The Extreme Centre: A Warning Tariq Ali

  1. session, 28 3 2017

“Since political differences are minimal, power becomes an end in itself and a means to acquiring money and well-paid consultancies after leaving office. Today the symbiosis between power and money has almost everywhere reached unbelievable extremes. The cowed and docile politicians who work the system and reproduce themselves are what I label the ‘extreme centre’ of mainstream politics in Europe and North America.” Tariq Ali: The Extreme Centre: A Warning, p. 14-15.

During the meeting, moderated by the Academy’s curator Aneta Rostkowska, we reflect on the diagnosis of the current situation provided in the book (chapter 1) as well as possible ways of transforming it (chapter 6).

Bibliography:

Tariq Ali: The Extreme Centre: A Warning, London/New York: Verso 2015.