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Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left

Coming Clean: The Rise of Critical Theory and the Future of the Left

Heinze, Eric

Paperback

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 0262049589
ISBN13: 9780262049580
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Apr 8 2025
Pages: 250
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
What has gone wrong with the left--and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds.

Leftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its wokeness.

In Coming Clean, Eric Heinze rejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the left's own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a century--Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea.

Criticisms of Western wrongdoing are certainly important, yet Heinze explains that leftists have rarely engaged in the kinds of open and public self-scrutiny that they demand from others. Citing examples as different as the Ukraine war, LGBTQ+ people in Cuba, the concept of hatred, and the problem of leftwing antisemitism, Heinze explains why and how the left must change its memory politics if it is to claim any ethical high ground.

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