An excellent analysis here of the pseudo- Left. I recall the New Left of the 60s -much sharper than today's pseudo-Left- still betraying an alienation from working class America. So they ended up demoralized by 1972 ( the re-election of Nixon ). And they broke up into New Left Democrats and the infamous " Weather Underground " - that imagined home made bombs were a short cut to a saner society.
What I find hard to understand is the phoniness of the pseudo-Left. Why not just call themselves " liberals " who want to reform capitalism ?
No honest socialist will condone support for imperialist wars or try to win the favor of any capitalist.
No honest socialist will find it difficult to communicate and empathize with " The Dispossessed ".
The pseudo-Left deplores any and every violation of political correctness- except old fashioned snobbery against white working class " deplorables ".
The pseudo-left fits in with the New Atheists in their contempt for ordinary ( non-offensive ) religious freedom.
They invariably find the Catholic Church " hateful " but they themselves hardly rise to the level of traditional Catholic social philosophy.
I recall Trotsky - himself a militant atheist- saying that the Gospel was also " explosive ". I don't think this revolutionary genius would brush off millions of working class Christians.
" Atheists of the world unite ! " . How does that sound ?
What I find hard to understand is the phoniness of the pseudo-Left. Why not just call themselves " liberals " who want to reform capitalism ?
No honest socialist will condone support for imperialist wars or try to win the favor of any capitalist.
No honest socialist will find it difficult to communicate and empathize with " The Dispossessed ".
The pseudo-Left deplores any and every violation of political correctness- except old fashioned snobbery against white working class " deplorables ".
The pseudo-left fits in with the New Atheists in their contempt for ordinary ( non-offensive ) religious freedom.
They invariably find the Catholic Church " hateful " but they themselves hardly rise to the level of traditional Catholic social philosophy.
I recall Trotsky - himself a militant atheist- saying that the Gospel was also " explosive ". I don't think this revolutionary genius would brush off millions of working class Christians.
" Atheists of the world unite ! " . How does that sound ?