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The liberal call for left purity
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The liberal call for left purity

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Carl Beijer
Mar 23, 2018
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It rarely gets put explicitly, but unpack the rationale for a certain genre of left activism and you’ll get something like this: to emancipate the poor and oppressed masses around the world, we must banish from left organizations and social circles people who believe and do reactionary things. In the discourse, this theory is usually litigated as a call…

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