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The Left Needs Ideas - Dissent Magazine

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The profound malaise in the United States cannot be addressed, much less solved, by clever campaign strategies and appealing policy ideas alone.

How might American leftists convince our fellow citizens that we understand what has gone wrong in our country and have practical and appealing ideas for how to fix it? Answering this question should be at the heart of our politics, 250 years after the pursuit of happiness was declared a universal right no government could take away. Academics and journalists on our side do offer some elements of a sound response. They write deft critiques of oligarchy, state bigotry, and corporate exploitation, and expose the depredations of neoliberalism and the blatant self-dealing of President Donald Trump

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