I was a "folk" blaming the anti-vietnam-war libertarian left for what I still see as the legitimation of the false idea that you can have a left "movement" without serious socialism. You can to this day find this fossilized crap in the pages of (ugh!) Rolling Stone. Lause, Meeropol, Proyect and many others may be personally Not Guilty here, but the left as a whole fell for this like a bag of coprolites.
Of course, as Meeropol points out, there is a bigger picture--how not if one is any kind of Marxist?--but the "folk" AFAIK were speaking of a development in left ideology specifically, as manifested in The Movement so called, not of the broader ideology of American exceptionalism. This was the mother of all Lesser Evilisms and "we" (so to speak) IMO need to come to terms with this unless "we" want to leave the future to a bunch of airheaded autonomists who will inevitably go away sooner or later. Trump is a luftmensch who has a history of vacillation and of pulling his punches. But whether by accident or cunning, he has identified what a computer person might call "exploits" that can be used to hack the tottering Constitution to death--with the hyperventilated Hails of Ms. Rabbit and her fellow animals on the Supine Court. I don't believe that Trump could function competently as a dictator, but if he can get the Court to bless it, it remains conceivably within his grasp to seize that power anyway. The hacks are essentially done. Of course he would be overthrown by some clearer-headed person or cabal. But that would only seal America's fate. The left would then face a force comprising the Proud Boys and other militias in open and official alliance with the police and the federal government, with the terrifying might of the US military in reserve. Could this be fought with general strikes? Maybe. But how could that lead to the necessary seizure of state power? And how could general strikes be fought without an armed power in reserve given the force that would be brought to bear against them? If we are not to collapse because we have no army, no air force, no firing squads, and no prison camps for the thousands of armed counterrevolutionaries who will have to be put in their places by force, there had better be something in process as we speak to prepare the ground for what is to come. We may see "business as usual" in some form if Trump wins, but it will be business with its mask off--not "normalcy." 'movement" -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#2005): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/2005 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/77171773/21656 -=-=- 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]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
