Yesterday's Hate Mail Updated With How The Left Was Lost

I don't care what they say about me at Eschaton as long as it isn't true so I don't care what they say about me.  

Update:  The comments at Eschaton are like a road map into the issue of why the left has failed.  It's not unique in that.  You could get the same unintentionally supplied information in the comments and many of the articles at Alternet or just about any other magazine or website of the alleged left, most of which are more interested in the materialist ideology of the idiots running and reading it than they are in the lives of the people and the world which is the only legitimate reason for the left to exist.  

That is the left which has consistently failed for more than a century, it is the left that destroyed the old Socialist Party, which had done what they never have, won elections at the federal level and many at the state and local levels.  It is the left that has championed some of the worst mass murdering dictatorships in the history of the world, it is the left whose foremost presence in American politics has been as a foil for the corporate fascists to discredit the real left.  And the result in the reality of government is that poor lefts make a right.  It is the left which wheels out one lead balloon after another biding lefties to climb on board, only to have them do what lead balloons always do.   You would think that people as smart as those on the alleged left love to tell themselves that they are wouldn't need another century of failure to teach them that it's a complete fraud.   But the biggest issue in the minds of such folk is their own illusion of intellectual supremacy.  When they repeatedly fail, for decades and centuries, it's never their fault, it's always a failure of The People to adopt their ideas.  

If you want to see what I mean, go look at last years program for the Left Forum, especially their events in "Marxism, Anarchism and Theory".  Really, in 2016, when the biggest Communist Party in the world is like Victorian Capitalism on steroids, they still think Marxism isn't dead and decayed on the ash heap of history.  I read last week how the corporate fascists who run China are mounting a similar effort to promote Marxism as a sort of cover for why China is still a one-party dictatorship.  

Get a load of this Left Forum Event, Leninism Today [Really, Leninism Today!]  

The Occupy [Really, Occupy] movement in the US, and the movement of the squares internationally, were motivated by the principles of horizontalism and tended to reject organization and parties. But as those movements ran up against the limitations of an increasingly powerful state, the question of organization has again become important. New parties, such as Syriza and Podemos, are contending for power in Europe, but these too raise questions about why kind of party, or parties, we need and how revolutionaries should organize themselves. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and "actually existing socialism", the ideas of Leninism became marginal on the Left and many young radicals dismiss the contributions of this experience as irrelevant to today's conditions. But today's revolutionaries must again answer the question, "what is to be done?". This panel will explore the ways in which Leninism remains relevant today and what a new Leninism  should look like. [Really, a new Leninism!]

Sponsoring Journal: International Socialist Organization

The United States has a good chance of having another Republicanfascist for president in less than a year, we have a Congress full of them now, and these idiots are waving the red flag,  proposing Leninism as the alternative for a country which will be lucky to elect Hillary Clinton as its best hope AND THEY DO SO IN A FORUM OF OUR INTELLECTUAL CLASS!  

I wonder if they have such intellectual forums in Russia or the other countries which had real experience of Leninism.  I would love to see Leninism put to a referendum in such places to see what the results would be, but only if it were a non-binding referendum.  

I encourage anyone who still maintains such illusions to give them up.  The civil rights movement up till c. 1965, under the leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the real new left of great thinkers like Diane Nash,  the people who pushed the United States to the high-water mark of the left in the United States has more to teach you than these idiots and all their dead theory ever will .  

Update 2:  I don't care if the Bernie-bots and Stupie the Stalker are talking about me.  My only regret is that they're generating money for Duncan Black.   I doubt anyone there has ever read anything here so it is nothing to me.   I don't write for the EZ reader population.