"We wanted to end the silly censorship which kept Joyce's Ulysses in a brown paper wrapper. But we have ended up with a pornographic culture and a society that no longer blushes."
Shirley Chisholm, one of the founders of The National Organization for Women
I can only imagine what she'd say about the direction NOW has taken on that issue. I'd begun a project of reading her books, articles and speeches last month. I'm convinced Shirley Chisholm, with her feet solidly on the ground of real politics, founded on the hard rock of equality, rights and moral obligations has more to offer the future of the left than almost all of the other, theory based, academic pseudo-leftists who are more valued today. Those people have brought us into the political wilderness years longer than Moses had the Israelites.
When I see how far the left of the early 1970s has degenerated, it's time to dump those who have brought us here.
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Happening to look at the 2011 program of the Left Forum at Pace University, the most recent listed on its website and saw a forest of the same blather I've seen on the left since the early 60s. If that was going to work, it would have by now. I searched the long list of programs for terms relevant to the lives of people today, “Poverty”, “homeless”, “children”, “HIV” and came up with nothing. I will assure you that those are more important to just about everyone, including those participating in the Left Forum than the absolutely dead as a door nail issues of Marx and Engles ( The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx's point of view, really, The Bourgeois Revolution: from Marx's POV) and the rehashing the Rosenbergs for going on sixty years.
“AIDS” got one hit and that was only because the letters appear in "Laughing Left: Spreading The Word With F-bombs, Oily Mermaids and Clowns On Bikes". I'd gone there as part of my ongoing blog brawl with "goldmarx" a porn-prostitution industry shill pretending to be a feminist.
Looking at the people who present themselves as the left and you see mostly academics who have little to no record of actually doing anything except writing papers and getting them printed in journals read by other academics in their field. They will join many others of their kind who did nothing else and died. While the left is certainly right to value education, that kind of stuff is totally useless. The political effect of Marxism today is mostly to discredit democratic socialists who know that real socialism is found in actually making peoples' lives better and sustaining life. I'm absolutely done with pretending that in the United States the Marxists and their fellow tail chasing ideologues are anything but one of the saddest jokes that did many times more damage to the left than the red scare of the 1950s managed to accomplish. Their attractively academic distraction and anti-democratic political religion are not redeemed by their persecution by fascists, actually their cousins instead of their polar opposites. The never ending recitation of that persecution, reminiscent of what you'll find on a YouTube comment thread about some incident in the Balkans from many generations past - reached the "enough already" stage a long time ago. You'd think that more of the persecuted would have learned more from the experience than they seem to have.
I'm done with it. We don't have time for the dialectic to pivot and slowly go in the other direction, there is no dialectic, it is imaginary. Marxists, stop wasting our too little time and non-existent resources. Your ideology is on the scrap heap of history now. Look at its corpse, rotting with no crystal casket and scientific embalming operation to keep it intact. Having "goldmarx" the porn shill spouting badly paraphrased lines of that play left at me mixed with libertarianism and neo-classical Chicago school economics this week was the one thing I got out of that brawl. Marx had no use for the Marxists, having famously declared himself not to be one. Marxism is a joke deader than dead.
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