On Sun, Sep 27, 2020 at 08:22 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Sorry about that--I apologize for my tone. I have great respect for Comrade Lause as a historian and am not seeking a social media pissing contest with him, however upsetting I may find his dismissive response to my post.
What I meant by saying that we are the enemy is that the Left as a whole capitulated to a form of neoliberalism by embracing the essentially libertarian ideology of eg the pop music industry and its leading figures as well as key elements of actual libertarianism during the struggle against the Vietnam War. This IMO has contributed to the absence of any popular socialist tendency in the US at present. We now have a widespread notion that even in the absence of the unstable fusion once known as "liberalism" in the U.S., you can have a valid non-socialist Left, which has IMO influenced the white and non-black "allies" of BLM to the extent that they are protesting not only police racist murder but the broader injustices and innate unsustainability of capitalism. Comrades Lause, Meeropol, and Proyect (et al) are of course not personally to blame for this,--on the contrary--but the ideological suicide of the Left over the past three quarters of a century remains the responsibility of the Left as a whole. Putting it another way, the de facto ideology of the encampments may increasingly represent the transformation of a revolutionary potential to a counter-revolutionary potential. It has much in common with the underrated persuasiveness of Trumpism, which gives concrete form to something new in the world of ideologies that has much in common with its nominal Left antagonists. WITBD? I'll only add that Trump's resolute hostility to the very notion of social infrastructure and actual governance has many points of coincidence with the vulgar Graeberism of the encampments. The only reason for voting Biden is to preserve such luxuries as a Postal Service and the CDC for another two or three years so that the Left can come to grips with its failures. The collapse of liberal democracy isn't something to cheer on even if it may be inevitable. Again--trying to keep this above the waist and serious. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1979): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1979 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
