NATO Video Talks ‘Diversity, Respect, Embrace’ But Critics See Through the Wash Job
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Far right faith
Myths over History: the Strange Story of 21st Century Traditionalism on the Far Right
The Progressive International: The Center Left Attempts to Rescue Capitalism
Why the fake Left is against China (Part 1)
Why Does the Pseudo-Left Hate Grover Furr?
Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment
Biden Is the Perfect Figurehead for the Post-Trump National Security Establishment
The prospect of four more years of Trump was what decided this election. It was the overriding imperative of those who cast their votes for Biden. Corporate and establishment Democrats expect their left-wing critics to vote for them every four years without question or negotiation. This expectation is almost always delivered as more of a threat than an ask. And when Democrats lose, they blame the left. Yet election after election shows that when they do win, elite Democrats do not believe that they have to offer any meaningful national security appointments or policy changes to these voters. History shows us that they are much more interested in finding common ground with the violent imperial visions of right-wingers and neoconservatives. And Joe Biden is indeed the perfect figure to drive that reality home.
Social democrats helped usher in fascism in Germany. They’re doing it again in America.
There are a lot of parallels between modern America and Germany during the leadup to the Nazi era: growing racism and xenophobia, economic decline, deteriorating democratic institutions, an obsession with militarism, violent political polarization. But the defining factor that the two countries share in their descent into fascism is a decision by each country’s liberals to participate in the campaign to repress the revolutionaries.
Social democrats helped usher in fascism in Germany. They’re doing it again in America.
Why Liberals Hate Leftists
Liberals hate leftists because there is a night-and-day difference between a capitalist, imperialist establishment and an ideology which wants to tear down that establishment and replace it with peace and socialism. There’s more of a difference between true leftists and establishment liberals than there is between the far right and establishment liberals.
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Left Anticommunism: the unkindest cut
Editor’s Note: Part opportunism, part careerism, part willful denial (or ignorance) of true capitalist and imperial dynamics, and part attachment to the comforts of being within the respectable fold of “permissible” criticism, Left Anticommunism continues to take a huge toll on the American left. In this comprehensive and incisive essay, Michael Parenti explores the reasons why the Left anti-communist stance must be seen for what it is: a de facto collaboration with the forces defending the corporate status quo. [This selection is from Parenti’s book Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and the Overthrow of Communism (City Lights, 1997). It is reproduced here by courtesy of the author. ]— Patrice Greanville
Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power
Why Liberals Pretend They Have No Power
The standard rejoinder is that the American left is detached from the political realities of a system that makes changing anything exceptionally difficult.
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