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In reply to the discussion: Chris Hedges: America is a Tinderbox [View all]mick063
(2,424 posts)It just doesn't exist in the form that you easily recognized two years ago.
They were right. You can't kill an idea.
With respect to the "death" of the far left, one must be able to define it first. The far left of today is very different than the far left of thirty years ago. The entire spectrum has shifted mightily to the right. Just asking to restore the nation to where it once was is now considered "far left".
Finally, with respect to the "death of the far left", it is inevitable that socialist idealism will make a resurgence. Why? Because unchecked capitalism always, without fail, proves to be extremely unstable. Unchecked capitalism will produce another catastrophe, as it always has, and socialistic idealism will provide the solution to clean it all up, as it always has. Unfortunately, we must always hit rock bottom to implement it.
People will always look to government to bring us out of calamity, resulting in expansive government fulfilling more critical roles, providing more work, implementing more regulation to prevent the root causes of the calamity, and taxing the true sources of money to get it all done. Then the cycle begins anew. The corporatists and financial moguls "chipping away", over time, at the restraints placed upon them until finally, we achieve unchecked capitalism once again. It is a natural cycle. In modern times we are approaching the calamity, before socialistic idealism can swoop in to save the day.
It's going to happen, just a matter of when.