Left Foreign Policy: An Organizer's Guide

Over the last decade, the U.S. left reached striking consensus around domestic issues: Medicare for All, free college, a $15 minimum wage, and a Green New Deal. Leftists use this consensus to recruit and educate new members, win battles against bosses and landlords, and compete in elections. Equally striking, the U.S. left hasn’t reached consensus on foreign policy. It disagrees on when and how to wage war, when and how to support globalized trade, and even how the U.S. should relate to the world. And without a fully integrated movement, the left will never build the international solidarity and relationships it needs to build the new world it seeks. In Left Foreign Policy, Matt L. Drabek shows the way to a vision for international social democracy. By combining left policy into an integrated whole, it can build this world and use it as the basis for a deeper anti-capitalist movement. Drabek does this by laying out the building blocks for left foreign policy and connecting them to U.S. relations with four key world regions. Those building blocks are: international solidarity, anti-interventionism, pluralism, and fighting global capital.