I still think the progressive left are being duped. America has an lefty idealogical justification for foreign meddling - the promotion of individual freedom - which sounds good and noble but obscures that these foreign adventures are at the end of the day simply the looting of other countries. The entire progressive left project - countering power differentials - is massive overreach, impractical and always makes things worse. You are useful idiots.
And I still think that you are using the liberal-capitalist definition of left and progressive. These are not leftists promoting war and looting other countries. As long as you agree to let the liberal-capitalist propagandists set the bounds of what is left and what is right, you will be consigned to muddled thinking.
Gotcha. Labels. The real left. We are talking at cross purposes.
I say it is the language of the left. It’s the appearance of doing good, the compassion for the oppressed and the desire to right the wrongs of the wrong thinking natives, (Hungary) followed by mismanagement, resource capture (looting ), withdrawal and the chaos of a power vacuum. The left’s story is redeployed as a justification for wonton power; the political Gnosticism of the liberal imperium hides under the lovely patina afforded by talk of of liberation, freedom, democracy and all the rest of the jingoistic tripe. The causes of the left have been commandeered, repurposed and deployed to neutralize and bamboozle your bona fide left. You are cuckolds.
I still think the progressive left are being duped. America has an lefty idealogical justification for foreign meddling - the promotion of individual freedom - which sounds good and noble but obscures that these foreign adventures are at the end of the day simply the looting of other countries. The entire progressive left project - countering power differentials - is massive overreach, impractical and always makes things worse. You are useful idiots.
And I still think that you are using the liberal-capitalist definition of left and progressive. These are not leftists promoting war and looting other countries. As long as you agree to let the liberal-capitalist propagandists set the bounds of what is left and what is right, you will be consigned to muddled thinking.
Gotcha. Labels. The real left. We are talking at cross purposes.
I say it is the language of the left. It’s the appearance of doing good, the compassion for the oppressed and the desire to right the wrongs of the wrong thinking natives, (Hungary) followed by mismanagement, resource capture (looting ), withdrawal and the chaos of a power vacuum. The left’s story is redeployed as a justification for wonton power; the political Gnosticism of the liberal imperium hides under the lovely patina afforded by talk of of liberation, freedom, democracy and all the rest of the jingoistic tripe. The causes of the left have been commandeered, repurposed and deployed to neutralize and bamboozle your bona fide left. You are cuckolds.