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The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon
The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon
102 votes, 29 comments. According to the comments, this appears to be the final video in the series, though I don't see anything in actual video that…
·reddit.com·
The Alt-Right Playbook: The South Bank of the Rubicon
Where does the Canadian left go from here? – Canadian Dimension
Where does the Canadian left go from here? – Canadian Dimension
Jack Layton was the first progressive politician who inspired me enough to go to a rally. He used to say optimism is better than despair. I think he was half right. Right now pessimism of the intellect says the Canadian left is in a bad place. But optimism of the will demands that if we have failed, we fail again, and fail better until we succeed.
·canadiandimension.com·
Where does the Canadian left go from here? – Canadian Dimension
The Left Needs to Start Taking Accountability For its Losses
The Left Needs to Start Taking Accountability For its Losses
The modern left has normalized a lot of self-defeating behaviors. Let's talk about those behaviors and what traits we need to internalize instead. Probably n...
·youtube.com·
The Left Needs to Start Taking Accountability For its Losses
How to Move Beyond Outrage Toward Understanding
How to Move Beyond Outrage Toward Understanding
Kurt Gray believes that by shifting our thinking from right and wrong to “harm,” we can feel less outrage and understand each other better.
·greatergood.berkeley.edu·
How to Move Beyond Outrage Toward Understanding
The perils of left populism
The perils of left populism
In a recent piece for The Breach, writer and organizer Emma Jackson calls for an “expansive left populism” to defeat the far-right. While she identifies many of the fronts on which the left must fight, it remains unclear how populism as such should serve as a working program for broad left demands, given its susceptibility to the politics of reaction.
·canadiandimension.com·
The perils of left populism