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Locating the Left in Difficult Times

Framing a Political Discourse for the Present

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  • © 2017

Overview

  • Asserts that the left must be understood in a new discourse to remain relevant to contemporary life, while disentangling it from contemporary social movements to retain its historical consciousness
  • Avoids the narrow linguistic trappings of scholarly debate for common language and thoroughly exemplified sources
  • Studies examples from diverse political climates, including North America, Britain, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, and scholars from political philosophers, historians,to economists
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Theoretically Speaking

  2. Locations in History

  3. Present Tensions

  4. Conditional Futures

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About this book

This book investigates notions of the individual, society, the state, economic relations and historical change that exist in the political left by drawing on contemporary philosophical, political and social thought. Using a discourse perspective, this work brings together the many fractious strains in the left, including social democracy, anarchism, communism and market socialism, and discusses them in terms of their relationships with each other. Not only does the study disentangle the left from liberal capitalism and progressive movements—such as those against racism and inequality—it sees the current left as intertwined with its history and its visions of the future.     

Authors and Affiliations

  • History, Vancouver Island University, Nanaimo, Canada

    Gordon Hak

About the author

Gordon Hak is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Vancouver Island University, CN

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