The Death of the Left

Why We Must Begin from the Beginning Again
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4473-5415-4
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 136 mm x 213 mm, Gewicht: 430 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Winlow, Simon

Hall, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Sozialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Hall, Steve
Steve Hall is Emeritus Professor of Criminology at Teesside University.

Winlow, Simon
Simon Winlow is Professor of Criminology at Northumbria University.

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.