Happy Labor Day (U.S.)*

[gordonzola]

So in my Weather Underground post, a good conversation got going about trashing vs. criticizing of the Left by the Left. Since it’s Labor Day weekend in this country, what do you folks think?. What’s the Left’s biggest problem right now?

Too much infighting? Too many wingnuts with "responsibility"? Failure to support the correct tenets of scientific socialism? Nader? The fact that no one is following the sectarian party you belong to? Lack of any coherence or relevance whatsoever?

This isn’t a poll, so write about whatever you want. Hell, it doesn't even have to be the biggest problem, it can just be your biggest peeve. Don’t post your unpublished manifestos though, please. No right-wing trolls either.

(I include anarchists on the Left, btw, so answer accordingly)

*I tend to recognize May 1st as Labor Day myself, but this is a convenient excuse.

Comments

Re: am I out of touch?

[gordonzola.livejournal.com]

no, no. I'm with you. Except in a very specific Social Democratic way (hi dcart!) it would never occur to me to mention the Democratic wing of the Capitalist Party as the "left".

Re: am I out of touch?

[slit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I explicitly exempt the likes of dcart because, well, he's just a wanker about this stuff, and he's obviously aware that The Democratic Party (big t, big d, big p) is not the be-all and end-all of "politics."

(Remind me to tell you about being at his house until 4 a.m. the night Bush was "elected." Every time new data from Ohio or Florida would come in he'd be like "that reminds me of the time in 1948...")