The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning
The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning
Against the centre ground
Since 1989, politics has been a contest to see who can best serve the needs of the market. In this urgent and wideranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and events that have informed this development across the world. It is an investigation that reaches its logical conclusion with the presidency of Donald Trump, the success of En Marche! in France, and the dominance of Merkel’s Germany throughout Europe.
In this fully updated edition of The Extreme Centre, Ali considers recent events that suggest, despite everything, that there is room for hope. He finds promise in Latin America and at the edges of Europe. Emerging parties in Scotland, Greece, and Spain, formed out of the 2008 crisis, are offering new promise for democracy. Even in the UK, with the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, there are indications that the hegemony of the centre may be weaker than imagined.
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Publication year: 2018
Publication date: 2018-03-13
Pages: 336
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Verso Books
ISBN: 9781786637062
Dimensions: 12.95 x 2.54 x 19.81 cm
Weight: 0.37 kg