Interview on “Against the Grain”

I was interviewed on KPFA’s “Against the Grain” regarding my most recent book, and in particular the final chapter on the value-concept of democracy. Click here to either listen to the interview online or download it.  Here is the description of the discussion:

51GyEIiJWHL._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_In the face of the contemporary infatuation with democracy in the West, what should the left do with a term and a concept often used to mask injustices and inequities? Gabriel Rockhill discusses some of the key conjunctures in the history of democracy; he also asserts that a focus on democracy may actually distract us from the task of building a just society.

Gabriel Rockhill, Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy Duke University Press, 2017.

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