re: THE PRO-WAR LEFT:
The blogger you linked to, describes himself as an ageing Trotskyite. That's about as irrelevant as you can get. They haven't been a significant part of the Left, or even of Marxists, anywhere, since the 1920s. Even the mainstream Marxists are now fossils, a small and fading part of the Left. The U.S. effectively has no Left. In Europe, there is the Green Party, who has replaced the Communist Party everywhere as the main party of the Left.
This blogger buys into the same either/or fake dualism of NeoCon ideology. Being against the NeoCons doesn't mean being pro-Saddam. The millions who demonstrated against the war understood that clearly.
<So much for solidarity with the victims of oppression, for commitment to democratic values and basic human rights.>
Yes, the Marxists always gave lip service to those lofty ideals, just as the NeoCons do now. But neither Marxists nor NeoCons are very good at following through on those ideals. It was, and is, just PR.
<although national sovereignty is an important consideration in world affairs, it is not sacrosanct>
Again, here is an issue on which both marxists and neocons agree: we are not going to pay much respect to the idea of sovereignty. The Revolution (whatever kind) can't wait for such niceties. Onward, smashing all borders, all law, all treaties.
<the freeing of the Iraqi people> <The liberation of Iraq>
He sees freedom and liberation, where almost everybody else in the Left sees colonization and occupation. |
