The Rise of the Social Democratic Party

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I don't think the left really worked through what went wrong in 1991 or 1989 whichever date you prefer I think 91. The collapse of state socialism and this one model that was repressive and authoritarian is a huge reason for the development of woke because it seemed to people that large scale universalist political projects had been proved hopeless if not wrong. Lack of reflection about what went wrong has led to this interning about defending my group figuring out my group identity and that about us.

Susan Neiman is an American philosopher and writer. She is the Director of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, Germany, and the author of Left is Not Woke.

In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Susan Neiman discuss how liberals can uphold their universal values while maintaining a politics of empathy and compassion; how the left’s tendency to discount the progress of the past inhibits progress for the future; and whether Germany can serve as a model for how America, and other nations, should deal with the dark aspects of their own history.

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