"post-leftism"

Dddddd0814 at aol.com Dddddd0814 at aol.com
Mon Aug 12 13:11:59 PDT 2002


This notion of "post-Leftism" is intriguing. I'm assuming it represents an attempt to go beyond the ideology of "left" and "right."

Isn't this precisely the ideological tack taken by Hitler in "unifying" Germany?

-- David

In a message dated 8/10/2002 1:47:09 AM Eastern Standard Time, bsheppard at bari.iww.org writes:


> > I wasn't aware that Post-Leftist Anarchists had an official position on
> > unions. I think Brian is making a big assumption about LBO list members
> > when mentions post-left anarchism.
>
> I never said post-leftists had an official position on unions. Indeed
> post-leftism is so vacuous it's hard to discern much of a solid p
> osition on anything in it, except a disavowal (in words at least)
> of the traditional left. (But then again you were responding to someone
> else and not me) And what assumption am I making about LBO list members,
> pray tell?
>
> > I have a few ideas about what these alternatives might be, but I wouldn't
> > rule out some radical, new form of unionism. Perhaps this could be called
> > "post-unionism?"
>
> Shouldn't we have aome sort of concept on hand before coming we come up
> with a name ("Post-unionism"?)? And what would these "few ideas" - alluded
> to often, yet never explained - be?
>

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