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Reinventing radical politics, by looking Left
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March 16, 2021 11:00 IST
The Left needs to actively pursue agents of change such as secularism, the Green, ethnic and national movements
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The Left needs to actively pursue agents of change such as secularism, the Green, ethnic and national movements
In recent years, radical politics has faced a number of new challenges, not least of which has been the re-emergence of the aggressive, authoritarian state. Hyper-masculine nationalism, and a systemic assault of racist and religious politics on the marginalised are the latest rationale for the aggressive assertion of indiscriminate control of all democratic institutions. Add to this the hegemony of the neo-liberal corporate world along with the demise of the Left and you have the free play of muscular majoritarianism of the Far Right. The Left finds itself in an ideological vacuum.