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To the general question, probably. It survived the boomers, who in the 1960s succeeded the socialists and New Dealers of the 1930s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by squozzer 10y ago
To the general question, probably. It survived the boomers, who in the 1960s succeeded the socialists and New Dealers of the 1930s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Left
Not sure what direction it will take, it would surprise me to see the Newest Left revive Basic Income and other dormant redistribution ideas.
- tracker1 10y agoIt might be interesting that we may well see a division closer to statist vs libertarian as a divide in the future.
- undersuit 10y agoI'd enjoy us not trying to map the whole political spectrum onto a binary distinction.
- hyperdunc 10y agoThe parent may have been suggesting a spectrum instead. Tools like that found at politicalcompass.org can take us away from the currently oversimplified left-right notion of politics, while still being easy to understand.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoIn general, the identity politics is actually winding down as most leftists shift steadily towards economic radicalism in our analyses of the world.