by
Les May
SINCE
the election of
Donald Trump we have become
used to hearing the term ‘Alt-Right’
to describe an unpleasant strand of the US political landscape. But
before we start feeling smug about this perhaps we should ask
ourselves whether there is
emerging
in UK politics
an ‘Alt-Left’
strand which
shares the same
authoritarian
outlook as
the ‘Alt-Right’.
Traditional
right wing politics is characterised by a conservative approach to
economic and social matters, nationalism
and
opposition
to abortion, same sex partnerships, premarital sex etc. The ‘Alt
Right’ differs from
traditional right wing politics by
these being secondary to being
overtly racist
in outlook and a readiness
to resort to violence against
those who oppose it.
Traditional
left wing politics emphasises the importance of economic and social
justice, income
redistribution,
internationalism, and a more
liberal attitude to sexual and social mores.
The ‘Alt-Left’
differs from this mainstream because
it makes tackling the great inequalities of income and wealth that
plague the UK subserviant
to ‘race’,
and readily resorts to accusations of racism against those who do not
share this view and are
willing
to oppose it.
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