unions, and high corporate profits—what Corbyn is offering is a break with the present rather than a return to the past. That orthodoxy seemed to have died in 2008, but it has walked on, zombie-like, ever since. That same necrotic quality can easily be applied to Britain's two historic parties of government, and it seems particularly relevant to the Blairities, whose brand of "modernizing" swallowed whole the myth of markets knowing best. Their vision of the future is a Labour government of 20 years ago. It is they, not Corbyn, who are constrained by the past.Follow Aaron Bastani on Twitter.Over on Broadly: Is My Sex Life Emotionally Scarring My Cats