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It was interesting. I think all the signs of successful capture have appeared really strongly on the left. Any break from the the democrats is heavily discouraged, same with breaks from the already captured labor organizations. The attempts to reform anything internally after Bernie's failures have been killed off too. The thing that has settled in is a horizon where the entirety of the American left's world is street protesting and charity, but even the street protesting has been curtailed to a large extent because now people counter-protest each other while the authorities sit by and watch and anyone with actual power goes unthreatened.
I don't know if I'd frame it as the institutional left failing us, but I would say the whole thing is an increasingly obvious paper tiger and the reason the Hasan stuff hits a nerve is because there isn't actually much of a serious left underlying the "Boutique left" as hedges describes it. The activism industry is as fraudulent as anything else.
It's the same thing effectively. This sphere is part of the explosion of NGOs that happened in the US over the last 60 years to the point there are now over 1.5 million NGOs. These are the same people Bernie pissed off when he called planned parenthood part of the establishment and even if you don't identify as a liberal this industry has massive influence on "left" politics.
I'm describing liberals because that is the fundamental basis of American left politics. When America has another marxist movement I'll describe it as such.
It was interesting. I think all the signs of successful capture have appeared really strongly on the left. Any break from the the democrats is heavily discouraged, same with breaks from the already captured labor organizations. The attempts to reform anything internally after Bernie's failures have been killed off too. The thing that has settled in is a horizon where the entirety of the American left's world is street protesting and charity, but even the street protesting has been curtailed to a large extent because now people counter-protest each other while the authorities sit by and watch and anyone with actual power goes unthreatened.
I don't know if I'd frame it as the institutional left failing us, but I would say the whole thing is an increasingly obvious paper tiger and the reason the Hasan stuff hits a nerve is because there isn't actually much of a serious left underlying the "Boutique left" as hedges describes it. The activism industry is as fraudulent as anything else.
What is "the activism industry"?
The collection of nonprofits and other NGOs that are home to career activist.
That's liberals not the left.
Alternatively, name names, instead of doing this vagueposting thing
It's the same thing effectively. This sphere is part of the explosion of NGOs that happened in the US over the last 60 years to the point there are now over 1.5 million NGOs. These are the same people Bernie pissed off when he called planned parenthood part of the establishment and even if you don't identify as a liberal this industry has massive influence on "left" politics.
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You're still describing liberals.
The only purpose to labeling obvious liberals as "left" is some kind of nefarious confusion.
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I'm describing liberals because that is the fundamental basis of American left politics. When America has another marxist movement I'll describe it as such.
Lol whatever.
The institutional left is Human Rights Watch. The institutional left is Times Up. The institutional left is the Clinton Foundation.