from that perspective the radical left as mass-movement-against-empire must look like some kind of atavism -- LARPing an era of revolutionary ascendancy that could feel real in the 1950s or earlier, *maybe* even the 60s, but not now.
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that's where "enemy of my enemy is my friend" always breaks down too. the thing for me is if the purely non-normative left analysis of the situation we're in is critically wrong then *goals* need a rethink too
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in that knowing how to move some part of the world around you from where it is to where it ought to be depends on first knowing where it is in the first place
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otherwise there's no hope of a robust causal connection between what you intend to accomplish and what actually happens when you try it (by whatever means)
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Yes. Confusing to me is how the (pre-woke) academic left gets so much right w/r/t mapping of the power relations & levers of control, and their emergence, & yet end up with social democracy +1 as the solution.
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it's not a complete answer but I do think a big part of it is history blew some big holes in the idea of the revolutionary proletariat and so far nothing's stepped up to replace it as agent of radical transformation
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so you get social democracy as the bit of tinkering around the edges that's still possible and "no, but, like, cranked to 11" as magic spell against the reality that the turn is an accommodation to defeat
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otoh there used to be a left that had "tell no lies, claim no easy victories" as a slogan & basically I align with it to the point that if it means following that all the way thru to concluding there no longer is a viable left worth aligning with then so be it
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