The Ukraine war is a proxy war between two factions of the left.
The old anti-authoritarian left has been marginalized, and they aren’t one of the warring factions.
It’s between the nationalist neo-Stalinist left and transnational corporatist progressivism.
It’s between the nationalist neo-Stalinist left and transnational corporatist progressivism.
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That’s how it looks to me, and this is something I’ve been puzzling over for a few years now. Some kind of split or falling out happened deep in the inner sanctums of the left back in the Obama years, which was visible to us in the total reversal that the Democrats did concerning Putin and Russia. One minute they were all about reset buttons and building a relationship but then all the sudden Putin was their number one enemy and universal boogieman. Something happened to precipitate that and I’d love to know what it was.
Bingo.
We have a winner.