Abstract

Radical politics has become dominated by the politics of difference, rather than what makes us all the same. Universal conditions — such as childhood — have taken second place to identity politics in recent years. While the struggles of discriminated groups were once predicated on the need to build the good society for all, in many cases such campaigns mutated into claims for separate and unique status. In this politics of competing identities and ressentiments, the common good was overlooked. Politicians played one group against the other, and indeed many identity groups came to believe that the marketplace held out the best arena for the fulfilment of their wishes.

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