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In reply to the discussion: To End Racism and Police Brutality, End Capitalism! [View all]nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)thanks for the laugh. Do you really want me to tell you where American leftists like you have gone off the rails and why you will fail in the end. You really want to play that game? First hint, the understanding of Marxism, both classic and modern, is quite superficial, almost cartoon like for most American New Left. The old left was far better, but the new left is really at extremely superficial level of understanding.
Trust me, outside the U.S. The American left...is quite brutally honest...a joke. And the only one still stuck to the talking points that most actual lefties abroad gave up after the fall of the Soviet Union. There is more...for example the Mexican left, which is all but a single left, could school you in why only the 19th century idea of the dialectic and means of production quite does not work in the developing world. And that is but one example. In fact, even the Comunist Party stopped using it a while ago.
By the way learning of the dialectic from the General Secretary of the Communist Party in Mexico City in a sociology course that in the U.S. Would be college level, was quite an amazing experience. Imagine this, we even read the sociologists that were part of the early part of the movement. .
I am also betting I am to the left of you. I just understand the weakness of looking at all this as if it was a religion...which is a weakness of the New Left...In the United States. And this thread is going the way it is, for some for ideological reasons...for some of us it is just sheer comedy.