Left Is Not Woke
Susan Neiman, "Left Is Not Woke"
English | ISBN: 1509558306 | 2023 | 160 pages | EPUB | 179 KB
English | ISBN: 1509558306 | 2023 | 160 pages | EPUB | 179 KB
If you're woke, you're left. If you're left, you're woke. We blur the terms, assuming that if you're one you must be the other. That, Susan Neiman argues, is a dangerous mistake.
The intellectual roots and resources of wokeism conflict with ideas that have guided the left for more than 200 years: a commitment to universalism, a firm distinction between justice and power, and a belief in the possibility of progress. Without these ideas, Neiman argues, they will continue to undermine their own goals and drift, inexorably and unintentionally, towards the right. In the long run, they risk becoming what they despise.
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