La traición progresista

These pages are for those who have seen with amazement how a left that until yesterday fought for freedom of expression in the West today justifies censorship in the name of not offending; the one that yesterday ate priests and now aligns itself with religious obscurantism to the detriment of secularism to oppress women and homosexuals; that which responds to sexual liberation with a new puritanism, which from the fight against racism has come to nurture and minimize its most lethal form on the streets and in the temples of Europe and the Americas: anti-Semitism. These chapters are an attempt to understand the reasons, mechanisms, and consequences behind this betrayal. Alejo Schapire has the lucidity and the courage to discover and point out the detours of this left in an essay as documented as it is daring. The analysis of the current situation warns about the totalitarian temptation and cultural relativism that lurk from the well-thought-out progressivism, but that also have their correlate in the rise of nationalist and far-right populism.