{"id":364702,"date":"2021-10-28T08:58:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=219381"},"modified":"2021-10-28T08:58:13","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:58:13","slug":"anti-intellectualism-and-the-american-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/10\/28\/anti-intellectualism-and-the-american-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Intellectualism and the American Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A spectre is haunting American progressivism\u2013the spectre of anti-intellectualism. While once leftist politics was defined by the unification of academic theory and mass movement\u2013the essence of praxis\u2013it increasingly looks devoid of the intellectual structure that traditionally defined the left. The movement is now everything, the strategy and goals are nothing. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/28\/anti-intellectualism-and-the-american-left\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/28\/anti-intellectualism-and-the-american-left\/\">Anti-Intellectualism and the American Left<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/28\/anti-intellectualism-and-the-american-left\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A spectre is haunting American progressivism\u2013the spectre of anti-intellectualism. While once leftist politics was defined by the unification of academic theory and mass movement\u2013the essence of praxis\u2013it increasingly looks devoid of the intellectual str&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3403,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,266],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364702"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3403"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364702"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365474,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364702\/revisions\/365474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}