> The elimination of the socialist "meta-narrative" has resulted in the
> castration of the left. Even the officially socialist,
> social-democratic and labor parties are screaming, "TINA!" to the
> proletariat. Now, with its hip, new, post-modern ways, the left has
> become a mass of atomised, individualistic, liberals, bouncing around
> in submissive, reformist ways under the domination of Capital, afraid
> that its own dreams might turn into nightmare re-runs of Auschwitz or
> the Gulag.
>
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Methinks at least part of this is self-inflicted hen-pecking and analytical circular firing squads; one person's constructive proposals for confronting various fissures in capitalist societies is another person's reformist wankery and only overthrowing everything at once in some sort of big bang is worthy of some sort of allegiance. So we traverse something akin to one of Escher's drawings in our leftier than thou rituals..........
-- "Reason demands belief in infinitely many contradictions" [Roy Sorenson]