Other People's Politics
Author | : J. A. Smith |
Publisher | : John Hunt Publishing |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2019-07-26 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781782792055 |
ISBN-13 | : 1782792058 |
Rating | : 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: How did Trump and Brexit go from laughable impossibilities to everyday reality? Why did digital media stop being cool and progressive, and become a reactionary, brainwashing nightmare? And, how did the Left get its act together and start winning again? From right to left, Other People's Politics is the indispensable guide to post-2016 life. 'Other People's Politics is to contemporary political debates what Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own was to early feminism: a call for progressives to work tirelessly so that everyone is granted the material conditions necessary for reading a difficult book like James Joyce's Ulysses, if they choose to.' Yanis Varoufakis, former Minister of Finance in Greece's SYRIZA government