Ted Byfield >Internationalism is an absolutely legitimate leftist stance too: >anti-imperialist I'm seeing here and elsewhere seems to be, more than anything >else, not just intellectually isolationist in its >origins but practically >isolationist in its consequences. And when it consigns other differently >minded leftoids to oblivion as it does to Ukrainian thinkers, it isn't clear >to me what's left of its >leftism at all. But let's shed that label for now. >What positive vision is this anti-imperialist grounded in? What constructive >change is it proposing? And how does telling others they can't >possibly >understand what you're saying lead in that direction? ----------------------- Many of the contradictions and predicaments faced by left you point to are echoed in an excellent piece by George Monbiot
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