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Below are groups and resources (books, articles, websites, etc.) related to this topic. Click on an item’s title to go its resource page with author, publisher, description/abstract and other details, a link to the full text if available, as well as links to related topics in the Subject Index. You can also browse the Title, Author, Subject, Chronological, Dewey, LoC, and Format indexes, or use the Search box. Connexions LibraryAction Will Be Taken: Left Anti-Intellectualism and Its Discontents  Featherstone, Liza; Henwood, Doug; Parenti, Christian Article 2004 Marxism's decline isn't just an intellectual concern -- it too has practical effects. If you lack any serious understanding of how capitalism works, then it's easy to delude yourself into thinking tha... Against Post-Modernism: A Marxist Critique Callinocos, Alex Book 1982 Callinocos argues that the relativism preached by post-modernists leaves us with no objective criteria by which to reject those who would falsify the past. Anti-War Movement's Strange Allies: Hard Line Islamists: Canada's progressive Muslims wonder why left would embrace theocrats Glavin, Terry Article 2006 Canada's anti-war movement has become not only the primary vehicle for an obscure, formerly left-wing group that attacks anyone who opposes Shariah courts in Canada, it's also now the main source of p... Clinton Manipulates Language of Intersectionality to Preserve Support from Minority Voters Chibber, Vivek; Kalek, Rania; Gosztola, Kevin Article 2016 The presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton has been a master class in how to divorce economic issues from issues of race and gender by pushing the language of "intersectionality," which enables the ... Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America Hughes, Robert Book 1993 Propaganda-talk, euphemism, and evasion are so much a part of American usage today that they cross all party lines and ideological divides. The art of not answering the question, of cloaking unpleasan... The Fire This Time: Burning Bridges D'Arcy, Steve; Canyon, Syrah Article 2010 Some activists hold back from condemning tactics that are politically stupid and destructive, like the recent Ottawa arson attack by an anarchist group, because of a commitment to the doctrine of a 'd... Je Suis Charlie? It's a Bit Late Malik, Kenan Article 2015 Hardly had news begun filtering out about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, than there were those suggesting that the magazine was a 'racist institution' and that the cartoonists, if not deserving what the... The Left and the Jihad Halliday, Fred Article 2006 The left was once the principal enemy of radical Islamism. So how did old enemies become new friends? Liberal Condescension Diemer, Ulli Article 2016 In the wake of Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. election, a debate has erupted on the liberal left about the best way to deal with working class people who voted for Trump. The disagreement, for man... The limits of anti-racism Reed, Adolph J. Article 2009 The contemporary discourse of 'antiracism' is focused much more on taxonomy than politics. It emphasizes the name by which we should call some strains of inequality -- whether they should be broadly r... Make Art! Change the World! Starve!: The Fallacy of Art as Social Justice - Part I Nair, Yasmin Article 2012 Multiculturalism or World Culture?: On a "Left"-Wing Response to Contemporary Social Breakdown Goldner, Loren Article 1991 Post-modernists are profoundly bored by any questions of economics and technology which cannot be connected to cultural differences. The implicit agenda of the multiculturalists is to present the valu... Ontological "Difference" and the Neo-Liberal War on the Social: Deconstruction and Deindustrialization Goldner, Loren Article 2001 We have today legions of people with a smattering of knowledge turning out reams of books filled with buzz words that could be (and have been) produced by a computer program, and could be (and are) pi... The Postmodern Left and the success of neoliberalism Jay, Scott Article 2016 The international Left promotes its own image rather than engaging in the bitter reality of resistance against neoliberalism. It does not need to believe in postmodernism because it is postmodernism. The postmodern left and the success of neoliberalism Jay, Scott Article 2016 The rise of neoliberalism across the globe for decades, and its continued resilience since the 2007-2008 financial crisis in particular, forces us to ask why there has not been a more successful resis... Postmodernism: Paralysed by postmodernism Kitching, Gavin Article 2008 A great deal of "theory" in the humanities and social sciences -- and not just postmodern theory -- involves the creating of a kind of conceptual landscape filled with curious kinds of abstract object... The Power of Nonsense Johnson, Alan Article 2011 Slavoj Žižek's diagnosis of late capitalism is of genuine interest. His remedies, however -- dictatorship and terror -- are a disgrace. The Professor of Parody Nussbaum, Martha Article 2000 It is difficult to come to grips with Judith Butler’s ideas because it is difficult to figure out what they are. The Rain On Our Parade: A Letter To My Dismal Allies Solnit, Rebecca Article 2012 O rancid sector of the far left, please stop your grousing! Compared to you, Eeyore sounds like a Teletubby. If I gave you a pony, you would not only be furious that not everyone has a pony, but you w... Rebels Without a Cause: The Assault on Academic Freedom Vigo, Julian Article 2017 Examining current academic culture which falsely labels "words as violence" and how it is affecting acedemic freedom, notably by some who think of themselves as being on the left, who are employing t... Throwing Out the Master's Tools and Building a Better House: Thoughts on the Importance of Nonviolence in the Occupy Revolution Solnit, Rebecca Article 2011 Diversity of tactics does not mean that anything goes and that democratic decision-making doesn't apply. If you want to be part of a movement, treat the others with respect; don't spring unwanted surp... The Trouble with Theory: The Educational Costs of Postmodernism Kitching, Gavin Book 2008 Postmodern theory has engaged the hearts and heads of the brightest students because of its apparent political and social radicalism. Yet Kitching writes: "At the heart of postmodernism is very poor, ... Why both sides are wrong in the race debate Malik, Kenan Article 2008 For all the talk about culture as fluid and changing, multiculturalism, no less than old-fashioned racism, invariably leads people to think of human groups in fixed terms.
Why make a fuss about the murder of a brown-skinned Muslim girl? Diemer, Ulli Article 2008 History gives us numerous examples of social movements which come, over time, to adopt positions directly opposed to the principles on which they were founded. It appears this has happened to the 'fem... |
