Bernie Bros Gone Woke

Class, Identity, Neoliberalism
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-90-04-50712-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 217, 298 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 640 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

In 2016 and 2020, the Bernie Sanders campaign gave American leftists a path towards social change through electoral politics. In order to combat neoliberal and reactionary uses of identity, the 2020 Sanders campaign combined a working-class agenda of universalist policies with various forms of social movement activism. In doing so it compromised on universalist principles and socialist radicalism in order to appeal to distinct demographic groups and win the election. Bernie Bros Gone Woke reveals how intersectional politics contributed to the failure of the Sanders campaign – a lesson that the organized left must learn if it is to challenge progressive neoliberalism and move beyond postmodern post-politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Léger, Marc James

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Introduction

Democratic Brocialism

Identity Politics Is Class Politics

Progressive Neoliberalism

Post-Politics

Outline of the Book

1. What Does the Professional-Managerial Class Want?

From the New Deal to the New Democrats

A Stratum Without an Ideology

The Fall of the Liberal Class and the Rise of the Far Right

Left Populism as Compromise Formation

The Wages of Wokeness

2. Bernie Beats Trump, Clinton and Obama Beat Bernie

Millennials Feel the Bern

Whose Revolution? Whose Party?

Malarkey

3. Elective Affinities

Your Candidate Here

I’m Bernie Sanders and I Approve this Message

The Difference that Universalism Makes

4. Less than Bernie

I Know there Is No Democracy, But I Choose to Ignore

I Can’t Breathe

Sectarians, Splitters and Fellow Travelers

When I Hear the Word Culture, I Reach for the Political Economy

Role Model Ideology

Conclusion

The Bipartisan Endgame

Meanwhile, Back in Wokeville

Political Revolution Inside

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Marc James Léger is an independent scholar based in Montreal. He is author of several books, including Don’t Network: The Avant Garde after Networks (2018) and Vanguardia: Socially Engaged Art and Theory (2019).