Coming Clean : The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left
by
Eric Heinze
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0262049589
ISBN-13
9780262049580
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Imprint
MIT Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 8th, 2025
Print length
248 Pages
Weight
302 grams
Dimensions
15.20 x 22.80 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Social & political philosophyPolitical science & theoryDiplomacy
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What has gone wrong with the left and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds.
What has gone wrong with the leftand what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds.
Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its wokeness.
In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the lefts own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a centuryStalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea.
Criticisms of Western wrongdoing are certainly important, yet Heinze explains that leftists have rarely engaged in the kinds of open and public self-scrutiny that they demand from others. Citing examples as different as the Ukraine war, LGBTQ+ people in Cuba, the concept of hatred, and the problem of leftwing antisemitism, Heinze explains why and how the left must change its memory politics if it is to claim any ethical high ground.
Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its wokeness.
In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the lefts own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a centuryStalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea.
Criticisms of Western wrongdoing are certainly important, yet Heinze explains that leftists have rarely engaged in the kinds of open and public self-scrutiny that they demand from others. Citing examples as different as the Ukraine war, LGBTQ+ people in Cuba, the concept of hatred, and the problem of leftwing antisemitism, Heinze explains why and how the left must change its memory politics if it is to claim any ethical high ground.
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