Trump is far more than a distraction. He is a harbinger of the end of 'liberal democracy" in the united states, very possibly the agent of that dissolution.
If you fail to grasp the consequences of the convulsion that will probably ensue from that, you are in the same camp as Ted Kaczynski, John Zerzan, and--on the other hand--all the halfassed autonomists who have been shadowing BLM with their self-indulgent little Zones in the childish belief that such stunts are themselves revolutionary--the more so because any other form of infrastructure, voting, military command structures and other revolutionary necessities are just like fucking old and like horizontal and like we are better than fucking that, and OK boomer and let's shoot all the computer programmers, and fuck you. The whole thing and nearly the entire corpus of potentially revolutionary young people are imbued with the transcendental individualist nonsense that, following in the path of the Popular Front, finally evicted any hope of mass socialism during the struggle against the Vietnam War--thanks in part to neoliberal oracles like the armies of wealthy rock star who got themselves accepted as somehow revolutionary while pushing de facto libertarianism, having one's cake and eating it too, and the politics of abstract moral gesticulation--in short, Rolling-Stoneism and the bullshit that goes along with it. This ideology is the degenerate and increasingly fragmentary offscouring of the old Popular Front--which, being Stalinist, did not really care what people thought or said as long as in the view of the leadership the idiots involved were useful and could be used. The reason why the Left is repeatedly confronted with the problem of the lesser evil is that the left has completely, utterly, and irrevocably failed--beginning with the Vietnam antiwar movement--to commit to socialism except as a kind of Science Fair project to which any child can bring her own clever papier-mache exhibit. The Biden lesser evil offers us the continuity of the infrastructure that the current mass left movement regards as unnecessary, if not an actual impediment, where they do not stupidly take it for granted--a Postal Service, accurate government statistics, functioning bourgeois elections, a CDC, an NIH, the WHO, international standards bodies, the census, and thing after boring thing that our anarchist Left, very much like the Trumpists, regard as an impediment to "air fraydom." This necessary infrastructure has not been seriously threatened in any election before now--not even by the terrifying candidacy of George Wallace. When the broad eclectic ex Popular Front Left en masse yielded a consensus for this bastard libertarianism instead of socialism in order to fight the Vietnam War, the Left de facto opted for a Lesser Evil that continues to bedevil us to this day. The enemy is us. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1973): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1973 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77055888/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
