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This week a person I have had some contact as a result of my
participation in Yves Smith’s Naked Capitalism website posed this
question to me: “Why does ‘the left’ suck so badly?”
He went on to say:
Saying right off the bat that “the left,” “progressives,” “liberals”,
along with the Greens and the Sanders people and some of #BlackLives
matter seem to be such a gigantic mish-mash that “the left” doesn’t even
seem like a good name, like maybe there shouldn’t even BE a name. And
that’s before we get to other kinds of organizers for the unions and the
environment, and then the Marxist groupuscles, and the anarchists, and
the co-op people… Anyhow, I’ll use “the left” as a shorthand for the
seething mish mash.
I’m asking because of the ridiculousness of the comments we had on
Greece; you saw them. So many pom pom wavers, so few analysts, and even
fewer people who took action. (I mean, any sort of action at all, like
organizing a small relief effort.) So many people saying “it’s easy,” if
only we — by which they mean others — had the will! (Granted, I’m not a
doer either, but I am an excellent blogger, and I am doing what I am
good at.)
My response is here:
http://louisproyect.org/2015/08/09/why-does-the-left-suck-so-badly/
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