The Left Has Lost The Common Touch.

The Hope Of A New Politics Does Not Lie In Formulating A Left-wing Reply To The Right-it Lies In Rejecting Conventional Political Categories.

Once Women Begin To Question The Inevitability Of Their Subordination And To Reject The Conventions Formerly Associated With It, They Can No Longer Retreat To The Safety Of Those Conventions.

We Do Not Need To Minimize The Poverty Of The Ghetto Or The Suffering Inflicted By Whites On Blacks In Order To See That The Increasingly Dangerous And Unpredictable Conditions Of Middle-class Life Have Given Rise To Similar Strategies For Survival. Indeed The Attraction Of Black Culture For Disaffected Whites Suggests That Black Culture Now Speaks To A General Condition.

Much Of What Is Euphemistically Known As The Middle Class, Merely Because It Dresses Up To Go To Work, Is Now Reduced To Proletarian Conditions Of Existence. Many White-collar Jobs Require No More Skill And Pay Even Less Than Blue-collar Jobs, Conferring Little Status Or Security.

Liberals Subscribe To The New Flexible, Pluralistic Definition Of The Family; Their Defense Of Families Carries No Conviction.