Z: Moving Beyond the Left: A Post-Left Post-Mortem in Pursuit of Freedom

Set Margins', 2026, softcover, 424 pages, 14.8 x 21 cm 

Moving Beyond the Left: A Post-Left Post-Mortem in Pursuit of Freedom unpacks and critiques the so-called “revolutionary Left” from the perspective of someone whose past work influenced millions of self-identifying revolutionary Leftists around the world and shaped the organizational efforts of thousands. Using an anti-authoritarian lens, it considers the many ways humanity’s social potentialities toward freedom are hampered by the authoritarian social logics common in most Left organizations and spaces, and by the sham of the “left–right” paradigm as a whole.

The book identifies the so-called Left’s central obstacles: categorization, identitarianism, and authoritarian conditioning. The text insists that those who prioritize freedom should imagine—and work toward—a world beyond race, gender, and other oppressive social constructs if they wish to confront the oppressive systems predicated on their existence.

Moving Beyond the Left pulls rich insights from various Left tendencies—even in critiquing common frameworks between them—and provides both perspectival and methodological suggestions for reimagining pathways to freedom.

Positing that the existential battle of humanity in this time can be boiled down to authoritarianism versus freedom, Moving Beyond the Left challenges the reader to think more deeply about the values and systems they want. It invites us to dream bigger by acknowledging differences in experiences, perspectives, and values. It encourages us to abandon forms of identitarian thinking that attempt to categorize human beings and, in the process, dehumanize us all.