GeofCox on Nostr: npub1pu6zu…au9fd npub10kcan…mqjyy I never know what people mean by 'far left'. It ...
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I never know what people mean by 'far left'. It used to be the revolutionary left, but that doesn't really exist now, does it? The 'extremist' bogeymen of the media like Corbyn or Mélenchon are in fact bang in the middle of the European social democratic tradition. This is hard to see in the UK, I understand, because its rabid right-wing media has succeeded in creating the impression anybody slightly to the left of Attila the Hun is a dangerous revolutionary.
Or do you mean the current identity politics 'woke' 'far left' - ie' anybody alert to and opposing prejudice and discrimination?
But by implying a contrast between 'chaining yourself to railings & protesting' and 'commonsense planning' you are I feel in danger of propagating a very dangerous perspective indeed: that there is not a climate-ecological emergency, that there are still non-disruptive solutions to climate-ecological breakdown.
That is not commonsense - indeed it is not rational in any sense. The only sane, reasonable response to the current situation of humanity is precisely to protest. And after all, chaining yourself to railings, or indeed slashing to bits a painting on the National Gallery (not just throwing harmless dye at one) worked pretty well for the suffragettes, didn't it?
I never know what people mean by 'far left'. It used to be the revolutionary left, but that doesn't really exist now, does it? The 'extremist' bogeymen of the media like Corbyn or Mélenchon are in fact bang in the middle of the European social democratic tradition. This is hard to see in the UK, I understand, because its rabid right-wing media has succeeded in creating the impression anybody slightly to the left of Attila the Hun is a dangerous revolutionary.
Or do you mean the current identity politics 'woke' 'far left' - ie' anybody alert to and opposing prejudice and discrimination?
But by implying a contrast between 'chaining yourself to railings & protesting' and 'commonsense planning' you are I feel in danger of propagating a very dangerous perspective indeed: that there is not a climate-ecological emergency, that there are still non-disruptive solutions to climate-ecological breakdown.
That is not commonsense - indeed it is not rational in any sense. The only sane, reasonable response to the current situation of humanity is precisely to protest. And after all, chaining yourself to railings, or indeed slashing to bits a painting on the National Gallery (not just throwing harmless dye at one) worked pretty well for the suffragettes, didn't it?