Remember the dumbass “CHAZ” American leftists tried to make that fell apart in like 2 days?
I mostly agree, although instead I'd point to the DSA being unable to excise anti-worker AOC; Bernie gifting his movement to Biden; BLM, #MeToo and FightForFifteen cannibalized by liberalism, etc.
Plenty of big failures to eat shit about before one direct action by the only people willing to try anything, even if it was sort of dumb.
You're right, I admit at the time I was pretty excited they were giving it a try, but its failure just obviously revealed we have a lot of work left to do. CHAZ was trying to skip to last the step, but at least it showed is definitely revolutionary energy in this country if we could only channel it effectively.
The US left needs to break out from under the democratic party somehow to get anywhere imo. But we don't even have a clear "left" yet, besides a couple succdems like AOC. I just hope something coalesces together soon, because we are heading for common ruin at this rate.
This is the source of my nihilism about this entire topic. I agree with Zizek so far as to think the academic system he is part of is another of these failures. As far as I've ever seen Zizek's real-world audience is people who enjoy TikToks of a him eating hotdogs while Chomsky's is now NPR liberals who nod along and then spend all day posting about Bernie Bros..
I mostly agree, although instead I'd point to the DSA being unable to excise anti-worker AOC; Bernie gifting his movement to Biden; BLM, #MeToo and FightForFifteen cannibalized by liberalism, etc.
Plenty of big failures to eat shit about before one direct action by the only people willing to try anything, even if it was sort of dumb.
You're right, I admit at the time I was pretty excited they were giving it a try, but its failure just obviously revealed we have a lot of work left to do. CHAZ was trying to skip to last the step, but at least it showed is definitely revolutionary energy in this country if we could only channel it effectively.
The US left needs to break out from under the democratic party somehow to get anywhere imo. But we don't even have a clear "left" yet, besides a couple succdems like AOC. I just hope something coalesces together soon, because we are heading for common ruin at this rate.
This is the source of my nihilism about this entire topic. I agree with Zizek so far as to think the academic system he is part of is another of these failures. As far as I've ever seen Zizek's real-world audience is people who enjoy TikToks of a him eating hotdogs while Chomsky's is now NPR liberals who nod along and then spend all day posting about Bernie Bros..