April 13, 2022 By Stephen Gowans Some radical socialists practice a politics that carries over from the days when to be a revolutionary meant supporting the Soviet Union or China. With the Soviet U…
Had no idea John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner were "Anachronist radical socialists", the irony of clueless motherfuckers like this is that they're so desperate for brownie points from liberals that they attempt to integrate the most radical and far right interpretation of the neocons and third way liberals into their imaginary socialist schema
This shit is 1990s shock trauma translated into dismay at the fact that they bought into the bullshit and are now worried that a new generation of socialists won't compromise on a position that is ALREADY MAINSTREAM among left AND EVEN RIGHT leaning liberal academics!
NATO Expansionism is a fuckin fact, there is no anachronism here other than this cringing need to take MSM and DC think tank narratives seriously on the issue
Also wtf does China have to do with this? The meandering dipshit can't even keep his critique on topic, yeah sure let's all subscribe to a comfortable, incoherent, liberal approved definition of socialism that doesn't deal with the world as it is and pretend this is the REAL radicalism. Let's all pretend the Soviet Union didn't fall, Cuba isn't embargoed, and that China in the face of global ascendant neoliberalism could have easily magicked its way into Full Luxury communism in 1990, yeah lets act like this shit ain't fantasy and instead own the "mentally ill" socialists who can totally affect state proceedings thru their twitter discourses
Had no idea John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner were “Anachronist radical socialists”,
?? Mearsheimer and Pozner never supported socialism in the first place.
Also I highly doubt Gowans cares about appealing to liberals, considering his work is extremely critical of liberal positions.
The point of the essay is to critique the socialists that act as if we're still living in the cold war and that Russia and China are still socialist. Things have changed and analysis and strategy have to change as well
The point I'm making is that John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner are respected liberal academics who share the same basic analysis of the situation as the so-called "Anachronist radical socialists" that the author of the piece is railing against, revealing that far from these "mentally ill socialists" going off the deep end, the author is simply further right then the two preeminent liberal scholars on the subject, which undermines his point about changing times
The author fails to recognize that while the old cold war is over, a new one has emerged and while Russia isn't socialist, China certainly is and the old socialist positions still hold weight precisely because the old western Cold War playbook hasn't changed
Had no idea John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner were "Anachronist radical socialists", the irony of clueless motherfuckers like this is that they're so desperate for brownie points from liberals that they attempt to integrate the most radical and far right interpretation of the neocons and third way liberals into their imaginary socialist schema
This shit is 1990s shock trauma translated into dismay at the fact that they bought into the bullshit and are now worried that a new generation of socialists won't compromise on a position that is ALREADY MAINSTREAM among left AND EVEN RIGHT leaning liberal academics!
NATO Expansionism is a fuckin fact, there is no anachronism here other than this cringing need to take MSM and DC think tank narratives seriously on the issue
Also wtf does China have to do with this? The meandering dipshit can't even keep his critique on topic, yeah sure let's all subscribe to a comfortable, incoherent, liberal approved definition of socialism that doesn't deal with the world as it is and pretend this is the REAL radicalism. Let's all pretend the Soviet Union didn't fall, Cuba isn't embargoed, and that China in the face of global ascendant neoliberalism could have easily magicked its way into Full Luxury communism in 1990, yeah lets act like this shit ain't fantasy and instead own the "mentally ill" socialists who can totally affect state proceedings thru their twitter discourses
?? Mearsheimer and Pozner never supported socialism in the first place.
Also I highly doubt Gowans cares about appealing to liberals, considering his work is extremely critical of liberal positions.
The point of the essay is to critique the socialists that act as if we're still living in the cold war and that Russia and China are still socialist. Things have changed and analysis and strategy have to change as well
The point I'm making is that John Mearsheimer and Vladimir Pozner are respected liberal academics who share the same basic analysis of the situation as the so-called "Anachronist radical socialists" that the author of the piece is railing against, revealing that far from these "mentally ill socialists" going off the deep end, the author is simply further right then the two preeminent liberal scholars on the subject, which undermines his point about changing times
The author fails to recognize that while the old cold war is over, a new one has emerged and while Russia isn't socialist, China certainly is and the old socialist positions still hold weight precisely because the old western Cold War playbook hasn't changed