> On Mar 5, 2024, at 10:03 AM, Barry Brooks <[email protected]> wrote:
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> What Is Left?
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> Rebecca Solnit
> February 23, 2024
> Literary Hub
> https://lithub.com/what-is-left-rebecca-solnit-on-the-perennial-divisions-of-the-american-left/
> Rebecca Solnit on the perennial divisions of the American Left: “It should be
> a modest request to ask that ‘left’ not mean supporters of authoritarian
> regimes.”
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> I’d argue that because of its intersectional understanding of both problems
> and solutions, this left is more radical—radically inclusive, radically
> egalitarian—than those who treat race and gender as irrelevancies or
> distractions (including the men, from Ralph Nader in 2000 on, who’ve been
> dismissive of reproductive rights as an essential economic justice as well as
> rights issue). Perhaps it’s seen as less radical because bellicosity is often
> viewed as the measure of one’s radicalness.
I'm clueless about this. In 2000, Nader's running mate was Winona La Duke, an
indigenous woman who strongly supports reproduction rights. In 2004, it was
Peter Camejo, a man who strongly supported reproductive rights from a socialist
perspective. What am I missing?
Mark
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> Rebecca Solnit
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> Writer, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit is the author of twenty-five
> books on feminism, environmental and urban history, popular power, social
> change and insurrection, wandering and walking, hope and catastrophe. She
> co-edited the 2023 anthology Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from
> Despair to Possibility. Her other books include Orwell’s Roses; Recollections
> of My Nonexistence; Hope in the Dark; Men Explain Things to Me; A Paradise
> Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities that Arise in Disaster; and A
> Field Guide to Getting Lost. A product of the California public education
> system from kindergarten to graduate school, she writes regularly for the
> Guardian, serves on the board of the climate group Oil Change International,
> and in 2022 launched the climate project Not Too Late (nottoolateclimate.com).
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> http://rebeccasolnit.net
> Rebecca Solnit
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