I get the feeling that a lot of these "left foreign policy" pieces feel so left-liberal because for people further left than that it's essentially impossible to imagine a world where we can both seize/smash the state apparatus and the concept of "foreign policy" remains coherent
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like, open borders is a bedrock principle of socialism in the core, but it's hard to imagine what a world with open borders would even look like, much less craft policy around it—everything would change too quickly
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these pieces are fine! Pres. Warren will benefit from them, and they're unimaginably radical in current terms. but a victorious socialism will have to 1) focus on survival 2) give up on seeing the world as a set of problems to be solved by the application of US power/"solidarity"
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To me it’s about different time horizons. These are addressing (mostly) short and medium term time horizons. But we always have to keep ultimate goals in view.
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In general, the Democratic Party prefers short-term horizons–defensive; incremental; vote-for-the-non-GOP-candidate-and long-term horizons–millenarian; churchy; kind of vacuous–but is afraid to touch any medium-term, 10-yr-plan goals. Unlike the GOP, cf '94 Contract w/ America.
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