Eclipsed from the headlines by the ongoing carnage, there is an active
civil resistance in Iraq that opposes the occupation, the torture regime
it protects, and the jihadi and Ba'athist 'resistance' alike.
Submitted by Bill Weinberg on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 16:59.
World War 4 Report is almost a one-man operation (me being the man), tho not quite. The Political Compass test placed me deep within the "libertarian left" field, as I anticipated. It sounds like our politics are actually fairly similar (although you fail to mention where you stand on the war, a rather glaring lapse). I have become extremely critical of the radical left, but I haven't left it. I feel like my own politics haven't changed, but everyone else's have. I think most of the "radical left" has left the radical left, without realizing it. The flirtation with the likes of Ron Paul, Slobodan Milosevic, clerical jihadism—all exponents of the right—indicate that what we today call the "radical left" isn't really. That's why I call it the "idiot left," though pseudo-left might be even more accurate.
What makes me feel desperately lonely is that those who are calling out the idiot left are (with a few notable exceptions) centrists, post-leftists and neocons. I mean, I love it when Christopher Hitchens bashes the idiot left—but then he has to go and ruin it all by cheering on Bush's stupid fucking war.
The problem with the "centrist" label is that the "center" has swung so far to the right since Reagan. Calling yourself a "centrist" makes you sound like a Clintonian. When "centrism" and "moderation" mean ending welfare ("as we know it"), getting us into NAFTA and the WTO, and bombing foreign countries, I prefer to remain a radical, thanks—or I would, if all these idiots weren't giving the word a bad name.
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World War 4 Report is almost a one-man operation (me being the man), tho not quite. The Political Compass test placed me deep within the "libertarian left" field, as I anticipated. It sounds like our politics are actually fairly similar (although you fail to mention where you stand on the war, a rather glaring lapse). I have become extremely critical of the radical left, but I haven't left it. I feel like my own politics haven't changed, but everyone else's have. I think most of the "radical left" has left the radical left, without realizing it. The flirtation with the likes of Ron Paul, Slobodan Milosevic, clerical jihadism—all exponents of the right—indicate that what we today call the "radical left" isn't really. That's why I call it the "idiot left," though pseudo-left might be even more accurate.
What makes me feel desperately lonely is that those who are calling out the idiot left are (with a few notable exceptions) centrists, post-leftists and neocons. I mean, I love it when Christopher Hitchens bashes the idiot left—but then he has to go and ruin it all by cheering on Bush's stupid fucking war.
The problem with the "centrist" label is that the "center" has swung so far to the right since Reagan. Calling yourself a "centrist" makes you sound like a Clintonian. When "centrism" and "moderation" mean ending welfare ("as we know it"), getting us into NAFTA and the WTO, and bombing foreign countries, I prefer to remain a radical, thanks—or I would, if all these idiots weren't giving the word a bad name.
By the way—are you a fascist? Take this easy quiz!