Liberal democracy has proved itself to be an insufficient barrier to halt the ambitions of the far right. Though liberal elites are horrified by the vulgarity of the far right, they are not necessarily opposed to diverting the masses from a politics of class to a politics of despair, as the far right has done. While much of the left has abandoned socialism, instead adopting the task of being managers of capitalism with a more human face, there nonetheless remains a pressing need to build a po...
