The Extreme Centre: A Second Warning

ISBN-13: 9781786637062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 336 str.

Tariq Ali

Opis

Britain's leading radical updates his attack on the failures of the political centre ground

Recenzje

"Ali is indeed a kind of professional, or inveterate heretic, a writer who has made a career of dissenting from every kind of orthodoxy."
-Robyn Creswell, The National

"Ali is smart as fire."
-Ian Epstein, New City

"Ali remains an outlier and intellectual bomb-thrower; an urbane, Oxford-educated polemicist."
-The Observer

"Ali spins metaphors, re-establishes certain truths, shines a light on issues shrouded in ignorance. He enthralls, entertains, instructs. This is high art."
-Le Figaro

"For years, left-wing critics have framed the debate. Angela Davis, Ruthie Gilmore, Marc Mauer and, more recently, Michelle Alexander gave us the terminology to speak about all this: the prison industrial complex, abolition, non-reform reform and The New Jim Crow ... [Ali's theorized term 'extreme center'] provides us with a new language to describe our problems...[O]ne of the key tasks of the extreme center is to take center stage, to ensure that no alternative seems either reasonable or possible."
-James Kilgore, author of Understanding Mass Incarceration: A People's Guide to the Key Civil Rights Struggle of our Era, in CounterPunch

O autorze

Tariq Ali is a writer and filmmaker. He has written more than a dozen books on world history and politics-including Pirates of the Caribbean, Bush in Babylon, The Clash of Fundamentalisms and The Obama Syndrome-as well as five novels in his Islam Quintet series and scripts for the stage and screen. He is an editor of the New Left Review and lives in London.