The New-left; Neoliberalism’s Great Apologists

The new-Left in America is the product of the standpoint politics emerging in the 60’s, which sought to develop strong cultural identities, demanding autonomy from the oppression posed by white-male-European cultural conventions. The rebellion against the hegemony of the dominant culture in American society was certainly a worth-while and nobel endeavor.

However, the current condition of identity politics is one where the groups who fall under the extension of this rubric are dominated by individuals who are not only members of the identities for which they speak, they are also members of an economic class in society that does not feel the effects of the policies they advocate with respect to illegal immigration.

As far as neo-Liberalism is concerned, I agree that people of this particular ideology are also proned to support an opne-border. However, neo-Liberalism and the new-Left are not mutually exclusive categories.

The new-Left, due to its own absorption by its ethnocentricity, has failed to adequately target globalization and free-market ideology as a salient social-concern. The great neo-Liberal apologist, Bill Clinton, who also advocated the interests of the Gay community, with which I, of course, have absolutely no problem, is indicative of the failure of those who embody the values of the new-Left to fight for the interests of the American worker by directing some their energy in opposition to globalization.

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