Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or ‘harmless’ office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The Right complains about brain-dead political correctness. In reality, both sides are colluding in a reactionary politics that is as self-defeating as it is divisive. Can the Left escape this extremism and stay true to the progressive ideals it once professed?
In this provocative book, Umut Özkýrýmlý reveals how the Left has been sucked into a spiral of toxic hatred and outrage-mongering, retreating from the democratic ideals of freedom and pluralism that it purports to represent. Exploring the similarities between right-wing populism and radical identity politics, he sets out an alternative vision. It is only by focusing on our common humanity and working across differences that the Left will find a constructive and consensual way back from ‘woke’.
Table des matières
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. A Rude Awakening
2. Identity Politics on the Right
3. Identity Politics on the Left
4. The Left Meets the Right
5. Towards a New Progressive Left
Epilogue
A propos de l’auteur
Umut Özkırımlı is a senior research fellow at IBEI (Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals), a professor at Blanquerna, Ramon Llull University, and a senior research associate at CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs). His writings appear in the Guardian, open Democracy, Times Higher Education, Huffington Post, among others. Find him online at @UOzkirimli and umutozkirimli.com.
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