Being British I do not pretend to fully understand American politics but from an outsiders point of view, I would say that you do have a problem in America when dealing with a left wing perspective.
I have seen some odd things coming from America particularly after the election of Obama. For example; I saw a picture of President Obama designed as the joker from Batman, under which the slogan read ‘socialist’. Personally I could not see a problem as I’m a socialist too, communist I could understand but socialist? This, I believe lays that the heart of problem. The right wing has constantly confused the public by labelling anyone even slightly left wing, as a communist even to the extent of blurring the lines between socialism and communism. This unfortunately is beginning to happen in the UK too. So particularly at this time of capitalist crisis we on the left need to offer up a real alternative to the continuing capitalist con which is preprogrammed to fail. Instead of dividing up the pie with a bigger slice for the poor, we need to change the process we use to make the pie in the first place.
Posted by Robert Morgan on Apr 9, 2012 at 9:33 AM
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Occupy came. It was quickly re-defined as a movement of middle class workers. Exclusively.Millions of post-middle class people, and those who never had a chance out of poverty, could only wonder: “If you’re still employed AND still in the middle class, what are you complaining about?” The media came along and erased the issue of American poverty, in a post-jobs, post-poverty relief nation. Beyond a few clueless souls who still have delusions of trickle-down economics, the poor walked away from this middle class workers’ movement. The movement fizzled out in spite of the best efforts to revive it.
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Posted by Ani Eade on May 7, 2012 at 1:40 PM
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Posted by ronald donovan on May 15, 2012 at 3:50 AM
Re-Robert Morgan’s response.. “we on the left need to offer up a real alternative to the continuing capitalist con”. I agree with you. And the problem is very bad. That is part of what I am trying to highlight on my blog at http://kyrani99.wordpress.com/ as I mentioned earlier because IMO our health is used to profit. That is very bad for the ordinary person in the community.
Posted by Ani Eade on May 16, 2012 at 3:36 PM
What a bunch of marxist-maoist drivel. Communism has failed!. It’s kaput! The author sure displays the elitism that libbers are criticized for. Check this:
Only a Left can develop the commitment and capacity to go deeper and to think independently on the basis of the country’s core values. Really? Only leftists? Wow.
Posted by jesus666 on Jun 25, 2012 at 2:00 AM
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Posted by Chris Bonner on Jul 2, 2012 at 8:53 PM
The Abolitionists have more in common with Teapartiers and Right-to-Lifers than the Left.
Posted by Steven R Horth on Jul 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM
Reader Comments
Being British I do not pretend to fully understand American politics but from an outsiders point of view, I would say that you do have a problem in America when dealing with a left wing perspective.
I have seen some odd things coming from America particularly after the election of Obama. For example; I saw a picture of President Obama designed as the joker from Batman, under which the slogan read ‘socialist’. Personally I could not see a problem as I’m a socialist too, communist I could understand but socialist? This, I believe lays that the heart of problem. The right wing has constantly confused the public by labelling anyone even slightly left wing, as a communist even to the extent of blurring the lines between socialism and communism. This unfortunately is beginning to happen in the UK too. So particularly at this time of capitalist crisis we on the left need to offer up a real alternative to the continuing capitalist con which is preprogrammed to fail. Instead of dividing up the pie with a bigger slice for the poor, we need to change the process we use to make the pie in the first place.
Posted by Robert Morgan on Apr 9, 2012 at 9:33 AM
Slavery may have been abolished without the abolitionists. A modern state may have been created without the socialists. And a postindustrial, consumerist America, and the end of Jim Crow and the family wage, may have emerged without the New Left. real estate mallorca
Posted by Marc Wallberg on Apr 12, 2012 at 5:20 AM
Occupy came. It was quickly re-defined as a movement of middle class workers. Exclusively.Millions of post-middle class people, and those who never had a chance out of poverty, could only wonder: “If you’re still employed AND still in the middle class, what are you complaining about?” The media came along and erased the issue of American poverty, in a post-jobs, post-poverty relief nation. Beyond a few clueless souls who still have delusions of trickle-down economics, the poor walked away from this middle class workers’ movement. The movement fizzled out in spite of the best efforts to revive it.
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http://www.forexdice.com/vistaprint-coupons-vistaprint-com-promo-code-coupon-code/653343/
Posted by Pattie Manahan on Apr 17, 2012 at 1:30 AM
I read why Americans needs the left, but what about the right? For me they have a better ideology. yacht charter croatia
Posted by ronald donovan on Apr 20, 2012 at 7:49 AM
At the top level both Left and Right are puppeted by same Elite Bankers.
Posted by Rocky Seol on Apr 23, 2012 at 7:11 AM
Shekau said, speaking in Arabic and in the Hausa-language announced in arctic Nigeria. jogos da polly
Posted by sidkof1 on May 2, 2012 at 3:46 PM
General of Police as a first step towards the comprehensive reorganisation and repositioning of the Nigeria Police Force jogos de cozinhar
Posted by sidkof1 on May 2, 2012 at 3:47 PM
new appointed already to abundant added calamity in the country. he should not beneath appraisal any body. jogos de sinuca
Posted by sidkof1 on May 2, 2012 at 3:47 PM
he should bastille them to alarm others from accomplishing the same. if not they will aggregation up jogos de culinaria
Posted by sidkof1 on May 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM
The Quote by Ozymandias posted in this article too was a nice one and I will definitely share this post with all my friends and colleagues.frases para orkut
Posted by sidkof1 on May 2, 2012 at 3:48 PM
I don’t like raw capitalism, I’m for democracy but I don’t think it is only the political system that we need to address. You speak about “the irrepressible American commitment to equality” then what is needed is to expose the means of power politics at the grass roots, to address this http://kyrani99.wordpress.com/ which is not only an American problem.
Posted by Ani Eade on May 7, 2012 at 1:40 PM
“From the beginning of the American republic, most of the country’s thinkers and politicians have argued that our nation neither had nor needed a Left. Historians of the so-called liberal consensus school argue that the United States has simply always enjoyed agreement on such matters” - Agree. wedding dresses, prom dress
Posted by Micheel Strom on May 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM
That is a good question. I can not see a good reason.
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Posted by ronald donovan on May 15, 2012 at 3:50 AM
Re-Robert Morgan’s response.. “we on the left need to offer up a real alternative to the continuing capitalist con”. I agree with you. And the problem is very bad. That is part of what I am trying to highlight on my blog at http://kyrani99.wordpress.com/ as I mentioned earlier because IMO our health is used to profit. That is very bad for the ordinary person in the community.
Posted by Ani Eade on May 16, 2012 at 3:36 PM
What a bunch of marxist-maoist drivel. Communism has failed!. It’s kaput! The author sure displays the elitism that libbers are criticized for. Check this:
Only a Left can develop the commitment and capacity to go deeper and to think independently on the basis of the country’s core values. Really? Only leftists? Wow.
Posted by jesus666 on Jun 25, 2012 at 2:00 AM
Thank you, poster “jesus666,” for this insightful rebuke of the author’s argument, which is totally a considered and supported counter-argument and in no way a worthless troll.
Posted by Chris Bonner on Jul 2, 2012 at 8:53 PM
The Abolitionists have more in common with Teapartiers and Right-to-Lifers than the Left.
Posted by Steven R Horth on Jul 10, 2012 at 11:56 AM