{"product_id":"coming-clean-9780262049580","title":"Coming Clean","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat has gone wrong with the left—and what leftists must do if they want to change politics, ethics, and minds.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeftists have long taught that people in the West must take responsibility for centuries of classism, racism, colonialism, patriarchy, and other gross injustices. Of course, right-wingers constantly ridicule this claim for its “wokeness.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eComing Clean, \u003c\/i\u003eEric Heinze\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003erejects the idea that we should be less woke. In fact, we need more wokeness, but of a new kind. Yes, we must teach about these bleak pasts, but we must also educate the public about the left’s own support for regimes that damaged and destroyed millions of lives for over a century—Stalin in the Soviet Union, Mao Zedong in China, Pol Pot in Cambodia, or the Kim dynasty in North Korea. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCriticisms of Western wrongdoing are certainly important, yet Heinze explains that leftists have rarely engaged in the kinds of open and public self-scruti","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017713254743,"sku":"9780262049580","price":20.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780262049580.jpg?v=1750774421","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/coming-clean-9780262049580","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}