Against Privilege
The Left’s embrace of a paper-thin representation politics has now been turned against us, as figures from the Centre and even the Right learn how to co-opt activist rhetoric. If we want to build a movement that can challenge the establishment, we’ll need to do more than criticise privilege.
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Earlier this summer, Eric Adams—a centrist former police officer—won New York City’s Democratic primary, comfortably beating his progressive rivals. It was a sobering result. Not only had someone with center-right leanings won a major election in what could, and arguably should, be a bastion of strength for the Left, but the Left itself had called […]