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A Moribund Left

To say the Left is in crisis is not only a cliche, it is an unwarranted optimism. Crisis implies the necessity, and thereby also the possibility, of decisive action and change. I think it would be far truer to say the Left is in a state of paralysis. It has nowhere to go, no way to take. Since the fall of 'actually existing socialism', the possibility of an alternative to capitalism has all but disappeared from the public sphere, in which I include the university. As Fredric Jameson has remarked so incisively, 'people find it easier today to imagine the end of ...

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