The Gaza genocide has revealed the role of liberalism in upholding the brutality of the West. On the eve of U.S. elections, the question remains: what comes next for those wanting to build a new world?
Excerpt - *The irrelevance of the U.S. Left * The inability to impede the neoliberal right’s continued rightward turn is indeed also a result of the communist left capitulation to the Democratic Party establishment—a legacy that spans back at least to the CPUSA doing such a thing to help Franklin D. Roosevelt get elected. Only for said communists who rallied behind him to be purged <https://jacobin.com/2023/01/red-scare-anti-communist-new-deal-fdr-radical-civil-servants> from the ranks of the liberal establishment and said establishment subsequently politically shifting right once he took power. We can learn a great deal about this legacy, as we witness the absolute toothlessness of contemporary left-wing organizations many of whom are compromised by the State. We are in the afterlife of the counter-insurgent purges that have plagued revolutionary struggles from the early 20th century delegitimizing, ostracizing, and rendering irrelevant the communist left, Cold War liberals’ capturing of Civil Rights <https://www.academia.edu/40599555/Black_Cold_War_Liberalism_as_an_Agency_Reduction_Formation_during_the_Late_1940s_and_the_Early_1950s>, and the systemic massacring <https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/664240/still-black-still-strong-by-dhoruba-bin-wahad-assata-shakur-and-mumia-abu-jamal-edited-by-jim-fletcher-tanaquil-jones-and-sylvere-lotringer/> of Black Power. The formal left, largely, does not exist as a legitimate, oppositional, political force in the United States. This has been the case since at least the 1970s—following the state-ordained annihilation of the Black Power period. So, it is partially, if not, largely due to systemic forces beyond any individual person, or organization’s control. The petit-bourgeois liberal capture and subsequent monopoly on political discourses, and the ideological hegemony electoral pragmatism holds on political struggle—both in the imagination and in practice—have resulted in millions of people making the Democratic Party establishment their political home. The American left has categorically failed to fulfill the role of an organized, viable, and sustainable alternative to such a monumental historical sign of defeat. There should be an ideological and political war waged on said monopoly, but it is also worth interrogating and contending with this phenomenon as a consequence of the failure of the previous generation, and our continued failure to escape the conditions of political paralysis <https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/leftwing-melancholia>. Full - https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/the-case-for-abandoning-the-burning-house/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#33335): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/33335 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109394430/21656 -=-=- 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. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
