Bernie Bros Gone Woke

Class, Identity, Neoliberalism

Marc James Léger author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Haymarket Books

Published:25th Apr '23

Should be back in stock very soon

Bernie Bros Gone Woke cover

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Bernie Bros Gone Woke offers a provocative analysis of the Sanders campaigns and argues for the continuing importance of emancipatory universality. In 2016 and 2020, the Bernie Sanders campaign gave American leftists a path towards social change through electoral politics. In order to combat neoliberal and reactionary uses of identity, the 2020 Sanders campaign combined a working-class agenda of universalist policies with various forms of social movement activism. In doing so it compromised on universalist principles and socialist radicalism in order to appeal to distinct demographic groups and win the election. Bernie Bros Gone Woke reveals how intersectional politics contributed to the failure of the Sanders campaign - a lesson that the organized left must learn if it is to challenge progressive neoliberalism and move beyond postmodern post-politics.

ISBN: 9781642598186

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307 pages