At the same time, we do need to observe and uphold the standards that previous militants have set. The contemporary Left, broadly speaking, has sunk so low that our very words and concepts have lost their meaning. We have four-person sects declaring themselves a political party. We see a few union employees blockade a street in an act of theater for the media, and call that a strike. We see progressives calling themselves revolutionaries, though they do nothing more than attend meetings once a week (plus the occasional protest). We hear schemes for improving capitalism being called revolution, workers exploiting themselves in co-ops being called socialism, and the working class losing all definition by being described as “everyone who works” or even “everyone who’s not a capitalist.”
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 17:42:34 +0000