
The Death of the Left
Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again
Policy Press
1st Edition
Published on 15. November 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
352 pages
978-1-4473-5415-4 (ISBN)
Description
The left is dead. Its ailments cannot be cured. The only way to resurrect what was once valuable in leftist politics is to declare the left dead and begin from the beginning again. Winlow and Hall identify the root causes of its maladies, describe how new cultural obsessions displaced core unifying principles and explore the yawning chasm that now separates the left from the working class. Drawing upon a wealth of historical evidence to structure their story of entryism, corruption, fragmentation and decline, they close the book by outlining how a new reincarnation of the left can win in the 21st century.
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Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Bristol
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bristol University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 136 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
430 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4473-5415-4 (9781447354154)
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Persons
Simon Winlow is Professor of Social Science at Northumbria University.
Steve Hall is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Teesside University.
Together, they are the authors of many notable works in the social sciences, including the recent The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics.
Steve Hall is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Teesside University.
Together, they are the authors of many notable works in the social sciences, including the recent The Rise of the Right: English Nationalism and the Transformation of Working-Class Politics.
Content
1. The mortgage on the left's future foreclosed
2. Democracy, without the people? The rise and fall of left populism
3. Wrong turns
4. Beginnings
5. Changes
6. The New Left
7. Postmodernism, neoliberalism and the left
8. Identity politics
9. The politics of nostalgia
10. A return to economics
11. Futures
2. Democracy, without the people? The rise and fall of left populism
3. Wrong turns
4. Beginnings
5. Changes
6. The New Left
7. Postmodernism, neoliberalism and the left
8. Identity politics
9. The politics of nostalgia
10. A return to economics
11. Futures