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What's Left? - How Liberals Lost Their Way (Paperback)
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From the much-loved, witty and excoriating voice of journalist Nick
Cohen, a powerful and irreverent dissection of the agonies,
idiocies and compromises of mainstream liberal thought. Nick Cohen
comes from the Left. While growing up, his mother would search the
supermarket shelves for politically reputable citrus fruit and
despair. When, at the age of 13, he found out that his kind and
thoughtful English teacher voted Conservative, he nearly fell off
his chair: 'To be good, you had to be on the Left.' Today he's no
less confused. When he looks around him, in the aftermath of the
invasion of Iraq, he sees a community of Left-leaning liberals
standing on their heads. Why is it that apologies for a militant
Islam that stands for everything the liberal-Left is against come
from a section of the Left? After the American and British wars in
Bosnia and Kosovo against Slobodan Milosevic's ethnic cleansers,
why were men and women of the Left denying the existence of Serb
concentration camps? Why is Palestine a cause for the liberal-Left,
but not, for instance, China, the Sudan, Zimbabwe or North Korea?
Why can't those who say they support the Palestinian cause tell you
what type of Palestine they would like to see? After the 9/11
attacks on New York and Washington why were you as likely to read
that a sinister conspiracy of Jews controlled American or British
foreign policy in a liberal literary journal as in a neo-Nazi rag?
It's easy to know what the Left is fighting against - the evils of
Bush and corporations - but what and, more to the point, who are
they fighting for? As he tours the follies of the Left, Nick Cohen
asks us to reconsider what it means to be liberal in this confused
and topsy-turvy time. With the angry satire of Swift, he reclaims
the values of democracy and solidarity that united the movement
against fascism, and asks: What's Left?
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