Wrong turnings : how the left got lost /
The Left is in crisis. Despite global economic turbulence, left-wing political parties in many countries have failed to make progress in part because they have grown too ideologically fragmented. Today, the term Left is associated with state intervention and public ownership, but this has little in...
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Chicago ; London :
The University of Chicago Press,
2018.
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Table of Contents:
- Progressive radicalism before the left
- The French revolution and the original left
- Thomas Paine and the rights of man
- Socialism's wrong responses to the right problems
- Marxism's wrong turnings: class war and wholesale collectivization
- Down the slippery slope to totalitarianism
- Keeping left: in defence of democracy and individual rights
- After Vietnam: the left descends into cultural relativism
- Final full turn: the left condones reactionary religion
- Two open letters to friends
- Capitalism and beyond: toward a new old left.