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In reply to the discussion: As a member of what has become known as the "far left" those who attack me here don't anger me [View all]deutsey
(20,166 posts)mainly, imo, because the left and liberalism were so successful in the '30s and '60s.
The corporate right is terrified that something like that will happen again in America. If they can demonize left/liberal analyses and solutions, they've nullified any real alternatives to their free market/authoritarian worldview and even get us to play their game by their rules (which means: we lose).
Here's an interesting paragraph from an article in The Nation recently ("We Need Syriza in Illinois" :
The corporate right has a worldview, and, as Edelmans speech demonstrates, it also has a power analysis from which all strategy flows. In the 1930s, the progressive movements analysis of power rested squarely on the faith that workers in large numbersorganized workerscould challenge unfettered corporate power and improve social conditions. And for many generations, through their unions, that is what they did. Now, progressives in and outside of unions have replaced power structure analysis with short-term tactical maneuvers that rely on something fashionably known as narrative change, done best through paid social media, devoid of vision and without the active participation of large numbers of workers. Worse still, despite our defeats in Wisconsin, our own movement continues to throw large numbers of women and African-Americans under the bus by characterizing public service workers as somehow different from, and of lesser importance than, the heroes of the twentieth centurys labor struggles, the largely white male labor force of heavy industry.
http://www.thenation.com/article/198073/we-need-syriza-illinois#