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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 No library descriptions found. |
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The gist of the book is that Trump, the Brexit movement, etc., managed to capture the libidinal energies of a large enough section of the voting public to win, and that the left-wing of the Labour Party can do the same.
I've lost the exact quote, but I think somewhere he writes (or it might have been in the video) that policy proposals like the four day working week, and free stuff (like broadband), can seem as transgressive and alluring to the public as what the right can offer. I don't know if this is really true. It might be the message, a grab bag of seemingly unrelated reforms, or it might be the messengers. Maybe its the time spent in long meetings that's taken it toll, but Left-wingers can sometimes lack the go-getting huckster charm of their opposite numbers on the conservative Right. I would say it's more accurate to say that, since the book was written, it's the unsexy hard slog put in by the left wing of the Labour Party, their general stroppy-ness, and smaller aggressive unions like the IWGB, that have forced the Conservatives into helping working people struggling in the economic crisis brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic. (That, and the grumblings of a public unwilling to stomach austerity again.)
There are some interesting takes in the book, though. On the manifesto of Anders Brevik, for example, who in 2011 killed seventy-seven in an attack aimed at young members of Norway's Labour Party:
"Brevik's quotations from mainsteam conservative figures such as the columnist Melanie Phillips and the entertainer Jeremy Clarkson - to the point of ventriloquizing their trivial suburban moaning about the liberalism of the BBC - somehow sit seamlessly with its messianic race war excesses. " ( )