New Polarizations and Old Contradictions: The Crisis of Centrism: Socialist Register 2022 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781583679371)

Takes the buzzword "polarization" as its point of departure to describe the vast, and ever-growing economic inequality worldwide

"Polarization" is a word commonly used by everyone from mainstream journalists to the person in the street, whatever their political stripe. But this widely recognized phenomenon deserves scrutiny. The 58th volume of the Socialist Register takes up the challenge, asking such questions as: Are the current tendencies towards polarization new, and if so, what is their significance? What underlying contradictions--between race, class, income, gender, and geopolitics--do the latest polarization trends expose? And to what extent can "centrist" politics continue to hold and contain these internal contradictions? This volume's original essays examine the escalating polarization of national, racial, generational, and other identities, all in the context of growing economic inequality, new forms of regional and urban antagonism, "vaccine nationalism," and the shifting parameters of rivalry between the "Great Powers."

Author: Greg Albo
ISBN-10: 1583679375
ISBN-13: 9781583679371
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Language: English
Published: 12/27/2021
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.20d