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What is the existential crisis afflicting the political left? Cut off from their working class power base, alienated from the poor and oppressed in the developing world, tied up in political correctness and confused about capitalism, multi-culturalism and even sex, the left can contort itself to such a degree that it no longer knows what’s right and what’s left.
Drawing on historical sources, as well as contemporary analysis, Nick Cohen considers why liberals are so bitter, alienated and disgusted with the way that politics turns out when their ideas have in fact triumphed. WHAT'S LEFT takes a tour through the early socialist movement, the sexual revolution of the 1960s and the strange alliances between well-meaning people and dictatorships from the 1930s to the present day to explain leftish disillusion and suggest a way out of it. |