[lbo-talk] Why the Left Can't Inspire

[Arthur Maisel]

The blog seems like a left analysis (one of long standing) and distinctly
non-libertarian. It's mainly the ego-driven style ("the key point I want to
hammer into people"---ouch---and "I previously covered these topics in two
popular posts") that makes it sound libertarian. Yet presumably the blogger
and the many commenters who seem to agree would not like to be called
leftists (there is only one commenter as far as I read, Buckaroo Banzai,
who sounds like a real libertarian).

Why the left can't inspire, yes, but even more, why it can't even get
credit for its own ideas is definitely a question that needs to be answered.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:35 PM, JOANNA A. <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> I think it's racism (under capitalism). A social safety net would hold up
> blacks and whites alike. And for some, that's intolerable.
>
> Joanna
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> If the recent depression in advanced economies -- especially in Europe --
> weren't evidence enough of the quasi-irrelevance of left wing thought
> (given the material circumstances, in a 'rational world', revolutionary
> situations would be afoot) the fact that the following screed on a
> libertarian blog will almost certainly impact more people than on a leftist
> one, although the content could be almost verbatim, is sufficient to give
> serious thought as to why no one pays attention to the left
>
> Foodstamps Are Corporate Welfare
>
> http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-07-17/foodstamps-are-corporate-welfare
>
> Is Chomsky right -- did Stalin do such irreparable harm to the prestige of
> socialist thought, that we are still suffering from its consequences ?
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