Utopianism and idealism have long plagued the left, as Marx and Engels pointed out a century and a half ago. But these days, the leftists are tilting at wind...
This is actually quite good; addresses the western left's obsession with purity and martyrdom without producing a single useful result.
I largely agree, but the fact remains that many movements do address these things, and they still aren't particularly more successful. A lot of it is a matter of material conditions, plus brutal government repression.
And the fact is, also, that so much of the US economy is made of global south plunder that it's basically a guarantee a huge amount of the working class does benefit from it in some way.
I largely agree, but the fact remains that many movements do address these things, and they still aren't particularly more successful. A lot of it is a matter of material conditions, plus brutal government repression.
And the fact is, also, that so much of the US economy is made of global south plunder that it's basically a guarantee a huge amount of the working class does benefit from it in some way.