politics idea originated with the Socialist Workers Party (UK) goal of replacing traditional Communism with a worldwide movement to "spearhead a new insurrection in the name of the oppressed." This ideal caught fire beginning in the 1960s, reinvigorating Western leftism with the idea that the United States and Israel are the great oppressors, and uniting the European Left, and the Islamic Republic of Iran in a world view according to which "the Jew has become the Nazi, the Palestinian the Jew and radical Islam is now the victim of Western democracy and not its executioner." Bruckner sees the beginnings of "sexual apartheid" in Europe in such things as the institution of separate hours for men and women at public swimming pools. Publishing history The 2010 translation into English was done by Steven Rendall. References 2006 non-fiction books Books in political philosophy French essays French-language books Works by Pascal Bruckner