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Cargando... The Politics of Bad Faith: The Radical Assault on America's Futurepor David Horowitz
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. DH is a former communist who has traversed the ideological landscape from the left to the conservative right. His analysis and critique of Marxism and radical left-wing thought is all the more telling because of his own experience. Communism is often the aspiration of the young and foolish, while those who are older dread its recurrence. ( ) I think that this book's critique of what is wrong with the political left is very insightful, so this book is worth reading. At the risk of radically oversimplifying it, he argues that with the collapse of Marxism as a viable political theory, the left no longer really has any idea of what they are fighting for. But they still do know what they are against: capitalism, individualism, and bourgeois democracy. So they have effectively become nihilists, dedicated to tearing down the existing social order without any real vision of what they want to replace it with. For its critique of the left I'd give this book 4 stars. But I happen to disagree with some of Horowitz's solutions to this so I'm rating it at only 3 1/2 In this book Mr. Horowitz explains what's deeply wrong with the liberal reasoning, and why. Having been one of the most important New Left intellectuals of the 60's, as well as a distinguished Civil Rights activist (what he continues to be), and now turned to libertarian and conservative thinking, he speaks from direct personal experience. A must read! sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
In this intellectual companion piece to David Horowitz's acclaimed autobiography, Radical Son, the most famous defector from the radical Left argues that the historic themes of that conflict still drive our politics and animate our cultural debates today. With keen political insight and a masterful grasp of history, Horowitz traces the radical project from its origins in nineteenth-century socialism to the disastrous excesses of such current "progressive" causes as political correctness, radical feminism, racial preferences, and what he describes as the nihilistic campaign to "deconstruct" the American idea itself. He points out the refusal of the political Left to learn from the checkered history of progressive movements for social justice and equal outcomes, and warns that this refusal is creating a new "cold war" against America-a culture war that pits "progressives" against America's founding principles and ideas. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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