Excerpt: /308/ A Balance-Sheet of the Left

Dec 13, 2022

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On the global left after the Cold War. [Patreon Exclusive] Has the left declined, been defeated, or is it dead? Is the continuity with the Old and New Lefts of the 20th century, or should we understand 1989 as marking a definitive break? We use a long essay by Swedish Marxist sociologist Göran Therborn in the latest New Left Review as a plank to examine these questions. Therborn tries to present a synoptic analysis of where the left is, globally speaking, almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century. Is he right that the old dialectics of industrialism and colonialism are no longer operative - and that no new dialectic has emerged? And is trying to present a "balance sheet" a valid approach in the first place? FILL OUT OUR 2022 LISTENER SURVEY: tinyurl.com/bunga2022survey Links:

The World and the Left, Göran Therborn, New Left Review (2022)
Renewals, Perry Anderson, New Left Review (2000)
/37/ The Ghosts of May ‘68 ft. Catherine Liu, Bungacast
OK BUNGER! The Problem of Generations, ep. 3 (Boomers), Bungacast