I'm pretty sure that I agree with you but don't understand two of your terms: "the identatarian left" and the "PMC left". I personally gave up on the US "Left" years ago.
I'm pretty sure that I agree with you but don't understand two of your terms: "the identatarian left" and the "PMC left". I personally gave up on the US "Left" years ago.
Read my comment above that takes apart the smug assumptions of leftist ideologues about class v. race, etc. It's not either/or. I'm BIPOC, LGBTQ, and working class! We workers are not so feeble that we need them to tell us what to believe and what to do.
"Identitarian" meaning seeing every conflict through race & gender; PMC as Professional Managerial Class, what we called in the New Left 1960s "petit bourgeois."
Ah yes, New Left. What I referred to as the "I hate my parents" school of revolution. In the late '60s-early '70s as an activist union member, I was trained by people who'd been hard core union organizers in the '30s. (C.I.O.) Who knew by experience that building community coalitions was hard work over many years. Not just rousing your own naive kind on the local campus lawn. I never forgot what the labor trainers told me: "liberals are the ones who leave the room when the fight starts." And they did.
I was UAW 16 years (1976-1993). I went to school in my late 30s; one problem with social media is you don't know who you are f*cking with. (Half the time they are cops).
My radicalization began when I was 16, at Kent State. Nixon and the Republicans were the bad guys.
I understand the critique of the New Left; they were white, petit bourgeois privileged kids.
But I would submit that the Port Huron Statement is a pretty sturdy document and a principled statement of anti-war and anti-imperialism.
I want to be clear: both parties are really really really really bad; but the Democrats are a teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy bit worse, that's why they gotta go first, that's why all the populist energy is currently on the right.
There is one theory, that is that there is no such thing as right or left populism, there's just populism, and you follow the people.
We all abhor war in any form, I am just observing that "left Democrats" have been given permission, under the "worthy victim" rationale, to bitch about Gaza, but not about Ukraine, and they are so programmed that it didn't even occur to most of them to bitch about Ukraine.
Plus they are gutless, afraid of Trump-Russia hoax and Putin-puppet neo-McCarthyist smears.
Maybe an illustration helps: I love Sean Fain, he is doing great job with the UAW. I don't blame him for endorsing Biden-Harris, but no effing way am I following that, just like I did not follow Bernie endorsing HRC. They gotta do what they gotta do; I don't.
Well now that clarifies things! I was a Berner also; what he presented was New Deal, not at all rabidly left. Of course I liked that his hero was Eugene Debs.
No way was I going to vote for HRC, either. Nasty, cold, vicious neolib/neocon. I'll never forgive her for that "basket of deplorables" bit; the Ivy Ds are so certain of their own superiority. They really mean they see the entire working class as in that same basket. So do I, but for very different reasons.
That nice liberal Ds like the ones who comment on Jim Hightower's site buy into the Trump-Putin propaganda is amazing to me. It's a willful blindness; like how young and middle-aged people with families don't want to see how the econ system is destroying the planet, either. I understand that--I've been aware of many things for many years yet couldn't quite acknowledge the full horror. Because then what? (Took me awhile to recover, but I do have some answers based on indigenous knowledge, local ecosystems, and co-op economics. The natural world is mostly symbiotic.)
That well educated people won't take the time to look into Russia-Ukraine recent history is bad enough. That they refuse to see that the Ds have become the party of Russia (Red) scare is outright cognitive dissonance.
For years I've been asking D party apologists if they support neolib economics. Never a real reply, just personal attacks and deflections. Now I add neocon and ask if they're okay with Cheney trained neocons running Biden's State Dept. I think they think I'm making that up--and they for sure aren't going to check. More don't want to see.
No way I'm voting for the Ds except maybe for local offices. Harris is simply another elitist neolib. Walz seems like a good guy but I doubt that matters. Will they keep the neocon agenda? There's slight movement re: Gaza, but not a word contrary to the blatant pro-Ukraine propaganda... never mind the Nazis, there since Bandera WWII--nothing "neo" about it.
As I wrote at Les Leopold's site, if the Ds turn out to be people who actually are for the working class, he can pick out the hat or crow I'll be eating. (Check out Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do about It)//
My tales are anecdotal; his are facts--years of research and sound stats. Which BTW prove we're not a bunch of stupid bigots. And which would be a huge winning issue for the Ds. But that won't happen since they'd have to admit their decades of econ neoliberalism was wrong plus they'd totally offend their corporate sponsors.)
Cornel West 1st preference, next is Jill Stein. As I've pointed out, the "lesser" claim means the Ds admit to being evil. An accurate description of being neolib and now neocon.
