{"id":22556,"date":"2017-01-23T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22556"},"modified":"2017-01-23T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T02:10:17","slug":"the-collapse-of-the-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=22556","title":{"rendered":"The Collapse of the Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Collapse of the Left<\/a><\/h3>\n
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The Left is not just in disarray–it is in complete collapse because the working class has awakened to the Left’s betrayal and abandonment of the working class in favor of building personal wealth and power.<\/i><\/div>\n
The source of the angry angst rippling through the Democratic Party’s progressive camp is not President Trump–it’s the complete collapse of the Left globally.<\/b>\u00a0To understand this collapse, we turn (once again) to Marx’s profound understanding of the state and capitalism.<\/div>\n
We turn not to the\u00a0cultural Marxism<\/i>\u00a0that is passingly familiar to Americans, but to Marx’s core economic analysis, which as Sartre noted, is only taught to discredit it.<\/div>\n
Cultural Marxism<\/i>\u00a0draws as much from Engels as Marx.<\/b>\u00a0In today’s use,\u00a0cultural Marxism<\/i>\u00a0describes the overt erosion of traditional values–the family, community, religious faith, property rights and limited central government–in favor of\u00a0rootless Cosmopolitanism<\/i>\u00a0and an expansive, all-powerful central state that replaces community, faith and property rights with statist control mechanisms that enforce dependence on the state and a mindset that\u00a0the individual is guilty of anti-state thinking until proven innocent by the state’s own rules.<\/i><\/div>\n
Marx’s critique of capitalism is economic: capital and labor are in eternal conflict.<\/b>\u00a0In Marx’s analysis, capital has the upper hand until the internal contradictions of capitalism consume capital’s control from the inside.<\/div>\n
Capital not only dominates labor, it also dominates the state.<\/b>\u00a0Thus the state-cartel version of capitalism that is dominant globally is not a coincidence or an outlier–it is the\u00a0the only possible outcome of a system in which capital is the dominant force.<\/i><\/div>\n
To counter this dominance of capital,\u00a0social democratic political movements\u00a0<\/i>arose to\u00a0 wrest some measure of control out of the hands of capital in favor of labor.<\/b><\/div>\n
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The Collapse of the Left The Left is not just in disarray–it is in complete collapse because the working class has awakened to the Left’s betrayal and abandonment of the working class in favor of building personal wealth and power. The source of the angry angst rippling through the Democratic Party’s progressive camp is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[111,127,13501,205,10558,3810,4924,10522],"class_list":["post-22556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-capitalism","tag-charles-hugh-smith","tag-cultural-marxism","tag-democrats","tag-left","tag-marxism","tag-oftwominds","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22557,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22556\/revisions\/22557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}