This book explores changes in the values and ideas of a large part of the political Left in recent decades. The author identifies that a questioning of the merits of economic growth; an ideal of environmental sustainability overriding the old radical visions of material abundance; a critique of instrumental reason; a suspiciousness towards universalist claims; and an attachment to subjective and pluralistic identities, have been dominant in the narratives of the Leftist milieu and of social movements.

Nikos Sotirakopoulos is lecturer in Sociology at the Department of Social Sciences at Loughborough University, UK.

1. Introduction.- 2. From the dictatorship of the proletariat to Woodstock.- 3. 1970s and beyond: a counter-revolution of capitalism or the New Left fears going mainstream?.- 4. The anti-globalization movement.- 5. The 2008 financial crisis and the Left's reaction: from Occupy to SYRIZA.- 6. Is there a future for the Left?