Elitecraft : Reactionary Fervour, Liberal Myth and a New Left Politics

Elitecraft delivers the first comprehensive analysis of elitism as ideology-revealing how "the elite" became the most powerful political faction of our time. It distinguishes three forms of anti-elitism-emancipatory, liberal, and reactionary-and traces how they developed, converged, and collided after 2008. Most crucially, it reconstructs an emancipatory anti-elitism capable of breaking through liberal complacency and reactionary resentment-one that can anchor a renewed egalitarian, anti-capitalist politics for the twenty-first century.