Is the left afflicted by a poverty of ideas and longterm strategic thinking? Liza Featherstone and Christian Parenti think so. They argue that activistism, a type of hyper-pragmatism on the left, is tied to a deep-seated anti-intellectual tendency in the US. They've co-authored a call for activists to take ideas seriously -- something the right did decades ago, facilitating the ascendancy of the neo-liberal project.
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