I always find these discussions weird because a lot of American left-wing ideology is being taught by fairly recent immigrants and their children like professor Wolf for example. One of the unique qualities with the American left wing is that I don't think it ever really did develop its own national identity or methodology. The closest thing I think the American left has to that is borrowed from the black nationalist movements, but those movements were always sort of their own thing.
I always find these discussions weird because a lot of American left-wing ideology is being taught by fairly recent immigrants and their children like professor Wolf for example. One of the unique qualities with the American left wing is that I don't think it ever really did develop its own national identity or methodology. The closest thing I think the American left has to that is borrowed from the black nationalist movements, but those movements were always sort of their own thing.