Roger Scruton, one of the main critics of leftist ideas, turns to the work of those who made the greatest contribution to the development of this school of thought. In an accessible form, he examines the theories of Eric Hobsbawm and Edward Palmer Thompson, John Kenneth Galbraith and Ronald Dworkin, Jean-Paul Sartre and Michel Foucault, György Lukács and Jürgen Habermas, Louis Althusser, Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze, Antonio Gramsci, Perry Anderson and Edward Said, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Zizek. The subject of analysis is the movement of the new left not only at the present stage, but also in the process of formation since the late 1950s. Scruton mercilessly criticizes all the main directions of new left thought and seeks to find a point of support for opposing them, without being based on religion. The book is intended for political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, historians and anyone interested in social philosophy and political theory.