The Biggest Problem With The Western Left Is That It Doesn't Exist
Caitlin Johnstone- The biggest problem is that there aren't anywhere remotely close to enough leftists to get anything done in the west today.
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The biggest problem with the western left is that it doesn’t exist.
To look at a lot of leftist discourse today you might think the left’s biggest problem is that some leftists have the wrong beliefs about this or that issue, or that the left pays too much or not enough attention to identity politics, or places too much or not enough emphasis on electoral politics, or is too sympathetic toward enemies of the US empire or not sympathetic enough, or that this or that faction gets it all wrong — but it’s not. The biggest problem is that there aren’t anywhere remotely close to enough leftists to get anything done in the west today.
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