I'm pretty sure that I agree with you but don't understand two of your terms: "the identatarian left" and the "PMC left". I personally gave up on the US "Left" years ago.
Read my comment above that takes apart the smug assumptions of leftist ideologues about class v. race, etc. It's not either/or. I'm BIPOC, LGBTQ, and working class! We workers are not so feeble that we need them to tell us what to believe and what to do.
"Identitarian" meaning seeing every conflict through race & gender; PMC as Professional Managerial Class, what we called in the New Left 1960s "petit bourgeois."
Ah yes, New Left. What I referred to as the "I hate my parents" school of revolution. In the late '60s-early '70s as an activist union member, I was trained by people who'd been hard core union organizers in the '30s. (C.I.O.) Who knew by experience that building community coalitions was hard work over many years. Not just rousing your own naive kind on the local campus lawn. I never forgot what the labor trainers told me: "liberals are the ones who leave the room when the fight starts." And they did.
I was UAW 16 years (1976-1993). I went to school in my late 30s; one problem with social media is you don't know who you are f*cking with. (Half the time they are cops).
My radicalization began when I was 16, at Kent State. Nixon and the Republicans were the bad guys.
I understand the critique of the New Left; they were white, petit bourgeois privileged kids.
But I would submit that the Port Huron Statement is a pretty sturdy document and a principled statement of anti-war and anti-imperialism.
I want to be clear: both parties are really really really really bad; but the Democrats are a teeny-weeny, itsy-bitsy bit worse, that's why they gotta go first, that's why all the populist energy is currently on the right.
There is one theory, that is that there is no such thing as right or left populism, there's just populism, and you follow the people.
We all abhor war in any form, I am just observing that "left Democrats" have been given permission, under the "worthy victim" rationale, to bitch about Gaza, but not about Ukraine, and they are so programmed that it didn't even occur to most of them to bitch about Ukraine.
Plus they are gutless, afraid of Trump-Russia hoax and Putin-puppet neo-McCarthyist smears.
Maybe an illustration helps: I love Sean Fain, he is doing great job with the UAW. I don't blame him for endorsing Biden-Harris, but no effing way am I following that, just like I did not follow Bernie endorsing HRC. They gotta do what they gotta do; I don't.
Peace.
Well now that clarifies things! I was a Berner also; what he presented was New Deal, not at all rabidly left. Of course I liked that his hero was Eugene Debs.
No way was I going to vote for HRC, either. Nasty, cold, vicious neolib/neocon. I'll never forgive her for that "basket of deplorables" bit; the Ivy Ds are so certain of their own superiority. They really mean they see the entire working class as in that same basket. So do I, but for very different reasons.
That nice liberal Ds like the ones who comment on Jim Hightower's site buy into the Trump-Putin propaganda is amazing to me. It's a willful blindness; like how young and middle-aged people with families don't want to see how the econ system is destroying the planet, either. I understand that--I've been aware of many things for many years yet couldn't quite acknowledge the full horror. Because then what? (Took me awhile to recover, but I do have some answers based on indigenous knowledge, local ecosystems, and co-op economics. The natural world is mostly symbiotic.)
That well educated people won't take the time to look into Russia-Ukraine recent history is bad enough. That they refuse to see that the Ds have become the party of Russia (Red) scare is outright cognitive dissonance.
For years I've been asking D party apologists if they support neolib economics. Never a real reply, just personal attacks and deflections. Now I add neocon and ask if they're okay with Cheney trained neocons running Biden's State Dept. I think they think I'm making that up--and they for sure aren't going to check. More don't want to see.
No way I'm voting for the Ds except maybe for local offices. Harris is simply another elitist neolib. Walz seems like a good guy but I doubt that matters. Will they keep the neocon agenda? There's slight movement re: Gaza, but not a word contrary to the blatant pro-Ukraine propaganda... never mind the Nazis, there since Bandera WWII--nothing "neo" about it.
As I wrote at Les Leopold's site, if the Ds turn out to be people who actually are for the working class, he can pick out the hat or crow I'll be eating. (Check out Leopold's 2024 book //Wall Street's War on Workers (How Mass Layoffs and Greed Are Destroying the Working Class and What To Do about It)//
My tales are anecdotal; his are facts--years of research and sound stats. Which BTW prove we're not a bunch of stupid bigots. And which would be a huge winning issue for the Ds. But that won't happen since they'd have to admit their decades of econ neoliberalism was wrong plus they'd totally offend their corporate sponsors.)
Question: who your favorite candidate for president is? I'm going Green. I had enough of to lesser of evils.
Cornel West 1st preference, next is Jill Stein. As I've pointed out, the "lesser" claim means the Ds admit to being evil. An accurate description of being neolib and now neocon.