Toward a Socialist Minimalism

The right-left political spectrum has devoured the complexity of contemporary life, flattening all political, economic, social, and cultural views onto a continuum that serves as a powerful ideological tool of the neoliberal center. Sometimes this is obvious, as when The New York Times describes Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren together as “very liberal.” But there are countless other ways in which the spectrum is confused and confusing, and ultimately a hindrance to intelligible political discourse.