What's left?: radical politics in the postcommunist era by Charles Derber
By Charles Derber
The cave in of Soviet-style communism has provoked an id problem between socialists and leftists giving upward thrust to split identification politics between feminists, gays and different social activities. This learn explores this drawback and gives feedback for a brand new imaginative and prescient and course for the left.
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The first part of this book is a fresh study of the Left, in which we let Page 11 Left activists and intellectuals speak for themselves. Our objective is to give voice to a wide variety of Left communities through a series of conversations, interviews, and analyses of written documents. We have been most interested in Left activists and intellectuals in the United States, but we also have attempted to learn about the Left in the Third World. But who exactly constitutes the "Left" that we were trying to understand?
There are endless social statistics that suggest a serious weakening of civil society. We have the highest murder rate in our history, between five and ten times that of other industrial countries such as Japan or Germany. Over fifty million households stock guns to protect themselves. By one estimate, 135,000 kids bring guns to school on any given day. 10 The social infrastructure is eroding. As affordable housing shrinks, the homeless are multiplying. At least thirty-five million have no health insurance, and 10 percent of the country uses food stamps.
12 A healthy civil society is marked by a robust sense of solidarity, in which intact families, neighborhoods, work communities, and other voluntary associations cooperate for common ends. A leftist concept of civil society envisions democratic communities that meet needs for belonging and meaning while struggling against injustice in all social spheres. This implies, we shall see, that the Left has not only to pursue a robust agenda of economic democracy but help reshape familial, sexual, ethnic, racial, religious, and other communities so that they create "habits of the heart" consistent with universal ideals of equality and solidarity.