A consensus politics that refuses zero-sum losses cannot advance feminist demands

Evidence

No wonder that within such a perspeaive there is no room for properly feminist demands since, as Anna Coote has shown. they do not fit into Blair’s vision of a pain-free politics for middle England.” For women to increase their political strength would require men to give up some of theirs. But, she states, New Labour is not prepared to accommodate a zero-sum game: it wants no losers, especially among middle England voters. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 500

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Voluntary agreement is impossible between parties of unequal power; Horizontal protest collectives cannot negotiate because they lack decision mechanisms — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 445

Broader Connections

• Voluntary agreement is impossible between parties of unequal power #corroborates (0.80)