The Defeat of the Solidaristic Left

The Defeat of the Solidaristic Left

The trouble with clichés is you forget they’re actually true. For years I have nodded along with thinkpieces explaining that there is a split in the contemporary left—between a politics of solidarity and economic justice, which is Good, and an individualistic, libertarian impulse, which is Bad. After a while, you get so used to this narrative that you start to wonder whether it’s actually worth saying more. And then, suddenly, you see it for rea…