On Aug 28, 2011, at 5:05 PM, Ferenc Molnar wrote:
> fm: In between the 20's and the "Identity Politics" of the 70's there's the New Left. The swapping of the Communist Manifesto for Mao's Little Red Book. The revolutionary subject is no longer found within the US's borders but without. Revolutionary solidarity means aligning oneself with Third World liberation struggles against US or European imperialism and colonialism. And within the US that translates into aligning oneself with the radicalized represenatives of domestic imperialism and colonialism; AIM, the Black Panthers, the Young Lords.
Someone told me that he was walking around NYC with someone from the RCP (Avakian's, not Heartfield's) who pointed to a drunk on the sidewalk and said: "That's the vanguard of the revolution." Apocryphal no doubt.
But that trajectory you outline finds some sort of conclusion in Yoshie's editing of MRZine - the heroes now are the maligned enemies of the U.S.: Ahmadinejad, Qaddafi, Assad, etc.
Doug