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Will R.'s avatar

My favourite argument from this piece is that the Left’s fragmentation is politically self-defeating in conditions where capital is highly coordinated across borders and institutions - to paraphrase: we have to beat the Right in unity to defeat capitalism. With this view in mind, disunity weakens the only social force capable of challenging systemic crisis, inequality, and war.

At the same time, the piece is careful to distinguish unity from the suppression of disagreement: internal debates are seen as inevitable, but they should not become organisational paralysis or mutual undermining. Well-written!

Vijay Prashad's avatar

Thanks Will.

Jeremy Corbyn's avatar

Well said, Excellent message Vijay

Vijay Prashad's avatar

Thanks a lot Jeremy. Onward.

BlueMonaLisa's avatar

This is excellent. So where do we begin?

Vijay Prashad's avatar

This is going to be a series. But what do you suggest?

BlueMonaLisa's avatar

I think we are also looking at the very difficult task of understanding that “they” are not that different from “us”

We all bought clothes, food and technology from places we knew caused the suffering of others. This “cycle” will not end until we are able to face and conquer those deeper truths within ourselves.

Until that time we will continue to struggle

and/or go extinct

BlueMonaLisa's avatar

That’s a difficult one.

Either there has to be a leader. Someone who recognizes and protects the common humanity in everyone.

Or everyone has to recognize it themselves - which is the harder task

Bob Tomashevsky's avatar

From your mouth to the world's ear, to slightly paraphrase!

Margaret Root's avatar

We will only survive and transcend this insane moment in history by clarifying why leftism ever came about as something to be reckoned with: a human being is a soul-informed entity prone to animalistic urges. We are extensions of our divine Source creator but—simultaneously—we are genetically steeped in a soup of competitive, scarcity-oriented predispositions that deny our fundamental Consciousness of self-awareness. As we continue to awaken (or “individuate” as Jung conceptualized), we shake off the shackles of dualistic thinking and incrementally grow receptive to the higher, intuitive voice that resides within us. This is the embodied intelligence of Unity…the gnosis of Jesus the Christ, Buddha the Awakened one, and probably more than a few others in history who wanted all of us to wake up and witness the vastly larger reality beyond the hypnosis of social conditioning.

Themis's avatar

You guys have it completly wrong. Never the rocks have mounted themselves up to be a house. You can always dream of a « awakening » of the masses, what characterize the masses is their adherence to the common held beliefs systems organized in the society by the elites. In our cases the masses of the world are too hedonistic and violent following america’s decades of hollywood pornography consumption to do anything remotely political. Stop asking for people to wake up, and first wake yourself up by realising your mistakes.

Owen Anderson's avatar

Ah, of course, the old “but the masses are too stupid and brainwashed!” argument. Never heard that one before.