Scenarios for Possible Lefts: Where Can We Go?

Let’s begin an argument (here in the pages of Dissent) about the future of the left—an open, many-sided, tentative, experimental argument, without manifestos or ideologically correct positions. We are in a period of uncertainty and confusion. The collapse of communism ought to open new opportunities for the democratic left, but its immediate effect has been to raise questions about many leftist (not only communist) orthodoxies: about the “direction” of history, the ...