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Post by jdredd on Feb 10, 2022 13:39:15 GMT -5
Thinking back on my Libertarian days on college, they had an alternate version of the political spectrum from the traditional political spectrum of Left and Right. Their theory was the real political spectrum was totalitarianism on one end and anarchy on the other. This idea does have some merit. On the other hand it has its own flaws. Still, it raises the question of how much people want the State to run their lives. For one instance, doesn’t the right want the State to interfere in women’s reproductive life by criminalizing abortion? Of course the Canadian truckers don’t want the State to meddle in their choices when it comes to fighting COVID. But it does seem the Workers of the World are drifting toward Libertarianism. I can deal.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 17, 2022 16:00:50 GMT -5
So the whole Canadian circus is being spun as Freedom-loving populists against Woke Elitists. Where is a now Old Left dude like myself need to stand on that one? Wake me when the sons of the truckers are dying in Eastern Europe.
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Post by jdredd on Feb 22, 2022 15:02:33 GMT -5
So where is the Left during this crisis? Like the ch-rches, nowhere to be seen. They should be in the streets, but they might get run over by protesting truckers. Glad I’m old.
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Post by jdredd on May 8, 2022 23:41:52 GMT -5
As I said elsewhere, perhaps the real Left is waking up as opposed to this fake Pro-war Left.
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Post by jdredd on May 13, 2022 0:54:49 GMT -5
I scanned the websites of three left-leaning magazines I could think of, “Jacobin”, “The Nation”, and “Mother Jones”. Their silence on the subject of our meddling in the Ukraine war is deafening so far. Very disillusioning. Sadly, the International Socialist Review has ceased publishing.
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Post by jdredd on May 23, 2022 17:52:49 GMT -5
It continues to depress me that there is no Left left. Even in Europe, where are the anti-war marchers in the streets? There is no continent more deserving to be radioactive.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 9, 2022 16:58:24 GMT -5
From WION: “ NATO Chief warns of a ‘full scale’ war with Russia”. Is that what is going to take to revive the anti-war Left? Might be too late.
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Post by jdredd on Jul 17, 2022 12:10:14 GMT -5
There is still Bernie, but he is ancient like me. Maybe the Squad can be considered leftist.
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Post by jdredd on Aug 4, 2022 21:41:01 GMT -5
I guess there is a book to be written on the demise of the Left. Probably is one. Maybe I’m just falling for nostalgia. But I do believe the Left will return after A big Nationalist war or two or three or four.
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Post by jdredd on Sept 28, 2022 13:16:05 GMT -5
There are couple of things that can warm the heart of a leftie going on: Anti-war riots in Russia and anti-religion riots in Iran.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 3, 2022 16:50:36 GMT -5
I GET IT! I GET IT! I’ve been mystified why the Left has been MIA until I saw a car today with a Bernie bumper sticker AND a Ukraine bumper sticker. A light went on on my head. THE LEFT HAS LOST ITS WAY! How else could a Socialist support Zelensky’s ultra-Nationalism and say to hell with “Workers of the world unite”? Shades of 1914. And it also amuses me to realize that the right wing noise machine is skewering a phantom. I should change the name of this thread to “The Zombie Left”.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 8, 2022 14:22:07 GMT -5
The left may be dead in the US but tens of thousands of Russian men are fleeing Russia to avoid becoming cannon fodder in Putin’s war in Ukraine. It is a now rare rejection of Nationalism. Meanwhile, in the US, polls claim that 73% of Americans support sending arms to Ukraine to kill Russians. But bloodthirstyness has been nothing new in America for a long time.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 12, 2022 13:23:29 GMT -5
Really, what use is a non-antiwar Left?
Hey, look, my posts are getting shorter and shorter. Pretty soon they will cease to exist, like me.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 13, 2022 21:29:45 GMT -5
Wow, there are actually a few anti-war progressives left, two of whom called out fake progressive AOC for going along with Biden’s nuclear brinkmanship. I don’t feel completely alone.
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Post by jdredd on Oct 17, 2022 16:44:14 GMT -5
So allegedly leftist Frenchmen have taken to the streets to protest against Macron’s government. And what are they protesting? War? No, inflation. Give me a break. They can go F$ck themselves. I guess I’ll just be the last anti-war leftist.
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