By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026There's one book that crystallizes my thoughts on this better than any other: Naomi Klein's 2023 *Doppelganger*, which analyzes our politics in terms of (warped) "mirror images." 8/ 2110
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026One of the mirror world pairings that Klein analyzes is the progressive movement, a coalition of liberals and leftists (led by liberals). Like every coalition, the two main groups that constitute "the progressives" do not agree on many important issues, though they do have common goals. 9/ 140
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/05/2026Both groups support equality for people of all genders and races, but for liberals, an equal world is one that fixes the problem that 150 straight white men own everything by replacing 75 of them with racialized people, women and queer people. 10/ 1110
