Cancelled: The Left Way Back from Woke

By Umut Ozkirimli and Umut Özkırımlı

Book Overview

Right now, someone, somewhere is being cancelled. Off-the-cuff tweets or "harmless" office banter have the potential to wreck lives. The Left condemns the Right and the bigotry of the old elites. The Right complains about brain-dead political correctness. In reality, both sides are colluding in a reactionary politics that is as self-defeating as it is divisive. Can the Left escape this extremism and stay true to the progressive ideals it once professed?

In this provocative book, Umut zk r ml reveals how the Left has been sucked into a spiral of toxic hatred and outrage-mongering, retreating from the democratic ideals of freedom and pluralism that it purports to represent. Exploring the similarities between right-wing populism and radical identity politics, he sets out an alternative vision. It is only by focusing on our common humanity and working across differences that the Left will find a constructive and consensual way back from "woke".

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509550925
• ISBN13: 9781509550920
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.2"