Fortunately I've never identified as being a lib. Country with a socialist tradition and all that. I have certainly been lib-minded though and education cut through that (read theory).
It wasn't until occupy that I realised that a campaign to get liberals to stop identifying with the word was necessary. It was at that time I really started to learn about US politics and discovered the lack of an american left, but here I was looking at a crowd of people that absolutely should not have been calling themselves liberals but they didn't really understand why, or weren't ready for it.
Either way that's changed now. The key task is making sure the next wave of kids becomes socialist, and then the next wave. They can be soft left if they want it doesn't matter. They'll harden up into the left proper when class war thrusts itself on them.
Fortunately I've never identified as being a lib. Country with a socialist tradition and all that. I have certainly been lib-minded though and education cut through that (read theory).
It wasn't until occupy that I realised that a campaign to get liberals to stop identifying with the word was necessary. It was at that time I really started to learn about US politics and discovered the lack of an american left, but here I was looking at a crowd of people that absolutely should not have been calling themselves liberals but they didn't really understand why, or weren't ready for it.
Either way that's changed now. The key task is making sure the next wave of kids becomes socialist, and then the next wave. They can be soft left if they want it doesn't matter. They'll harden up into the left proper when class war thrusts itself on them.
How many more waves of kids do you think there will be until the west turns into Nazi Germany v2.0?