Shea, as I see the problem, Progressivism has been folded into Marxism, or vice versa, and Marxists have a lingering affection for Russia
There are leftists who are as Manichean as rightists. For leftists it is capitalism, evil, bad, socialism good.For rightists isocialism is evil bad, capitalism good.
Shea, as I see the problem, Progressivism has been folded into Marxism, or vice versa, and Marxists have a lingering affection for Russia
There are leftists who are as Manichean as rightists. For leftists it is capitalism, evil, bad, socialism good.For rightists isocialism is evil bad, capitalism good.
And there are "leaders" spokesmen on all sides who have built careers, income, acclaim, fame, awards being apostles of their ideology.
Gorbachev, following a diktat of the Bank for International Settlements, deconstructs the USSR, opening it up to exploitation by capitalists, and Yeltsin sold off the trusts to KGB connected who became oligarchs, and Putin became President
One can be a progressive without being a Marxist (Marx was actually a proto libertarian)
but ideologies are exclusivist.
Religions are Ideologies. and Religions are exclusivist
Thanks William for your response. I totally agree. Having been “educated” by the far Left, I too see these entrenched “camps” as irrelevant, and self-defeating. I have no time for the “overthrow capitalism” crowd. Capitalism is the union of free enterprise and industrialization. Do we really want to eliminate those? No, capitalism can be bridled so that its natural tendency to funnel wealth towards the top is countered and wealth circulates for the benefit of all. I am in the process (as soon as I can master Substack’s system) of posting to Substack a fairly long piece containing memories and conclusions regarding the US Communist Party which you might find interesting. At least I’d be interested in your response.
Yes interested, you can contact me by clicking on my name and choosing Message.
In the meantime I am weary and wary of ideologues. Ideologues are believers.
Believers are thoughtless, they have abandoned their responsibility and ability (if they ever had such) for critical thinking. The live in a zero sum world
Ideologies are secular as well as sectarian. Christianity and Islam are secular ideologies, but ideologies just the same, only they call themselves religions, as a form of market segmentation.
Once, one adopts the premises of an ideology, as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they are no longer their own person, they have become part of the Borg (recalling Star trek)
Shea, as I see the problem, Progressivism has been folded into Marxism, or vice versa, and Marxists have a lingering affection for Russia
There are leftists who are as Manichean as rightists. For leftists it is capitalism, evil, bad, socialism good.For rightists isocialism is evil bad, capitalism good.
And there are "leaders" spokesmen on all sides who have built careers, income, acclaim, fame, awards being apostles of their ideology.
Gorbachev, following a diktat of the Bank for International Settlements, deconstructs the USSR, opening it up to exploitation by capitalists, and Yeltsin sold off the trusts to KGB connected who became oligarchs, and Putin became President
One can be a progressive without being a Marxist (Marx was actually a proto libertarian)
but ideologies are exclusivist.
Religions are Ideologies. and Religions are exclusivist
Thanks William for your response. I totally agree. Having been “educated” by the far Left, I too see these entrenched “camps” as irrelevant, and self-defeating. I have no time for the “overthrow capitalism” crowd. Capitalism is the union of free enterprise and industrialization. Do we really want to eliminate those? No, capitalism can be bridled so that its natural tendency to funnel wealth towards the top is countered and wealth circulates for the benefit of all. I am in the process (as soon as I can master Substack’s system) of posting to Substack a fairly long piece containing memories and conclusions regarding the US Communist Party which you might find interesting. At least I’d be interested in your response.
Yes interested, you can contact me by clicking on my name and choosing Message.
In the meantime I am weary and wary of ideologues. Ideologues are believers.
Believers are thoughtless, they have abandoned their responsibility and ability (if they ever had such) for critical thinking. The live in a zero sum world
Ideologies are secular as well as sectarian. Christianity and Islam are secular ideologies, but ideologies just the same, only they call themselves religions, as a form of market segmentation.
Once, one adopts the premises of an ideology, as the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, they are no longer their own person, they have become part of the Borg (recalling Star trek)