Alexander addresses me with an injunction and second-guesses my answer: "What is your tactic? Further excuses for not dealing with the crisis of the left?"
My answer is that I do not have the slightest idea, and that anyone who claims to have one is either a liar, fool, or utopian dictator. And insofar as utopian dictatorship is concerned, Alexander espouses a "politico-theological project", a title that has all my alarm bells going. Indeed, Alexander reduces the complexity of the world to a sterile, doctrinal dialectic that denies the sophistication of reality. I regret being so disobliging, but in my opinion Alexander's prose is intellectual, political and literary logorrhoea, in no way conducive to dealing constructively with the issues at hand. Joseph Rabie. > Le 26 oct. 2018 à 20:33, Alexander Bard <[email protected]> a écrit : > > Dear Joseph > > Yes, I said I made a grotesque simplification. That was my point. What else > is new? Have I claimed anything else? > If we don't start to see the difference between a victimhood-driven and a > hero-driven left, then how are we going to spot our own weaknesses? Where do > you start yourself? > Because I'm one of many many leftists who return to Marx these days since > Identity Politics has become nothing but an endless tirade of complaints with > no creative solutions or constructive routes up and out in sight. It really > is Rousseau and his tabula rasa idea of humanity all over again. Moralism > instead of pragmatism. And it has been growing since the 1970's and now > dominates whatever leftist social media we still have. > That's not Marxism. That's a parody of Marxism. Celebrating the lumpen > proletariat instead of heading directly for what proletarian heroism could be > in the 21st century. No wonder that 95% of social crowdfunding goes into the > pockets of the libertarian right these days. Leftists do not even support > each other any longer. At least not for more than three days. > What is your own answer? What ties us together? Only banal hatred of Trump, > or a true vision for the future, a genuine politico-theological project that > get people going? > Sometimes simplifications do the job. What is your tactic? Further excuses > for not dealing with the crisis of the left? > > Best intentions > Alexander Bard >
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