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The Extreme Centre

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Extreme Centre

By Tariq Ali

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About the book

What can we do in the twilight of democracy? What is the point of elections when the result is always the same? A victory for the Extreme Centre. Since 1989, politics has been replaced by a contest between who can best serve the needs of the market, fringed by unstable populist movements. The same catastrophe can be seen in the US, Britain, Europe and Australia. In this urgent and wide ranging case for the prosecution, Tariq Ali looks at the people and the events that have informed this moment o...Show more

Left-of-centre democratic ideologies

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9781784782627

Publisher

Verso Books

Published year

2015

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