Anyone who reads my blog who thinks the reason I don't read the lefty magazines as much as I did in the 1990s is because I'm more conservative obviously doesn't read my blog.
The reason I gave up on the "secular" left, the atheist-materialist-scientistic-quasi-Marxist left is that they are not radical enough. They aren't as radical as the liberation theologians and, as Marilynne Robinson rightly pointed out, the liberation theologians aren't as radical as the economic justice of the Mosaic Law and that isn't as radical as the Gospel and the Epistles. And as Elizabeth A. Johnson pointed out in her feminist hermeneutical reading of those, the full meaning of those in terms of radical justice isn't yet exhausted.
On the rare occasions I read The Nation or In These Times or The Progressive (Madison style radicalism, ha!) I see why their left has failed and will always fail, the reason that despite an individual candidate here or there, the Democratic Socialists are going to prove as disappointing as that left always has been. It's not radical enough and its ideological basis in materialism and scientism will rot out any better intentions from the bottom. You've got to really believe that life is not the same as non-living matter, that rights and the moral obligation to respect rights are real and absolutely binding in order to get you ass up out of your computer chair or off your couch and do the unglamorous, unexciting work of making real justice. As I've pointed out, they don't even seem to be able to notice that Marxism in real life wasn't much if any better than Nazism in real life when judged on things like people murdered. How much more obvious does it get than something manifested in tens of millions of murders?
Naw, that left is no left anyone should have any faith will do anything in the future it hasn't already done. Or, rather, not done.
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