The dark side of the Left : illiberal Egalitarianism in America / Richard J. Ellis.
نوع المادة : نصالسلاسل: American political thoughtالناشر:Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, [1998]تاريخ حقوق النشر: copyright 1998وصف:xiii, 426 pages ; 25 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
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- 0700610308 (pbk)
- HN90.R3 E55 1998
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [287]-406) and index.
I. The Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. 1. Radical Abolitionism: Purity and Violence. 2. Illiberal Utopianism in the Age of Reform. 3. The Revolting Masses: From Walt Whitman to Mike Gold -- II. SDS, The New Left, and the 1960s. 4. The Illiberal Turn: Tom Hayden, SDS, and the New Left. 5. Romancing the Oppressed: The New Left and the Left Out. 6. When More (Democracy) Is Less -- III. Egalitarianism Today. 7. Radical Feminism: The Personal is Political. 8. Earth First! and the Misanthropy of Radical Egalitarianism. 9. Apocalypse and Authoritarianism in the Radical Environmental Movement.
Why do people who identify themselves as liberal or egalitarian sometimes embrace intolerance or even preach violence? Illiberalism has come to be expected of the right in this country; its occurrence on the left is more paradoxical but no less real.
In this book, Richard J. Ellis examines the illiberal tendencies that have characterized egalitarian movements throughout American history, from the radical abolitionists of the 1850s to the New Left activists of the 1960s. He also takes on contemporary radical feminists like Catharine MacKinnon and radical environmental groups like Earth First to show that, even today, many of the American left's sacred cows have cloven hooves.
He explains how orthodoxy arises within a group from the need to maintain distance from a society it views as hopelessly corrupt, and how individuals committed to egalitarian causes are particularly susceptible to illiberalism - even poets like Walt Whitman, who celebrated the common people but often expressed contempt for their mundane lives.
Political correctness, idealizing the oppressed, and an affinity for authoritarian and charismatic leaders are all parts of what Ellis calls "the dark side of the left."